Yeah, I went on this ride a lot from ages ages 8 to 20. It was really scary.

i really wish i knew about this when it was going on. Probably wont come back for another 50 years. :(

Do you happen to know what happened to the original zambezi zinger signage? If so, please inform me.

Such a perfect example of fast dispatch that'd never fly today but love the efficiency.

My dream is to find a remnant from every single ride and just have it on display. I love that someone else is obsessed with the history of such a little known park. Please do a video reviewing your collection sometime!

i wish i could see these days

Michael Jackson music video Childhood reminded me of this ride.

Remember it like yesterday

I grew up with this ride. When did you videotape this? Late 90s?

These are wonderful videos but why are they in Spanish 😂?

I remember seeing this ride. I never actually had the chance to ride it, but love that it was adjacent to Timber Wolf. Too bad this one kept breaking down in its later years and now there's no ride in its place while you can still see the queue line for it. I know it was on the site originally occupied by Omegatron (or Ω-tron for short).

What a cool ride they used to have, just like the kinds of rides you'll sometimes see at traveling carnivals.

Great old memories. I've gone on the PandAm Airlines, Either Oar, and a few other kiddie ones from when I was little in the 90s. And the Wacky Worm that didn't exist yet since the footage is from two years before the WW opened, I was almost 3 when the Wacky Worm opened. So glad I got to buy a PJ Panda T-shirt during this trip to Worlds of Fun before they would all be sold out, especially people whom were kids in the 80s and 90s. When I was little, we used to go to Worlds of Fun on Father's Day weekend, and then for my birthdays as I grew older.

I remember this being the scariest ride at the park when i was younger, the way it held you upside down was great

Wow, happy to have found your super rare footage! Thanks for sharing!

I miss the Scream Roller quite a bit. Excellent video.

I hate this ride so much

rip orient express

"Look! Take a look! Look what we've got for you now! I remember the original commercials that aired in the Lincoln, NE, market in early 1980. There was just something about that animated fire-breathing dragon that remains etched in memory.

Excellent ride, but I noticed that 2 out of the 6 arms, 4 "fingers" holding the 8 spinning cars were not turning. So, 8 out of 24 riders didn't get the full thrill that they paid for.

I was here that day. I rode the first public run too but I was about 3 cars back.

👍👍👍

This ride gives me chills! I dont think I could ride it 😂

It is almost like you can hear the groan of the lift hill and understand why it was short-lived

If you told me that camera was bolted on tight to the car I’d believe you. #arrowheadache

Did the EXT ever run with combo seats or trains? some cars standup some sit down and or one train standup the other sitdown before operations for testing or after.

man this brings back so m any fun memories of going there as a kid in the 70's. This was the first adult coaster I ever road before that I was to little and always had to ride the kiddie coaster. It makes me want to take a trip to Columbia to ride it again

What year was this video filmed?

I’m glad you were able to get it. I couldn’t get the full version - the rain wouldn’t let me. I’m linking to your vid.

May I use this footage for a video going over the backstory and history of this intriguing coaster? I will give full credit to you during the video and in the description!

This has gotta be one of the lamest coasters to endure. No one ever talks about it because there's nothing to talk about. Besides a cool name this ride is possibly the most generic woodie.

Miss that Helix!

It was quite the roller coaster. And most notably ranked #1 on any list of roller coasters that should have NEVER been removed. I got to ride it at least once back when I was 9 in 1999 around my birthday then just four years before the park decided to axe it. Had they not built that mountain-high Mamba, then they would have kept on investing on the maintenance for this. The best part is how it introduced the kamikaze curve inversion alongside being the second roller coaster to have interlocking loops after the Loch Ness Monster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

Schwarzkopf Enterprise=best Enterprise! More than 45 Years old and in best condition!

Just rode it 3 times last month. Front. Back. Back. Still gets great air time in the rear. Front feels slow but fun.

That's pretty cool. So glad you guys are salvaging remnants of past rides from Worlds of Fun. And I see some remnants from the good old Bounce-A-Roos to the far left. I was actually pretty sad to see the Bounce-A-Roos go, especially having long outgrown the kiddie rides while growing up in the 90s; and then when I had my 18th birthday, that's the last time I remember seeing them in the park before the park had to axe them two years later while on their last legs for a nostalgic kiddie ride.

1:51 Manual dispatch. This is what ride operators then had to do before the convenience of computerized technology of holding down the button for about five or so seconds after verifying the station is clear before the trains can go.

Timber Wolf. This one is very iconic, and just roughly 14 months older than me. It's a fun one to ride on. And nice to have some archives on how this roller coaster evolved over the years: shared lapbar restraints with no headrests, and then headrests for the first time in its five-year history, and then changing the classic shared lapbar to individual ratcheting lapbar restraints when the Detonator opened at the time, to lots of cosmetic improvements over time. And then for its 30th year of operation was when they gave it its first major makeover by demolishing the spiraling helix for a 70-degree banked hairpin turn. And now for the first time in its 34-year history, they just re-painted the once-red trains to orange.

This particular roller coaster made history and was rather iconic to the park at the time. It's too bad it needed so much maintenance that they couldn't do anything other than axe it, especially since it was intended to run on three trains with its block-braking system, including on the midway track. This one had a "chicken exit" whose sign was later relocated to the Timber Wolf as the only thing salvaged from this roller coaster, and then they removed the sign from the Timber Wolf when this past roller coaster was put into some exhibition with the front remnants of the roller coaster train and other things salvaged for this park's 50th anniversary. This is like the most talked-about past ride. When Worlds of Fun decided to axe this roller coaster 20 years ago, that's where it caused major backlash and that most of the people were upset with the park's decision to remove it. I actually rode this at least about once when I was 9 in 1999 around my birthday at the time. Only one month later did a mishap occur where riders were stranded for about a couple hours. Thankfully I wasn't one of them when it happened.

Now that's some history here. Back when all of Worlds of Fun's roller coasters then were steel until for the 1989 season that they decided to enter the classic/wooden roller coaster market, in which they had to dismantle this one in which the Timber Wolf replaced it; but reusing the existing station house and entrance/exit. This one was also the first roller coaster at Worlds of Fun with inversions, and the world's first stand-up roller coaster, but only for the 1983 season at this park.

So Cool!!

Why would they retire such a GREAT roller coaster! This one was one of my favorites!

I miss that Ferris wheel

All the change clanking around 😂

1:20. That's my sister and her 2 friends. Just wondering where the photo came from? Pretty awesome.

Worlds of Fun was at it's best in the 70's and 80's. Once they started removing the boats, ships and Sky Hi, it lost all of it's charm...

R.I.P. coasters

Anything more on Cyclone Sams, the old, long-forgotten funhouse that used to be in the building where Cyclone Sadie’s antique photos is now located? Used to go through there all the time back in the early 80’s.

First went on their 10th year. ❤

This is awesome! Also remember when they used to have the trick or treat town inside the tivoli theatre during halloween. Good times!