Top 15 DEFUNCT Coasters I Never Got to Ride
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- I've been riding coasters for 25 years but there are some that shut down before I was able to get there. These are the 15 best defunct coasters I never got to ride.
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Number 1 on my list would be Volcano at Kings Dominion. RIP Volcano
Ditto.
We still dont know whats gonna take it over
Fortunately I rode Volcano twice in 2017
Its Definitely overrated I might honestly like racer 75 more
My dad got to ride wildcat at idora park in 1983! He said the best part of the ride was easily the laterals. He also said it felt very similar to twister at knoebles
My buddy and I rode it in the late seventies and it was the first coaster we were ever on where the first and last seat were equally thrilling. Only bested by the great Riverview Bobs that we rode in 1966. I've never liked being beat up by a coaster more. Speaking of being beat up, the coaster I would like rebuilt would be the Rye Playland Airplane, which gave people nosebleeds. LOL
I have long wondered if someone like GCI or GravityGroup would be crazy enough to recreate the Crystal Beach Cyclone in modern times and build it to conform to the safety standards of today's coaster. It would be interesting to see and ride.
It sounds like a Gravity Group project.
It's unnecessarily Impossible to conform the safety standard. The whole layout already on dangerous side anyway.
The low to the ground turn are insanely too tight, even by Intamin Steel coaster standard. and you can't do much about it anyway since the whole layout packed like a Sardine.
GCI could definitely build it as well as Martin/Vlemeninx but it defini would need Gravity Group trains, whether Gravity Group would build it or not.
IDK, a version without the Jazz Track & that tiny bunnyhill section sould work I think.
Galaxyland /w Mindbender is my home park, I'm going to miss that coaster, it was wild. The trains were not the most comfortable though, but at the bottom of the second loop, i grayed out a lot of times. It was smooth though. No word on what's going to replace it. (I'm hoping for a Eurofighter)
I hate to break the bad news but they plan on replacing it with family rides
The Crystal Beach Cyclone looks like a modern Gravity Group twister layout like Mine Blower but with 1920s safety standards. That alone makes it more extreme than any coasters today
I got on Ultra Twister at Astroworld in the late 90s. My teenage self thought it was pretty fun but had no idea how much of a unique experience it was. I'll always be able to hold this credit over Chris' head...
Still kickig myseld for not taking a trip there but how could i have known...
I tried to find it but I always got lost at that place. I was 11 by the time the park closed so 🤷🏽♀️
As a pittsburgher, who was born well after West View Park closed, I would’ve loved to have ridden their wooden coasters which were apparently better than kennywood’s.
I completely agree with your view on suspended coasters. While I know that XLR-8 wasn’t the best, just knowing that I missed that one too makes me sad.
Seeing Drachen Fire SBNO was the worst part about my first BGW trip but I can at least say I rode hypersonic. The launch, from what I remember was ridiculously good, but I’d imagine that maxx force is pretty close (rode both but years apart) and with a more exciting layout afterwards.
Avalanche and Hypersonic were both outstanding. Gotta mention the Bobs at Riverview. My Dad talks about it to this day. Would love to see that one rebuilt to the exact specs as the original.
Your dad is a lucky man.
When I became a coaster enthusiast in 2001, Kings Dominion was the gold standard for me and Hypersonic was part of that. You had XLC, Volcano, and Flight of Fear as the launch trio and those just felt like big deals at the time. I still miss Hypersonic to this day.
My only credit among these was the Texas Cyclone at Astroworld. Rode it multiple times on a school trip back in ‘88 and it was easily the class of the park. Memory is old, but I’d put it above the Coney Island original and Viper at SFGA. Still wild that one of the five-largest cities in the U.S. (much less one in an area that could operate year-round) has been without a full-scale park for nearly two decades.
When i was young the two coasters I always wanted to ride were Batman and Robin the chiller and Volcano… i never hot a chance😂 lol. This video idea is great. Shows the nostalgia of old coasters we should appreciate
Drachen Fire was kinda rough, but an awesome coaster! I rode it with and without the corkscrew, and it's still in my top 15 to this day!
Sorry, but were you really into whiplash? Including kiddie coasters, I have at least 50 years of experience coaster riding and 26 years after riding Drachen-Fyre I'm still having quick stop, rough ride, flashbacks. Rough, shakey riding cars banging your head side to side coupled with the sudden, quick stops at several mis-timed braking zones was without a doubt the worst riding coaster I've been on anywhere in the world.
Nice! I love the inclusion of Idora’s Wildcat, Stingray, and Texas Cyclone. The Ultimate and Blackpool’s Wild Mouse would be extremely high on my equivalent list.
my top defunct is probably one I already rode. I knew dueling dragons was one of the best coasters around, but as a kid I didn't truly realize how special it is. although I'd love to try SoB, volcano, big bad wolf, and moon salt scramble. the only time I year for time travel technology is thinking about those rides and crystal beach cyclone.
Dueling Dragons were the best!
Wicked twister at cedar point was awesome
I did get to ride Hypersonic XLC (in 2003 and 2005) and Drachen Fire (in 1997). I first started getting into coasters in 1996 (Loch Ness Monster was my first coaster) and Drachen Fire almost made me quit the hobby because of how rough it was. Then I took a chance on Apollo's Chariot in 1999 and never looked back.
I rode Drachen Fire back in 1992 and I loved it the night ride I got was awesome! But unfortunately, I did miss out on Big Bad Wolf because nobody wanted to ride it.
@@markvolpe2305 aw man. Big Bad Wolf night rides were sick.
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@@russ4moose absolutely the best time to ride the Wolf especially in the old days when they piped mist and fog into the village and filled it with the sounds of wolf howls on speakers.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 I luckily had that experience!
It sucks The Ultimate closed without notice due to the pandemic. Alton Towers is nearer for most people in England but I think many enthusiasts would've made the trip if they'd know it was their last chance.
My list of defunct coasters I wish I rode would be crazy long. My top 5 would be:
5. Firehawk (Kings Island)
4. Vortex (Kings Island)
3. Mindbender (Galaxyland)
2. Dragon Challenge (Universal’s Islands of Adventure)
1. Volcano the Blast Coaster (Kings Dominion)
My two coasters I wish I could've rode are Volcano The Blast Coaster and The Big Bad Wolf.
Rode both.
@@Bbabybear02 what was your favorite out of the 2?
@@AmazingElevatorsandClaws Big Bad Wolf because its night ride was something else.
Volcano is one of mine, too. I love both inverts and launched coasters.
I've had a "defunct coaster bucket list" idea kicking around for a while now, and most of the ones I thought of were on your list. I'd also like to have ridden a Virginia Reel, just to see what it was like.
I imagine those were insanely slow but dont know for sure
I rode mindbender about 4 times in my life, and I wish I rode it more, the sheer scale of the coaster was enormous. It doesn’t seem very tall when indoors but once you got up there, you realize how tall it is. One tip my older brother told me was keep your head back cause if ur head is any other way it is stuck there for the whole ride. I think it held the record for the most intense indoor rollercoaster. It was pure insanity. And an icon for the mall.
I got to ride Hypersonic. The launch was awesome.
As I've said before, Drachen Fire gave me such mixed feelings-- so exciting but also so painful, it put me off riding coasters for years. I didn't understand that wasn't just the way new coasters were now, in this brave new world of the 1990s.
(I'd possibly also rank it as the most intense coaster I'd ever ridden until... Wednesday, when I rode Dragon Khan. Though with Dragon Khan is not necessarily that its elements are unusually extreme, just that there are so many of them.)
Firehawk, Vortex, Wicked Twister, The Joker from Fiesta Texas that got shipped to SFNO... I think the ONE defunct coaster I got was that wild mouse at Animal Kingdom. Got it in 2004.
Avalanche/Hellcat was no joke, constant airtime and laters the whole way through it never let up. The best coaster in the dells.
I was fortunate enough to ride Ultra Twister at Astroworld. It's one of my all-time favorite coasters. There was NOTHING else even remotely like it at the time. Super fun! I also rode my first & only suspended coaster on the same trip.
Ones I wish I'd gotten the chance to ride: Big Bad Wolf, Volcano, & Roller Soaker (just b/c I love the idea of the coaster / water ride combo).
Someone made a NL2 version of Cyclone at Crystal Beach you can find on youtube and the first half looks good but the second half is literally insane. I don't understand how that can be real. Definitely I305 level but more like a planet coaster creation. Absolutely bonkers.
It's even more insane than I305.
I live in Youngstown Ohio and the Wildcat is definitely legendary around here. The fire happened when I was two years old... Surely would have loved to have ridden it too.
Great video, man.
The fact we had hypersonic XLC volcano and flight of fear in the same park at the same time is WILD
If still open today, Geauga Lake would have been my home park. I never made it on any of the rides there but if I could get a time machine, I would spend a day there and really take in the park for what its worth, especially since whenever I drive past it now, its just an empty plot of land 😭😭
Yo Chris! You should do the same style of video but with flat rides, there are some cool ones like sky sling at cedar point that looked insane.
Follow-Up Video Idea: Top 15 defunct coasters you DID get to ride? 😃
Eagle Fortress for me. The setting and swing looked amazing.
My favourite video by Chris so far. Also I recommended this video a while ago. Amazing to see it finally come out 😃
Thanks for the heart Chris 😃
4:20 I actually have a very similar experience with Kings Island’s Racer. They stopped having one side go backwards in 2007 and my first trip to Kings Island was early 2008 so I only missed it by half a year. I hope one day Cedar Fair brings that gimmick back, but after 15 years without it I doubt they ever will
Zingo was a good little woodie, one of my first credits and proud to say so
I rode the Ultimate in 2019. I have never had bruises like that from a coaster before. We were the only ones on that massive train and when we got back to the station the ops asked if we wanted to go again-the response was a resounding NO! from both of us. The ops also were really interested in the fact that two people from Orlando were out in the middle of nowhere England at a tiny park.
It doesnt look like it should be rough but the povs i saw were savage
My dad was one of the lucky few who got to ride the original Bat at KI, and from what he says about it, I really missed out
I’m from the Akron canton area of Ohio, maybe 40 ish mins from where Idora Park was and to this day both The Wildcat and the park is still talked about. You should look at The Comet at Myers Lake park. Another defunct coaster at the defunct park in Canton Ohio. That coaster looked incredible and both are still talked about today. As a person who also graduated high school in 2005, growing up hearing about all the amazing parks Ohio used to have made me love Geauga Lake even more. But that’s another story. Great video as always
Yeah at least I'm old enough to have experienced geauga lake. That would have been a huge miss for me
We we’re a Cedar Point family growing up so I always kick myself for never going to Kings Island before 2008. I can claim Son of Beast but I wish I could have gotten the loop credit.
It’s still cool any way that you got to ride it 🎉
My manager (who is a fellow enthusiast) was just talking about Avalanche today. He said the pacing was amazing, but it was pretty rough. It looks like it was a good coaster...
For me, I really wish I could've ridden Volcano at KD. But living on the other side of the country, I didn't have an opportunity to get to KD until last year. But man that thing looked awesome!
I drove by Discovery Kingdom around 2013-2014 but didn't stop by to ride Roar. At least Joker is better but I do wish I could have given Roar a shot
I rode the one at Six Flags America about 4 years ago, and actually remember it being not too bad contrary to popular opinion.
Roar was an absolute speed demon in the back row. It wasn't that rough if you sat towards the back of the train. It was the best ride in the park hands down.
4:02 “But it ‘wood’dve been great to have another park to hit…”
8:15 ironically it was worked on by British Rail Engineering Limited
Drachenfire and Shockwave were the beginnings of my spinal issues.. those rides banged me up pretty thoroughly, as did the Great American Scream Machine at Great Adventure….OUCH!!!
Hypersonic was pretty much like all of the launch coasters. Bat was an absolute blast -- the closest thing to flying. The front car was a must. As for the 1946 Cyclone, I never rode it but I always felt that the moderne coasters don't take advantage of twists and turns that are available toward the end like the old coasters (such as the Coney Island Cyclone) -- instead they"brake " the ride to slow it down.
Biggest issue with Ultra Twister was that it was a capacity nightmare. It always had the longest lines in the park and it wasn't close.
I got to ride Zingo many times over those years. I don't remember how the forces were, but I loved it. I got one ride on Ultra Twister at Astroworld, and it was so fun & unique. I even liked it more than Texas Cyclone. But I'm still so bummed about Texas Tornado (later Zonga) being closed on me that day.
Volcano will probably always top my list of defunct coasters I never got to ride, made even more difficult to take by seeing it just standing there on my 2018 visit.
Yeah for as unique as volcano was, am certainly glad i got my rides on it
My top 5 would be
1 son of beast
2 vortex ki
3 big bad wolf
4 bat man and Robin the chiller
5 volcano the blast coaster
It was really cool to see you talk about Youngstown as I live in a suburb about 20 minutes away, I've driven past the grounds many times. Unfortunately the park was struggling heavily economically, as was the entire city of Youngstown. It was a huge steel producing city, but when that fell so did the town. With less people and less money, the park suffered. It was probably going to close even if the fire didnt happen, in fact there's some conspiracy theories that it was intentional for insurance money.
There's a family dedicated to preserving the history of the park and have turned their garage into a museum that opens once or twice per year. They have trains for both Wildcat and Jack Rabbit. It's something really cool to check out if for some strange reason you happen to be in Youngstown at the right time.
Galaxyland is my home park, I love and hate it at the same time, never had the chance to ride mindbender, that park is pretty expensive so I went there a lot as a kid when prices were lower. Only became a thoosie right before covid within a couple months really. It was their s&s double shot and their gerstlauer spinner that got me into it. Was gonna get on mindbender but then they had a maintenance check right before it closed (they had two maintenance checks a day) and because of this I missed my shot on this ride. Covid hit 6 or so months later and still was not able to get it on for those two weeks it was open in 2021. It feels like a depressing death happened to me and is something I’ll never get over. Man will I miss the roar of mindbender, that was loader than any sort of B&M roar. It was close to the loudness of the brakes on Hypersonic XLC or Dodonpa. You can barely talk over that roar anywhere in that park and the surrounding areas of that mall. That ride had so many little offices to run it and all. That thing was a beast and was I lucky just to even see it run and hear it. RIP mindbender
Idora Park!! My grandma got to ride Wildcat in 1962- she said it was the scariest moment of her life. I'm still jealous I never got to ride it, as the park would've not been that far away from me.
Idora burned on my birthday April 26th 1984. Almost 40 yrs. ago. Chernobyl another disaster on my birthday, but Carol Burnett share the same birthday + she's from San Antonio (I'm from Houston) Too bad you missed the AstroWorld coasters. I loved Texas Cyclones PTCs. The trains were pained to resemble the Texas flag with a white star on the side of the lead car. I Loooooved the sound the old brakes made + the compressor kicking on after the train stopped. Morgans had to be "beefed UP" to handle that punishing track. That "crooked" station had a LOT of energy in it. It was a fast paced fun ride to work + ride. Schwarzkopf came close to a Traver (only in steel) I would have loved riding the Bat. It was funny seeing XLR-8 in adverts b4 the ride opened. I told my friends it was a model. They didn't believe me. I'd pass the park on Loop 610 on the way to school. I pointed to the track that still had a lot of gaps in it during construction and asked them "How could you make a commercial when the ride isn't even finished?"
3:28 I think thats the first time this channel mentioned roblox
I RODE WILDCAT AT IDORA PARK IN YOUNGSTOWN OHIO.
THE BEST ELEMENT ON THAT RIDE WAS THE TRICK TRACK
0:59: too much airtime?: *cries in coaster enthusiast*
Another interesting one you should look into is Bobs at Riverside Park in Chicago. From what people who rode it have said, it was one of the best coasters ever.
I dont know anything about it, interesting one to look into
I actually got to ride Hypersonic XLC and Drachen Fire! Loved them both!
Although there is a much better one in Sweeden at Grona Lund, we just misssed out on Green Lantern at Magic Mountain in 2017. I know the ride was absolute trash but still would have been cool to experience it
I always have morbid curiosity with bad coasters i missed out on
Only defunct credit I have to my name is the Dragon Challenge (Dueling Dragons) at Universal Studios Orlando. I went in 2015 and at that point, the dueling wasn't around. I wasn't into roller coasters until 2022, so it was crazy intense for me. I only rode the orange track, though. I just wanted to ride something in the Harry Potter section, lol. I could've ridden the Hulk coaster before its retrack, but I was too intimidated by it at the time.
You aren’t missing anything with ultra twister . However , Texas cyclone . That was a great ride that hauled . It was as if they greased the track or something . Very fast and pretty smooth . Good air time .
Texas Cyclone is the coaster that made me a man at the age of 8!😂 I’ll never forget sitting on a bench and watching it for what seemed like an eternity before finally getting the courage to ride it all by myself in the back row! For some reason, I thought the back row would be less scary😂 Going up the lift hill and looking at the Astrodome across the freeway is one of my favorite coaster memories
Back row less scary hahaha
I fell into the same trap with blue streak at cedar point
I didn’t get to ride any of these unfortunately, but I DID get to ride Colossus a whole bunch of times between 1988-1991 and then all the way until its demise in 2014. I sadly don’t remember how the double down felt because I was probably too young.
the Crystal Beach Cyclone was one of three similar rides that were apparently all insane, including Revere Beach Lightning and the Palisades Park Cyclone, and i'm not positive but i think they were less "intense" than just "insanely, painfully rough" but i guess we'll never know
Missed out on the Bat as it was closed on the days I visited. Astroworld in general is the park I really wish I could have visited.
I was literally thinking about the crystal beach cyclone the whole time, glad to know we have the same mind haha
Sitting down and realizing I would never ride Eagle fortress was ROUGH.
Sometimes the ultimate had a tractor with a rope to get up the second lift lol but Shawn from theme park worldwide said the second part through the trees was insane.
as for your honorable mention of batman and robin the chiller; i rode that too. both sides and before all the changes. it was fun but broke down alot
I would want to ride Volcano at KD
My #1 coaster that I never rode is the giant arrow loopers that have been torn down. So Shockwave and Great American Scream Machine. I know they were rough but they were legendary too. I would have loved to experience them. Closest thing to those I got was Vortex at Kings Island. Hopefully I can get on Viper before it’s torn down
Shockwave was great, but you could ride it maybe twice before the pain became too much. Mostly from the head banging on the corkscrews.
Can't wait to see You & Sophie hitting all the big coasters this year!!
The Bat was my first Rollercoaster ever. We lived there for one year the year it opened :D
In 2019, I went to west Edmonton mall and went the amusement park. I had the perfect opportunity to ride mindbender but I didn’t feel like it. Boy what a regret that was.
Video Idea: Ride and rate or rank all the mountain coasters in the Pigeon Forge Gatlinburg area. They have a bunch of them.
Thats a lot, im workin on it though. I got 3 of them so far
i grew up in youngstown, OH and so did my dad! he's always told me about wildcat at idora park and its wild airtime, and i've never heard anyone else talk about it until this video. crazy to think there used to be a roller coaster in the middle of the city now
Yeah its just not talked about anymore, i had to go back to articles when it was in operation to hear anyone praise it
I got to ride Ultra-Twister in Houston! Was really fun!
Hypersonic XL 2000 I was at Kings Dominion in 2002 i think it was and it was down the day we were there. I saw it testing...but never had a chance to ride it.
Avalanche was one of my favorite wooden coasters in the nation. Super sad it no longer exists.
No 1 on my list would've been Dragon Challenge at universal. Unfortunately I only got to universal 5 years after it closed
As a Canadian, me and my moose wish we could’ve ridden mind bender, although we live in Ontario it wasn’t as far as Florida and we still go there
The tbars are why it's my number two overall, at 5'2 I had to hold on for my life on superman. The front on the red train is the closest I've gotten to a tbar ride feel
I rode Drachen Fire in 1997 once and that was enough. Hearing about it in 1992 and then seeing it on a rollercoaster video I bought in 1994 at Blockbuster hyped it even more; the corkscrew drop the most. All I remember is feeling like I was in a washing machine, banging my head on the restraint and having a headache after pulling in the station. I also remember wondering how Arrow could build such a lousy coaster. Lochness wasn't exactly smooth but it had been built in the late 70s. Moreover BBW from 1984 was vastly superior. It was also the year Alpengeist opened and was typical B&W perfection. I had ridden Kumba in 1993 and Montu in 1996 and both pulled some nice g's but also had excellent transitions through the elements. After watching a RUclips video on how Arrow designed and built their coasters, tangent and radius if I remember correctly, I understood why the bigger, faster Arrows were so rough. After passing on Viper several times over the years I finally rode it in 2022. Uggg, excellent elements but poorly executed.
Of your list I would have loved to have ridden Eagle Fortress and the Bat. I'm looking forward to finally riding the (new) Bat and Iron Dragon before they close. The Togo ultra twister looks cool, too.
Avalanche or hellcat when I rode it was fantastic. Very fast and out of control feeling I’ve never felt on any other coaster in the world. Truly unique ride and even a standout coaster in a town known for wild wooden coasters.
I could've ridden Avalanche in like 2014 but didn't. #regrets
Flip Flap Railway is my #1; I have always been dying of curiosity about how strong that 10 G's loop was back in the 17th century
I’ve gotten whiplash before. It ain’t fun so kinda glad that one’s gone.
Did you ever go on Dragon Challenge at Islands of Adventure? It just looks so amazing and I immensely regret never having been able to ride it. I just can't believe it wouldn't make this list if it was a missed credit for you so based on that I just assume that you got to ride it.
My dad visited Six Flags Astroworld in 1995. I wonder if he remembers riding the Texas Cyclone, Ultra Twister, Viper, and whatever other roller coasters they had at that park at that time. I know he remembers riding the Batman stand-up roller coaster for sure. Unfortunately, my mother was with him at the park but she never got to ride anything they had because she was pregnant with me. So that makes it my fault if you think about it.😭
I am surprised that Volcano the Blast Coaster did not make this list. I was under the impression that you never got to ride it.
Wow I can't believe I've been on one you haven't: Drachen Fire. You're still ahead like 500-0 though, lol.
My top 5:
5. Mega Zeph - SF New Orleans
4. The Chiller - SF Great Adventure
3. Duelling Dragons - Islands of Adventure
2. Volcano - Kings Dominion
1. The Bobs - Riverview Park, Illinois (I'm surprised this wasn't on the list.)
Did you ever ride an original Togo stand-up like King Cobra at Kings Island? As an ten-year-old it was one of my favorites. No one seems to like Stand-Ups through. Backwards Racer with the buzz bars would've been a good honorable mention too.
I was fortunate to ride Hypersonic XLC several times while it was open. I think I got whiplash the first time and learned my lesson for when the Intamin hydraulic launch coasters were born later. Hypersonic was loud and short, and I didn’t appreciate it (or Volcano) at the time.
The defunct coaster I wish I could ride now is the Cyclone at Williams Grove Amusement Park, which would have been a short detour between Six Flags America and Hersheypark. In the winter, you can see its skeleton from a local road and take pictures of it. They are very strict about the property’s security so you cannot get too close, but it looks like the kind of classic PTC that I appreciate more as less of them are around.
In this video, the only two I've ridden were Drachen Fire and Hypersonic XLC. I personally didn't think DF was that rough but I also rode it after the infamous corkscrew was removed. As for HS XLC, that ride was awesome for its time. I think that was my first launch coaster if I can remember correctly.
Ultra Twister was a fun unique ride. Very short though. The SFAW Cyclone was great fun but I rode during the era of the coffin cars. Still, the front seat ride was awesome. Dracon Fire, by contrast, was terrible. It beat you up start to finish. Before and after the corkscrew removal it was a bad ride from a good manufacturer. 3 out of 15, not too bad.
Here's my weird pick: Titan MAX at Space World. Classic Arrow almost-hyper (178 foot drop) that just got new S&S trains a couple of years before the park shut down.
I was at cedar point just after dragster closed😢. Hopefully the Reinagined version will be better
My daughter backed out of riding it one day, then before our next planned trip a week later she worked up the courage and was going to ride it with me. You already know what happened that week.
@@ytcomment4242that’s sucks. Hopefully you guys will get the chance to go again
My dad rode Mega Zeph at Six Flags New Orleans, but I was too young, having only been able to ride Roadrunner Express. That would be #1.
Volcano would be #2 and I missed that by 2 months.
I rode mindbender back in 2015 and it was insane. apparently it pulled 5.5Gs during the 3rd loop, which I absolutely believe
I really regret not riding Mindbender. I had 2 chances.
Something in my brain has always said gravity group or gci could 100% rebuild the crystal beach cyclone and make it work
0:21 - unless you're Zippin' Pippin