Original Rattler at Fiesta Texas in 1992 with POV and aerial shots
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Going through my tapes I came across this Video of the original Rattler at Fiesta Texas. This ride opened as the tallest fastest and steepest wooden coaster in the world when it opened with the brand new Fiesta Texas in 1992. The ride was very poorly constructed and went through many reprofiles in its life, it was literally like a different ride every year throughout the 90's. In 2012 it was closed and converted to Iron Rattler.
The best first drop in the history of wooden coasters…Did you notice..Not one person held up their hands on the 1st drop!😂😂😂…Thank you John Pierce for this epic drop..I will forever remember our conversations!!
How did RCCA still have a career after designing a coaster this bad?!
wasnt this coaster there last
@@NickyD No, Son Of Beast was.
This was an amazing ride you guys are just pussies
@@NickyD This was actually their first 😂
@@johnulmerRacing Coaster Express was their last. 2002. Son of Beast was built in 2000.
Hey Jeff. Would it be ok for me to use this footage in an upcoming video? I will provide full credit of course!
Sure
Good choice for a next problematic coaster man!
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@ElToroRyan look up Rattler debut by
Olsor54 for another clip
Riding the original Rattler as a child have made some of my best memories!
My first coaster ever at the age of 9. Not a bad way to kick things off, with a hastily constructed, safety tests skipped, out of control speed ride.
yeah i remember in 94 when they had
no brake except the final one before the station that was one hell of an experience
The fact that paramount hired this company to build a wooden hyper instead of cci makes no sense
The main issue with the Rattler coaster was the they made a last minute change to increase height because Cedar Point was going to get a woodie that was higher and they had claimed the Rattler was the tallest Woodie in North America so they had to increase the height to beat CP. This made the G’s and roughness too much. This was coupled with the fac5 that high rain amounts during the building period delayed testing leading to the problems nit being adequately sorted before it debut. Had they built it like it was originally intended it wouldn’t have been so rough. Now the long somewhat boring helix in the end is a different story but overall I don’t think the issue was strictly with RCA of Texas but more with Gaylord Entertainment (owners of Opryland at the time) who built the park before Six Flags took it over years later.
I don’t know what Woodie your referring to here as being ordered by Paramount from RCA but it wasn’t the Rattler as that was commissioned by Gaylord Entertainment Corp, then owners if Opryland U.S.A. Park in Nashville, TN, who built Fiesta Texas. It was Opryland was that built and owned Fiesta Texas before Six Flags took over the park years later. Paramount never owned this park or coasted or any park in Texas. Time-Warner once owned Six Flags before Premier swallowed them up but never Paramount, who did own several other parks though at the time.
Wow how can you not realize meant son of beast. the problems that resulted from rattler makes it a failure so it was a bad idea to hire TVs to build sob
@@heythere7460 Sorry but that you were referring to Son of the Beast wasn't as obvious to me as it was to you since it's been over a decade since that coaster was shut down. Now that I think about it, Son of the Beast was built during Paramount's ownership of Kings Island but I had forgotten about the coaster and the fact is was a RCA design. Had you specified which Paramount park you where referring to I would have figured which coaster you were talking about.
I think Kings Island want to do a rush job to have the worlds tallest wooden coaster by 2000 in order to compete with cedar point and millennium force and with Six Flags Ohio. And maybe CCI had a little of projects going on in 2000
i rode this in '92 @ 7 years old! this footage is helping me remember the experience.. was def a thrill & intense speed+drop & tough sways.. so it was a bit rough for sure..
the G's pulled on the original Colossus @ Six Flags Magic Mountain when it does a roundabout circle - THAT always made me light headed & partially lose my vision & breathing! I did not get any of that from the rough Rattler tho! Everyone is different in how a roller coaster affects their comfort level/physical affects.. proud to say i rode the Original Rattler without complications!
OG Rattler is probably the only coaster I used to ride with my arms down, because it would punish your ribs like Mike Tyson haha
First Reason this ride caused injuries: RCCA Is The Autocorrect of ALL Wooden Coasters.
I want that first drop
The areal views of the ride look beautiful
That first drop is insanity.
The drop actually looks better than Iron Rattlers current one
This does appear to have slightly more of a wicked turn as it drops.
Wooden Coaster 1 looks too intense for me!
Just looking at Wooden Roller Coaster 1 makes me feel sick.
Lol
This profiling is embarrassing lmao
I remember getting on this for my first time years after the first drop was reprofiled. And that was when I found out it had a tunnel. But the helix on the Quarry wall was the most boring part about the ride. When they reprofiled the first drop, they also reprofiled the triple helix.
1. Well Rattler was like all of the RCCA coasters built: Rough rides with boring layouts
2. If my memory is corrrect, Morgan built the original trains for Rattler?
Yeah Morgan trains
RCCA: The wooden coaster version of Togo
This footage was used in TM Books and Videos' "I Love Toy Trains 3". Kinda out of place for a home train video I'm sure you're thinking XD
This was my home park from day 1 and I rode this in its original state so many times. Me and my friends always joked thst we got whiplash from it, but for real, that was a seriously rough ride. You can tell by how the camera is shaking so hard on the POVs 😅 one day I will get back there and ride the new iron rattler
i rode both original rattler and son of beast both made by rcca apparently son of beast was much worst in roughness than rattler, im curious at the end of rattler were the builders apparently drunk or on something heavy because you see the track is super uneven on the last turn before the final brakes is that suppose to be part of the design or did they rush to get the job done before its deadline?
I never rode any coasters too afraid of heights and one day I went to SA and looked at this one and said, " I can ride this one!" Wrong! I did not scan it correctly and missed the main drop so I got on it and.... it was history! So tensed up that when it was over...I decided to end my career. I was 28 yrs old then. Only coaster I've ridden In my life, now I'm 51 yrs old. Done! 🤣🤣🤣
Can I use a small clip of this video for a review of another roller coaster that I'm working on! I'd put your channel's name on the screen as well as full credits in the description.
I thought it was over for the girl at 1:35 .... Literally everyone at the bottom of that drop is breaking necks
I’m making a compilation of WTF Cursed SBNO/Defunct Roller Coasters can I use some of these clips I’ll give credit
sure
What band/song is in the audio? They shred 🤘
hey may I use some of your footage for my new video. Full credit will be given of course. Thanks 👍
My older brother said this ride was painful as shit back than.
it sure as hell looks painful
i rode this as a kid. that first drop was nasty. very painful. it felt like your entire body was being crushed.
Brief history of the coaster: When first built it was to extreme but they made a last minute modification to the first drop to maintain its claim as the tallest woodie at the time which was about to be beaten by a new Ceder Point Woodie set to debut. The last minute change and a delay in construction due to higher the unusual rains that year led to to intense first drop not being properly detected leading many lawsuits and complaints. While some coaster enthusiasts love the intense first drop, becuase the of the highly increased the max G forces rose from the claimed 3 G’s to 5 G’s in places leading to it injury count and implants of roughness. This lead the park to redesign the first lift to decrease the height which helped address the roughness/G-force issue. Even with the change Coaster enthusiasts still praised the coaster save for the boring helix at the end. The change in recent years, converting he coaster to a hybrid woodie w/ still track (Iron Rattler by RMC) has been praised by coaster enthusiasts.
can u reupload tha vid in 720p 60fps because yea i know it's a 60fps video and youtube only supports 60fps no lower than 720p
The girls head slammed into that guys shoulder. She looked concussed after that
What is track profiling?
I thought Mean Streak was bad...how did anyone survive this? It looked really cool though!
Mean Streak really wasnt rough. It had a normal woodie roughness to it. This....this is something else.
IMO Mean Streak became a bad ride when the trim brakes were put on the first drop. It killed any momentum the ride had and it became a boring, rough ride. In its original form in 1991 it was a far better experience than what it became later.
Trimless Mean Streak looked pretty rad imo. Dinn corp definintely has my trust more than rcca lmaoo. Even when mean streak had its airtime element removed it looked far superior than rattler lol.
@@droksbeelDinn Corp is definitely better than RCCA. RCCA is the wooden Pinfari imo. Just bad rides all around.
some parts look a tiny little bit rough...
damn what is this song?
The back pain tho 😛😛😛
Any idea who manufactured the original trains?? The transitions and pacing...👀
Morgan manufacturing. you see them on alot of California woodies
Did they also make the original trains on Psyclone at SFMM too?
@@Joypyf Actually No, B&M made them. Their first and only wooden coaster project
Morgan manufacturing. Those fiberglass trains took a hell of a beating, and were replaced only a few years into their run with PTCs.
2:01
ok what the f*** were they thinking ?
Its like a worse rosebowl from son of beast 💀
Holy crap that's the worst trackwork I've ever seen, that is just insane RCCA got hired to do anything else.
Probably got chosen because of cost reasons. If you took the bait, you suffered the consequences of working with them.
If Dinn stuck around longer rcca would give them free business lmao.
@@droksbeelDinn went under because of company founder Charles Dinn's death in 1992. The company was spun off into Custom Coasters International by Charles' daughter Denise Dinn-Larrick, which in turn was eventually spun off into The Gravity Group after CCI went bankrupt.
From I love toy trains 3 and I love Cat machines part 1
Another one of RCCA’s disasters. That company should never have made wooden coasters
OG Rattler was called Rattler for a reason PUN INTENDED :P
this trackwork looks completely unacceptable and embarrassing, makes even american togo coasters look smooth as glass
I'm so glad they went out of business, they caused nothing but harm to all the parks that worked with them