OT: Wonderland’s new coaster makes international news

Post #1 » by **Double Helix** » Fri May 3, 2019 11:43 pm

Anything to distract from game 3. Opened today.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/yukon-striker-roller-coaster-opens-canada/index.html

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Canada's Wonderland says it's "the longest, fastest and tallest dive roller coaster in the world."

Cedar Fair buying Wonderland has in retrospect been fantastic for any coaster fans in the GTA. Their investments since buying the park and putting in Behemoth, then Leviathan and now this one are impressive.

Inevitable · Post #2 » by **Inevitable** » Fri May 3, 2019 11:47 pm

Why go on that roller coaster when you can be a Raptor fan.

Rob Diaz · Post #3 » by **Rob Diaz** » Fri May 3, 2019 11:50 pm

Wait until September, you'll get a pass for the following year for like $10.

Post #4 » by **Double Helix** » Sat May 4, 2019 12:05 am

This thing looks amazing. I remember riding top gun back in the day and lifting my feet up because it felt like they were close to polls. This drop into a water tunnel looks phenomenal.

MessiahUjiri · Post #5 » by **MessiahUjiri** » Sat May 4, 2019 12:07 am

Inevitable wrote:Why go on that roller coaster when you can be a Raptor fan.

Raptors playoff performance drop is steeper than the new Wonderland roller coaster

WuTang_CMB · Post #6 » by **WuTang_CMB** » Sat May 4, 2019 1:31 am

Props to WL

Always trying to improve the park

Cliffhanger on a hot summer day with the water is my fav

LiSTWithLani · Post #7 » by **LiSTWithLani** » Sat May 4, 2019 7:15 am

Pretty cool that we have the largest roller coaster, but there is no way I'd ever go on that!

dTox · Post #8 » by **dTox** » Sat May 4, 2019 8:38 am

Wonderland is a client of mine, and I sold them the design software that created this ride

Post #9 » by **Double Helix** » Sat May 4, 2019 11:50 am

The thing I don’t get about the underwater tunnel bit is what happens when it rains brutally. I’m assuming there’s some kind of pump system?

The underwater part also reminds me of this old Bob & David Mr Show sketch.

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Tim Horton · Post #10 » by **Tim Horton** » Sat May 4, 2019 12:23 pm

Chandan · Post #11 » by **Chandan** » Sat May 4, 2019 12:36 pm

Double Helix wrote:This thing looks amazing. I remember riding top gun back in the day and lifting my feet up because it felt like they were close to polls. This drop into a water tunnel looks phenomenal.

i like skyrider IIRC because I was standing up!

And1Skip · Post #12 » by **And1Skip** » Sat May 4, 2019 12:52 pm

I’m not an amusement park enthusiast but always thought it was unfortunate that Paramount got away from the business bc it used to be really neat to go to Wonderland with all those movie themes and characters. After Cedar Fair took over all those movie associations disappeared making a lot of the rides a bit awkward (eg Top Gun = Flight Deck? No more Danger Zone song?). But yeah as OP said, Cedar Fair is known for their crazy and huge rollercosters in the States and the improvement on that end in Wonderland has been great. Now that I have kids myself I go with them and they enjoy the kids sections cause at least there’s still a Snoopy association but most of all they love the kiddy rides.

stanch sabonis · Post #13 » by **stanch sabonis** » Sat May 4, 2019 1:09 pm

People are going to wonderland in this weather?

Yosemite Dan · Post #14 » by **Yosemite Dan** » Sat May 4, 2019 3:18 pm

stanch sabonis wrote:People are going to wonderland in this weather?

People are going to wonderland with those lineups? The last time I was there was years ago with my son. We were there for about 8 hours and went on 5 or 6 rides because there was an hour+ wait for every one of them. And this was on a weekday. Can’t imagine how bad it is now with all these new roller coasters.

720 · Post #15 » by **720** » Sat May 4, 2019 3:30 pm

When I was a kid my friends and I went to wonderland on a weekday and entered as soon as the gates allowed us. We got to go on our favourite rides without lines for a good half hour or so. Best time ever.

supra2k8 · Post #16 » by **supra2k8** » Sat May 4, 2019 4:54 pm

Yosemite Dan wrote:
stanch sabonis wrote:People are going to wonderland in this weather?

People are going to wonderland with those lineups? The last time I was there was years ago with my son. We were there for about 8 hours and went on 5 or 6 rides because there was an hour+ wait for every one of them. And this was on a weekday. Can’t imagine how bad it is now with all these new roller coasters.

you can buy fast lane(+) to skip the regular lines, but it's like $80 extra for the the plus i think

Yosemite Dan · Post #17 » by **Yosemite Dan** » Sat May 4, 2019 5:04 pm

720 wrote:When I was a kid my friends and I went to wonderland on a weekday and entered as soon as the gates allowed us. We got to go on our favourite rides without lines for a good half hour or so. Best time ever.

Showing my age but I remember going as a kid the first few years it opened. Back then Vaughn was a wasteland. If you went on a weekday there would never be a lineup of more than 15 mins for any ride the entire day.

macNcheese3 · Post #18 » by **macNcheese3** » Sat May 4, 2019 5:07 pm

Inevitable wrote:Why go on that roller coaster when you can be a Raptor fan.

and1

ratul · Post #19 » by **ratul** » Sat May 4, 2019 9:24 pm

Mmmm...funnel cake

Courtside · Post #20 » by **Courtside** » Sat May 4, 2019 11:47 pm

POV video without the distracting on screen text and riders:

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