Marathoning America's Best Steel Coaster: My Experience at Carowinds
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- Опубликовано: 30 авг 2020
- This was my first experience at one of the best parks in the countries, Carowinds!
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The water park is quality too. They need a world class woodie next
I like ya pfp
They do, also they also probably RMC hurler
It's need to duel as well. Either a mobius or a regular racing coaster
The Lawl is the *LAWL* they had a racing coaster, closed a couple years back for copperhead strike
@@willshearon3797 yep and Thunder Road was an air-time machine, it would’ve been amazing as an RMC
What did you do over the weekend?
Me :oh I went to north Carolina and south Carolina on a rollercoaster
Seems legit
Seems legit fr~ you know just going to one state and back in less than a minute you know, nothing special
Hi Mr Giga. That's a pretty good joke
but seriously all these coaster channels going everywhere while the rest of us are stuck at home 😭
this was from back in 2018
chunky dunky I mean this was his trip in 2018. I went twice since then.
TheSonicsean i get that but im talking about currently lol
If you look back at old trips that can be fun too
Spike Vicious DAAAAMN! I usually go to 1-2 parks a year! (including home park) lol. This year it was Ki
Should have done the ultimate challenge of marathoning kiddy hawk
Lmao that's what I thought
No way thats too hard
@Joshua Pritchard Its a decent family coaster but more or less a one and done
I remember you from theme park crazy’s channel!
My head is not going to bleed from the head banging
Carowinds should get an amazing GCI like mystic timbers
Straight facts
A good GCI is is a great addition for any park that runs winterfest. Its very valuable to have at least one good winter coaster open that fits very well with the general public. Kings island mystic usually holds an hour line during winterfest.
This should happen ⬆️
Bennnnnffffff
Maybe retrack all of Hurler and add GCI trains
Having your coaster credit #333 be a Dale Earnhardt coaster is either very well planned or extremely convenient.
RMC Hurler and a GCI would be amazing for the park. Love the vid
Hurler was retracted by GCI , which I’m glad cause personally the hurler at kings dominion was the worst wooden coaster I’ve ever ridden.
"The moral of the story is: it always rains at Carowinds. Always. "
Gosh man, feels good to know someone else has had the same experience. Been rained-out two out of two visits... and it's not exactly a short trip for me. Still no Copperhead Strike or Hurler because of it.
I more or less echo your assessment of the Carowinds lineup, except that I somehow found Vortex to be freaking great! Thanks for the vid.
it was the opposite for me, once i got a hot summer day and it was packed, then a few years a later it was still hot in the middle of summer but almost no one was there, and I spent the whole day there so I got tons of rides on everything.
Man you got on intimidator
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Carowinds is a total bucket list park for me, I’d love to get here someday. I wish my home park had enough space for a top 4 like Carowinds, but I don’t think that’ll ever happen.
Spike Vicious Knott’s Berry Farm. There’s not much space for anything, let alone a new coaster. Maybe they could take out coast rider the shin splitter and put something there.
Spike Vicious Knott’s has added compact family coasters for a long time, and hangtime was their first big thrill coaster in 14 years. And wow cedar point, I’d love to get out there and Kings island too.
Spike Vicious ofc I think all the parks are operating at least a little different this year. At least CP and kings island are open, the CA parks are all closed lol.
Spike Vicious yeah I suppose. With CA it’s a little understandable, there’s LOTS of people here so our reopenings have been considerably slower than most places.
Spike Vicious that’s ok I rant a lot too lol. Yeah I agree that people should go outside to stay healthy and the ca governor is very controlling and totalitarian. I do think the parks here could open with controlled capacity, virtual queues, mobile order food, frequent sanitizing, you know the usual stuff nowadays. Hell some of the parks here are circumventing the theme park restrictions. Sea world just has the animal exhibits and Knott’s has a food showcase (why Disneyland doesn’t do this is ridiculous.) but the governor has been delaying the release of the parks guidelines for at least two month now.
Favorite channel. Love your content
Love these trip reports! It's always nice to hear some new opinions
Last time I went to Carowinds, it was Paramount and Night hawk was Borg at the time, I was lucky enough to get a front row ride on it as they were doing assigned seating at the time. I enjoyed that coaster, although I was hanging in the restraint most of the ride, I could feel the car jerking around above me. Also it was 99 degrees, with 100% humidity and sunny that day.
I seriously don't understand why people hate so much on Nighthawk. It's quite intense and has an awesome setting
I found it almost unbearably rough and the inside corkscrews hurt my neck like nothing else. I liked it as Stealth, but it hasn't held up. Firehawk was superior (except for setting!).
I was expecting the worst so i didnt hate it
Those clouds... that weather it’s got me aching for fall.
Love this format! I have been trying to do a similar format on my videos, but you are setting an example of how to do it well. Thanks!
My family and I like to hit up Carowinds every couple of years when we go on vacation, it really never disappoints. We went in 2014 for the first time on a rainy day and there was absolutely nobody in the park. We basically marathoned every ride we got too. Only ride we did once was vortex, even the kiddie coasters we did at least twice. Then Fury opens up the next year so we go back. Ever since we always go on a super hot day, we’ve gone to the water park which also does not disappoint. Honestly this park is right up there with the big ones, it’s a really good park that’s always somehow slipped past some peoples radars, been there about 5 times now and still a Park that leaves you wanting to come back again
They need to keep their boomerang and just take down half of the coasters. They really need an RMC or single rail.
Carowinds is my home park and where I rode my first coasters growing up so I love when you do videos on it !
I think Carowinds is a good park for the Carolinas especially considering their water park, Scarowinds starting at the end of September, and Winterfest in December. All of those makes it super dynamic. I used to work there, so I don’t think they have anymore room for another coaster after Copperhead Strike unless they keep removing games or the County Fair area.
Love the videos man!
Definitely agree that Fury is the best steel coaster. My heart hurts slightly that I had to go a whole season without riding it.
Love your videos Chris 👍🏼
This is my home park! My favorite visit was after work during one summer weekday when had it rained in the afternoon. No one in the park, it was nice and cool, and the nighttime rides were awesome. Afterburn is my favorite. (I'm a selective scaredy-cat when it comes to coasters, so I've never ridden Fury, Intimidator, or Hurler.) Glad you enjoyed your visit!
For sure a bucket list park for me.
Nice meeting you yesterday! Great vid btw.
I'm happy you got all those back row rides on Fury. I've never been there; sounds like a dream during Covid 19.
Fury 325 is my number 1 coaster. It blew me away with everything it brought to the table. I once got caught in a tornado warning on the New Jersey Turnpike. I just kept driving while keeping my eyes open in case a tornado was spotted.
I'm planning with my dad to go here either next year or the year after!! Cant wait!!
I consider it my home park because it is one if the closest parks to me and growing up we went there at least once a year. For me White Lighting was my introduction to the big coasters. It started my coaster addiction. It was a must ride for years past. Now it is cyclone my other classic coaster love.
Afterburn or what used to be called Top Gun the jet coaster was my very first inverted coaster in 1999 and over 20 years later is still one of my top ten coasters.
It’s my 3rd favorite Cedar Fair park as well and again I’m glad to see you yesterday at Kentucky Kingdom
LOVE Carowinds. My home park. We went in May last yer - waited like two hours for everything....went Sunday...bought fast pass - killed it. Fury is my favorite there, then afterburn, then carolina cyclone. I agree, park is top-heavy, but, it's way better than it used to be.
This is my home park!! Havent gotten to ride Copperhead Strike yet, but I really wanna go back and ride it!!
Fury is at the top of my coaster bucket list!
Good idea to get nighthawk first....that line can get long.....also getting rides like that on Fury don’t happen often.....seems to always have a decent line when I go but always good operation....Night rides on fury are great!
This is my home park and it rains everyday in the summer here. I have been when its packed and crowded, mostly on weekends but thru the week its particularly Wednesdays are the best days to go.
This was my home park for years. Was one of the first 100 people to ride Fury325. I miss Carowinds so much. 😅
Last time I was at Carowinds, it rained off and on all day, so...can confirm. It keeps the lines down nicely.
I’m so glad I have this park as my home park! It’s really turned me into a coaster enthusiast after I got over my fear of coasters and they do honestly have a decent line up. For me personally, Nighthawk is one of my least faves along with Vortex and Hurler 😅 I usually always get a headache now when riding any of them and that might just be from getting older 😩 I think it’d be great for them to either get rid of Nighthawk and Vortex and put something else like a GCI woodie or even a RMC Raptor like you mentioned or RMC Hurler! Thankful that I’m a Gold Season Pass holder cuz I typically get to avoid the rainy days! Hope when they open next year that you’ll get to come back and maybe we’ll run into each other 😁 Keep up the great work dude!!!
they could rmc hurler and replace night hawk with a wing coaster
I was there in 2017 at the very beginning of fall. I went on about 1.5 hours of sleep after driving there from Erie PA. It was a great park, Fury is incredible, Afterburn is very good, and Intimidator is fine (it would probably seem better if Fury wasn't in the park). Almost everything was walk on and Vortex can be demolished and I wouldn't care at all.
I think your assessment is correct, nice park that is pretty top heavy and a modern wood coaster would be great for the park.
Man. I went last month... Wildfire was running real fast and I greyed out during the loop. Too fun.
So last year was my first visit to Carowinds since the CF sale, and all of my favorites were there. Afterburn is fun but short, Copperhead Strike is vastly underrated, and Fury 325 should be on every coasterphile’s bucket list.
Carowinds was the surprise of my trip in October. I was expecting it to be a decent park with great rides. It was an amazing park with AMAZING rides. I really enjoyed Copperhead Strike, and Fury 325. I also even felt like Intimidator was a decent B&M Hyper.
The key for any theme park as an enthusiast is to keep two eyes on the weather forecast and target a date outside of summer that is cooler and not a Saturday/Sunday (so the lines aren't long) but not stormy or rainy. Ideally you get a nice 60 degree weekday with no precip or storms. I got to marathon Steel Vengeance 17 times in one evening on a Thursday night during Halloweekends this past fall (2022) for this reason. Beautiful weather, maybe a little too cold for the average GP, but I love cold weather, can't stand the heat. Those Halloweekend Thursdays just are not popular for the GP.
Its my home park and it does rain there quite often. Of the last 4 times I went it rained twice, one was a wash out the other wasn't too bad and I got to marathon copper head strike (it was winter fest so that and afterburn were the only coasters going and on a sunny day its a 2 hour wait so I figured I'd get as many as I could) but be glad you hit those days because the sunny days there can have some crazy wait times.
Thanks for this! I want to start travelling long-distance to amusement parks, and Carowinds is the main park I have my eye on to start with (once they reopen -- hopefully! -- next year), with Cedar Point being the ultimate goal. Now, I have a better idea of what to expect, park-experience-wise.
The East Coast has a nice cluster of parks. It's pretty good for a park road trip.
Good explaining Chris! The video is great! And yes, Fury is a marathon coaster. The park is great! But that doesn't mean the water park doesn't have quality.
It does rain at Carowinds fairly frequently and I too know the pain of Fury 325 front row seats in the rain. Carowinds has almost always been weird when it comes to attendance either everything being a walk on or hour long wait. It's not like, for example Hersey Park where I've never seen that park empty. As a reference I never recommend visiting Carowinds during Scarowinds if you want to ride anything. November is almost always dead and everything is open the first half of the month but that is when it starts to get too cold to ride Fury.
Ugh I need to get back here, it's been just over 4 years! It was great when I went but I really want to get on Copperhead Strike, I'm a sucker for a launch coaster
It rained the evening I arrived, and found everything closed. It rained at some point all 3 full days afterwards as well. I got plenty of rides on Fury, but it was a bad experience. People have told me that it was running at its absolute worst that week, running extremely rough and painful. I hoped to redeem that experience this year, but that'll have to wait. In the meantime, Fury maintains its free-fall in my rankings. Still, I totally loved Carowinds as a whole. Their waterpark is also excellent. It's my 3rd favorite Cedar Fair park behind CP & KD.
I can't wait to go to Carowinds next year, hopefully,
Sidenote: It was nice meeting you guys at Holiday World for Holiwood Nights. As well as getting night rides on Thunderbird, Legend, Raven, as well as trimless Voyage with y'all and Airtime Myke.
Yeah man it was good hanging out on Sat
aaaa my home park!!! i’m so excited to ride copperhead strike since i haven’t had the chance D:
With Carowinds being my home park, I think it needs to make 3 additions within the next 10-12 years: RMC Hurler, Replace vortex with a winged or flying coaster (preferably launched), and add a woody. Replacing Vortex with a Raptor would also be a great move.
If only my home Denver which has similar demographic an can have similar value to a park had more thrill coasters. Still have the mountains though. Keep Up The Great Work Chris and Stay Safe
Great video as always dude! Do you know when your Top 50 coasters will be published? (because I cannot wait)
Probably my last video of the year
Hey I know you were at Holiwood Knights, patiently waiting for that trimless ride review, those rides two nights ago were unbelievable, imo those trimless rides on the voyage I don’t think can ever be one up’d. Best coaster experience of my life.
That video is coming soon
Airtime Thrills was looking for you the whole day wish I could’ve met you 🤝
You're right about Carowinds never being busy. Out of the many times I visited this park, I only remember the park being busy once, but that's because there was a Chorus event going on that day
The only wait I had that was more than 20 minutes was on Nighthawk. That ride is always backed up when I go.
@@Peace-Man1964 yeah Nighthawk has horrible capacity, but other than that, you don't have to wait in crazy lines for anything at Carowinds. Even during SCarowinds, Fury was only a station wait.
Magic mountain and Kings Island so far for my top two parks so I hope Carowinds can deliver when I go in May
Was gonna go this year, but the virus happened lol. Me and my friend are planning to go as soon as we can after it opens. I've done my research and it seems like an amazing park!
Lucky.... the only major park I went to was Hershey dorny and six flags great adventure
A bad storm into a clear sunny day... yep sounds like NC
And then the surprise tornado warning? Extra NC.
My home park!!
Since you asked what I would like to see at Carowinds in the future (in no particular order)...
1. GCI replacing Dino's Alive
2. RMC Hurler (I don't care if it's a clone of KD's or an original layout, it needs something)
3. Floorless Vortex (I personally think CP's Mantis/Rougarou was greatly improved when they replaced the standup trains to floorless trains)
4. B&M Flyer replacing Nighthawk, Kiddy Hawk, and RipCord (I know this is a little out there to replace a flyer with another flyer, but I personally think Nighthawk flat out sucks, and I think a new big ol' B&M in that location would do wonders for Carowinds. That and I would like another ride for my father to fit on comfortably at this park)
I agree with the first 3, but tbh the GP probably would be confused about the last one
@@torezcoasters6043 True, that's why I said it was a little out there. Maybe a more reasonable replacement would be a B&M Dive?
I had a day like this at dorney park, hersheypark, and six flags great adventure. Except only a drizzle of rain while on steel force. ( still kinda hurt. )
I went to 6 flags Fiesta Texas and got 11 rides on iron rattler I forgot to say I'm now trying to go to Cedar Point
Thx airtime thrills love the vids
Hey Airtime Thrills I going to this park in 2021 after i go to my home park Canada's Wonderland & then to Ohio on Late May/Early June just for my first visits to Cedar Point & Kings Island & maybe in July or August to New York/New Jersey just for my first visits Six Flags Great Adventure & Finally in September on a weekend i hope by going to this park Carowinds & then to Florida just to go for WDW 50th Anniversary. So many parks to go next year but we had to see if 2021 could be a good year that time i hope.
I hope they get a GCI. I'd also love a RMC Hurler that's different from TT
Intimidator is my favorite ride there, actually. But Fury 325 was almost too intense for me although it was incredibly fun while on it. It was the first coaster I ever rode that actually made me feel motion sickness afterwards. I didn't get to ride Afterburn when I was there unfortunately. I'd love to go again so I could ride it and try riding Fury again and hope I don't feel too bad afterwards, haha.
I went to carowinds in the rain too during 2019. Unfortunately I got sick so I had to leave early. I hate that because even when it was pouring they didn't close the rides once.
Yeah that was my 2019 experience, 2018 they had to for Thunder
carowinds is missing 3 things:
-rmc hurler, lots of people are hoping they dont just clone twisted timbers but honestly they would just end up with endless comparisons and we already know twisted timbers is good so just clone it and then call it warped lumber or something and give it a different track color
-really good wooden coaster. gci or gravity group, but cci can do great things sometimes too. we dont need something as spectacular as mystic timbers or voyage, just give us something with the wooden feel thats not too rough and has good moments
-a good family coaster that isnt woodstock. i don't know what this could be, but something that's like a stepping stone between a mine train and a b&m hyper.
Nighthawk is my #5 at Carowinds! I'd love to see a wooden launched coaster that breaks the wooden height and speed record!
I was supposed to go this year, but sadly they never opened. I really hope that next year Vortex and Nighthawk are still open since they probably won't last much longer.
I was going to visit this park in a loop around the Appalachians this month, but the border is still closed so I'm going to Florida in February instead.
I went back in July 2017 on a Monday, perfect weather and everything, and it was dead, longest I waited was about 5 mins for Carolina Cylcone, everything else was a walk on or a 2-3 minute wait, I asked a local and he said it is usually like that on Monday, so next time I go I'm definitely going on a Monday
Carowinds is my home park and the truth is that it barely rains here it’s mostly clear sky’s here and the waits for Fury actually can get up to 40 minute waits and same thing for Intimidator, Afterburn, and copperhead strike and 90 minutes for Nighthawk
I love this park let’s give it a lineup that can rival CP, I see this park as the upcoming flagship yes even more so than CP
While I'd love for a much closer Coaster Capital to me I don't think it'll happen.
Carowinds is a great park. It can use depth. If you want to see it busy visit during their holiday event around Christmas. I think the park should RMC Hurler and get a GCI Wooden coaster. I think that might be the end for Nighthawk and hopefully Vortex. Your thoughts on a lot of the rides are similar to mine although I think I like Copperhead more than you, but I still have it 4th.
I’ve been to Carowinds 6 times, and all 6 times it rained at one point in my day.
I know it's the nostalgia talking but I think you would have seen the solid 5 with Thunder Road. It was a wonderful classic woody
It rained during my visit in June of last year as well lol
For me it was good. I was also stopping over and went the day after I went to Busch gardens Williamsburg on my way to Atlanta. I like it a lot but of course it needs some good mid tier rides, something where I think a comparable park like kings island succeeds. Even parks like kings dominion have rides such as avalanche, dominator, grizzly, and rebel yell to round out their top two a little better. But Carowinds has a great top 4 and then just the huge drop. Other than that I enjoyed the food offerings and considered it some of the best in the chain especially in serving size. Overall I would return but if it were me choosing between say having Carowinds or Kings Island as a home park? I’d for sure choose kings island which is my current home park. I think Carowinds and kings dominion are about on par with pros and cons to compare while kings island bridges the gap between those two and cedar point. Between what could be considered large regional park and nationally recognizable regional park.
Yay
My home park!!!,
I’ve ridden Fury front row in the pouring rain. I can absolutely imagine how bad it hurts. It’s like dozens of needles being driven into your face every second.
I can't believe how lucky I was with my visits to Kings Dominion and Carowinds during the second week of June 2019. Both parks were not very busy and I didn't really wait for much of anything. At Carowinds I waited half hour for my one ride on Nighthawk and 20 minutes and 30 minutes for a couple of my rides on Copperhead Strike. However, I pretty much walked on Copperhead almost every time I rode it. Fury was pretty much a walk on for all of my seven rides too. I think I might have waited five minutes max for one of my rides. Of course that Fury crew is unbelievable with ops!
its actually almost the same exact amount of space as twisted timbers. they could definitely fit a small rmc like It.
Carowinds is so much fun! It was my first Cedar Fair park and it didn't disappoint! I rode 5 rides there, Intimidator once, Copperhead Strike once, Nighthawk once, Afterburn once, and Fury 325 11 times... Yeah I think Fury 325 got me good. XD 11 times in the span of 2 days. In fact on the 2nd day since I rode all the rides I wanted to the first day (it was rainy so the crowds went away. XD) it was reride time! And... ALL OF THEM WENT TO FURY 325! XD Should have ridden Intimidator more... :P
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It’s my home park ... and it rain ALMOST EVERYTIME I GO ... (for only 30 min)
Lol something tells me that rain for us that live here was pretty normal. It can go from sunny to tornados in seconds.
Fury in the rain hurts like a bitch- but it makes it twice as fun
Who else thought the title didn't say "steel" coaster and got triggered for a second?
Storms there are crazy
Coaster frenzy enters the chat.
Without Fury I’d never return to carowinds. I’d drive 4 hours to just to ride fury even if it was in the middle of a parking lot. #1a Steel Coaster 1b is Steel Vengeance can’t decide. Both are pure bliss
Gosh I wanna go there so bad!!! But idk if I’ve ever heard “hype” about intrimidator 😂
I think it used to get more hype. Just like diamondback
They had one Thunder Road it got Torn Down!
I wanna come here so bad.😭 Maybe one day.🤷🏾♂️