Cyclone Front Seat on-ride HD POV Six Flags New England
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Did you know that Cyclone's first drop was made shortened by 20 feet in 2001 & you can still see the old track beneath the new track?
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Rough? Yes. Violent? Yes. A brilliant ride? YESSSS!!!! Back when it was still called The Riverside Cyclone, with those brutal Morgan trains, it was amazing. Loved it.
RIP Cyclone: king of riverside
I miss the old cyclone 😭
J M the the new rmc wicked cyclone is one of the best rollercoasters
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@@thislldo2475no like literally it’s one of the best coasters I’ve ever been on, possibly the best. I’ve been to other parks too.
@@thislldo2475the fact that they kept the old elements of the old ride and made it modern, it was 10/10 especially if you grew up going on the old version
i rode this one back in 2010
and man all i gotta say: R.I.P to the hips of whoever sat in the back trains. Those drops were absolutely BRUTAL on the hips.
It's so interesting to see this before it got RMCed. It's terrific now.
What had really set the stage for riding this was seeing how precarious that thing was shaking as you stood in line. Sure, the steel monsters are scary, but nothing beats the terror of a wooden rollercoaster shaking itself to pieces while you're riding it AND the knowledge that you probably knew better than getting on the muhfuh being your last lucid thought.
When all is said and done, The Wicked Cyclone, which replaced this coaster is an amazing ride. I will miss the special discomfort of riding the original, but not that much. : )
The first (and only) time I went on this before it turned into the wiked cyclone, I got stuck at the very top. I was in the third seat too. That scared me to DEATH!
The OG Cyclone was always the first ride you'd see when you got to the Riverside parking lot... and the last one you'd see on your way home, as you glance down lovingly at the plum-shaded welt on the side of your knee that the Cyclone kissed you with as a lil forget-me-not.
@@shmackatrotsky5394 I wish we could have rode together on the Cyclizone, sporting matching bruises on the side of our heads from having smashed into each other on that notorious first curve which threatened to throw so many children to their deaths.
Uhp. I'm getting a little feklempt here.
Lone Girl sameeeee
It's now called the Wicked Cyclone so if anyone wants to ride you should ride in the back because it Whips you down the almost 90 degree drop at a speed of only 55 MPH but it goes faster in the rain so hold on to your lap bars tightly!
I remember riding this with my mom at 9 years old. Loved every second. It was my first roller coaster I ever rode and it’s still my favorite memory
Thank you so much for posting. I'm almost 40 now and live in vegas but grew up there when it was Riverside and when the ride came out. Now I have a daughter that I hope to ride this with one day. Just showed her the vid. Thanks so much. Great video
I can't believe I still remember the day this opened. It was my Mom's 28th birthday, I was 3 years old. My dad waited 4 hours to get on!
I miss this roller coaster so much. It was my favorite
It was bumpy as shit
@@MikeJ2023 that was part of the charm. The new one is great too you just can't call it a woodie anymore
Its still there
@@kevinmelisacolvin4585 it’s been redone
@@MikeJ2023 i was there memorial day. Did they repaint it
Why do people hate this coaster, I thought it was intense as hell.
They don't hate it anymore now that it is Wicked Cyclone.
It lost quite a bit of the extremeness in the corners when they added the breaks on a lot of the corners and shortened the original drop. It made a huge difference as you can see how slow the train comes.
Hello from Manchester England, just an hour away from the mighty Grand National at the equally wonderful BPB...recently renamed PBB. I lived 18yrs in Boston.This was my favourite coaster within close driving range. (Yankee Cannonball and Flyer Comet were perfectly good closer woodies.) Towards the end of our stay over there - myself and my American wife and daughter - the Superman steelie arrived. That was a great coaster but steel is not my thing. I loved the Riverside Cyclone but recognise that some people found it either too brutal or too rough.
The trim breaks took away from a lot of the airtime, and the buzz killed first drop made the ride significantly less intense.
better as an rmc lol
I remember waiting 3 hours for this ride in the late 80s. The ride was wild, but now its just painful. Six flags killed it.
Ahh, a blast from the past lol. Thank you for the memories. The bruises on my elbows and knees LMAO.
I got to ride this in it's first season in '83 with the PTC trains. It was absolutely the most thrilling and scary coaster ride of my life. It was still pretty good with the Morgan trains after but somehow not quite as intense. Now with the first drop neutered, it's still fun but has lost it's bite. What a shame.
Agree!!
Ahhh...the good ol' backbreaker. I remember riding it with the original first drop. The first lefty turnaround is very scary as you watch the entire structure shake beneath you and the short left after the right hand turnaround just about snaps you in half every time. Great coaster but only if you are a wooden coaster fanatic like me.
Me and my friend rode this ride 7 times in a row 3 days before it closed, glad it got replaced by a really good ride though :)
I had the opportunity to get the credit on this ride, it was also one of my first credits, It’s to bad the big old cyclone was taken from us too soon, this vintage coaster made our days fun with its insane airtime and its 109 foot tall drop was the biggest thrill back in the 80s when it was first manufactured, the vintage coaster will always be in our hearts. And wicked cyclone being an amazing coaster ,but
we still have to remember who started it all, the king of riverside, cyclone
Just an fyi to the people who don't know, the coaster wasn't completely replaced with wicked cyclone, they used the old salvageable wood and built the whole new structure to accommodate the new steel rails, making it a hybrid coaster. I unfortunately never got the chance to ride the original cyclone as I was too young when it closed, but it's bones still live on in the new ride that took it's place.
@99melissalynn I live in Connecticut and Maine half half. Back in the late 80's, early 90's the "Riverside Cyclone" was anything short than a violent beating that us older gen came back for more and more. Bruised and banged up, u came back for more. Now it's a poorman's rollercoaster
I enjoyed going on this ride, even though I have not been at the park for 10 years. I will miss the fact that they are closing this ride that has been at the park for my entire life!
Good times riding this coaster with my dad as a kid. When we moved away it got transformed into steel 😥
I went on this coaster back in 1994 when this park was called Riverside Park. I really loved it back then.
It was named after the Coney Island Cyclone, but the actual layout is very different. This one is much larger and more compact.
this is more like the texas cyclone that used to be at astoworld houston texas. FUN FUN FUN This one looks just as fun.
When me and my friend went on this last year during a school trip, there was barely a line and we went on like three times! Wooden roller coasters are the best!!!
the riverside cyclone will be missed
R.I.P Cyclone 1983-2014 Bringing thrills for 31 years.
At 1:56, "Awww, my stomach." / "Ow, my chest hurt." / "Collapsed lung." - That lady summed it up perfectly.
i rode this six times in one day in 1997. i had abruise on my back the size of a softball. great ride.
Getting whipped around and floating out of your seat is what makes the back the best seat in the house.
it sucks that they changed it! That ride use to shake you to the bones and made it such a rush of intense force while riding it. No it's just another smooth metal coaster
Just to think all of the track doesnt exist anymore and mosg of the structure is gone
Richard Ready no it’s thunderbolt not cyclone that’s why lol
You just reminded me how beautiful this coaster was. Six Flags New England was my home park before moving out west. I wish they had preserved it. Looks like half of what it used to be. It was a rough ride.
I don't know about that. I haven't been on the Coney Island Cyclone, but it seems to keep its speed throughout. What used to be the "grand finale" of the Riverside Cyclone now has trim brakes that usually slow the coaster down to a near-halt. They also haven't greased the track in years.
But I've caught it on good days where it was pretty wild. With the proper maintenance, I think the Riverside Cyclone could be up there with El Toro and Boulder Dash.
Agree that both El Toro and Boulder Dash are superb, fantastic woodies, in the spirit of the old days.
Not for the feint of heart. A girl I met sat on the last row of Boulder Dash, damned near passed out, later felt sick and was diagnosed with a concussion.
R.I.P Cyclone gone but definitely never forgotten
I rode this three times just TWO DAYS before it closed for good. I had a good ride experience. P.S I was front row two of those three times.
Roughest Ride I've ever been on XD and I go on it every time I go to SFNE!
this ride was fucking awesome before they retracked it. Seriously the shortened the pulled up the drops and the train didn't shake as much which takes away from what makes wooden coasters great which is the insane amount of shaking.
Unfortunately, they did. They shortened the first drop by 20 feet and put trim brakes (brakes that slow the train down) on the twisty part of the ride to save maintenance costs.
In 2011, they began a project to re-track the ride with a more structurally sound rail system, and now it's smoother than Batman. Hopefully they will shut the brakes off for good when the whole ride is re-tracked, and eventually restore the original first drop (which you can still see under the current first drop).
Wicked Cyclone now! AMAZING
Miss this classic wooden roller coaster.
This brings back memories. I used to work here at what was called Riverside Park (yes…long time ago)
Never got a chance to ride this, by the time I was tall enough Wicked Cyclone took it's place. Oh well, Wicked is tied for my favorite coaster of all time, tied with Thunderbolt at the same park, which is nostalgic to me because of how much I wanted to ride it when I was too small.
That ride was like going through a steel cage match with Chuck Liddell. It beat you senseless. I miss it.
It's a shame it's closed, this was my favorite.
Ben on this ride since the ,80's just love it to bad its gone
Was awesome til they retracked it in 2002 and got rid of the 1st drop. Nothing like what it used to be. Was an evil air time machine back in the day, I remember riding Superman (Bizarro) and then this back to back and I couldn't decide which was more intense. It's a shell of it's old self now. :(
And now RMC has transformed it into something amazing--not a woodie, though.
going to ride this with my choir after our competition. nothing will go wrong :)
I FOUND A FELLOW THEATRE KID HOW DO YOU DO
William Cobb was great at making roller coasters. I miss his works
I Remember riding this coaster as a kid and I'm 40 now. My dad and my uncle forced me on it I was about 7 lol fun as hell
The new ride now is wicked cyclone it's way more fun
It doesn't need a steeper drop or modern trains. The drop is exciting not because how steep it is, but because of how quickly it transitions from a gentle slope to a steep one. The PTC trains are fine; they just need to make the seat dividers more comfortable. And they probably should be careful of where they put Topper Track. I never rode it before the Topper Track, but I heard it got rid of the airtime. Also, the ride needs some grease. I can hear the screeching from the parking lot.
Spent my whole summer of 2005 riding this, that sign at top always made me laugh. Love wicked cyclone but so much of me misses the wildness of this ride.
2015.... WICKED CYCLONE!
Be quiet! I saw wicked cyclone on RUclips, it looks terrible! The classic cyclone, shown on this video, is much better.
+Taffyta Muttonfudge I hope u feel stupid wicked cyclone is better
@@taffytamuttonfudge5765 Wicked Cyclone is incredible
@@charleyhibschweiler4555 I just went on it today! It was amazing!
This is probably the most intense roller coaster I've been on - it wasn't much of a thrill, it was more of a 'I hope my neck doesn't break' ride for me. Other than worrying about my life on the most bumpy ride in the park, rebuilt around 1988 (correct me if I'm wrong) , it was pretty fun.
I feel like I might be the only one saying this, but I'm pretty happy to see this one go. It looks SO fun from the outside but then you drop down that first hill, and realize that you aren't getting nearly the drop you though. Beyond that, it was VERY rocky, moreso than the average woody and to the point where I found it pretty uncomfortable. It was also much more of a twisty turny coaster, it really didn't have as much in the hills department as I'd have liked.
Wicked looks pretty fun. Full drop, smooth track (although admittedly that probably loses some of the fun of a woody with a normal degree of shaking), looks like a few more hills... personally don't care one way or another about inversions but they should be cool I guess.
when i was little i was so scared when i was standing in line! my step dad was going on it and i could feel the whole structure shaking.
WiCy has insane air on every hill, and even airtime in the inversions somehow.
The front seat definitely supplies some good ejector airtime. I've had the pleasure of riding with both trims off, one of my favorite woodies for sure
i miss this coaster :(
If I were Emperor, all wood coasters would be painted white (with a few exceptions, like The Beast.) So much potential beauty out there.
If you think its rough now imagine riding this with morgan trains like it originally had....bruises lasted for 2 weeks
Yes, Cyclone is too small for an I-Box makeover but Thunderbolt, which is 40 feet shorter, should get it. That makes a lot of sense.
I don't think either of SFNE's wooden coasters should get all-steel track. I think Six Flags should continue adding Topper Track to the ride, and should eventually get rid of those trims.
They also need to grease the track so it doesn't make that screeching noise.
I was very fortunate to ride this coaster in 1999, just before Six Flags ruined it.
that's my favorite rollercoaster
The good old days... Sigh....its a reminder that we are only getting older.
They should get lighter trains so they can restore the original first drop and do away with those trim brakes. Gravitykraft Timberliners would be awesome.
@love4knex It USE to be extremely rough. For the 2011 season, Cyclone is getting a large portion of the track fitted with the Rocky Mountain Construction Co. Topper Track. It was recently installed on the Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. If you heard of what they did at Six Flags Over Texas with the Texas Giant, it is somewhat like that except the Topper Track goes on top of the pre-existing rather than completely replacing it.
Ugh love this ride rip for a while hopefully it will be also the new cyclone
2:00 " my chest hurts " LOL
That looks EXTREMELY rough.
I rode this the last month it was open. The paint was peeling, the metal starting to rust, the whole thing just looked damned rickety. But we weren't about to "wuss out", and sat in the last row. I can't think of another ride in my entire life that was this rough. Just brutal. I felt like I needed a chiropractor when I got off it.
In other words, it was f*cking awesome! So super glad I rode it before the thing was dismantled.
My brother in Christ the cyclone at six flags New England has been gone for years.if your talking about its replacement,wicked cyclone (a hybrid conversion of the og cyclone),then no
@@Magformerbattlebots I’m definitely talking about the original Cyclone. Not the new hybrid.
The OG was something else. Crazy rough, a bit terrifying, and an incredible thrill!
You mean the Kennywood Thunderbolt? That thing's a classic, too. It doesn't need an I-Box makeover, either.
I remember riding this and thinking is was nothing and was holding onto dear life the whole ride. Glad it got the RMC treatment.
I actually got to ride this, my first year above 54” was this rides last year in existence
I wish it was there still
Don't sit in the back, it's much smoother in the front, in the back you get whipped and feel like you're gonna fly out of your seat! Middle or front is the best!
this has so much airtime i flew a foot off the seat!!!!!
Going 65 mph up and down, and I was like FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.
Iron Cyclone is coming #2015
Wicked cyclone was confirmed!!!!! YAY!
Mr. Magic Kingdom looking back iron cyclone sounds disgusting lol
Richard Ready I come from the future
inn0version _ I come 7 months later
Wicked*
Need to rehab this ride-use all topper track and return the original drop and make it steeper(70-78 degrees)and remove the trims and use GCI trains.
The drop at 1:27 was always the best.
The name "Cyclone" is the most over used roller-coaster name in the world. I tend to see if everywhere. Either that or names that have "Curse" or "Revenge" strapped onto the end off a popular movie title.
Wicked cyclone is the shit tho 😂😂
I know right?? It's so smooth compared to the old one :/
The Robloxian Of The World I love the last loop and how slow it is
Fallen Fang that last loop is the best!
its a barrel roll not a loop ;/
Do a barrel roll
I rode in the backs of both Cyclone and Batman. Due to the topper track, Cyclone is smoother. Both were awesome, though.
This ride is fuckinggg dopeee,I went on with my brother last year in the front seat and it does jerk you around and it hurts but it was so much fun!
I've been on a copy of that ride at 0:05, it's called Slammer and it's at Thorpe Park, I think it's one of only two (this one and the other one) in the world?
I really miss this coaster. I'm glad they replaced it with a more wicked one though
@HoCkEYpLayErTuFo That was the original plan, but when they realized that they didn't have enough space for a Coney Island Cyclone replica, they built a twister-style roller coaster.
Not gonna lie that ride looks like so much fun
I have a question. Both this Cyclone and the Georgia Cyclone were partially retracked with traditional wooden track this year. Could this mean that they stopped using Topper Track?
this one hurt your kidneys and neck way too much near the end of its life. this is after they fixed the initial drop. it used to be steeper.
Nobody else seems to notice the irony of naming this old wooden roller coaster the "Cyclone" and yet it is no way, shape or form even remotely close to being a Cyclone clone. I find that weird.
Originally, Riverside wanted a Coney Island Cyclone replica, but they did not have the space to do so, making a compact ride they named The Riverside Cyclone.
But then Six Flags bought Riverside amusement park and they renamed it six flags new england and the Riverside Cyclone was renamed the Cyclone.
I'm surprised you didn't drop your camera.
man i cant wait for the 2011 coaster season
Nice job filming guys
Had anyone riden the Cyclone at Six Flags New England on a wheel seat because I heard that wheel seats are the worst for riding a wooden coaster because they can easily bang you up like crazy!
Awesome ride. I went on it yesterday.
Didn't the exit use to be the entrance and vice versa? Also when was this filmed?
This ride HURTS.
now we have the wicked Cyclone
I will not miss this ride. When I went on it the safety bar didn't lock. It wasn't holding me in at all and I didn't notice in time to tell the people working. My brother was legit holding it down the whole time from next to me. Funny, but scary as fuck.
The last time I rode it we didnt have enough speed going up after the first drop so 2/3s of the car was still on the hill. Took about 30 minutes before they got people up there to help. We couldn't get off because of where we got stuck. Had some idiot trying to rock it. They told us that if we went backwards it would not end well for any of us. They finally pushed us up and we finished the ride. They gave us free admission for our next time.... it I was a season pass holder so it meant nothing. Still love and miss the ride.
The Wicked Cyclone's track layout looks alot different than the original... is it gonna be completely different?
I'm from the future and I'm here to tell you it's amazing and it goes upside down
No it uses the same layout type but just does different things.