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GASM

The Arrow Apologist
Feb 24, 2024
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Working on a bucket list of coasters and it’s made me think of the ones I would’ve loved to ride that either got away or were gone before I was born. Feel free to share your own!

Arrow: Bat, Eagle Fortress, Big Bad Wolf, XLR-8 (I really do love my Arrow suspendeds lol), Shockwave, Vortex, and not quite defunct but clearly not being relocated, Dragon Mountain

B&M: Dueling Dragons

Intamin: Alpine Bobsled, Volcano

Mack: Wizard’s Cavern, mostly just for the novelty of riding a coaster that started at Cedar Point and ended at Casino Pier, a place I grew up going to

Maurer: Rip Ride Rockit, the most recent entry here

PTC: Jack Rabbit (Clementon Park), Thunder Road

Premier: Batman & Robin: The Chiller

RCCA: Son of Beast, just for the hell of it

S&S: Do-Dodonpa

Schwarzkopf: Mindbender, Scorpion, Texas Tornado/Zonga, Cedar Point’s second Wildcat as I had no idea it had been removed before my first visit lol

Togo: The Ultra Twister that rotated through Six Flags parks

Vekoma: Any of the Flying Dutchman installations, missed Nighthawk by one season

Miscellaneous: Crystal Beach Cyclone, Coney Island Thunderbolt
 
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Partial list, counting certain relocations to other continents as "defunct" since I don't travel that far solely for amusement rides...

Eagle Fortress, Mindbender (Canada), Cyclone (Palisades), Montana Rusa (La Feria), Vortex (KI), King Kobra, Hypersonic (KD), Wild Mouse (Blackpool), Thunderbolt (Coney NY), Tornado (Coney NY), Coaster Dips (Glen Echo), Greased Lightnin', Shooting Star (Coney OH), Twisted Sisters, White Lightnin', original Bat, Ultimate, Dodonpa, Thriller, Hurricane (Dania), Hurricane (Myrtle), Orient Express, Blue Streak (Conneaut), Villain, Mister Twister, Texas Cyclone, SOB (KI), Laser Loop, Leap The Dips 😕, Thriller, Led Zeppelin, Georgia Cyclone
 
I really do take for granted sometimes the fact that I got to ride both TTD and Ka, the latter easily being the coaster I’ve been on the most.
Leap The Dips 😕
I left this off of my list in foolish hopes that it could still have something resembling a future. What a shame that we’ve likely lost America’s two oldest coasters in back to back years.
 
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For me, this answer begins and ends with Batman & Robin: The Chiller. My coaster obsession started in September of 2007, so I missed its final operating day by a few months. I wasn't aware of its plethora issues at that time, so during each subsequent visit to the park that year (and there were several), I would gaze longingly over the treeline hoping to see it running. I distinctly remember believing I saw movement by its tracks one day, and running over just to see that pieces of the track had been removed. For the longest time, I held onto the longshot hope that it would be rebuilt at Beto Carrero World.

Trying to find out more info about the Chiller that offseason is how I first found Great Adventure History's website!

A few more:
- Escape From Krypton (I honestly don't think I would have been impressed with the ride at all, but the tower looked cool)
- Mega Zeph (it remained an iconic silhouette for a long time even after SFNO closed)
- Batwing (I had a trip to SFA planned all year and it was sad to see it SBNO when I finally went there, especially after the great work the park did to reopen it over the summer)
 
My first trip to Great Adventure was in 2006 and I was too short for Chiller. Wouldn’t be back until 2008, and even then my parents bought me Skechers with 1” heels so I could go on all the coasters lol.

Closest I got was doing whatever terror trail they did behind the station in like 2011ish, and I only wanted to do that trail to get a better look at the station and the Old Country in its abandoned state.
 
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Lightnin' Loops and Ultra Twister come to mind at Great Adventure. Though I did ride the equivalent of LL at Blackpool Pleasure Beach a few years ago.
 
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