The World's Craziest Roller Coaster That You've Never Heard Of

Years ago, rcdb would tweet a link to a video of a roller coaster in Japan that blew my mind, not only because the ride itself was unlike anything else, but because I’d never heard anyone talk about it. I knew one day I’d have to share the story of Daidarasaurus and it has finally come. The story before is actually very interesting too, as Japan receives no credit for their impressive steel coaster innovations, ahead of most of the world at the time. This is certainly a ride I’d love to go back and time and see for myself, and the rest of the video about the creation of the ride is certainly worth a watch.
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[@jacobselleck9750]

Heres the link to the full video of Daidarasaurus construction and opening. The video also has a crazy rotating wild mouse and other interesting attractions at one of the last World's Fairs ever. Enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKWYfmlnnrZ6Z9U

[@CoasterGuy95]

Even if I knew of its existence before this video, it’s still unreal that a ride like this existed at one point. Simply mind boggling. Nicely done

[@OklahomaCoasterFan]

My mind is blown by that shot of 5 long trains going up 5 lift hills next to each other. I did not know this ever existed. Thanks for telling these stories and giving these rides the recognition they deserve. The way we revise history in the U.S, even very recent history, is so annoying.

[@jeffshepherd1342]

What a great video! I love hearing about the early history of steel coasters. Crazy how ahead of their time these Japanese manufacturers were back in the 1960s

[@muffels6410]

How have I never heard of this ride! It’s insane! I’ve seen people make crazy dueling coasters and no limits but I didn’t think one actually existed.

[@AttractionIdeas]

This is the type of roller coaster you'd think could only ever exist in Roller Coaster Tycoon and yet...

[@badmoonrising7795]

Never heard of this. You’ve actually blown my mind 😮👏🏻 5 coasters racing! What a spectacular sight.

[@MendicantBiases]

We honestly need more racing coasters. I think ive only been on the one at cedar point but it was so much fun to see a coaster run beside yours

[@LordMangudai]

A dueling coaster with five 42-passenger trains! Holy crap. With modern operations that thing would be a capacity machine, you could easily get over 2,000 riders per hour I bet.

[@EliBriGames]

This is incredibly fascinating! How did you manage to hear about this?

[@shivtim]

Internet

[@GrilledCheze]

I went to expoland in 2005. It was a fun little park, and I always thought it was tragic that they couldn’t recover from that accident.

[@timk987]

I came across this a few years ago when I was nerding out on worlds fairs or something. What I didn't realize is the Japanese early use of tubular steel track. I guess I was fixated on their layouts, which seem to lack everything todays coaster enthusiast look for. Thanks for making this video and bringing this coaster into the light!

[@whylifeis4]

This is amazing! We need more like this! Nice job!

[@Becausing]

Fantastic video!

[@aerocoasters]

Yes, this is exactly the kind of coaster KZbin that interests me - keep it up! We need more coverage of rare and non-US coasters!

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.

[@Doofles]

Great video! Thanks for sharing what you learned about this coaster. I've never heard of it before now, but it's certainly fascinating.

[@garyflynn3762]

Great video!!!. Love the research you did, well done, keep the videos coming !! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@A.F.Whitepigeon]

It never ceases to amaze me how high the quality of old Japanese home videos is.

[@rosariobono438]

Imagine the ride time if it was a mobius loop

[@FishRfun]

This looks like a really fun coaster. Ill bet its even better at night

[@TheBaldr]

The land it use to sit on is now a Mall. While I had known a large coaster once was at the location, I didn't know any of this. The more I learn about Expo 70, the more I really want a time machine to go visit it, just an amazing place it was at the time with barely anything left.

[@VECTOR_Coasters]

i saw this ride a few months ago on rcdb and i was like “wow! 7500ft long is insane!” i had no idea that it used to have 5 tracks

[@deathxsharpee2260]

Thanks for this one. Great to see such a document and collection of footage

[@itsryno532]

Great video, super unrated, love your channel!

[@eternalzane]

This is incredibly interesting. I had never heard about the Sansei/TOGO coaster wars before. Is there anywhere else I'd be able to read up on it even further?

[@jacobselleck9750]

I’m not sure if it was really that serious, I just found it was competitive in terms of records when I was looking up Sansei and Togos first coasters. If you sort all of Japans coasters from opening on rcdb you’ll also see many other impressive steel coasters that most people don’t know about

[@eternalzane]

@@jacobselleck9750 Thanks

[@JustMeDark]

@@jacobselleck9750is this the same sansei we know today (the company itself)

[@CommanderCoaster]

Dang, that’s crazy. I need to spend some more time on RCDB lol

[@SpiderWaffle]

With over 7,000ft for the two longest tracks combined, all 5 tracks would be about 3,500*5=17,500ft. Falcon's flight is only 13,943ft. I would guess it would still have the record for the most steel used.

[@jacobselleck9750]

That’s crazy to think about

[@alaeriia01]

Track 3 was much shorter than the others, and tracks 4 and 5 were shorter than tracks 1 and 2 (which were what remained in 2006.). That said, it was likely about 13000 feet of steel.

[@BAKU2K2]

1:59 The "Garden Fields" name would not come about untill 2003, when the amusement park section closed down. At the time of Wave Coaster's opening, the place was still called "Takarazuka Sin-Onsen Yuenchi".

[@jacobselleck9750]

There were a few former names listed, I didn’t know which one was the first. Actually I’m not ever sure if the footage in the clip is of that coaster, I just couldn’t find any other photos or videos to use for the segment

[@andori_AB]

Wow! I really didn't know that! Great video as always! And: how do you alway manage to get such awesome footage?!

[@jacobselleck9750]

Hours and hours just going through the internet

[@andori_AB]

It was woth it.

[@robyndavis3043]

You forgot to mention the “Cyclone” in Coney Island-Brooklyn, NY (the wooden rollercoaster began its run in the early 1900’s!)

[@maz1549]

I grant you my KZbin excellence in rollercoaster content award!

[@a_cowwithlegs]

This reminds me of those 4 track dueling rides in planet coaster, crazy to think this was even a thought in the 70s

[@stephenkilgore42]

I'd seen parts of the original layout before but I think this is a first for the 5 track station. The last version, the two last tracks combined, was always one I swore I would ride. Too late. Great video !!

[@Coyotek4]

Wow ... a Voltron coaster that predated Voltron!

[@Dimatical]

I remeber this coaster. I saw it in a catalouge for "expo 70" when i was i a child.

[@Rollermonkey1]

I got to ride Daidarasaurus in it's extra-long form. It was really a slow and weird coaster in that arrangement. I did get to ride both sides of Fujin-Raijin, Orochi and the rest of the lineup of the time. (I think that was 2004 or 2005)

[@jacobselleck9750]

That’s awesome! I’m sure the smaller trains ran much different than the original

[@coasterjim]

Thank you so much for making this video! I've known about Daidarasaurus for a while now, but have never found these videos of the ride you've featured in this video. Where did you find them?

[@jacobselleck9750]

I put the main video in the pinned comment as well as all used in the description :)

[@aaronwilliams6989]

That was epic for it's time.

[@eastpetersen]

Awesome video

[@Pizzashorts]

This is an amazing video, you will succeed on KZbin. Please remember me and this comment!

[@TimEssDub]

On Channel 5 gaming, someone made a four-track racer and I thought that was insane. I had no idea of this coaster until it came to my YT algorithm.

[@ToastGhost]

Great video apart from misrepresenting The Smiler as intense at the start, the only intense thing about the ride is it's roughness

[@jayducharme]

Great video! I'd never heard of that coaster, and it really does seem more like something AI would generate.

[@ChrisCcron10]

Great video! I visited the site of the former Expoland park last year to see what was left. Some of the park entrance is still there as well as the convenience store, but everything else is gone. Today there's a large decent shopping mall there with the tallest Ferris Wheel in Japan and a very small park with a few kids rides. There is a gift shop (probably the park's old gift shop) that sells items related to the old 70 expo. If you're into theme park history and in the Osaka area I reccomend visiting!

[@derekp308]

That isn’t the area near the Osaka Aquarium?

[@ChrisCcron10]

@@derekp308 Expoland was located to the north of the city. The Osaka Aquarium is across from USJ. Both are fun places to visit but the mall near the aquarium gave off deal mall vibes; probably because I visited when tourism just started to reopen.

[@tractorgt]

I rode the Togo standup prototype "King Cobra" at King's Island in Mason Ohio about a thousand times as a kid.

[@Binx345me]

I wish I could have rode this when it had 5 tracks.Shame they ever changed it to 1! But I was not alive in the 70s, and only got to Japan for the first time this year (went to both disney parks, and universal studios japan - next time i want to visit fuji Q)!.

[@dennischiapello7243]

Nothing was said about its ride quality, but from the film footage, it certainly doesn't appear to have been anything outstanding.

[@mysteriousquestionmark7520]

can you pleaseee do the intamin 2024 and the nine intamin 2023 coasters thing like you did for. I ENJOYED THAT SO MUCH

[@thebluetarp]

1:30 where is this?!? A coaster going under water then popping out with a boat full of people on the water?!?

[@jacobselleck9750]

That’s the original Runaway Mine Train at Six Flags Over Texas! Used to look much nicer lol

[@pumanation]

3:17 the craziest coaster in this video

[@jacobselleck9750]

Facts, Fuji Q has low key pushed the boundaries of coasters more than Cedar Point

[@DavidHHH99]

I didn't have to go back in time. I've not only heard of it, but I rode it in 2005. It was ok. The B&M invert Raptor clone Orochi was way better!

[@johnpounders5314]

CLASSIC. COASTER.

[@boojersey13]

The sound effect/music during the transition is a liiiiittle bit uuuhhhhhh but an interesting video nonetheless big dog

[@oblivion_412]

There's one other the Steel Curtain

[@bradye21playsIndieHorror]

Did Togo finally win by failing... 😂

[@jonny-b4954]

3:37 Come again? Hahah wtf?

[@kalinprofitt7811]

I’m watching this in da queue line for iron gwazi it’s so lit m8

[@jacobselleck9750]

They need to add 4 more tracks on Iron Gwazi to catch up

[@fredstevens129]

4:50 gets you to the "world's craziest roller coaster you've never heard of." The rest...meh

[@derekp308]

Nice to see footage of a roller coaster that existed in Nagashima Spaland long before White Cyclone and Steel Dragon 2000. I remember the CNN news segment about White Cyclone was the first time I ever heard of that park.

[@AllieThePrettyGator]

Diadarasaurus? Sounds like a dinosaur name

[@gameslikes0grolls]

GP

[@TarenGibson]

TDG FULLSUPPORT Jacob Selleck BIG FAX