Well said--I could not agree more. I was lucky to make it on Shockwave, Great American Scream Machine and Vortex before they were torn down for dubious reasons...but I was always sad to have missed Orient Express. I am most impressed with how fast it traverses the batwing inversion. Normally the mid-course on these large-scale loopers is set right before that element and you crawl through it, but here you are flying--that must have been crazy intense.
I can't believe it!! I was just watching this ride cuz I'd always ride the orient and I found myself caught on film when the ride comes in- I'm the one on the left side with long black hair and my usual ecstatic grin on my face sitting next to my blonde brother-in-law!!! I can't believe I finally made it on utube-1995 was the last time I rode this wonderful favorite ride-LONG LIVE ORIENT MEMORIES!!THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!!!😁💖💖😁
Way cool, chance find for me was this, where I did not know the contributor: ruclips.net/video/-gbRjFLWaKM/видео.html Was a rare occurrence, but very cool indeed! I’m the guy jumping up and down in the very light blue shirt (obvious Cardinal fan)!
Is that for real? That's awesome! The Orient Express was probably the finest roller coaster ever built. The way it shows no mercy as it throws you into loop 1? But then it slows way down right before the second loop- it builds in fear like nothing on Earth ever will BUT The Orient Express roller coaster of Worlds of Fun. So anyway, I'm super happy for you, I'm happy you 'made it to youtube' although, (as has been proven) any idiot can film themselves for youtube account postings, anytime. But you? You're a fun person, I'm glad you're having fun with the video- Thanks to the person who posted it. I was sad the first time I went to Worlds of Fun but there was no Orient Express.
@@vealslab7757 lol, don't forget the brilliant design of the boarding area as well. Stand there in line watching train after train of people get dumped screaming into a black tunnel, while you debate whether to take the chicken exit.
1:12 As a kid, that sound going up the lift, I was like "what did I get myself into" once you was at the top and make that right turn just before the drop. that played a trick on your mental. This Roller Coster had Character... A true Classic, that can never be replaced... I wish they would rebuild it, to be taller, faster with a steeper drop...
I must have rode that coaster over 100 times! The interlocking loops were so unique, only one other in the world. It was so high, and very jerky lol. Riding at night was the best, as you descended into the tunnel through the dragon with red glowing eyes. The lifting chain made such a distinctive noise! The OE was probably the first upside down coaster ridden by many. I loved the Express. Thanks for posting, it is like stepping back into the best times of my life.
1999 was my first season working there; that ride had its derailing accident right as I was leaving the parking lot that night. I didn't find out about it until I got home
Brandie Karr and then my Leads gonna tell me not to tell anyone about it. (even though i never actually worked that ride; you gotta be 18 i was 16 then) well if the media spoke up its kind of hard to keep hush hush about it THEN
Watching those inverts swing as the cars flew through was one of the scariest things as a kid lol. God I miss this coaster. I don't miss the rocks they used for head restraints lol.
I’m 47 and I grew up at Worlds of Fun. Dad always had free tickets from work so we went many times every summer. Now I live in Virginia and take my kids to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. When we ride the Loch Ness Monster, those interlocking loops remind me of the Orient Express. I’m glad ol’ Nessy is 41 years old and going strong for a classic Arrow Coaster. I believe the Orient was built the year after Nessy. Thanks for the video! Brought back many memories
My favorite coaster as a kid. The first drop was the best…totally stomach-losing the way coasters ought to be. Rough as hell ride, but that was part of the fun. Remember riding this over and over. Between this, Screamroller, Zambezi Zinger, and Schussboomer, WOF was a great place in the early 80s. I hear it’s all gone now and replaced with new rides. Too bad.
Julian Dale The Loch Ness Monster ride at BGW is the only ride with interlocking loops to this day...two other rides had it, until they were demolished
This was my first coaster! Every year I'd measure up because I wanted to ride so badly. Finally I was tall enough! It shook me all up but I've been an addict ever since. Point is.. Those interlocking loops were always funny and on the park map, it just looked like a big red knotted up noodle because... that was pretty much what it was! haha
AnnoyingMiner10 technically, there was another one that had interlocking loops with two separate tracks. They split the tracks so even tho the loops no longer interlock, half of the ride still stands today
The video looks like exactly how I remember it, with dropped frames, loss of color vision, and all that jerking around. It was always one of the craziest coasters I've been on, and like the Zambezi Zinger, the overgrowth of trees and bushes hid its true route, even while riding it.
I still remember the headaches of getting knocked around between those fairly solid padded headrests. It was always a headbanger when you exited that second loop into the twist. Headaches or no, I always rode it again. ^_^
That coaster was a big, bad mother in its day. I rode it a few different times during a few visits and I don't think I ever completely enjoyed it. I think I was just kind of uneasy rather than scared and I think the part that really got in my head was that simple curve between the top of the lift hill and that first huge drop. The curve was slow with little or no bank and unless you were in the front few cars you couldn't see the track in front of you and nothing beside you to the left but open air and a hell of a drop to the ground. It seems like the train was barely moving when it got to the top of the drop. The drop was a relief compared to that queasy feeling going around that damn curve.
That little drop followed by the slow curve before you got to the big drop is the single most memorable part of the ride for me too .... just the feeling of uneasiness as you say. It's like the whole thing was dragged out and it was almost a relief to hit the real roller coaster.
The Orient Express was my introduction to real roller coasters as a kid. Sure I rode the Schussboomer and Zambezi Zinger, but when this monster opened in 1980 I was changed forever!
I recently moved back to KC my kids went to worlds of fun and I kept asking them about the orient express and they told me there isn’t an orient express! I looked it up online and see that it was closed down in 2003 I am extremely disappointed. So many great memories on that ride. REBUILD THE THE ORIENT EXPRESS!!!
I rode on that one a few times when I became tall enough to ride on roller coasters other than the Wacky Worm (now Cosmic Coaster). And when we went to that park for my 15th birthday, that roller coaster was already gone.
Metal fatigue caused by wear and tear from the track caused an incident leaving 2 of the 7 trains dangling but nobody was hurt in 1999, I think the coaster continued to operate until 2003.
I remember being so scared to ride on this. I straight up wouldn't go on coasters that went upside down for a long time. The beginning of the video is all I could see of it, and it scared the crap out of me.
My Favorite coaster of all time, the spot where it was is still open, they even use the station as a Halloween haunted house! Wish I would win the lottery, because I would have it rebuilt and donate it to Worlds of Fun, and put back in it's spot of honor!
I go to WoF every year in the summer and the year i was finally tall enough to ride this it was shit down for good. I was so disappointed. Now I'm 16 years old and I've ridden all the coasters in Cedar Point and a lot across the US and have to say that coaster chasing is an addiction to put it mildly :)
My first ever roller coaster was the patriot- which replaced this. Just rode the timberwolf and the prowler for the first time today. Im sad I didn't get to experience this coaster.
This ride was a lot of fun. Mostly. Back seat on the first loop felt like my rib cage wanted to burst open. Anywhere else was fine. Rough ride, but a classic that will be always in my memory.
This was the very first roller coaster i rode. I loved it! I miss it too expect the part where it would hurt my ears from that thing that went over ya to strap u in but i was shorter than.
You can tell they were trying to make this coaster unique and the fact it got sacked in 2003 when it could've been fixed up and look and be just as nice as Loch Ness Monster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg is just sad. Worlds Of Fun needs a new steel coaster replacement for this, or rather if they felt the need to remove it so badly they could've replaced it with something that made sense. They've already ditched extreme roller and then this one. Along with the shwarzkophf jumbo jet. Have they even gotten anything good besides a B&M invert and a GCI since then-ok Ik they got a mack spinner but can they add something like a much smaller steel curtain right now? Edit: Coaster still can use a better, bigger "steel coaster" replacement, but at least they are sort of replacing the jumbo jet, which is pretty cool.
I remember this being the second coaster I ever rode. The first,also at WOF,was Tony's Extreme Roller. That was shortly after they changed it from the EXT.
When I was 15 I took the chicken exit.....I would ride it now or some other roller coaster but when I was young and lived in California and went to Knots berry farm it had a big loop and some woman fell out and got killed and when I heard that as a kid it put the fear of roller coasters on me for years...
Not true, a lot of these early era rides were tearing themselves apart... Literally... Look at how fast it went through those inversions, there's a reason why a lot of the older rides are so heavily trimmed and nowadays
And it's used for Vampire Lore during Halloween Haunt, I'm pretty sure that's the same building, it's the one in the alternate path on the Spinning Dragons that is closed except during Halloween season.
One of the best coasters ever designed, and what a terrible loss. Should have been preserved, it was never obsolete and positively iconic.
I agree.
Well said--I could not agree more. I was lucky to make it on Shockwave, Great American Scream Machine and Vortex before they were torn down for dubious reasons...but I was always sad to have missed Orient Express. I am most impressed with how fast it traverses the batwing inversion. Normally the mid-course on these large-scale loopers is set right before that element and you crawl through it, but here you are flying--that must have been crazy intense.
I can't believe it!! I was just watching this ride cuz I'd always ride the orient and I found myself caught on film when the ride comes in- I'm the one on the left side with long black hair and my usual ecstatic grin on my face sitting next to my blonde brother-in-law!!! I can't believe I finally made it on utube-1995 was the last time I rode this wonderful favorite ride-LONG LIVE ORIENT MEMORIES!!THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!!!😁💖💖😁
Not for nothing, but looks like in 1995 you were really hot.
That's amazing you found yourself over ten yrs b4 RUclips on RUclips I never got to ride this but glad someone got a pov of it
Way cool, chance find for me was this, where I did not know the contributor:
ruclips.net/video/-gbRjFLWaKM/видео.html
Was a rare occurrence, but very cool indeed! I’m the guy jumping up and down in the very light blue shirt (obvious Cardinal fan)!
Is that for real? That's awesome! The Orient Express was probably the finest roller coaster ever built. The way it shows no mercy as it throws you into loop 1? But then it slows way down right before the second loop- it builds in fear like nothing on Earth ever will BUT The Orient Express roller coaster of Worlds of Fun. So anyway, I'm super happy for you, I'm happy you 'made it to youtube' although, (as has been proven) any idiot can film themselves for youtube account postings, anytime. But you? You're a fun person, I'm glad you're having fun with the video- Thanks to the person who posted it. I was sad the first time I went to Worlds of Fun but there was no Orient Express.
@@vealslab7757 lol, don't forget the brilliant design of the boarding area as well. Stand there in line watching train after train of people get dumped screaming into a black tunnel, while you debate whether to take the chicken exit.
1:12 As a kid, that sound going up the lift, I was like "what did I get myself into" once you was at the top and make that right turn just before the drop. that played a trick on your mental. This Roller Coster had Character... A true Classic, that can never be replaced... I wish they would rebuild it, to be taller, faster with a steeper drop...
I absolutely love that classic Arrow Dynamics lift hill sound. There's nothing quite like it and they're slowly fading into the history books.
Pretty historic.
literally said that to myself as the train was climbing the lift hill.
First coaster I ever rode. Miss it tremendously.
Me too, but not as much as I miss the Zambezi Zinger (first one I rode). So beautiful spiraling through the forest.
Arrow coasters are Getting hard To find replacement Parts For regardless of the S&S,vekoma Excuse
my first also!
Hell to me. that's what made worlds of fun as soon as u pull up there it was
Me too!
I must have rode that coaster over 100 times! The interlocking loops were so unique, only one other in the world. It was so high, and very jerky lol. Riding at night was the best, as you descended into the tunnel through the dragon with red glowing eyes. The lifting chain made such a distinctive noise! The OE was probably the first upside down coaster ridden by many. I loved the Express. Thanks for posting, it is like stepping back into the best times of my life.
Glad you enjoyed it ! :-)
I grew up at Worlds of Fun. Dad always had free tickets from work so we went many times every summer.
Jessica Whitney there were two others, one of which is still open today at BGW
Lightning loops had it but closed down
This ride, the Zambezi zinger and the Zulu were my fav rides at WOF in the 90s
Arrow Coasters... so rough, they knock the color out of your film.
What happened?
lol
I remember Orient Express being a pretty rough ride as a kid.
This one wasn't that rough it was really fun acctualy!
It was powerful g force.
This was one of my favorite coasters to ride when I would visit WOF and it is dearly missed! Best of my teen years!!
Damn some of this video is better quality then video of today's cameras damn patatos
1999 was my first season working there; that ride had its derailing accident right as I was leaving the parking lot that night. I didn't find out about it until I got home
PyramidHead138 i remember seeing that on the news
Brandie Karr and then my Leads gonna tell me not to tell anyone about it. (even though i never actually worked that ride; you gotta be 18 i was 16 then) well if the media spoke up its kind of hard to keep hush hush about it THEN
PyramidHead138 wow and yea thats true
my mom rode this when she was a kid, and she loved it! my aunt said its her favorite roller coaster of all time, even though its gone, or retired.
Watching those inverts swing as the cars flew through was one of the scariest things as a kid lol. God I miss this coaster. I don't miss the rocks they used for head restraints lol.
Once the orient express was torn down that park just wasn't the same that roller coaster was world of fun!!
I get this.
Mark Wyatt's White Knuckle Ride (a classic rollercoaster book!!) sent me here!
Blast from the past, boy my heart is full of so many memories at world's of fun and kansas city. So wish I could go back
If they still had that in 2021 that probably be my favorite ride
This takes me back ! Wonderful childhood memories ! This was my first upside down coaster. I loved it !
This ride was fantastic and it’s a shame that it closed. Easily the best Arrow Looper ever built.
I miss this coaster so much, that first drop took my stomach more than any I've ever rode.
I’m 47 and I grew up at Worlds of Fun. Dad always had free tickets from work so we went many times every summer. Now I live in Virginia and take my kids to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. When we ride the Loch Ness Monster, those interlocking loops remind me of the Orient Express. I’m glad ol’ Nessy is 41 years old and going strong for a classic Arrow Coaster. I believe the Orient was built the year after Nessy. Thanks for the video! Brought back many memories
Glad you liked it.
RIP Orient Express ;(
I miss this ride. I ran it the first year it opened in 1980. So much fun!
My favorite coaster as a kid. The first drop was the best…totally stomach-losing the way coasters ought to be. Rough as hell ride, but that was part of the fun. Remember riding this over and over. Between this, Screamroller, Zambezi Zinger, and Schussboomer, WOF was a great place in the early 80s. I hear it’s all gone now and replaced with new rides. Too bad.
Interlocking loops?? That's pretty sexy
Julian Dale The Loch Ness Monster ride at BGW is the only ride with interlocking loops to this day...two other rides had it, until they were demolished
This was my first coaster! Every year I'd measure up because I wanted to ride so badly. Finally I was tall enough! It shook me all up but I've been an addict ever since.
Point is.. Those interlocking loops were always funny and on the park map, it just looked like a big red knotted up noodle because... that was pretty much what it was! haha
AnnoyingMiner10 technically, there was another one that had interlocking loops with two separate tracks. They split the tracks so even tho the loops no longer interlock, half of the ride still stands today
@@Doc141 MY FIRST AS WELL! OH HOLY BAT SHIT IT WAS AN EXPERIENCE! MWAHAHAHAHAHA! WE SURVIIIIIIIIIIIVED!
@@AnnoyingMiner10 what was the other one?
I remember riding this when I was a kid. I loved roller coasters and I remember being terrified! Thank you for posting!
Glad you liked it.
I rode this when I was little I loved it
First looping coaster I ever rode...good memories!
the was the best roller coaster ever! Sadly it's gone now :'(
This coaster destroyed the spine... yet I loved every second of it.
:-)
Lol... I remember this ride and how bad it hurt... but DAMN it was fun!
The video looks like exactly how I remember it, with dropped frames, loss of color vision, and all that jerking around. It was always one of the craziest coasters I've been on, and like the Zambezi Zinger, the overgrowth of trees and bushes hid its true route, even while riding it.
I remember this ride, my best friend and I rode on it several times. It hurt like hell but DAMN it was fun!
:-)
I still remember the headaches of getting knocked around between those fairly solid padded headrests. It was always a headbanger when you exited that second loop into the twist. Headaches or no, I always rode it again. ^_^
That coaster was a big, bad mother in its day. I rode it a few different times during a few visits and I don't think I ever completely enjoyed it. I think I was just kind of uneasy rather than scared and I think the part that really got in my head was that simple curve between the top of the lift hill and that first huge drop. The curve was slow with little or no bank and unless you were in the front few cars you couldn't see the track in front of you and nothing beside you to the left but open air and a hell of a drop to the ground. It seems like the train was barely moving when it got to the top of the drop. The drop was a relief compared to that queasy feeling going around that damn curve.
Chad Meyer more coasters should exploit moments of unease
That little drop followed by the slow curve before you got to the big drop is the single most memorable part of the ride for me too .... just the feeling of uneasiness as you say. It's like the whole thing was dragged out and it was almost a relief to hit the real roller coaster.
It was such a great coaster, I was there back in 81-82. That was like the BEST summer.
These were the days!
New rides as they call them are dulled down!
My mom and dad always said this was there favorite ride at wof I always wanted to know what it looked like thanks for the vid!
I wish it was still there.
Michael Faulkner, ya but a lot people will say it would be rough
Looked like fun when it was around. Maybe they could do a B&M recreation of it. I like the name Orient Express especially for a big coaster! :)
The Orient Express was my introduction to real roller coasters as a kid. Sure I rode the Schussboomer and Zambezi Zinger, but when this monster opened in 1980 I was changed forever!
I remember riding this when I was maybe 10 or 12.. my head was like a ping pong ball between the restraints.
Thankful for the Patriot ;)
my favourite all-time Arrow! thanks Steve!
Your welcome, glad you enjoyed it ! :)
I'm glad someone did this.
I recently moved back to KC my kids went to worlds of fun and I kept asking them about the orient express and they told me there isn’t an orient express! I looked it up online and see that it was closed down in 2003 I am extremely disappointed. So many great memories on that ride. REBUILD THE THE ORIENT EXPRESS!!!
The first coaster that gave me a migraine.. can't go back to 1988 anymore. Yeah I liked the old Zambezi zinger better too.
R.I.P. Orient Express. Still so sad you’re gone. You were an amazing ride, especially for your time.
oh that's a shame! I was hoping to find out it was still there! :(
Best thing about this was starting in the mid-80's the trees grew perfectly up around it.
I rode on that one a few times when I became tall enough to ride on roller coasters other than the Wacky Worm (now Cosmic Coaster). And when we went to that park for my 15th birthday, that roller coaster was already gone.
Great video miss this coaster
Glad you enjoyed it and I'm pleased I managed to video it for everybody.
Thank you for letting me relive this!!
Looks like a smooth ride. 😂
FakeCrousanator Lol you’re humor is correct. It wasn’t, at least not in its later years. It’s an Arrow coaster... fun but never smooth.
I wish I had the credit, but I'd happily take any B&M over any Arrow looper. Aka I take Patriot over this lok
Metal fatigue caused by wear and tear from the track caused an incident leaving 2 of the 7 trains dangling but nobody was hurt in 1999, I think the coaster continued to operate until 2003.
lol, poor camera couldn't handle the Gs
best available at the time !
yeah well that was the 90's!!! great time's when thing's like that had problems like that!!!
classic ride and I just lived it!!! loved the loops when in rite seat!!!
No one died on the ride. they took it down because it broke down frequently and two cars derailed before the brake run.
I miss this ride so much :(
Probably my first real roger coaster. I loved this one
the first roller coaster i ever rode on.
I haven't been there in years. Is it gone now? I'm retired now and the closest I've been to it now is probably Harrah's casino.
@@DaNinja60 yeah it's been cone since probably 2004
@@shaggydaboy2 Thanks. It was quite a ride. I'm scared of heights but I tried not to look down when we got to the top. From there it was easy. 😅
Loved the Orient Express, but the Zambezi Zinger was my favorite coaster of all time.
2nd Coaster I ever been on... !! 90s Nostalgia!
Used to love this coaster as a kid.
I never even got to ride this and now shitting dragons is in its place man why did i have to be born when i was
omg! brings back memories!
Similar to Vortex at KI, but with the loops in a different non interlocking position, and the insertion of corkscrews.
Actually, Vortex was loosely based of of the orient express layout. Vortex was my favorite ride at KI for that very reason.
G Gerrit I have a Vortex video coming soon that I think you might enjoy ! :-)
I got to ride it in '97. Was a fun ride with the interlocking loops
I remember being so scared to ride on this. I straight up wouldn't go on coasters that went upside down for a long time. The beginning of the video is all I could see of it, and it scared the crap out of me.
My Favorite coaster of all time, the spot where it was is still open, they even use the station as a Halloween haunted house! Wish I would win the lottery, because I would have it rebuilt and donate it to Worlds of Fun, and put back in it's spot of honor!
RIP Camera. Gone but never forgotten.
Born and raised in KC. Use to live on that ride..1986-89
Despite the video problems this is one of the best povs out there
Glad you like it ! :-)
Something tells me that aside from its classic nature, this coaster is not missed.
I go to WoF every year in the summer and the year i was finally tall enough to ride this it was shit down for good. I was so disappointed. Now I'm 16 years old and I've ridden all the coasters in Cedar Point and a lot across the US and have to say that coaster chasing is an addiction to put it mildly :)
You just gotta love the dropouts when they happen. This was before flash memory was practical for videos...
My first ever roller coaster was the patriot- which replaced this. Just rode the timberwolf and the prowler for the first time today. Im sad I didn't get to experience this coaster.
Thank You! I miss the O.E. :(
Your welcome, glad you enjoyed the video ! :)
This ride was a lot of fun. Mostly. Back seat on the first loop felt like my rib cage wanted to burst open. Anywhere else was fine. Rough ride, but a classic that will be always in my memory.
HOLY CRAP! Vertical Drop 😲
I really miss this coaster
Hello there, Loch Ness Monster!
This was the very first roller coaster i rode. I loved it! I miss it too expect the part where it would hurt my ears from that thing that went over ya to strap u in but i was shorter than.
Are you sure you want to completely demolish Corkscrew Coaster 1?
You can tell they were trying to make this coaster unique and the fact it got sacked in 2003 when it could've been fixed up and look and be just as nice as Loch Ness Monster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg is just sad. Worlds Of Fun needs a new steel coaster replacement for this, or rather if they felt the need to remove it so badly they could've replaced it with something that made sense. They've already ditched extreme roller and then this one. Along with the shwarzkophf jumbo jet. Have they even gotten anything good besides a B&M invert and a GCI since then-ok Ik they got a mack spinner but can they add something like a much smaller steel curtain right now?
Edit: Coaster still can use a better, bigger "steel coaster" replacement, but at least they are sort of replacing the jumbo jet, which is pretty cool.
I remember this being the second coaster I ever rode. The first,also at WOF,was Tony's Extreme Roller. That was shortly after they changed it from the EXT.
My brother rode it and the shoulder restraint didn't lock down till he it went through the first loop.
My first roller-coaster!
Camera's have improved a lot lately, in these days they had trouble handling the strong G forces some of these rides would pull !
Great roller coaster
When I was 15 I took the chicken exit.....I would ride it now or some other roller coaster but when I was young and lived in California and went to Knots berry farm it had a big loop and some woman fell out and got killed and when I heard that as a kid it put the fear of roller coasters on me for years...
Oh dear, that's shocking !
Finally! A pov! Thank you!
the station is still at world's of fun it houses a haunted attraction called lore of the vampire which came out in 2004
Damn, as a kc local I really wish I could’ve experienced this ride
The last year I rode this was in 2002 and it was is such bad shape then. I gave up trying to ride it in 2003 because it was down a lot that season.
My best friend's mom said she took my dad on it. Knowing this, I had to do it. Many years later, I found out she lied.
It would be cool if they brought this coaster back.
Definitely looks brutal but still looks like fun. 👍🏾
I Really Wanted To Ride This Beauty
The Express was in the wooded area to the right of the walkway you use to get to the entrance from the main parking lot.
They need to take better care of these arrow coasters. It would still be here if they did. :(
Nah, the engineering wasn't that great and the track tolerances were pretty large. It was only a matter of time.
Not true, a lot of these early era rides were tearing themselves apart... Literally... Look at how fast it went through those inversions, there's a reason why a lot of the older rides are so heavily trimmed and nowadays
This was my first ever roller coaster
I can't believe they tore this down for spinning dragons... Huge downgrade
That was in 2003.
It was so painful...but fun...but god it hurt...
And it's used for Vampire Lore during Halloween Haunt, I'm pretty sure that's the same building, it's the one in the alternate path on the Spinning Dragons that is closed except during Halloween season.