Willow Grove Thunderbolt

[@milosmama]

As a kid, I rode this over & over again. Whenever they had stamp-your-hand-and-get-unlimited-rides-all-day, I’d get off & get right back in line to go again, for hours. This little reenactment is nice, but not nearly as intense as the real thing. It seemed higher & jolted you from side to side on every corner at the same time. You had to hold on for dear life. it was not nearly as smooth as this CGI version & you lose a lot of the impact without adding the deafening clacking sounds of the car on the tracks! Trust me… the actual Thunderbolt experience was much more exhilarating! 😉

[@johnjohnstone9494]

This was my favorite coaster as a boy. It ran faster than the Thunderbolt at Coney Island, as I had ridden them both, but lived near Willow Grove. The track in Willow grove had a slight downward twist on the second drop (as seen in actual video footage).

[@joepilcicki3838]

I walked that entire track up to the lift Hill when it was abandoned, tried to climb the first hill got pretty much to the top when it started to disintegrate and deteriorate, and I had to crawl backwards down never did get that picture from the top

[@blkman1576]

For one thing it is backwards. When you first leave the platform you made a left turn which took you past where the brakeman was sitting. Soon after that you started going up the chain for the first drop off.