The Washington State Fair: A Destination for Coaster Enthusiasts? 

Always makes me happy to see some attention brought to what we’ve got here in the PNW haha. I’m local to the fair and I love the Classic Coaster the most. It really does come down to the rows you sit in though because the back row is AMAZING for that drop after the first turn around, but the front is a lot of fun during those last hills heading into the break run. Now, I will agree that Rainier Rush is a rough ride and my least favorite at the fair. However, last spring I had I chance to ride the coaster without the trim breaks before the tilted loop and my word did that change the ride! The loop felt forceful, the banked airtime hill actually provided some surprising airtime, and the final helix provided some fantastic lateral g’s due to the banking entering the helix haha. Definitely would repeat that ride if I could.

Wow! Your at 10k! You were just as 7! The growth is crazy lol

This is such a great review. And I really do agree with all of your points about these coasters. The Rainier Rush coaster is very painful and uncomfortable and i'll never ride it again. The Wildcat is extremely fun, but for someone that goes to the fair solo, it sucks that you have to have a ride partner, so I can't ride it often. So therefore my favorite is the classic coaster because they allow single riders on it. And being in the very back is extremely scary since the force of the 2 big downhills lifts us out of our seat.

interesting that you enjoyed Wildcat so much. classic coaster looks good and rainer rush looks.. different. maybe someday i’ll get out here

Congratulations on getting 10,000 subs you deserve it for being the most underrated coaster channel keep the videos going especially top 10s man I’m post for words you are one of my favorite RU-vid channels and I can’t express how amazing you are. I will always be subbed and keep my notifications on. :)

Since this video, they finally got rid of Rainier Rush (pronounced “rain-neer” as in Mt Rainier). I’m not sure if it was scrapped or not. I had the fortunate opportunity to follow the 5 year rebuilt of Classic Coaster and interviewed the late John Hinde who was in charge of that. From 2009 to 2014, I visited the fairgrounds during the off season and was able to get up close and personal with this landmark coaster. John did a lot of amazing work on that ride! Unfortunately, he passed away a little over a year ago. He was a kindred spirit and shared the love of the history of roller coasters. When I was the Northwest ACE Reg Rep, I had the honor of presenting the ACE Landmark plaque to the fair board, the construction crew, Funtastic Rides owner and founder, and a group of ACE members in front of the coaster. It was a very special event and the last time we were able to enjoy ERT on Classic Coaster. John would also sneak a few of us inside the fairgrounds during the Spring Fair in April and the fall fair in September during the renovation period to help break-in the ride in the morning before the midway opened. I lovingly referred to those times as our “sandbag ERT”. We haven’t visited the fair in 5 years due to health issues. I’m hoping we can possibly attend this year as I sorely miss my beloved Classic Coaster as well as the Schwarzkopf Wild Cat that was completely refurbished and relocated to a different site on the fairgrounds a year ago. Anyway, thanks in sharing your experience, it brought back some great memories, ones that I will always treasure.

I grew up just outside of Puyallup and I tend to agree with your assessment of the coasters. I personally prefer the Classic Coaster over Wildcat, but it is close for me. The reason the Classic Coaster is so smooth is several years ago they rebuilt it from the ground up, a quarter section a year, and you could tell which section was new and which was old by the roughness. Oh, and according to rcdb, Rainer Rush just had its last year at the fair, so hopefully they replace it with something better.

I actually live in Washington. The classic coaster was the first coaster I’ve ridden and it sits in my top three coasters which are space mountain at Disney land and the Thunderhawk at wild waves. (I haven’t ridden many coasters okay)

Your channel has helped me learn a lot about roller coasters, thanks you!

Ranier Rush feels like the roller coaster equivalent of a movie that comes out in January. It's a bad coaster that tries to hide its reputation by being at a park which is only open five weeks a years. It's the same idea as a bad movie that comes out in January since very few people who go to the movies in that month see anything besides Oscar contenders.

Quality shit brother! And congratz on 10K ! You should plan a Europe Trip soon! Would produce some awesome content

Cangragulations man on 10k it’s awesome seeing you go from 3k to now this.

Aaaaw nostalgia, I grew up going to this fair. I’m pretty sure these coasters were first ones I ever road

Love that you came to my hometown!!

I used to live right by the fair so we used to walk from our apartment to the fair every year, I miss those times

Congrats on 10K!!! Keep up the great content!!!

I miss the Wildcat so much, wish CP would bring it back. Great Video as well keep up the great content.

10K very cool congrats, also funny thing I ur comments on el torro ryan and coaster studios and im like hey I know that guy

Classic Coaster was my first roller coaster! Thanks for taking me on it, dad!

Puyallup is very underrated in terms of state fairs and coaster destinations. It's not exactly on par with Minnesota or Texas, but it can hold its own.

I just moved to the San Juan islands, looking foreward to going to the Spring Fair in April. This place is close enough to the ferry terminal in Anacortes that going here is something I can just do.

We used to have 2 mouse coaster's at the fair. Wish they had kept the bigger one. The wild cat is great and the classic is well classic (and a must ride if you "Do the Puyallup") and in recent years they added a photo which is fun. We used to have rides at Seattle Center and they had a pretty good little coaster there. Wild Waves has 2 pretty decent coasters and that is about all we have within 100 miles or more lol. Glad you made it out.

3:35 I have ridden a clone of this at *BASLER HERBSTMESSE 2017* and I loved it. In fact, the 1st drop is better than I expected. The 1st helix has one good forceful point and the last helix pulls some nice Gforces. The ride feeling was fun, you could really feel how the coasters wheels are running on the track. I don’t know if the clone at Washington State Fair feels exactly similar but from the clone that I rode. I rank it over euromir because it’s smoother. Lastly I wanna say CONGRATULATIONS TO 10k SUBSCRIBERS! Well deserved.

My wife is from there and used to always tell me I should go up there for the fair with her family, didn’t realize there were a couple legit coasters! Definitely will try and get there next year when we’re in town.

Your sub count is growing faster than my grades dropping

Nice job with 10K! Also that drop on classic coaster looks wild in the back. Great video.

I live in Puyallup and grew up going I also went last sunday, I am also a coaster nerd and travel to ride so these are my opinions Classic coaster (previously called Thrill Ride) is a decent coaster and a great coaster for a fair WILD CAT is a nice smooth classic steel fair coaster...love it Rainier Rush is the worst coaster in the world

Rainier Rush, I walked away from that ride with a "headache from hell" and the way you called it "janky" I dead!!😂😂😂. But WildCat, and Classic Coaster are the reasons of why I go. It's really nothing to "write home about" they really are fun little coasters.

Congrats on 10k!

10,000 CONGRATS Bro

Congrats at 10k! I can confidently say I’ve been here since the beginning!

The background music reminds me of Planet Coaster's vintage pack music, but remixed.

Congrats for 10K subs. Cool video, I saw they had the Zipper, I love that ride

Great video about the fair, glad you made it up here and to the 2 other parks in the area. Silverwood is great, despite the dismal one-train ops on all coasters, and I really enjoyed PNE when I was there a few years ago. The Beast is definitely close to my limit for extreme rides, though I did go on it 3 times I think :)

only been there once back in 2019 in the hours in the middle row with no lap bar I thought I was going to fall out 😂 but luckily I made it in one piece on the classic coaster

So that was the coaster at Santa’s Village!!

Congrats on 10K! I'm honored to have been around since your first few hundred. I don't know if I'll ever make it to this fair, given the limited time they're open, but maybe if I can combine it with some other things of interest someday.

Good Video! Congrats on 10K too!

Well airtime thrills a long time ago i rode the wild cat once amd the classic coaster twice over the span of years the classic coaster i loved and in 2017 i worked at wildwaves

Good job on 10k

Great video, very enjoyable

Congrats on 10K!!

0:40-0:44 Actually I’m one of the Coaster Enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest so I haven’t been to anywhere in the us but the west. I’ve only been to 8 parks. Oaks Amusement Park - Portland, OR Enchanted Forest - Turner, OR Wild Waves - Federal Way, WA Silverwood - Athol, ID Six Flags Magic Mountain - Valencia, CA Disneyland - Anaheim, CA Disney’s California Adventure - Anaheim, CA Lagoon - Farmington, UT

I rode the traveling Hi-Miler at the California State Fair in 2005. People call it an air time machine.

I go to the Kansas State Fair almost each year but it's been years since I've bothered going on the rides. First off they have one coaster and a small wild mouse type ride and the rest are fairly common flat rides. I also haven't been on the wild mouse because by the time I stopped riding their rides, they didn't have it yet and had 0 coasters. Second, they have a rule for most of the rides that you must have a buddy when riding. This sucks because that mean I have to go seek a stranger out and awkwardly ride with them. And lastly, they used to offer a wristband an alright price that's lets you ride unlimited rides, but now they've gotten rid of that and you can only purchase tickets. For all of these reasons and the bad costumer service (that's all fairs though) I don't bother giving them my money anymore.

Great video

Wildcat lowkey reminds me of Gemini

congrats on 10k!

Made me sad that I had to leave WA the morning the fair opened.

Meanwhile State Fair of Texas (my local fair) only has 3 sketchy and mediocre coasters.

Congratulations on 10k

Those Schwarzkopf Wildcats look great. Shame that so few of them are still around, hopefully i can get on one before they all close forever, because it seems like this previously common model could go extinct...

Would love to visit; have new relatives in the Pacific Northwest!

I live in puyallup and it was pretty funny how he said peyallup

This is my home fair, and Classic Coaster can give some different airtime depending on each ride. Back row gives that big yonk the best, but my last ride I actually experienced 2 of those crazy moments. That and the hill immediately after, with strong floater on every hill following, plus some good laterals on the turns. Front row gives consistent light floater. I actually haven’t ridden Rainier Rush, every time I’ve gone it’s been closed. Wildcat I still find good, but nothing too special. Some slight floater and positives, and incredibly smooth, but I didn’t think it was all that great overall

It's strange to me that a coaster hobbyist would go all the way to Washington and ride Classic Coaster twice. I ride as much as possible. I'm enjoying, studying, feeling & watching everything. The forces, track, structure, trains, seats, restraints, station, people, the view. My visit to WWF will be all-day, perhaps 50 to 100, or more rides on Classic Coaster, and a few on Wildcat and Zipper. Ranier Rush will likely be front seat, back, middle, and done. Any wood coaster is a destination for me. I spend an entire day at a park, minimum. Classic Coaster has exact replicas of Prior & Church's legendary trains. There're only two coasters left running these wonderful trains, Vancouver's Coaster & Classic Coaster. They're the greatest coaster trains ever designed, which is why GCI copied them (Milennium Flyers). I try to give all I've got to this hobby. Classic Coaster is a fun, gentle, historic John Miller ride that the whole family can enjoy. I can't wait to experience it for an entire day.

Magnus Colossus in Terra Mítica,Spain also had two mini drops instead of one big one but the coaster is closed since 2015

The Wild Cat & Rainer Rush coasters were both dismantled this winter of 2020.

Why is Volcano at Kings Dominion closed but Rainer Rush still open?

There all good man

10K!

Happy 10K Airtime Thrills!

What do you MEAN there aren't many coaster enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest? I'm here! That's... One person

i live in puallup my house is like 7 min too the fair and back my kid loves it

Hey the orange coaster is the same as the bullet train at my fair!

I’m surprised canadacoasterfan hasn’t made a comment hating on rainier rush 😂

Damn, I wonder when they renamed the coaster from. "Arrow coaster" to "classic coaster: Also wondering if you made it to wild waves and rode their woody

Reiner Rush and Magnum are tied for slowest lift hill of all time

Man I really liked wildcat, it felt like more then just a family coaster clone

Sad he didn't show the sling shot or extreme scream 😕

he needs to go to fairs in europe

Rainer rush is no longer there

I live near the fair, usually go every year. Sadly haven't ridden any of the coasters. :/

living across the country in new york this might be the only fair i might go across the country for

Wow

This sucks im going to washington and there’s nothing to do

Will a POV of deja vu at silverwood be up soon?

Yeah I had the same problem as you when I wanted to visit. I really wanted to go (this was 2015) but we went to washington in the summer so just went to wings & waves water park which I highly recommend for you to try out. Also I asked this in the last video but are you going to announce your 2020 trip. I hear you are going to la ronde and I want to warn you... it's pretty bad.

1:35 I think wicker man uses this

I know that CanadaCoasterFan thinks that Ranier Rush is the worst coaster ever built XD

Why is it that you amaricans dont like flat rides they should get way more attention cause I feel like (as a European who has ridden a lot of boosters break dances and kmg afterburners) flat rides are way more fun than fair coasters.

What is the ride at 5:06 called? I know it's a very old one and I've always wished it was at my local fair.

My local state Fair. Yet Wild Waves, my local themepark is crap.

How was your day at Silverwood when you visited

5 weeks lol mine goes for ten days!

What other credits are worth getting in Washington State & Oregon?

What else did you do in Washington?

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10k boi

Noice way to flex your 10k

Not worth my time, will go later

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Oh wow i just realised i wasn’t subscribed sorry man!

Congrats on 10k mang!

Congrats on 10k!

Congrats on 10K!

Congrats on 10k 😀

Congrats on 10k!