Crystal Beach Cyclone recreation - NoLimits 2

Take a ride on the most intense roller coaster ever built, Cyclone at Crystal Beach amusement park in Ontario. This Harry G. Traver coaster lasted from 1926 to 1946. It didn't have a straight section of track from the first drop to the brakes. A nurse was supposedly stationed at the ride's exit.
Cyclone was part of the Traver Triplets, which also included Cyclone (1927-1934) at Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey and Lightning (1927-1933) at Revere Beach in Massachusetts.
This is not the NoLimits 1 version. I hand-built this from blueprints and old photos found on the internet. Special thanks to the Prior & Church and Traver group on Facebook for the photo and video references.

[@eraserfred406]

Good lord that man was ahead of his time!

[@devonboulden2496]

No. This was designed at a time that there were no computer 'programs to determine how rough a ride could be. This was an injury machine. They had to have a nurse's station at the end of the ride. It's one of the most violent coasters ever built. This machine sometimes broke the arms of its riders. Some people came to the park simply to watch people ride this coaster. I think I would have given it a go, but I'm stupid that way.

[@ThemeParkCrazy]

May I use this video in a future video I'm making on infamous roller coasters? I will give you full credit.

[@awildfurret]

hiya!

[@wynnpetsovich34]

That video is what brought me here. Love your content. Keep up the good work!

[@supafrogg258]

I don't know if one can truly recreate how vicious the actual real-life ride experience was. None-the-less, this is a very well done recreation, to help us get an idea of what it may have been like.

[@ber936]

The ride looks like a bastard child of an RMC, El Toro, and Son of Beast. Needless to say, I love it.

[@RaptorAlex]

I would love to see GCI or RMC make this into something that didn't smash people's ribs.

[@rcengineer]

​@@RaptorAlex Why ride a roller coaster that isn't going to break your bones?

[@noname-jh3bd]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dylkill8669]

Bastard child? More like psychotic grandfather.

[@johnfoltz8183]

@@rcengineerSon of Beast

[@vinchenzie]

This is the best Crystal Beach Cyclone recreation I’ve seen. Incredible work!

[@nightmaresanyone]

Omg!!! I dont know if this was speed accurate but this would have been the ULTIMATE Coaster experience!!!! Phenomenal recreate! Thanks again......Richard

[@peterrivney552]

This is a perfect copy of the original cyclone crystal beach my parents used to go there all the time only living about 15 miles away I never had the chance to ride the cyclone myself being not born at that time but I have ridden the Comet Roller Coaster many times they used most of the wood and Trussels from the cyclone to build the comet .. I have read quite a few articles in the mid 2000's talking about the comet and it was still in the top 10 by lake George in New York State.. that is where it was sold to..

[@alanvaughan2937]

Rode it so many times when I was a kid ..always felt like it was falling apart..but you got right back on it again and again

[@RaptorAlex]

That is amazing!

[@KoasterKid95]

That is awesome! I bet you have so many great memories.

[@chipati]

You would have ridden the Comet, not the Cyclone. The Comet was built from pieces of the Cyclone.

[@openroadtravels181]

How brutal was it???

[@easynhonest]

RMC would be the only possible way to go if anyone tried to emulate this historic insane ride . You'll never see a true wooden reproduction .

[@DiabolicallyDevious]

I guess the Gravity Group could try too

[@supafrogg258]

The original was also apparently costly & difficult to maintain properly, because of how winter snow accumulation would contribute to structural deterioration of sections.

[@carynboundy-clark6480]

Really? Gone 1946? I was lucky enough to enjoy the great coaster that replaced the cyclone. The Comet was a great wooden coaster that was a right of passage the summer you were finally old enough to ride. Crystal beach a great oldie type park. Great rides some unique to crystal beach. It was in Canada but everyone from the Buffalo area went there. Great times, great memories

[@phoenixshade3]

Harry Traver was RMC generations before RMC existed... Excellent re-creation.

[@oneandonlysound3453]

He was GCI not Rmc.

[@AbandonedMines11]

Looks like this roller coaster was ahead of its time! I’m surprised nobody has come up with the idea to re-create this roller coaster at another amusement park.

[@sssnacksss]

amazing work- i really looks and feels like the angles and proportions are on the nose.

[@miketisone728]

damn...Henry travers wanna break my neck...lolol....great 👍 coaster recreation....technology is so freaking amazing...we couldn't do this 20 years ago....

[@bparrish99]

I need a nurse!

[@GigaG11]

In this video, the first half doesn't look as vicious as the ride's reputation gave it, the drop seems steeper in pics too. The figure 8 and the bunny/trick tracks seem quite vicious though.

[@bocahdongo7769]

It actually much more brutal because the fact that it use 1940's engineering. And only 60 years after that everything start to get better for wooden

[@eraserfred406]

Construction blueprints were a vague suggestion for the builders of these. They couldn't afford to not just eyeball a lot of stuff back then.

[@brockdrozeski741]

I want to see GCI rebuild this

[@triple7marc]

GCI would never. Gravity Group, on the other, hand, would...

[@kotchapakmaneechote2062]

They should make the layout less painful.

[@robfassi3297]

@@kotchapakmaneechote2062 why?

[@ArtbyKurtisEdwards]

@@triple7marc GCI does do conversions, just not many of them at all.

[@triple7marc]

@@ArtbyKurtisEdwards This wouldn’t be a conversion though lol

[@jtemailtube]

excellent work. I have a reproduction blueprint (top down) of cyclone. I imagine what it was like to ride it. So great to see it in action.

[@coasternamegenerator5611]

Nice update to the recreation that came with No Limits 2.

[@kenlasky3904]

Thank you so much! I’ve always wanted to experience this!

[@Mau506]

The ancestor of the hybrid coaster but the world still wasn't ready for them

[@racerz129]

Bring it BAAAAAACK! Crystal Beach as well for that matter.

[@miketisone728]

Racer Z AGREED

[@chdreturns]

@@miketisone728 Rich people don't need shit condos.

[@miketisone728]

@@chdreturns damn....I guess they don't....you know what....I think you're better than me....damn I have low self-esteem.....you're making me cry...cry....😢....I'm sorry.....damn I'm stupid....

[@miketisone728]

@@chdreturns shit condo?....you're better than MY APPRECIATION for historical shit condoms....omg did I say that?

[@awildfurret]

Crystal Beach has been closed

[@Monorail-Beyond-the-Veil]

Thank you - I have often wondered what the track layout was like.

[@zanderpxl581]

Wooden Coaster 1 is too scary for me!

[@johnfoltz8183]

I want to go on something more thrilling than Wooden Roller Coaster 1.

[@Papag53]

Amazing and enjoyable. Thank you

[@Aviciiz]

that last part was pretty intense, i like it.

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down

[@Doggeslife]

The figure 8 is where the injuries occurred. Apparently you were quickly snapped from one side to the other in a too-fast transition from right banked turn to left banked turn.

[@newyorkny533]

The Comet was a good replacement.

[@RaptorAlex]

That is definitely a bucket list coaster for me.

[@stonerthoosie]

Well done on this recreation! I really enjoyed “reriding” this lol The first drop doesn’t look steep enough tho 🤔

[@miketisone728]

they should establish a coaster park and call it Jurassic park...in it will be bigger and recreated great old defunct coasters from the past....just coasters only resurrected!

[@johnfoltz8183]

Crystal Beach Cyclone, Rye Airplane, Cyclone Racer, Son of Beast, Hercules, Psyclone

[@zacharylunsford2]

And B. A. Schiff Wild Mouse?

[@lightningboat]

This seems like something RMC would build ngl Just replace the trick track with a trick track double up

[@davidmagen415]

What a view just beautiful. Too much for me though. Really nice ride though🏖

[@aaronlee5073]

Harry Traver was insane.

[@RaptorAlex]

He truly was! I wish any of his coasters were still around.

[@chdreturns]

@@RaptorAlex There's one.... Thunderbolt at SFNE. His tamest coaster.

[@Coasterdude02149]

@@chdreturns Thunderbolt was originally named Cyclone. I didn't know Harry Traver designed it. Very cool. Seemed far too tame for one of his designs. lol

[@moogooguypan2514]

Awesome! You’re amaxing! Please do the big dipper at Jantzen Beach park in Portland Oregon is still remains the most vicious coaster I ever rode how ever I never got to Crystal Beach for the cyclone , I did the cyclone a Coney Island of course but it pails in compare us into the big dipper.

[@RaptorAlex]

I haven't looked into Big Dipper, but if there are enough photos, I could certainly give it a shot.

[@aerickmccullough350]

I also did a video on this coaster many months back, however it's the NL1 buiild.

[@RaptorAlex]

I built this by hand because I wanted it to be closer to how the real thing was, and I'm weird and like doing custom supports.

[@aerickmccullough350]

@@RaptorAlex I see. I'm planning to get NoLimits 2 myself actually. I'm finally gonna be making the switch to that one at later date, hopefully in a month or two.

[@RaptorAlex]

@@aerickmccullough350 You'll love it! It's so much easier to build and far more realistic. But there is a major learning curve, so be prepared. Find video tutorials. They help a lot.

[@M1stersupersonic8]

Harry Travers was really ahead of his time... and not in a good way. No wonder they needed a nurse in the station.

[@mynameiskrysta]

Coaster enthusiasts pretending like this was some kind of martyr is insane, as if this isn’t one of the worst abominations of a rollercoaster ever made 💀

[@oneandonlysound3453]

I guess the trick track parts make sense to compare to RMC but otherwise this is like a man traveled from the future and used 20s tech to create an awesome Compact GCI...to mixed results. GCI could so replicate this itll be epic. I could even see it getting cloned like how 2 other parks decided they wanted there own "White lightnings."

[@Benthetrainkid]

GCI should recreate this

[@legokid5353]

i mean if rmc or perhaps it just be some steel coaster with some layout chages removing the trick tracks this wodul make not so bad coaster. hell it looks fun

[@WasatchWind]

I really like this recreation, just honestly super disappointed that it had the weird camera pov. So many people do the track level on ride povs for the videos of NL2, RCT3, and Planco, but I don't get it. Having the camera up at the actual rider level actually feels like a pov, where you're riding the ride and not sticking your nose against the track ties. It feels honestly kind of unnatural to ride a coaster this way.

[@RaptorAlex]

This was a really early recreation I made. I have since updated the view to a rider's POV. Maybe I'll redo this one as a short.

[@jille4391]

I bet those little bunny hops were killers.

[@rboydsmith1]

Very cool.

[@iquitokay]

This would be so sick today except for that quadruple down or the trick track

[@Coasterdude02149]

The trick track is one of the things I always wanted to experience.

[@HumanStateOfEmergency]

It takes a lot for a ride to scare me but this one lol I'd be a little scared.

[@johnfoltz8183]

I want to go on something more thrilling than Wooden Roller Coaster 1

[@nbigham1232]

GCI could remake this with Titan track

[@plazasta]

Out if curiosity, since you have this recreation. What are the G-forces like?

[@RaptorAlex]

Give me a while to check. Since it was my first recreation, I bet they're all over the place.

[@RaptorAlex]

Max vertical G's are 4.5; minimum -0.8 Max lateral G's are roughly 1.5, not counting the jazz track where things get a little weird

[@plazasta]

@@RaptorAlex huh, crazy for a coaster of the time, but not as crazy as I expected to be honest

[@ChillaxeMake]

Doesn't NoLImits 2 already come with the Crystal Beach Cyclone as a template?

[@RaptorAlex]

Yes, but it's simply the imported version from NL1. This one I built myself using blueprints, photos and videos.

[@NationalCoasters]

Hey Alex! Can I use this in a video? I’ll provide credit wherever you’d like it…

[@RaptorAlex]

Feel free! You can credit in the video and in the description.

[@GigaG11]

Nice! (Slight innacuracy - I think it actually had a trim or check brake on the straight-ish section after the helix.)

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

GigaG11 - *MCBR

[@haze_productions9715]

Yeah I noticed that too. There should be a small "emergency" brake there. Unless they added that later in the ride's lifespan?

[@cpt3024]

The first half kind of resembled an i305 layout

[@johnfoltz8183]

The original RMC coaster

[@MrClean36]

And I thought El Toro was wild holy shit

[@Shockzone1495]

Never knew that Alan schilke what's the time traveler.

[@BILDEMRICH]

RMC needs to make a safe, refined replica of this.

[@Coasterdude02149]

Gravity Group. We don't need inversions on something this historic. RMC is so overrated-yes I've ridden them. Not a fan

[@jbw53191]

Why is the POV between the rails? That's not point of view.

[@RaptorAlex]

Because it was one of the first POVs I ever made, so I hadn't found out the best camera placement yet.

[@jayberthoookenstein7370]

Neck injury after neck injury. Reel mehn cometh.

[@mynameiskrysta]

RMC would fuck this shit up for sure

[@bobsquires4521]

How so?

[@mynameiskrysta]

@@bobsquires4521 …? They’re rmc girl wym

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

Dude, that FOV WutFace

[@RaptorAlex]

Explain. The first shot was wide, the rest are in the middle view, which I prefer. The POV? I set it where GCI sets its cameras for on-ride videos during construction previews.

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

Raptor Alex - the FOV on the POV, it was so wide D:

[@RaptorAlex]

The opening shot and the others from that spot are the widest. The rest are around the middle. All the way to the right feels too zoomed in or tight for me. The POV was wide to emulate how GCI/Gravity Group does it. They use fisheye or GoPros.

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

Raptor Alex - well I don’t like wide angle POV's. I also don’t like nose cam cause it's not a position you could ever actually ride in/see. I mean, it’s your video and you’ll do what you want, but that’s my thoughts.

[@kotchapakmaneechote2062]

GCI in 20s be like

[@rook69420]

The layout is sick, too bad the real coaster sucked though

[@bobsquires4521]

ya, it suffered from being too hard on itself and the riders. So sad it's gone though - my dad rode it in Revere MA ! LUCKY BASTARD! lol (addendum,) Wait a minute.. he would have been seven years old or younger... I think he was mistaken, when I asked him if he rode the 'other coaster' at Revere and he said 'yes,' ('what was it like?") '..scary.' He's gone now so I can't interrogate him on it any longer. Could or would they let a seven year old on one of the most intense rides ever built? Though he was no stranger to NY, he may have had a chance at Palisades Park easily into the '40s. hmm in any case, thanks for constructing this sim. it's just beautiful!