The Original Zambezi Zinger from Worlds of Fun POV | Now in Colombia! Parque Del Café Montaña Rusa

[@CoasterStudios]

Just to clarify- the announcement you hear on the speaker up the lift hill telling someone to put their camera away was referring to an individual in the back who had their phone out. We had direct permission to film this video :)

[@SafeDodecahedron]

Can You Make A ONRIDE REACTION but With Taylor Sara And Gaby... to the end

[@Thu_Gringatoriana_593]

I understand I didn't mean it as like you weren't following the rules or anything just thought you didn't understand what they were saying.

[@coasterlover2484]

The announcement said “visitante del primer puesto por favor guardar la cámara”, meaning “guest on the front row please put your camera away”. Not saying that you didn’t have permission to film (maybe the operator wasn’t notified) but that’s what he was saying towards the top of the lift hill.

[@ma9c]

@@coasterlover2484exactly, they were referring to Taylor on first row. They probably weren’t notified.

[@bryantoliveira2813]

@@coasterlover2484 yeah I was literally right behind him, they 1000% had permission (and did all day, we rode like 6-7 times). Definitely a miscommunication between the ops for this one ride

[@annieheir147]

They really put the effort in the terrain and making it fit well with the coaster. Almost looks like it was built with the terrain in mind rather than just a relocated ride. Really well done. Looks like the ride has been well taken care of too.

[@wickedphant0m]

Was going to say the same thing! It doesn't feel like a relocated ride at all.

[@edvaira6891]

This DOES NOT seem like a FIFTY YEAR OLD RIDE!!

[@ccharles33]

Came to say this as well. The landscape and use of terrain is really beautifully done. That last tunnel made me think of a mini version of the Beast tunnel

[@samplautz5586]

Just rode whizzer at six flags great America the other day, and that’s about the same age as this one, and it’s one of the smoothest coasters in the park which is crazy. It’s smoother than Goliath and even a couple of their b and m coasters

[@annieheir147]

@@samplautz5586 Yeah the Schwarzkopf at my home park, Over Texas, is still running great too and it's about the same age as this one. They built these rides to last.

[@Lucky_9705]

It’s awesome how well this park has been taking care of this roller coaster. It blends perfectly into the terrain and looks great.

[@verybighomer]

They have been keeping good care of this 50 year old coaster and the terrain integration looks great.

[@stephenkilgore42]

As much as I am looking forward to riding the new Zinger in a few weeks, nothing will replace this one. Riding this at night after Worlds of Fun's fireworks display was the best. All the smoke would settle in Zinger's track area making for one of the best night rides ever.

[@David-ik8wj]

yep many night rides.

[@Mina_Fox_90]

Now that's some nostalgia there. When something like this is 'sold and moved from one amusement park to another (especially internationally and/or overseas), this will never hide the fact that this was the original Zambezi Zinger from Worlds of Fun. Still can't wait for the new woodie one to open, but they have since pushed it back because they have to do some more tests before the state verifies it's safe and rideable.

[@David-ik8wj]

absolute classic coaster.

[@lioncat84]

This was my first real coaster as a young lad living in the Kansas City area! I remember there being a lot more trees but this park did a very good job duplicating the terrain otherwise. I can't wait to ride the new Zambezi Zinger but I'm happy the original lives on.

[@BlizzardDaPup777]

Worlds of fun should have never got rid of it. Orient express made sense because it was rough and structure problems but there was nothing wrong with zinger and it is sorely missed by many in Kansas city

[@heathermhamilton]

This was the first roller coaster I ever rode at the age of four, thirty-five years ago, sitting in my dad’s lap. I still miss it.

[@crooked-halo]

Columbia is a beautiful, safe country. You should go, and re-visit your first-ever roller coaster!

[@livinlifeoverfifty]

This was also my first coaster too also with my dad. Loved this ride in KC! ...how it zigged and zagged through the trees then through the tunnel at the end. Was so much fun!

[@maxhagenauer24]

Wizzer at SFGAM is such a classic, a very fun ride everyone can enjoy, it's crazy how it's not the only speed racer still around.

[@Shockzone1495]

It's good to know that the original still lives on.

[@0z3r0]

It's nicely integrated into the terrain

[@jewa3051]

I just found out this roller coaster was not originally from Colombia. Also, before moving to Parque del Café, it was in another theme park in Bogotá (Colombia's capital) where the coaster was named "El Tornado". I remember how it broke down every other hour to the point people joked about how the real thrill was making it out alive. I rode that ride maybe 4 or 5 times and it broke down twice :)

[@David-ik8wj]

thanks for the ride. I rode the zinger many many times in my youth. love the fact they kept the tunnel. I remember the seating position was single row and 2 could ride together bobsled style if desired. Motors on the trains would move them up the corkscrew lift. At night the headlights would be on for the ride up. Happy it can be enjoyed in its new home and was not recycled into bottle caps.

[@AmusementParkLife]

I found out that this coaster got relocated while I was looking at RCDB. Looks cool!

[@KatieKiwi1144]

The last remaining twin of The Whizzer at Six Flags Great America!! I love the history of these, so cool to see!!!

[@michaelkucharski4251]

I hope you guys get a chance to film every major coaster. You do such an amazing job on capturing both on ride and off ride footage. When these coasters are long gone your footage will preserve the memories of these rides. This ride looks great at this park, I can't imagine the ride looking like that if it still existed at Worlds of Fun. Also seems like the superior jumbo jet layout, I haven't ridden too many of them but based on jet stars and whizzer this seems better.

[@halesej]

Wow! I didn’t know what to expect, but I wasn’t expecting that!

[@nonononononononononononononope]

Thank you!! I’ve been wanting to see a pic of this and Big Bend forever!!!!

[@allenpritz8811]

I love seeing this ride. It looks like an absolute classic.

[@trimlesscoasters]

Such a fun coaster and my rarest credit

[@Gigidag77]

that looks VERY smooth even by todays standards ! impressive for such an old ride.

[@triple7marc]

That’s Schwarzkopf for ya!

[@jacksonseyl1063]

Nice, I can't believe you visited South America.

[@sairosekk]

The integration of the terrain is great! Looks like a fun ride

[@phil_jeffrey]

That terrain looks like something I'd dig up in Planet Coaster!

[@odysseythekidd]

It looks like they repainted the supports!! Looks amazing. Great they are taking care of this classic.

[@xcoasterenthusiast]

Can't wait for Coastin' thru Colombia!

[@CoasterStudios]

It won’t be a Coastin series, as it’s only going to be two vlogs, but it will still be a lot of fun to watch :)

[@xcoasterenthusiast]

I still feel as if it should’ve been one as a joke

[@jasonelston2707]

That seems long despite it being under 3,000 feet! Also, I love the high-speed dives it does, this is like borderline not a family coaster.

[@ShakeDownStreet0714]

This was the first rollercoaster I had ever ridden. I was 6 & in Kansas City at Worlds of Fun. They painted it blue & yellow.

[@David-ik8wj]

i think the track was red while at WOF

[@GavHern]

im shocked ive never seen or heard of this ride, it looks very fun and well maintained for its age!

[@crooked-halo]

I was fortunate to ride Zambezi Zinger many times at World's of Fun. These Schwartzkopf custom Speed Racers are so much fun! I'm a wooden roller coaster hobbyist and rarely travel specifically for any steel coaster. Right now there's four that I'd go out of my way for; Steel Vengeance, VelociCoaster, Intimidator 305 and The American Triple Loop (opens in 2024). However, watching this great video of Zambezi Zinger I'm thinking that I may actually do something as strange as go all the way to Columbia to Parque Del Cafe to ride it again at it's new home of 20 years already! I do weird things like that.

[@drby0788]

Schwarzkopf loved their diving, swooping turns lol

[@derekp308]

They even gave it a tunnel just like the original.

[@Mantronix6804]

I rode this once as a little kid at WOF... :(

[@mayajordan6857]

yes you visit colombia :)

[@tractorgt]

Looks like a blast!

[@w_eston_7]

Hates to see her leave the park truly one of the better coasters in the park just because of the length and drops

[@kokobeatz7222]

My first real coaster

[@MartyGrayston]

The sections below ground level look fun, but i wouldn't put it on my list of coasters i would travel to try out

[@turbotom416]

they had one of those at Cedar Point back when I was a kid 70's

[@Darkless4X]

This coaster definitely looks fun.

[@jmerritt1963]

It’s THE Zambezi Zinger

[@JL33331]

They were telling you to put the camera away through the speakers 😅

[@CoasterStudios]

no no that was someone on their phone, we asked permission to film on ride. they checked it out in the station and gave the thumbs up

[@xCoasters01]

This looks fun

[@cts3696]

This reminds me of those Knex coasters for some reason

[@marrojas6064]

It is a crime that I'm Colombian and I haven't ever went to Parque del Café

[@Michael-sb8jf]

just not the same without it going through the woods

[@Darkaxelgaming-tt7ip]

Well time to get myself 2 credits the og and the new modern one

[@puccipower]

Ahhhh okay I didn’t understand that this had been relocated and thought this was an old video and it was scrapped or something! Super confusing and for a sec I was triggered because of Mindbender being scrapped recently.

[@endosrc]

could you imagine a giga having a helix for a lift 🤣

[@riderout007]

Those trench dips are beautiful

[@nickpilgrim7706]

It reminds me of SFMM Revolution (without the loop).

[@GeorgeT370]

This looks as if it´s still a fairly good family coaster...

[@Sonic-gy7kq]

Thing looks like a riot

[@barranquillaaviation]

alright, sir, your flights have been paid off succesfully, you will go to Bogota for a layover and then Armenia. *turns on car* *drives* i loved the OG zambezi zinger. rode this today and in 2016.

[@katschaccc]

Looks pretty fun, I thought I was a normal wildcat model. This was a Custom Layout?

[@NorthEasternMotionProductions]

Can’t help but wonder how long this has left. Parts must be getting pricey.

[@supremefan]

Its old technology, easy to reproduce. I believe S&S still makes parts for them but any place could easily remake the parts.

[@C3T1C]

So the OG Zambezi stinger isn't extinct after all

[@monkranger]

Could I do an interveiw with you for a school project

[@rofljocke]

looks like something out of RCT

[@dailydoseofsouthwestaiviat4791]

is this basically the whizzer from sfga

[@CoasterCheetah]

Original or new better?

[@BlizzardDaPup777]

Og always

[@jmerritt1963]

The new thing is not open yet. They just announced May 25 Season Pass preview, Apart from the spiral lift and some vague layout similarities, the two rides have nothing in common. The new ride is a Frankenstein mishmash of wood and steel technologies while the Zinger was pure tubular steel. They can’t be compared.

[@MattMcIrvin]

The thumbnail looked like a CGI rendering.

[@maxhagenauer24]

Would you say this is better than Wizzer? It's more drawn out and doesn't have the crazy setting.

[@jmerritt1963]

I rode Zinger in Kansas City and Whizzer at Great America, Gurnee. For me Zinger is superior because it has the powerful surprise spiraling 4th drop after you round the tower (in Kansas City it was surrounded by trees and completely hidden) and a much stronger ending with the dual helixes and underground tunnel. Whizzer’s high banked, high g, ground level turns at the bottom of the first and second inclines equal the valley of Zinger’s spiral drop, but after that Whizzer lags. Not apparent is that Zinger also gave front seat riders some pretty good lift at the top of hills 2, 4, and 6.

[@maxhagenauer24]

@Jeff Merritt Whizzer definitely has the better setting currently but Zinger was probably just as good if a setting when at World's of Fun right? I'd take whichever ride is more intense and has stronger moments.

[@supremefan]

Worlds of Fun management must of been pretty dumb to get rid of this classic...

[@Mina_Fox_90]

I believe their reason to sell it could be so they can budget future development on the park, and because they were getting ready to build the Mamba hypercoaster at the time for the 1998 season.

[@sebastienmolano]

I was born in Armenia Colombia, and now i live in phoenix. All i have is desert storm😢

[@triple7marc]

Not for long! The new Hot Wheels park is opening in Phoenix soon 👍🏼

[@gtonyxkid2012]

How does that lift hill work??

[@triple7marc]

It’s electric!

[@David-ik8wj]

there are electric motors in the trains

[@ceek16]

haha i got this cred before yall

[@johngollsneider1078]

Left Turn: The Ride

[@kabe1750]

Why did Worlds of Fun get rid of it?

[@xCoasters01]

Umm

[@xCoasters01]

closed in 1997 when it was sold to something and moved to the Montaña Rusa in Parque Nacional Del Café in Montenegro, Colombia. The first version of the Zinger featured bobsled style cars, making for 'too close for comfort' experience

[@andysee6996]

*insert Encanto reference here*

[@HumanStateOfEmergency]

I feel bad for whoever has to cut all that grass.

[@Thu_Gringatoriana_593]

They kept telling you in Spanish for your safety. Please put away the camera or a cell phone a cat repeating it as you were going up.

[@CoasterStudios]

Please refer to our pinned comment. They were talking to someone in the back who had their phone out. We had permission to film this.

[@Marty_NZ]

I want to see this cat talking into the microphone.

[@Kennywood_Fanatic]

Looks very odd

[@MattMcIrvin]

It's a lot like the Whizzer (formerly Willard's Whizzer) at Six Flags Great America, and its defunct clone that used to be at the other Great America.