Why Theme Park Rides Become Defunct - ReviewTyme

[@Pwn3dbyth3n00b]

Universal studios seems to be backwards closing good rides and replacing them with worst rides. Like Disaster being closed to open up that disaster of a ride called Fast and Furious.

[@RomanJockMCO]

My most missed ride is the Big Bad Wolf at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. It was a unique ride experience that no one builds today. Sure the B & M mega-loopers are intense but sometimes you don't want that. Plus the swinging that only a suspended provides adds greatly to the experience. I'll never forget riding in the last car back in 1987 as the train accelerated down the second drop and our car swung out to the right, then to the left. It simply scared both my sister and myself. No other Arrow suspended had the same thrills as BBW. The new Axis coaster looks promising and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs mine train kinda mimics an Arrow suspended. Time moves on...

[@twodollarstwenty]

Nice to see so many Aussie theme parks and rides in a vid. Loving the content fellas keep it up!

[@MartinCHorowitz]

My Cousin was a child actress she loved super star limo, when she finally had a role in a film big enough to go to the premieire, she told her mom it was just like super star limo......

[@Anthony_Smith365]

"It often means greater things are to come" Me: *Glares at fast and furious supercharged.*

[@Emplordxiii]

*Expedition Theme Park enters the chat* “TURN DOWN FOR WHAT!”

[@theshevirgo]

Some of my favorite defunct rides: In Memory of Volcano Kings Dominion, Mega Zephyr Jazzland/Six Flags New Orleans. Ultra Twister AstroWorld, Back to the Future and King Kong Universal Studios. The Great Movie Ride Disney. Not a ride but special shout out to to Nickelodeon Studios. It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday...

[@kellyweingart3692]

Journey Into Imagination Horizons Body Wars 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Skyway Great Movie Ride World of Motion If You Had Wings Alien Encounter The Living Seas Maelstrom

[@andrewtaylor940]

he talked a little about Disney's Test Track and its Chevy Sponsorship. But missed why Test Track really needs sponsorship's. Test Track is incredibly expensive to operate for one often not understood reason. Tires. The ride vehicles are actually riding on real pneumatic automobile tires. And when it opened it was chewing through them at an obscene rate. A set of ride vehicle tires would last at best 1-3 days. Per car! The tire company involved had to go back and quite literally invent a new type of tire in order to get them to last a few weeks.

[@jflow08]

Wow! 😲

[@wrestlingandamusementparkl7789]

At my home park they had a huss enterprise that was there for for around 18 years or so give or take. It closed due to being old and hard to find parts. But in general all rides have a lifespan. If it’s taken care of longer the others. As for that rides that been down since December I m sure it’s partly due to being old and parts are getting harder to find.

[@brycevo]

Some just get too old. And some get replaced for the sake of adding something new. But it never makes it easier

[@johnny-becker]

My favorite ride that closed was Knotts Berry Farm's (Buena Park, CA, USA) Corkscrew. My mom worked for Knotts at the time and they held a huge and massive farewell party for the roller coaster on it's final day.

[@BAKU2K2]

It was relocated to Silverwood Theme Park, so you can still ride it today

[@johnny-becker]

@@BAKU2K2 Hmmm! My 25 year old memory must be failing me. I could have sworn they completely destroyed it. Where is this Silverwood?

[@user-yn1bd4yf3h]

The saddest closures are ones from defunct manufacturers. If a B&M closed, at least they can replace that hole. But if an Arrow closed, eventually no-one will be able,to experience their work

[@redique]

But who wants to ride an arrow

[@MagicalBread]

This video: you just need to move on. Me: Upset over a roller coaster that closed before I was born....... (Stealth @ CA Great America)

[@Thim22Z7]

Have you ridden it in its new location? That might help. Stealth was relocated to Carowinds (on the north and south carolina border) with the new name Nighthawk.

[@Yukendoit]

Jaws. Here’s to hoping it doesn’t get replaced in usj.

[@revtigger7634]

So sad to see beloved rides close, but updating and change is important. Thanks for another great video.

[@MartinCHorowitz]

The ride with linear electric motors should be able to recover power from the ride on descent (regenrative breaking) and reuse it. That is a trick that is also used on modern subway trains. Not 100% efficient but greatly reduces power consumption.

[@Mr.Killjoy95]

I find the smaller regional parks in the United States that maintain wooden coasters approaching a century old incredible. There is never a year that track or cars aren't being rebuilt or replaced and some parks like Kennywood have just resorted to doing everything from replacing wood and track, to rebuilding original 1920 cars in house. These parks don't have tons of money so they sacrifice the frequency of major park additions but the park attendees wouldn't want it any other way.

[@atribecalledjudah5436]

When I worked at DCA we used to sneak into the superstar limo attraction. The animatronics were super creepy especially with only a few spotlights on.

[@Rachellk]

These videos are tiding me over while I patiently wait for Busch Gardens to open 🙌😷🎢

[@jbfranklin26]

Bush Gardens Orlando has reopened.

[@destinyearle14]

@@jbfranklin26 Orlando doesn't have a Busch Gardens park...

[@playboymaxim]

@@jbfranklin26 Bush Gardens is in Tampa,Fl, a little over an hour from Orlando, although both are part of Central Fl

[@AFoxGuy]

@@playboymaxim Tampa is West Florida..

[@playboymaxim]

@@AFoxGuy No Tampa is considered a part of Central Fl, just on the west coast. Like Daytona Beach is also considered Central FL., but on the east coast en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Florida

[@DavidinSLO]

Disneyland's Skyway Buckets (1956-1994). A crack in the center tower located in the Matterhorn is what eventually doomed the ride. This is the only Disney attraction I know of that closed because of inability to make a reasonable repair.

[@Thrillhistory]

Rides that are missed that never had a suitable replacement? At Movie World Aus, Looney Tunes River Ride was an awesome dark water ride, replaced with a concrete floor, and eventually Junior Driving School. Bermuda Triangle at Sea World was a World Class dark ride, again replaced with Storm. Storm is good, but it's not as good as Bermuda, and has left a major family gap in their ride line up. Sea World has also lost quite a few attractions without a replacement, such as The Pirate Ship, Corkscrew, Sea World Railway, Sky High Chairlift, and recently the Monorail. It's ok to retire attractions, but the replacement should be as good, if not better than what it replaced, not the other way around. Sadly Australia hasn't got that idea quite worked out yet.

[@SonOfFurzehatt]

Your numbers are way off on the power consumption of Tower of Terror. Consumption is measured in _megawatt hours_ (MWh), not megawatts (MW). It's the power rating multiplied by the amount of time it is applied. Tower of Terror uses 2.2 MW for its launch systems, but they are only used for a brief period, so the consumption is not sky-high. The launch is about 8 seconds long. For 60 launches per day, that amounts to 8 minutes that the launch is powered. This works out to 0.293 MWh (versus 132 MW as stated in the video). It's still a lot (about 7-10 houses' consumption), but nowhere near as bad as indicated here.

[@ewant7954]

You talk crap about superstar limo but the reason it was so bad was 2 things. 1. California adventure was under funded. And 2. The ride was originally gonna be themed to being chased by paparazzi and was gonna be decent but then princess Diana was killed and it would’ve been controversial to keep the ride’s original theme so the theme had to be quickly re designed since the ride system was already in place

[@DavidinSLO]

3. and it sucked

[@coasterlife.]

Vikings revenge flume at sea world has been sbno for 5 or 6 years now with no new attractions to replace it

[@RedJet-bq6fq]

Amazing video as always. This channel is seriously underrated

[@cdmsawesome]

I had no idea that the Hot Wheels ride at Dreamworld had such a history! Thanks for always teaching me new things :)

[@Happymali10]

My local park had a "SkyFlyer" (think a caroussel waaaay up a high tower) which they had to tear down after like 5 years. Reason: They'd built a roller coaster with an enclosed lifthill/vertical drop and that messed up the wind-flow/caused turbulences

[@partyk1d24]

My zoom background is still horizons

[@snarkus63]

I live not far from Six Flags Great America; I'd been visiting regularly since one year after it opened (as Marriott's) in '76,and I've seen a fair share of my favorite attractions at that park close over time.

[@richarddavis9605]

Back to the Future at Universal Studios

[@keno4reno]

Also rides are closed down taken down and moved to other parks as a new ride. I know this because I work at Six Flags Magic Mountain for 10 years

[@ZontarDow]

Always sad to see an ageing coast close, but that's life. I'll miss you Supere Manege.

[@Coolsomeone234]

But La ronde sucks

[@harrisintheflesh]

I really like Mission Space, but I wish I had the chance to experience Horizons

[@davidzhuleiva]

Please, redo this video where you have done the MW and MWh thing correctly. If a household consumes e.g. 2 MWh, it is equivalent of running a machine at 2 MW for one hour. Now, imagine that the 2 MWs of Tower of Terror only required 3 seconds of full power per launch, it would only consume roughly 1,7 kWh per launch, which is a little more than one cycle for a washing machine.

[@souppretzel]

Love to see the Aussie representation in the theme park community! :) it will be devastating if Arkham closes under the guise of current maintenance - it’s my favourite ride in the country - but I could see why, over recent years the ride experience has gotten pretty rough. Keep up the great work on the channel man!

[@QuinnLozar]

The most interesting channel FOR REAL

[@zephyrdrake_]

Megawatts does not measure the amount of electricity used, Megawatt-hours would.

[@MartinCHorowitz]

You left out another reason for closure, parks track ridership, a ride that isn't attracting a crowd will be replaced when something new coes along.

[@jakekuhl1]

Do you think sometimes fear of replacing older rides could hinder the chance of possibly a better replacement, hence what happens at Disney a lot!

[@328am]

Love this channel, you’re a great narrator

[@27ozyboy]

Lol. Made me laugh when you had the wording for bigger and greater things and showed the lame little drop ride at Luna park at the same time.

[@snarkus63]

Epcot's original Journey Into Imagination ride closed because Kodak...still sponsoring it at the time...ran into financial troubles in the 90's,due to their slow response to the changeover to digital film. They told Disney they'd continue to sponsor,but only if a less costly ride was put in place.

[@justimagine2403]

Ok, I had no idea they used that much electricity. Wow!

[@Thim22Z7]

My homepark had a Schwarzkopf looping star, but as a kid I never rode it since I was too small and too scared. It has been replaced with the Gerstlauer Infinity coaster Gold Rush which looks like a great ride, but that doesnt help me with the feeling of missing out on something great. However, the looping star now operates at a park in Cyprus, so im at least happy that it wasnt sent to the scrapyard. Thats the coaster -> rcdb.com/907.htm

[@madamminalost]

My first roller coaster was rolling thunder at 6 flags NJ. I checked it on Wikipedia and found it had closed a few years ago. I wish I could have gotten a goodbye ride :( Also Big Bad Wolf.

[@MaxByeah]

I am so sad the Tower Of Terror closed. I live in Australia and it was one of my first thrill rides I ever rode. I also hope the Arkham Asylum Coaster at Movie World doesn’t close either because it is so much fun to ride

[@KennethScottHuntley]

Milsons Point not Miltons Point.

[@markhudson1112]

What coaster is used on the video’s title card? The one being demolished. It looks like a coaster I witnessed being demolished.

[@TheBearSpiceKitchen]

I’m sad Luigi’s Tyres closed so quickly at DCA. I never got to ride on the original flying saucers, so I was looking forward to it, but no luck. 😢

[@davidrobinson2804]

I just want to go to Hong Kong Disneyland... Im not messing around this time... Going to go every day for a couple if weeks

[@mtmadigan82]

You really think people have trouble grasping why a ride closes??

[@27ozyboy]

Also didn't dream world have it's own generators to power TOT. ?

[@ryanleeuwis1602]

Bobslee baan at efteling wass a ols ride but i still think it left to soon

[@daigeorge9797]

Wooow found out my favourite ride closed down. Not to happy bout that youtube.

[@heatherfigueroa5144]

Great video

[@7389ma]

I know why rides close Money

[@generalgrievousjunior119]

megawatts are not a measure of energy, so your calculation isnt correct

[@CaptainCroissant]

First!