Top 10 Roller Coasters by Great Coasters International (GCI)
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- GCI has produced some of the best wooden roller coasters around the world, consistently sending riders soaring through twisted layouts and into sharp ejector airtime pops. They're fantastic ride experiences, so let's see which are the best!
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im glad prowler is finally getting the love it deserves. Always believed its the most underrated GCI in the country
It’s by far my favorite one I’ve ridden, even over Thunderhead and Mystic Timbers
@@justiceleaguebattleformetr9239Same here! I like it over mystic Timbers!
@@ThrillzandCoastersi feel like mystic gets so much praise because it is just an insanely smooth wood coaster, but if youre okay with even some light woodie jank there are a few that i like more.
my favorite woodie out there at the moment. (Haven't ridden voyager.....yet!)
It is a top-tier one for me, too.
Mystic Timbers is probably one of the best GCIs ever made. It’s butter smooth, I can’t believe how well it runs.
For now wait till it gets older thunderhead at Dollywood was super rough before the work My opinion they don’t age well yes they are fun but yeah IDK
I went to Kings Island to experience Vortex on its last weekend and discovered the magnificent Mystic Timbers. It was definitely my favorite thrill at the park. The Beast was also very special with a night ride in the rain. It felt insane.
Happy to see some love for prowler! My home park!
Could not agree more about Thunderhead. Rode it for the first time this summer and was absolutely floored. There was rarely ever a line for it which shocked me. It was my favorite ride in the park!
I definitely agree! I went to Dollywood for the first time in Christmas 2021 -- when Thunderhead wasn't running as good as it apparently is now -- and fell in love with the coaster like you did. I also rarely encountered long lines for it, so it was just paradise! I was there for 4 days straight, and it was the only coaster I rode multiple times each day. Easily my favorite in the park, too! I need to get back there and see how much better it's running now!
@@alkankondo89 I've ridden it every Christmas season since 2019. It was good in 2019, great in 2020, only okay in 2021, a little better in 2022, and spectacular 2 weeks ago.
Only cause it was freshly retracked it gets wildly rough after it needs work
Honestly went on wicker man end of theme park season note I have been on this over 20+ times that ride I had was smooth airtime filled and no roughness what a perfect ride
I rode Renegade back in 2017 and it was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had on any coaster. Action packed layout and absolutely relentless in the back row. Sounds like it needs a retracking… hope the merger brings some good things to Valleyfair, that park seriously needs some love
Agreed, this year though, I rode Renegade 5 or 6 times, and I didn’t think it was rough at all
Agreed. Renegade at its best is phenomenal. As I just posted elsewhere, it’s my favorite out of the 19 GCIs I’ve ridden.
Visually GCIs are some of the most gorgeous coasters I’ve ever seen. Shame I’m not a huge fan on the only one I’ve done, Wicker Man, but I’d love to get on a bigger one
Thunderhead at Dollywood before recently retracked was pretty rough IMO
Mystic Timbers is my number 4 roller coaster right now, recently at Winterfest the single rider line allowed me to ride it 6 times, and the ride I got in the very back made me laugh hysterically for the whole duration of it, my body went limp from the hysteria and I was just being thrown side to side in the darkness, it was way too much fun!
To put into perspective just how high of a pedestal I put this coaster on, my number 5,6, and 7 coasters are Maverick, El Toro, and Fury 325 respectively, it’s also the ride I’ve ridden more than other coaster in the world!
I operated Mystic Timbers for 3 years so its always cool to see it get the recognition it deserves. its easy the best ride at Kings Island.
Does mystic have a key to manual release the lap bar
@@djsurf2254it’s like a hook that you have to run under the car of the train in order to lift up the lever
I LOVE that I live directly between Prowler and Renegade!! And get to Kings Island yearly. Good list!!
I love Mystic Timbers!!! I’m so lucky that it’s at my home park ❤Rides on it during the Haunt and Winterfest are the best!!!
Troy at Toverland is such a sleeper hit. Easily my favorite wooden coaster in Western Europe, and the love and care the park takes in keeping this ride in tip top shape is incredible.
Happy wicker man made the list I've always wanted to ride a gci since seeing them in America. Happy to finally have one at my home park even if it isnt that intense it's such a fun ride🎉
Wood Coaster at Knight Valley is my #1 wood coaster overall and its non stop insane from the top of the lift hill to the brake run, you will absolutely love it. Funny thing is it has the same problem as Arieforce One, a world class coaster in a nothing park.
I’ve ridden 19 GCIs, and my favorite was Renegade. I think I just had the good fortune of marathoning it until park close in a year when it was smooth and fast.
I've done 18, and Renegade is the only (operating) GCI I'm missing in US. I need to fix that.
@@marty_nz You do. Although many are calling it rough now, which it wasn’t especially when I rode it.
So glad to see Mystic and Prowler right next to each other on top. Mystic is honestly the reason I haven’t left Cincy after all these years, and while I thought WoF would be the filler park of my SDC trip a few years ago, I absolutely fell in love with it-dubbing it Mystic Timber’s a Scandinavian older twin brother for how similar it rode….
WoF is actually really slept on. Its a really pretty park imo and Mamba is also an elite ride at this point too
@@Posirep I agree completely. Was fully expecting it just to be a credit run while I was in the area with a Platinum Pass-but it really ended up being a solid experience between the coasters, atmosphere and even flats like that indoor trabant giving me Cosmotron Knoebels vibes….
@@ReonSkyridgethank you!
@@ReonSkyridgethat's a chance wipeout. Cyclone sam. It's awesome
Good striker was retracked in a lot of places in 2020/2021 and it’s running a lot better
Thats good to hear! Can't wait to get back on it!
I rode Gold Striker in either its first or second year- and it was ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!! Difficult to imagine a more perfect roller coaster for what it aspired to be.
Troy is My Home GCI! it is My Favorite Coaster At Toverland. Which is Also My Home Park. it Has Been Running Quite Rough This Year. But i Still Find it Tolerable And The Roughness is Also What Makes it Really Fun! i Rode Joris En De Draak in My Last Late October 2023 Visit And it Also Ran Rougher Than My Other Rides On it. And i Also Liked it. But Troy is Still Better. Next Year i Am Doing 2 Days Of Visit At Europa Park. So i Will Also Experience Wodan For The First Ever Time. So i Hope it Runs That Good Too!
I've been on 3 GCIs. Renagade, Mystic Timbers, and Thunderhead. Went on Thunderhead this last May, and it is so intense that I swear you can feel splinters being thrown up at you from its violently fast turns.
Try prowler. It's amazing
Got 2 rides on Thunderhead, yesterday 12/10, and can confirm it is running exceptionally smooth and it absolutely hauls into the brake run at the end. It feels like it just gets faster as the ride goes on and that was first thing in the morning on a cold, rainy day. I cant imagine how great it would be warmed up at the end of day.
I can attest it gets to a point where you feel like it's actually out of control.
Just went on Gold Striker for the first time last month (Dec. 2023). Runs like a beast! Granted I only have California coastie credits, but it immediately became my favorite woodie AND night ride.
First off I totally respect your list of top ten GCIs and as much as I want to agree with you on Mystic Timbers as the best GCI… for me it didn’t pack enough of a punch like Prowler does, and as much as I love a glossy smooth wooden roller coaster, I need a little jank and a small headache for me to consider it as a good ride.
Woohoo! Love for Prowler! I've been singing its praises for years now. And I agree Mystic Timbers is a larger Prowler! I really want to get to Europe and ride those woodies. Excellent list.
surprised lightning racer made the list! I think I fell asleep on that one 😅
And I've only been riding it since 2016 almost every year but I definitely place Thunderhead over Mystic Timbers!
Finally some love for Prowler!!! While Mystic Timbers is also my favorite that I've experienced, it's been bothering me for a while that everyone goes nuts over it despite Prowler being nearly the same coaster. I recently did a video comparing the two and what puts Mystic Timbers ahead of it is the slightly smoother ride and larger abundance of airtime.
My Top 10 Favourite GCI's from when I last rode:
1. Troy (2021)
2. Wodan Timbur Coaster
3. Wickerman
4. Thunderbird
5. White Lighting
6. Lightning Racer Thunder
7. Lightning Racer Lightning
8. InvadR
9. Roar
10. Joris en de Draak - Water
Should be getting on more GCI's next year like Mystic Timbers, Prowler, American Thunder, Renegade.
You gotta try prowler and mystic
Love Mystic Timbers. Im a huge GCI fan and when I went to KI I was not disappointed. In fact all their woodies are great, the racer really shocked me at how good it was too.
I rode troy, in the front, while it was raining, at night, it changed me as a person
Mystic Timbers is phenomenal. Its suuuper smooth. You get off and your like WOW.
I'm so glad that one of the only ones I've been on was number 1 Mystic Timbers, I lapped it and got close to 7 rides, one being at night too. It's worth it to go there.
I love seeing the respect for Lightning Racer, one of the most fun coasters I've ever ridden. I like Prowler more than Mystic Timbers, by quite a bit actually. Prowler has always felt more intense and stronger, with a more creative layout--it's more of a twister out-and-back. My mom hated Thunderhead her first time riding it. After last month, it's now her favorite in the park. It's now my 2nd favorite GCI. I have Kentucky Rumbler as a top 5 GCI, as it rode amazing for me on my one visit.
I’m really happy Texas Stingray got in the top 3. Amazing woody
Can’t believe Troy didn’t make the cut. Ok it’s not the smoothest GCI but the layout is my favourite ❤
With a good retracking it would likely make the cut!
Toverland retracts the roller coaster a bit every year. I don't understand what experience you had on that coaster last summer.
@@timdruyts5025 I rode Troy in August last year for the first time and out of the 18 GCis I've done, it's one of the worst. I'd probably place it 14th. I could see the potential if it wasn't so damn rough.
I've sadly never ridden a GCI. I've only been on PTCs, CCIs, and Gravity Group woodies (and Hurler).
Troy definitely needs a full retrack. During my last two visits to Toverland I got a headache both times after riding it once.
Rough GCI’s will do that
My fav is mystic timbers, then apocalypse (2022 ride), and third is hard to believe but Roar. I got on right after the retrack and wow. 2nd best ride in the park.
I am very surprised that Troy did not make it into your list. It is my favorite GCI!
I loved it the first time I went- but during my most recent visit, it was unbearably rough
I absolutely love Texas Stingray, it's crazy out of control, you NEED to ride it in the rain.
I’m glad that mystic Timbers is open for winterfest
Texas Stingray deserves Number 3 I feel like nobody talks about it and I rode it for the first time a few days ago and it is insane!
Thunderhead really is given TLC by Dollywood and I'm happy to see it maintained as well as it is.
While definitely not making this list, I've seen the same thing with White Lightning at FunSpot Orlando. Small little family coaster, but yeah, great airtime and pacing.
White Lightning makes my top 10 GCIs. Rode it a few days ago, and it's running better than ever!
Mostly agree, would move a few around and put in Roaring Timbers, KRumbler and Hersheypark Wildcat in its infancey when it smoothly hauled with PTCs over Renegade, Wicker and Apoc. (Haven't done China either)
Night ride on Apocalypse during Fright Fest when they have all that fog pumped back there is the best night ride in the park. Like you said, when you ride, matters.
All of my top 3 GCI's are in your top 4 (Mystic, Thunderhead, Stingray). I think it's one of the most underrated coaster manufacturers out there.
The world needs more GCI’s.
When I rode thunderhead in the back row, on that first drop I had to put my hands down because I was so far out of my seat that I felt like I was flying!
That ride gets too rough and it’s cause every seat is a wheel seat
You know what I'd love to see? I'd really like to see a video where like you've compiled data from people about their top 10 coasters or something, and then putting it into a video after conducting a community vote. Great video Taylor!
That's what VoteCoasters is by Coaster Bot! He compiles a huge collective list of the rankings from enthusiasts around the world!
Python in Bamboo forest is absolutely incredible
Can't wait to ride it one day!
I went to Worlds of Fun last summer but the new Zambi Zee Zinger wasn't operating yet so I missed that. Looking forward to trying it in 2024!
I’ve heard it runs rough
I’m telling you Gold Striker is still Amazing! Previous rides is 1 month ago!🤩
Awesome video! GCI also did Titan Track work on the first half of Wolverine Wildcat at my home park (Michigan's Adventure) last year, and it's running MUCH better than it used to! Wish that they could do the same for the rest...
I haven't ridden too many GCI coaster, but I prefer Troy (Toverland) over Wodan (Europa Park). Another fantastic one is El Toro at Freizeitpark Plohn it's really small but fun as hell. Great layout. Heidi the Ride at Plopsaland de Panne was rather boring, even for a family woodie.
Totally agree. I don't really know why so many people rate Wodan so high. Yes theming is good, but after the first (spectacular!) drop it really doesn't do much for me. Troy every time beats it for me. Although I agree it's getting a bit too rough lately.
Apparently Taylor's ride on Troy was pretty rough. Which I still find difficult to understand to this day, because Toverland retrack the roller coaster a bit every year. In addition, Troy may have too many high curves and has few airtime moments that the average roller coaster enthusiast is a little too enthusiastic about. There aren't many roller coaster experiences better than a night ride after a hot summer day on Troy. I find it incomprehensible that Troy doesn't even make it into the top 10.
@@timdruyts5025 I've been on Troy a couple of weeks ago during Halloween and it is getting a bit rough. They've not done the whole track, yet.
Glad you explained Ghost Rider's omission. I was about to riot. It's the best coaster in California. (In the back at night, of course)
I just went on Wickerman for the first time and it's one of the best night rides I've been on. I'm surprised it didn't make your night ride list.
Can confirm Gold Striker is rough in a good way as of late, just the right about of jank and totally re-ridable due to those comfortable seats.
Mystic Timbers is probably GCIs finest work. One of, if not the smoothest wooden roller coasters you'll ever ride. Especially for how it runs.
I've done most of the same ones as you. I still have to get to Wicker Man. These are my Top 10:
1. GoldStriker
2. Mystic Timbers
3. Wodan- I agree it feels short but it is outstanding.
4. Renegade
5. Prowler
6. Thunderhead
7. Troy
8. Texas StingRay
9. Joris en de Draak
10. Apocalypse
GhostRider would top this list if I counted it as a GCI. GoldStriker is the only GCI even close to it,
I sadly havent experienced many of this manufacturers rides. Heck the only ones I have experienced are Wickerman, and Joris en de Draak, and personally I preferred the latter. I love its tight manouvres, unexpected airtime pops, and rapid transitions. I'd love to experience more CGI's but they aren't exactly common here in Northern Europe. Though honourable mentions since I have experienced the Coney Island Cyclone after its GCI retrack, as well as Tomahawk at PortAventura, which is a CCI but uses the GCI Mini-lenium flyer trains.
I just tried Gold Striker for my first time 2 days ago. It was really fun. Very aggressive. Definitely had 2 potholes but I like it rough.
Good thing for the large recent retracking.
So glad ya didn't put Troy on there. Rode it earlier this year and came off with the biggest headache I've ever had from a coaster...
I feel like American thunder doesn’t get the love it deserves because the park it’s in and it’s fairly short. If it had say 600 -800 more feet I think more people would take note.
But on a different note, i think if lost island could afford to put a GCI like American thunder just a bit longer somewhere towards the back it would really add to that parks line up.
Im a Dollywood local and 100% agree that Thunderhead is awesome
Nice list. I hope to ride some of these as well.
For now is my list:
1. Mystic Timbers
2. Thunderhead
3. Wodan
4. Heidi
5. Troy (bit too rough and too many laterals imo)
6. El Toro
7. Joris en de Draak (water)
8. Joris en de Draak (fire)
9. InvadR
10. Wilkołak (Heidi clone with less power)
11. Roar
Have you not ridden prowler or renegade?
One GCI that you almost never hear anything about is Kentucky Rumbler at Beech Bend. I went out of my way for a few rides while passing through Kentucky last year, and I thought it was awesome! Perhaps it was just an instance of going in blind and being pleasantly suprised, but the layout is objectively very good, the ride is mostly smooth, and the airtime is powerful in spots. It's probably a top five GCI for me, and I think I've been on all the US GCIs except for Renegade, Gold Striker, and InvadR.
My personal favorite is White Lightning at Fun Spot Orlando
I rode Gold Striker this year, running very well, I have it #2 behind Mystic Timbers...Texas Stingray I thought was fun, but wasn't overly impressed - I rode it very soon after it first opened, so maybe it needed a little time to get broken in? Prowler is the one for me that I really need to ride again, it's been soooo long and I rode it very early in my coaster ranking days, first GCI I rode - so I think now it might place much higher as my perspective has changed...I remember loving the ride, but have been on so many great rides since then as well, it's hard not to favor the recency bias
I just want to say GCI is my favorite wooden coaster manufacturer
For some reason, I found lightning racer to be incredibly rough. I rode it in september of 2023, and tiger side was closed so I could only ride lion. The operations were abysmal and it took almost an hour to go through a short line. When I finnaly got on it I wished I was still waiting in line because it jackhammered so hard I head a headache for 30 minutes after the ride. I really dont know why I am the only person who says its rough, but I swear it is the roughest coaster I have ever ridden, at least on lion side.
It could use a retracking, I will give you that. I would love to see it get the TLC it deserves
I use Ipe regularly at work for decks. It is known as “Ironwood” it is extremely heavy and difficult to work with. Curious what the factors are when making that choice.
A fun fact wickerman is even better as a night ride big bob ( the effigy )looks great with all the simulated fire,smoke lights and real fire. And a bonus one is if you get to ride it during bonfire night when all the fireworks go off
Of the GCIs I've ridden
1. Mystic Timbers (none are close to it)
2. Kentucky Rumbler
3. Thunderhead
4. Lightning Racer
5. Roar
6. InvadR
7. White Lightning
8. Wildcat at hershey
Unfortunately Thunderhead is the only GCI I've ridden. And unfortunately it was a longgg time ago. Really wanna get back to Dollywood to try it again.
I feel like I didn't ride the same Mystic Timbers everyone is talking about. I think Thunderhead and Apocalypse are WAY better from my experience
Nice opinion 👌
I am missing all the same ones as you as well as Wicker Man and Wodan, my top 10 with the years I last rode them:
1. Mystic Timbers (2022)
2. Gold Striker (2023)
3. Texas Stingray (2022)
4. Prowler (2021)
5. Thunderhead (2023)
6. Renegade (2021)
7. Troy (2023)
8. Apocalypse (2023)
9. Lightning Racer (2023)
10. American Thunder (2023)
We joked that Prowler walked so Mystic Timbers could run.
Ive ridden your top 3 all at night and all are exceptional night rides. I think alot of people sleep on how good Texas Stingray is.
Had night ERT on Prolwer for an event. It was supposed to be for Zinger but got changed to Prowler and we're glad it did cuz its just so much better than Zinger...and somehow smoother.
Mystic Timbers is a better night ride than the Beast next door. I will die on this hill.
Gold Striker is still fabulous!
i actually thing renegade's roughness makes fun as wild thing a so smooth it feels like it's slower when its actually faster
I don't like Lightning Racer, but I absolutely love Thunderhead
I’ve only done 9:
1.Mystic Timbers
2.Thunderhead
3.Renegade
4.Prowler
5.Lightning Racer
6.Roar SFAM
7.American Thunder
8.InvadR
9.Wildcat (formerly at Hershey Park)
I I’m intrigued by the take that Texas Stingray is the best coaster in the Sea world parks. Also I’m curious if you had included Ghost Rider where would it have ranked
If Ghostrider had been included, it would've been in the top 5 for sure
@@CoasterStudios I love GCI
prowler>mystic i feel like prowler does everything a little better, and it’s a much darker night ride. also mystic is a little too smooth to be my fav gci, prowlers bite is perfect
Thunderhead was so rough the first time I rode it that Wildcat at Hershey was better. Now thunderhead is awesome and as smooth as mystic and stingray
Wickerman at night is easily one of the most immersive attractions I’ve ever seen
wicker man my beloved 💜
🔥🔥🔥
I love GCI and Mystic Timbers is my favorite, but my ranking differs slightly from yours. I put Wodan, Troy and then Prowler followed by Rampage as my top 5.
Idk how, but GCI is one of the only manufacturer that's alluded me over the years. Ive never ridden one, and im not happy about it.
I didn't ride any until last year and ended up riding 7 of them lol.
White Lightning
Texas Stingray
Invadr
Prowler
Mystic Timbers
Wildcat(pre-RMC)
Lightning Racer
and rode Zambezi Zinger this year
Their coasters are awesome but I feel like their trains. Make the coaster rougher than it needs to be maybe it's just me but I feel like PTC trains would be better
I'm very surprised Troy didn't make the list!
Texas stingray is finally getting justice!
I wish somebody would do something about the Rebel Yell at Kings Dominion. Edit....Racer 75. Nice out and back dual race, but rough as.....
Wood Coaster in China is probably the best GCI ever built. That said I'd probably take Prowler as the best, Thunderhead at #2, and Mystic Timbers at #3 for talking just those I've ridden. If you rank Ghostrider as a GCI though that's #1.
Then there’s Cornball Express, the CCI that never got the memo that it isn’t a GCI.
✨Prowler at night✨
goldstriker is a solid gci but its been running rough lately
I've rode Troy, Joris and Wodan and I will rank them like this:
1. Joris
2. Wodan
3. Troy
Curious where you think ghostrider would stand if it was on this list, I don’t really know if to consider it a gci or cci but I think it can fit in the gci group because they pretty much rebuilt it.
Me too.
I have experienced only on two and smaller ones but it wasn't actualy bad first is wicker man, i found it veeeeerrrry rought i guess just bad seats or smth but it was very rough, maybe becouse i rode it only ones but nvm, and the second is el toro at freizeitpark plohn, this on was actualy smooth