Was Copperhead Strike The Right Addition for Carowinds? - Ride Review
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2019
- Carowinds recently opened their newest roller coaster, Copperhead Strike!! The park has been in need of a major new attraction and Cedar Fair addressed that with this new addition! But was this the right attraction for Carowinds??
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Fact: Copperhead has more hangtime than Hangtime imo lol
Mulin Huan Not really hangtime has great hangtime and has the great drop at the start
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Your review is what I wish many other reviews were like. You go into detail when talking about the layout while making it super entertaining at the same time. Keep it up!
I remember being at Scarowinds the year before Copperhead opened and noticed a part of one of the mazes, Cornstalkers, was missing. There used to be a henhouse with animatronic chickens in it. Copperhead opens, and lo and behold, there's the henhouse with the animatronic chickens. They really thought we wouldn't notice.
now carowinds just needs that gci and it's golden. ..... I guess an rmc hurler wouldn't hurt either.
C Rizzy i would prefer a steel rmc since the woodies get rougher with age
Nooo
I think they need a wood coaster, as a successor to Thunder Road. Obviously it couldn’t be as large as Thunder Road, with Copperhead Strike taking up some of the room, but it would still be nice to see.
Exactly as i think
Would love a nice GCI and then they should convert hurler into an RMC.
I appreciate the video. Copperhead Strike was the replacement for Thunder Road. BOTH are themed to moonshine runners from the Carolinas. Cedar Fair wanted to keep a Carolina theme. Also, if you present yourself as a big draw then low capacity rides are a good thing. Think Dollywood or Disney World. They have mega low capacity rides but they put butts in the seats. That's what we want at Carowinds. I'm a homer. Grew up 20 minutes away and have been going to Carowinds since 1989 and I always loved every visit. Its just really fun to see what they've been doing for the past 10 years. Kudos to Cedar Fair for seeing what we've always known: Carowinds is money.
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Copperhead Strike is a ride with the theme of old moonshine runners. Look up the song Copperhead Road.
Also, I think that Copperhead Strike is great coaster for Carowinds. It’s got a small foot print, with a massive space to fill from Thunder Road. I’m thinking that they’re going to be building more coasters around Copperhead Strike, which will help offset the low capacity.
10/10 pronounciation of Mack Rides
This review slaps ✋
I visited Carowinds this past weekend and had the opportunity to ride Copperhead Strike. I love the set-up and theme of the ride. The worst part of riding roller coasters for me is going up. I rode Fury 325 one time and will most likely not ride it again. I couldn't even ride The Intimidator after riding Fury. So the fact that you don't have to go up was appealing. I still had to work my way up to Copperhead Strike though. I rode my favorites; The Vortex and Carolina Cyclone to warm up. I also finally got to ride Night Hawk after a two hour wait. Back to Copperhead Strike, My nephew was riding it with me and somehow we ended up in the Fast Lane. We just stayed there and got in queue. We were nervous and then there ended up being a 15 minute delay due to a train getting stuck in the second launcher. People were leaving but I said we're here now and we're riding it. We got on the train and pulled the harness down. I was not liking that harness but oh well. That "jojo roll" when you first hit the track, OMG!! I just knew I was going fall out of the seat and the ground was right there. The scene inside the barn was a lot to take in all at once. Once we launched and went through the first loop with the hang time, I knew I was done the rest of the ride. My eyes were closed and all I kept saying was "oh my God, oh my God". It is crazy how tight the track is. I now know why the harness is like that. They want you to think you're going to fall out. In the end, I loved It and will definitely ride Copperhead Strike again.
Nice review man, i never thought of the capacity as a con. I didnt love it but i do think its just what the park needed
I'd say it was needed considering how top heavy carowinds is with fury, intimidator and afterburn. It's a good complimentary coaster for those other 3, because after those three i couldnt tell you what the best ride is especially with thunder road being taken out, had thunder road not gotten taken out there would be a good top 5. that being said cedar fair has consistently said they wanna make carowinds the cedar point of the south so i expect some better rides to come along and build up the coaster profile of carowinds
Good review. I liked the ride too. Good addition to the park, but another world class coaster is needed. Maybe Cedar Fair will rip out that stupid Dinosaurs Alive thing and use that space for a good GCI Woodie or something similar in about 3 years.
Fingers crossed.....RMC woodie or GCI.
@C Rizzy i was just there and Hurler was running great, dare I say... smooth-ish. The retracking they have done really has made a difference on the ride.
@J D lmao
Copperheads are some of the least aggressive venomous snakes in America, with a low venom toxicity. Deaths from Copperhead bites are extremely rare. Just me dreaming this up, but perhaps "Copperhead Strike" could be a parallel between the coaster, and a mildly dangerous snake bite. That could signal the ride not being as intense as Intimidator & Fury 325 & others. I do love the name!
I rode this for the first time today. Although I totally get what your saying in terms of a YES/NO for the park, but honestly considering how they were moving the lines and the new themed sections…this is for sure a perfect addition to park in the Carolinas to get gaining visitors.
Great review. Got to ride it 10 times on my first ever trip to Carowinds, and really enjoyed it in all seats. The night ride was amazing with the headlights as well!
Mack Rides seems like they make good coasters! I’m excited to visit Carowinds very soon
Love your coaster reviews. It's cool to see one on a coaster I have rode. I think your spot on with your comparisons and analysis. Keep up the great work.
Oh boy I love when we get into the history of parks!!
What’s crazy, is how actually real this review is, you legit covered everything that I care about and then some good fucking review Ryan ✊🏻🤙🏻
Great review, Copperhead Strike looks like one of those rides I could ride again and again. Looks really fun.
Went last week and they had a bunch of stuff closed, inluding Fury. But it was great actually, I ended up marathoning this and Intimidator which I never would've done otherwise and yeah this is a genuinely fun coaster! I just can't help but get a kick out of it, even if it's not the craziest out there. It's killer for GP too, I often see as long and longer lines there than Fury. I know how most thoosies feel about the GP but I love seeing people enjoying coasters, also you know, that kinda is what guarantees the perpetuity of amusement parks altogether so you better be grateful for GP pleasers. Anyway, on the ride, I also went yesterday and rode it in the afternoon heat when it was running good and quick and it was surprisingly intense. I actually greyed out pretty good, and the airtime was incredible!
Sorry for the necro but honestly any enthusiasts who have issues with the GP are honestly silly, the GP are the only reason stuff like Copperhead was even built, if only enthusiasts went to parks, every park would have closed down ages ago.
I really like Copperhead Strike! I think I didn't really know what I would think about it but I was really surprised when I first rode it. Great video!
🅱opperhead Strike
Well, when you take a look at the operations in Europa Park, which is like a test area for Mack Rides, your opinion about the capacity might change.
But either way, Copperhead Strike is a really fun ride. Really odd and unusual in many ways but fun :)
Great review! Really like the perspective at the beginning of the video - providing some context about the park was very welcome.
I'm not the biggest fan of hangtime, but Copperhead Strike nevertheless looks like it has many solid moments :)
Carawinds is my home park. I love copperhead strike, the one downfall is what you said the capacity. I've seen the wait time at an hour when fury was all but a walk on.
Carowinds is my home park. A little on the theme. You are on granny farm snooping around to find her award winning jam she wins at the fair and notice she also makes moonshine when you are a attack by copperhead snakes she uses to protect the area. However it’s a play on the word cooperhead. Cooperhead machines are the machines that are used to make moonshine hence the metal snake signage. In the barn it’s basically you being caught by grandma and her sons and she telling them to catch you which leads to the chase through the farm hence the car looking like chevys.
3:22 I would like to point out that Cedar Fair did an excellent job relocating Mean Streak to Carowinds and calling it Centurion. Great job! (I'm joking obviously)
Great review. During the construction tours, Steve told us that CS is not about height or speed but more about the experience. And now after riding riding it, I agree with you even without height or speed, Copperhead Strike is FUN. Great video!!!!!
Looks like a fantastic ride! Would love to visit this park one day! Very informative video!
My kids who are just shy of the 54" height requirement for the big kid rides in the park love Copperhead. It's a guaranteed smile.
great review Toro, keep it up!
I live 20 minutes away from Carowinds and always get season passes. I’ve been to many other cedar fair parks and always wanted a heavy hitter like a hyper coaster at Carowinds. So when they made Intimidator it was awesome for us to finally receive one of the big ones. Plus it fit North Carolina because it was themed with NASCAR and Dale Earnhardt In mind. Both Carolina legends. And of course opened the door for the future of the coaster wars with the emergence of Fury. Copperhead was like Maverick. It wasn’t built for speed or height, but rather for the experience.
Maverick has a ton of speed. And it's second launch hits hard.
Usual greatness mang!
I ,too, am a sucker for positive g's. Love em!
You literally hit the nail in the head! I personally have this at my #4 over storm chaser, maverick, twisted timbers, i305, and many many more bc it amazed me. The airtime is better in the back btw.
As someone who grew up in Northern Ohio, and spent a fair (lol) amount of time at cedar point, as well as a shareholder of Cedar Fair, it makes me happy to watch CF successfully expand their parks across the country. They do a good job.
Am looking forward to riding this next month.
Got my first rides on it yesterday, you used my exact words to describe it, fun! It went down a few times in the evening and a train got stopped on the second launch again. Back up and running within 20 minutes.
Fantastic review
Sadly, the ops don't seem to have improved much based on my 2021 visits. They could use 4 people on platform to help move things along. That said, still love the ride! Super fun!
I love the storyline of this ride
Well-rounded and fun, just run if you don't have fast lane plus lol.
Nice vid, I'm excited as heck to get back to carowinds this year and ride my first major mack coaster
No u
I’m a local for Carowinds, I’ve already gone to the park 10 times this season alone😂. I like copper head but idk I think we just have too many steel coasters, better yet steel inverting coasters. We just really need a RMC woody next tbh.
That or a decent sized GCI.
I miss watching Thunder Road... because I don’t ride coasters, but I love coasters.
I love that: “Hella hang time!”
I was here on 4/20and the park was fairly packed. They were running 3 trains with excellent ops, giving people 5 seconds to get through the gate. We never waited more than 25 minutes for the ride.
One month from opening day.. cannot fucking wait
I completely agree with Copperhead Strike's capacity problem -- I was at Carowinds the other day, and with its low capacity on top of Covid, they were loading 5-8 riders per train, on top of running each train empty every 15 or so rides. Made what should have been a 20 minute wait into well over an hour and a half
Nice review. 👍👍👍
Mack Rides actually builds some "intensely" accelerating roller coasters like the Blue Fire Megacoaster, which accelerates from 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds, which is pretty intense for my taste. Granted, it's not as intense as Dodonpa.
Great review, I'll be going in two weeks and I'm looking forward to ridding it. I hope they put a giga zamperla giant frisbee in the spot near the ride and theme it. Carowinds deserves that and it needs one badly and it would make SFOG version look small.
I just rode this ride a few times and really enjoyed it, especially my night ride. I thought it was pure fun as well. Its movements really remind me of a snake. Dispatch was pretty good and everyone was getting off happy.
I freaking love this ride. My favorite ride
Fact.. when paramount owned carowinds and my family stopped by on our way to Hilton head island it had the best wooden coaster name to date... the majestic Wayne's world Hurler... with ride trains colored like Garths car from the movie..
My guess on the theme before you read out the actual theme: During alcohol prohibition in the 1920s the first turbocharged engines were developed to outrun the law, my guess is the car theming of the train is a reference to that, or to escaping an exploding moonshine still (which makes sense as a theme in the South if executed correctly)
Great review man, loved the music and transitions a lot, if only CF would put more money into KD now lol.
I hopped on Copperhead Strike for the first time this weekend. I got on it 4 times.
-The first time I was on, I got on around 11:30am and I thought it was really solid but I was a little underwhelmed.
-The second time I got on, I still thought it was fun and all but I wasn't sure about it.
-The third time I got on, it was probably around 4:30pm and by then it got warmed up in the day and WOW what a difference. It might be my favorite ride in the park. Yes, Fury is probably the better coaster BUT a warmed up Copperhead Strike after 4pm is probably my favorite ride at Carowinds.
the initial barrel roll out of the station was really cool, but also kinda uncomfortable. still an awesome ride
If y’all want a breath taking Mack launch ride, I would recommend riding Steel Taipan. It has a multi pass launch, reverse twisted spike and the second launch feels powerful in a good way. It’s a Blue Fire clone but 10x better. You also get a good amount of hang time on 3 of the 4 inversions. Personally my favourite ride
I thought it was a really good ride, didn't set too high of expectations but was blown out of the water
DC Rivals has the same train with no seat belts. Straya! 🇦🇺 😂
I was just at Carowinds on Tuesday evening and Wednesday all day (spring break week). The 2 times I rode it on Tuesday it had a 20 minute wait (night ride was great) and I noticed the dispatcher always announced "15 seconds to stack" and the rest of the ops hustled to get the train dispatched before the third train came into the break run. On Wednesday I rode it twice both with 45 minute waits and I noticed that the dispatcher never made the stack announcement and the rest of the ride ops took their time checking harnesses. What a difference of 2 crews. Great ride though and I cant wait until the comparisons between ICON and Copperhead Strike.
I know some operators from Cedar Point were working Copperhead Strike last week. That might have been why they were so good one day
It’s a play on thing with the theme. Copperheads are in the south as well the copper machinery used to make moonshine was also called a copperhead hence the piping and steel copperhead snake
Ahhhh gotcha!
You are correct
It's a perfect fit
In regards to Capacity and Operations when I was there a few day ago they were going Insanely fast. They were doing probably 30 secs or less disputes, it was the fastest ops I have ever seen on any coaster at any park.
DJddog5_HipHopTappJazzClub I mean, the small trains help with that
I haven't been on an extreme launch before, but I'm never going to Fuji-Q-Highland.
Amazing ride! Found it more fun than Fury. I know it's not better, but I just like the hang time and theming.
Steel Vengeance, Mystic Timbers, Yukon Striker, Twisted Timbers, Trailblazer, and Copperhead Strike, etc
So Carowinds is my homepark and I’ve been in the Carolinas over a decade now. So copperhead is a play on name. Moonshine is a staple down South and mountain region and the machinery used to make is made of copper and called copperhead but of course you can market moonshine so they added the notion of copperhead snake that is prevalent here. Which is why the snake is made of copper. The Jam kind of throws everybody off but grand makes jam however secretly makes moonshine as well and uses copperhead snakes to protect her land. The preshow is rider lurking through the property and grandma catches you and tells her two sons to catch which ends up in a car chase off the property hence the 50 model car for train and the launch flooring it to get away.
I was just there last week and I didn’t ride anything except the Carolina Goldrusher. I hate rollercoasters. I did come over to this ride though to take pictures of people I know on it.
Yes it was the park had no launch coaster I rode this in summer of 2019 and loved it
The seatbelts are interresting.
Bluefire (also from Macl Rides, at Europapark) runs the identical seats (besides the new hybrid part, witch I am not shure) without seatbelt, since normal restraint is way good and secure enouth
My first visit to Carowinds was about 1978
They did make the correct choice. Copperhead Strike was specifically added to go along with Afterburn for their holiday period. Fury and Intimidator don’t run well in the cold.
What do u think about afterburn at Carowinds
Maybe Mack Rides expected them to be able to match the dispatch times the crews in their "homepark" Europa Park manage to pull off which could explain while they didnt think a higher capacity version was needed.
it slaps dude
idk i think its a placeholder type of ride, something cool to fill the coaster count in between fury and the next big coaster project.
Just here yesterday and rode copperhead for the first time. It is a great ride but in a very low attendance day the line still stays long and crawls. Fury and intimidator we're walk on all day. It's a great addition but to make it a real destination it's gone need another major attraction like redoing their hurler into an RMC or some kind of monster woody. Even another B&M hyper. Alot of the rides are still small. Nighthawk and vortex show their age. And other than their novelty aren't great rides. Especially considering I waited just as long for nighthawk as I did copperhead. Afterburn one of the top coasters is tucked away in the back behind camp snoopy. One more major attraction and this park will be complete. But with still the recent edition of fury we might be waiting a while will we see our next big coaster.
Icon at BPB has fantastic operations. Because it doesn't have seatbelts, trains are often dispatched every 30-45 seconds unless a seat swap is required. Icon apparently only has a theoretical throughput of around 1,070pph, but the line moves fairly quickly when the ride runs a 3 train service. :)
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Nice! That’s awesome!
@@ElToroRyan I forgot to mention that Icon's ride ops trained on Blue Fire to run the ride and were taught how to operate it on Europa Park's high dispatching standards, which is likely the reason behind it's great operations. I've never had to queue more than 45 mins for Icon on a very crowded day. The only downside is that Icon's back seats are larger to accommodate for larger guests so seat swaps happen occasionally which can slow the operations, but it usually isn't too bad. ;D
Go on a uk trip to Alton towers, Thorpe park etc.
Rode this last month. Still think this park needs an intense launch coaster.
Does anyone know if that theoretical capacity includes the seatbelt additions? Or is that just Mack's default theoretical capacity?
Each coaster has its own unique theoretical capacity that basically just means when a train can physically dispatch based on the block setup. So load times aren’t really a part of that calculation.
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They need a nice gravity group woodie to really fill out their lineup
I’m a sucker for roller coasters that slap
This is my home park, but imagine if they RMC’d Thunder Road
I like the ride because the povs I haven’t went to carowinds yet sadly 😔😔😔. BUT IDC MY BDAY IS MAY 8TH
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How was it?
@@coasternamegenerator5611 Amazing
Granny has Copperhead *Snakes* in her yard so people would stay away. The reason she wanted people to stay away is because the ‘Award Winning Jam’ she was making turned out to be moonshine.
Now for the ride part of the storyline:
As you take a slow and sneaky entrance into Granny’s shed to find out the secret ingredients she uses to makes her Jam. As you realize her “Jam” is actually Moonshine, it’s too late. Granny has spotted you, and so have the snakes. As they both come after you, you make a grand escape out of that shed, and you traverse the track of the ride.
5:07
Blue fire 😂
Carowinds is my home park. I can say, it appears operations did improve over time. Granted, I didn't time any dispatches.
My ranking is much different than the norm. I would put Copperhead Strike and After Burn in my number 1 and 2 spots. They are so close, I can't say which is one or two. That of course puts Fury further down my list than most others.
went a few weeks ago, they got times down to generally around a minute from what I saw. They were flying.
Copper head strike made me feel icky because of all that spinning when it was finished I felt like I had to trow up lmao
Great video! Can’t wait to get slapped lol
Lol eltororyan I wrote this knowing it would be hearted lol
A small park? Carowinds is 400 acres with 14 roller coasters, the 5th largest attendance in the CF chain, and soon to be only the second CF park to offer an on site hotel.
I went on do dodonpa 14 years ago when I was like 10. The operators trolled our train by counting down to the launch 3... 2... 1... And then nothing. And then we launched.
Is it me or does cedar fair look like it's focusing on theming a bit more like not Disney theming but que theming and station theming
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