Rolling Thunder (On-Ride) Six Flags Great Adventure
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2012
- Front Rider's Perspective on Rolling Thunder at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, USA.
Operated from 1979 to 2013.
Length: 3200'
Height: 96'
Inversions: 0
Speed: 56 mph
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Jeeezus sounds like the N subway trying to take that one turn under Central Park
But it’s legendary I’ve never rode it but my mom had
Or the 4/5 train making its way along bowling Green Station 😭🤣
I cried of laughter every time I got on this coaster because of the sounds it made 😂😂 it was so bad but at 11 years old I loved it
That last turn before going back into the station was always a killer. Loved how they’d run the trains side by side and race. Such a great ride in its day
This ride deserved to stay or get RMC’d. Its interactions with El Toro were amazing.
they should've kept it and RMC'D it, it could've been the Twisted Colossus of the East
yeah . . . I still don't get why RT was removed (the queue line for Zumanjaro could have easily gone under RT)
Wicked Cyclone in SFNE is the TC of the East now
Bryant Oliveira lets be real who goes to six flags new England
I mean considering it has two of the best coasters in the country, a lot
Bryant Oliveira it doesn't have to of the best coasters in the county.
I remember when they had the two trains race against each other and the left always won because the lift was faster I also remember then last operating day of rolling thunder i went on it 6 times
Mickey Does Gymnastics yeah
So sad to hear this classic was torn down. It will always be a favorite from my time in New Jersey growing up.
@@jaydenchrist6152 ong
Actually I believe they just moved it to another park... I think in Lake George, NY.
It would have been 40 years old this year.
Im feeling Inspired
Heres my poem:
Rolling Thunder
I saw you first late late at night
You were there giving me fright
I jumped in to the station
and scared i read the info for evacuation
Then i seated myself in to those glory seats
and i found myself having terrible heart beats
The chain lift went up but i was tryng to go down
But at the same time i wanted to drown (In emotions)
Then i went on a jurney from space and time
Like and share if u cry everytim
If you want me to write another "bad grammar" poem write me under here
Wow
It's been a year, you should have another epic poem ready
Cj W Thanks man, thank you for being there
Ludovico Menegon a
Ludovico Menegon bruh tf
This was my first roller coaster. Used to ride it 10x a day each time I went to GA as a kid before I was y’all enough for all the other rides. Simple times. Miss this ride
Same! My first upside down one was Batman!
It always saddened me that this ride was removed. It was my first "big kid" coaster after graduating from Blackbeard's Treasure Train (Now Harley Quinn's Crazy Train). It was a walk-on by 2013 so from a business perspective it does make sense they'd remove it, especially if it was expensive to maintain. It's nowhere near as intense as its neighbor El Toro but I think it could have been easily converted into a milder RMC for families.
No way acually yes they could have rmcd rolling Thunder
@@jaydenchrist6152 I heard they tried, but the structure was already too weak and old for RMC.
@@jaydenchrist6152 nope, rmc had actually came out to look at it but deemed the structure too weak.
Same here, this was my next step after runaway mine train.... I'm not sure it was the same visit, I might have done the runaway train in '92 and this in '93 at ages 8 and 9.... but I have treasured memories of both. I remember my mom 7sing the restroom or going to the lockers, and my dad must have been scared of roller coasters, cause he didn't want to go on it with me, so he let me get on line by myself... a little while later my dad calls out to me a little ways back in the queue, cause my mom gave him hell for letting me go on alone haha. I didn't go back in queue to be with him, but I think we ended up on the same train anyway, but that was hilarious and just like my dad to let me do things on my own while my mom was more protective.
Anyhow, at that time, I was simultaneously scared of drops on ride and those butterflies in the stomach feeling, as well as an obsessive urge to go on "big boy" rides like scream machine and the new Batman. And while I wasn't even tall enough to go on those rides this visit, Rolling Thunder was an important step for me and helped me confront that fear.... that first drop was intense but so much fun! My next visit was a couple years later, and thats when I finally got to ride all those rides I had obsessed over - Scream Machine, Batman, and the brand new Chiller.
Basically some of the best memories of my childhood were early and mid 90s visits to Great Adventure. Just overwhelming nostalgia.
God I miss that ride. I'll never forget the smell of steel and wet wood. We used to wait in line for 2 hours to get on. Those were the days.
This was my first "real" coaster when I was a kid. Only been on it once, loved it.
This ride was part of my childhood memory & used to go on it all the time but eventually started giving me massive headaches after each ride. The tracks became very squeaky and rusty as you can see in the video. Poor maintenance
Eventually though, waning popularity usually means the ride will be demolished. Add to the fact it was over 30 years old which is long for a coaster.
And if it’s hard to get parts anymore, then that further increases the chances of its demolition.
@@RB01.10 The thing is, wooden coasters are designed to be sustainable. Unlike steel coasters which wear and fatigue after years of use, wooden coasters can be retracted for a fraction of the cost. This coaster would have maintained higher popularity if Six Flags had bothered to maintain it from the get go. It was less than 1/3 the age of some of the oldest wooden coasters out there still in operation and running better than RT did. Look at Comet at Hersheypark. Built in 1946, it's the oldest coaster in the park and still runs excellent, which is why it's hugely popular, especially with families. Rolling Thunder ran PTC trains, a company that's still around today, so the park could have refurbished them easily or just replaced them. Plus wooden track can be replaced by the park themselves or they could have brought in a company like GCI or Gravity Group to retrack it. It could still be around today no problem if they had done so, but this is Six Flags....
@@mhtube01 So, you believe it was bad maintenance that led to the ride’s downfall?
@@RB01.10 The ride was built in 1979, and looked like this 30 years later. Of course I do. I'm not saying it was built perfectly to begin with, but again that's all fixable with wooden coasters. Have you looked at half of Great Adventure's coasters lately and how badly they need a paint job? Nitro, Bizarro? They look unacceptable for their age
@@mhtube01 thats not what happened with rolling thunder. They could've retracked it all they wanted, but the supports were completely rotted, which is why they demolished it.
I can't believe they removed this just to pass another milestone of "Tallest Drop Ride" how was there not enough space to keep this? They should’ve just RMCed it
Well the thing is i was born 2006 went to great adventure 2018 but the week before watched a video showing all the coasters there but went there and found by kingda ka under el toro a peice of track that fitted the deception with a bright beam of light and angles singing and was rolling thunder but saw some Houdini sh*t and saw a queue line for zumama fuc**ng namgaro how ever you spell it and was so disappointed that i didnt even notice that rolling thunder's trains are fenced off in a restricted area by that peice of track by el toro im so pissed the trains should be under a canopy like the lockers for all to sit in once more.
They really should've rmcd it.
@@johngriswold4303 Even without rolling thunder it’s still an amazing park, this coaster was very rough in its final years anyway. But, if they put new track on it and got new trains I guess it would be running like new today.
RMC did try to convert it, but the structure was deemed too weak to do anything with.
My first six flags day was the last day of rolling thunder being open
Rode that shit like 15 times
Still miss it
What they should do is just rebuild RT like a hybrid and maintain it.
Sinning Scott it costed alot of money that's y they tore it down and I'm pissed
Apparently Six Flags hired RMC to look at the project, but the wood support structure was too weak.
@@Coolsomeone234 That makes sense, as the ride was over 30 years old.
And I also heard it’s popularity was waning.
Thanks for the memories Rolling Thunder, I was glad to go on for the last time today.
Last time I rode it was almost 30 years ago but I can still remember the smell of that wood. For a while they put the trains on backwards.
rip rolling thunder you were my favorite ride at great adventure
this is my idea of a roller coaster. screw six flags for taking it down.
It was old, and became very rough in its final years. Its maintenance costs just weren’t justified anymore.
Ridership was also decreasing.
I miss rolling thunder
Rolling Thunder we miss you.
This was one of the first "big kid" coasters I rode and it will be sorely missed.
My sister and dad got amazing memories of this.
These memories bring back good ones I've been going to Great Adventure since the late seventies and all through the 80s and 90s my youth teenage and 20s years they have the best roller coasters Lightnin Loops Rolling Thunder the Batman Batcave ride it was all great I grew up around there and proud to be from that area
Tombo Vitale it sucks that lightning loops isn’t there anymore, but at least they took it down for a good reason
One of my favorites as a kid. It almost makes me cry that it is gone.
@@jaydenchrist6152 classic tho
@@jaydenchrist6152 SAVAGE 4 LIFE YOO OMG REAL
@@johngriswold4303 islands of adventure demolished dueling dragons because they have the money to put something better on that land and the ride didnt fit the harry potter theme. kings a island removed vortex because it reached the end of its service life meaning it was too expensive to operate and they could not find parts for it (since arrow - the manufacturer - is defunct). oh and i love how people are calling vortex a "good classic coaster" now that its removed but when it still operated people were calling it a steaming pile of trash.
This is good quality, the video is clear as day.
The ending is wicked when going into the station. You shake back and forth and it was just awesome!!!
my neck still hurts from the bend before the station
This coaster was one of my most prominent memories of visiting Great Adventure for the first time on my 12th birthday, a park I'd always wanted to go to. I loved it and have a core memory with an old friend of riding it together at night and laughing like crazy as we were thrown all over the place, having the time of our lives. It's a bummer to see it gone now, especially under the BS excuse to "make room" for a drop ride attached to another coaster that doesn't occupy any of the space Rolling Thunder once sat on. They even adapted El Toro around it. I get that it was old, but man, it was a good time.
As a child I must have ride this over 100 times. Such great memories. Such a great ride
when I go on el Toro there's a huge space with white wood I didint know it was rolling thunder
They left that peice of rolling thunder there as a memento
brings back memories of Colossus the original somehow at six flags magic mountain.
The fun apart about riding this rollercoaster was the feeling of impending doom, because the thing always seemed like it was ready to fall apart. Still one of my classic favs
This is a ride I remember riding when I was 17. Will miss it but memories last forever.
This was my first roller coaster as a kid. Sad to see it gone
They shouldnt have taken this down it was my first and favorite ride
I love Roller Coasters plain and simple and as much as I love the new smooth, high, fast ones of today, I still love wooden coasters and that rickety feeling is what make them cool as hell. Like the Wildcat at Hershey Park is cool
I miss Rolling Thunder. Wish they'd kept it.
I remember going on that for the first time with my two cousins @ Great Adventure in the 90s. We went once during the day, but the lines were long. Sun went down, lines died down, we got on... then went again.. and again... NO LINES, so we went like 5 times in a row!! Definitely an awesome piece of my childhood.
This was my fav ride as a kid. I loved the racing coasters.
RIP :( thank you for the video. Yeah that last turn was a killer. This and Thunderhawk in Dorney were my first two EVER wooden coasters.
By El Toro, there’s a piece of this rollercoaster remaining. Go on line toward the back and look to the left.
Awesome ride!
My first roller coaster I ride when I was five. I'm a full out coaster girl now. Miss this ride. Brings back memories of my home park💗
The real fun was riding this at dusk or at night during fright fest. The creaking and whipping around in the dark is one of my favorite SF experiences
I remember going on this ride with my mom my grandma and my dad like in the late 90s early 2000s and late 2010s and I have to say that this was my first wooden coaster I had ever been on before el Toro took my spot. I miss that coaster now I wished they kept it or remade it atleast. I also rode this more than 20 or 30 atleast
My only experience of this ride was seeing it in Roller coaster tycoon 2. I never knew how much I appreciated it until I saw the video “Six Flags Great Adventure is getting screwed over”, and now I am mad at six flags for getting rid of it. Just RMC it or retrack it! God I’m pissed, even though I have no hands on knowledge of it.
What no it's a crap crap craaaap
R.I.P Rolling Thunder! You may have nearly broken my back (and my neck) every time i took a ride, but you have been there for many years making lots of coaster enthusiasts like myself happy. However, change always has to happen, and maybe, just maybe, this new drop tower will be just as awesome as you. However, Rolling Thunder's legacy will live on with many Thrill seekers for years to come.
I remember back in the day, Rolling Thunder also went backwards.
its a classic though! and has been there since the 70's!
I grew up going on this, and The Great American Scream Machine (remember that one?). I even remember Lightning Loops. RT was so much fun because it was loud, rough, and only had one lap bar for safety.
RIP rolling thunder, part of my childhood! 😭
Great coaster!!
Still my favorite ride until this day. Simple but fun. Must include the Scream Machine and Shockwave. yes, I'm that old 🤣
Rode this ride on it's last day of operation, the track needed to be replaced badly. Still miss it though. I remember when this was the main BIG roller coaster at Great Adventure.
It was my first coaster T_T I miss it so much
love this
R.I.P Rolling Thunder 💔 The only roller coaster that I rode in the front, I miss this ride so much. It was half the reason I always wanted to go to great adventure, I think I've been back there once after they took it down and it's just not the same, way to go six flags lol
It seems they could still keep this and still add the drop tower. rolling thunder does not interfere in any way with kinda ka
Joe de Pasquale nah it was super old. If they kept remodeling it. They would be spending a ton of money. They’re replacing it with a good coaster hopefully
KingXChrono I know they still have a part of the track right right next to el toro for the memories
StealthRaven *under
i think they used it for queue space as well
They should've rmcd it
so much fun when I was a teenager.
loved this :( RIP
Two of the coolest wooden roller coasters right next to each other is epic. This ride is my favorite second being el toro
Very cool ride
At the end, it sounds like a train scratching on the rails, oh wait, this applies exactly the same to roller coasters too
This was my first rollercoaster as a kid. Shame it's gone.
That was my ultime favorite ride as a kid I can't believe they took it down😖😖😖
Yes they took it down alright
I'm sad af they took this ride out. They could've renovated it at least. I miss this ride so much
It didn't happen because the wooden structure is too weak
This wasn't in the way of Zumanjaro and was a whole lot better than the new for 2015 carnival loop ride will be.
***** a good gci woodie in this spot won't do no harm and will at least be a smoother rolling thunder replacement, and more milder than El toro
Right, but I don't see them putting anything in that spot as the Rolling Thunder queue and station site are now occupied by El Diablo, aka Fireball that you can find at any county fair or carnival.
***** lol they should at least called that spinsanity of evil a ride instead of a coaster! anyway they better add a "real coaster" next year.
I agree
+sixflagsfan1113 they took rolling Thunder away because of how old it is it would be over 20 years old but I do agree it is better than el Diablo
I remember going on this and being very disappointed when it was removed
Nice ride.
I remember this coaster beating the crap out of me when I was about 12 and rode it for the first time...
My dad made me go on this rollercoaster when I was young and it was bumpy as hell
Nice!!
I did this.. it was really fun
I was stuck on this coaster 40 years ago when the lap bar wouldn't release; so went for another 6 trips before they cut my car out and pushed it into a side track. A mechanic removed the bar in 5 seconds.
When I went the train went of the track three times and hurt my ears and hips because of the turns
They last turn was always so brutal.
I remember getting on this coaster with my uncle in the early to mid 90's at Six Flags Great America (Gurnee, IL) seeing this video brings back memories of it because I don't believe it is there anymore. Good memories tho nonetheless.
This is great adventure this is not the woody you went on
I can't believe they got take it way it's gone
I miss this coaster
I was lucky enough to ride this when it went backwards 🔥
I used to hate this ride but its sad to know it won't be there next year
Rolling Thunder is an amazing ride, Sure, it is bumpy but that's what you get from an older ride - especially a wooden one! The line usually isn't too long for the right side, because the left is much better, but is also usually closed.
Six Flags Great Adventure opens in just 3 days, if you are going then - good luck! Every line will be outrageously long.
wowowow KINGDA KA seems to be so cool !!!!
It's a shame I never got to ride it. It looks cool
RIP! 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I miss Rolling Thunder=(
Me too : (
@RollerCoasterLovah every time I go this is the first ride I go on. No questions asked to anyone who goes with menial always this ride first no matter what
It was a great ride lets remember the fun we all had I went on around 3 times it was good but it needed to go the left track locked it's car locked up got stuck was not that good but we shall still see a part of it I'm ready for drop of doom now
It's fun when the ride is bumpy!
GoshBrittany IKR
They should've have had RMC come in and do their thang ("thing" spelled wrong on purpose). They tried to make up for it with El Diablo, which, well, just no. But now The Joker, and I don't know if it's better than Rolling Thunder.
From the future: RMC is foing their magic with Jersey Devil Coaster.
That's looks fun
I miss it
Best wooden coaster I've ever been on...too much maintenance with all the wood and painting...that's why it went the way of the dinosaur..long live the king
honestly one of the most painful coasters i've been on, it made my body ache every time i went on it.
my friend Jen says they probably will just junk it and not sell it! the thingy on their website says to be sure to tackle it before it SLIPS INTO HISTORY so that probably means they will implode it and not save it UNFORTUNATELY since this is and always will be my favorite wooden coaster
pretty sure there's a similar version of this at the wildwood new jersey boardwalk, might not be the same but it looks similar
YESSSS ! RT WAS MY FAVE RIDE....I GREW UP ON THAT RIDE AT GA !! IT WAS ROUGH & LOUD AS HELL !! NOW RT IS JUST A DISTANT MEMORY...WOODEN COASTERS IS WHERE IT'S AT IMO!! 🎢
I went on this ride 3 years ago and my body felt like hell.
To anyone asking if it was removed it was open yesterday when I was there