That was a huge steel. That coaster cost more that even back when it was first built.
Wish I had the 5 Gs and the space for that thing. It was a true wooden coaster. Very jerky on the turns and rough on the tracks. The best was the rabbit hills at the way back to the station. You would get light in the seat, very cool.
The other true wooden coaster they had was raging wolf bobs. It was taller faster and I think longer than the Big Dipper. It was also a joy to ride. Same as the Dipper, jerky corners and rough ride though out. Love the wooden coasters.
As for the steal coasters from my era; there was only 2, the cork screw and the double loop. It was not till six flags bought it when the other steal beasts moved in. That's when batman, superman and x-flight were added. Of those rides x-flight was my top ride. It was like you were flying. You got into the car, strap in and then have the shoulder bar come from over head. As the ride left the station it rotated so you were hanging from underneath the car.
The one ride that was really cool but not to exciting, unless you skillfully managed to get a bag of peanuts on board was the rocketship. Not sure of the real name but it was a ride that went in circles and the cars looked like steal rocket ships. The peanuts were the entertaining part. Toss them at passerbys. Really fun for a youngster.
In the video the pilot stayed mostly in the area where the double loop, log ride, old fashioned cars and the ski lift. He may have hit the area of raging wolf bobs. I would need to rewatch it. I think parts of the monorail were in that video also, near the entrance which would have been on the right side of the screen at around the .5 or .45 minute mark right before the first turn of the quad.
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Okay all those pylons were from the ride batman and some were from the ski lift.
Raging wolf bobs was the area right before the water park.
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