The Extinct History of Tower of Terror: Australia's Most Iconic Coaster & The Actual FIRST to 100Mph
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Last week we looked at the Troubled History of Six Flag's Magic Mountain's Superman: The Escape. The first to try and reach 100 mph on a coaster. It wasn't the first however and just a couple of weeks before another Intamin Shuttle Coaster opened in Australia. Tower of Terror would take the record for the worlds fastest and tallest roller coaster. A feat Six Flags would claim for their own. Over the years the ride became unreliable and after a backwards relaunch eventually closed. Dreamworld was once home to a record-breaking Australian roller coaster. A Roller coaster that actually was the first to reach 100 mph.
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00:00 Intro
01:00 Learn
01:50 The Past
02:17 Coaster War
02:47 An Australian Weapon
03:00 Tower Of Terror 1
08:23 A Record Challenged
10:15 Tower of Terror 2
12:16 The End of an Icon
13:39 The Future
14:26 Two of a Kind
16:20 Outro - บันเทิง
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Yay
can we get expeditions on more rides from parks on the gold coast? Or maybe another virtual expedition?
I absolutely love it when you do Australian parks. Sure it's cool to see rides from more famous parks, but there really is something special about someone talking about the rides you grew up with.
I love to do them! I have some fun plans for some other aus stuff
@@ExpeditionThemePark Looking forward to it! Its nice that AU gets a shout out for our theme parks :)
Too right
So true
@@ExpeditionThemePark I am an Australian and it feels so good when people talk about my fav attractions
Dreamworld: *does something to Tower of Terror*
SFMM: Write that down. WRITE THAT DOWN!
Haha exactly
False lmao
Fact
Who else still misses this Ride? I know I do :|
Superman the escape was being built first it was only delayed for a year but still tested as the first 100 mph coaster…tower of terror was only the fastest and tallest for only a few months
I’ve been hanging out for you to cover the Tower of Terror!! Stoked!
I love your springfield series!!
Hope you enjoyed!
@@ExpeditionThemePark I got some very exciting news 🗞 for you Sam it’s in your comment that you did a video on extinction of tower of terror.
I was today years old when I learned RCT used the Aussies for their reverse freefall coaster design.
yesss
Anyone else agree that "collapsing high rise with escape pod" and "flaming eyed skull" don't go together?
And towards the end of its life they installed very old tvs in the queue line which played... surfing videos...
I never worked out the theming
@@CaptainHarknesss at one point those were drag racing videos. Which I think made a little more sense theming wise.
The collapsing high rise story is my favorite. But nothing can compare to Superman's exile from Krypton, which is my favorite theming for a Freefall Coaster.
I was only about 11 years old when I went on this when it had the original theming. All I remember is being very scared - there was one room you'd go into and it looked like you were walking the plank like 100 stories above ground.... I think it was just a trick paint job but man it terrified me as a kid.
Omg!, You pronounced Melbourne correctly!
😉
I rode the crap out of this the last time I went to DreamWorld...... What a noise it used to make flying across the length of the park.
So loud haha
It made the best noise!! I still think it was the best ride in the park
With the sound of it roaring in the background you knew you were having a great day.
So weird seeing this as an Expedition Extinct, grew up on this one, devastated when it closed - very keen for the new coasters to come though, especially seeing as Movie World is shutting Arkham Asylum (Lethal Weapon you briefly mentioned)
Yeah! All change weirdly
Wait, Arkham Asylum is closing? I went on that with my friends back in 2017 on our trip to Australia. Didn't get to go to Dreamworld, though; we were only there for WB Movie World.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 the ride is currently still standing but has been removed from all park info and it hasn’t run since 2019
I feel the same..I'm devastated...so angery that dreamworld cheaper out and bout crap from the dodgy company ibtamin...I can't stand them.
Thank you for the parts from a Superman fan. Superman finally has consistent operations thanks to these parts now in the hands of Magic Mountain
It was quite hilarious, when nobody in line wanted to give up the chance of getting into the last car of the ride. Tower of Terror was such a great ride and I was happy to experience it for the first and for the last time on its closing weekend.
A icon for sure !
Hey, Expedition Theme Park! Please do the History of Lightning Rod at Dollywood!
I will!
@@ExpeditionThemePark they just retracked the whole coaster. So it maybe not hold any records anymore. I live in Sevierville and worked for Dollywood. And have some family that still works for them so if you need anything just hit me up.
@@ExpeditionThemePark brilliant 👍
Simple history, #1 broken down coaster before the re vamp. But still a blast to ride when it wasn't down.
@@tren5724 you obviously dont know the legal battles it had with the build team and all that.
Thank you for making this video and not focusing on the accident. As someone who grew up with and who loves Dreamworld, I loved this video. I think we should all take a minute to appreciate how hard they pushed this ride on its final day of operation. I've never before seen so many launches in such quick sucesion. Not a single breakdown on that day. She just ran and ran. Almost as if she knew. So sad to see the track removed, but I do agree that the time had come. I'm very excited for the future of Dreamworld.
I loved growing up at Dreamworld during its heyday of the late 90s/early 2000's (pre- Ardent Leisure ownership). The roar of the Tower of Terror was a deafening taunt - are you brave enough to ride me, or are you too chicken? Having ridden it in both its versions, I prefered the orignial cars and restraints (which would allow you to comfortablly move your arms, but the adrenaline rush of facing backwards and watching the ground rush up to meet you. Unfortunately, like many of their attractions, Tower of Terror suffered from poor management, maintainence etc (which only on my kindest days would I attribute to difficulty getting parts, esspecially when you look at management of the park as a whole from about 2005-2017 ish (post Thunder River Rapids)). 'Unreliable' is an understatement; it really needed to be retired a few years earlier. I've commented before on the change in the feel of the launch over the years, but the really significant change was the feel of coming back into the LSM for the brake run - in 2019 it was no longer a smooth run back to the platform, it was a series of shuddering jolts that halted you halfway down the tunnel before a separate motor started up so you could limp your way to the exit. The poor old girl just needed a damn rest!
Thank you for covering the Aussie parks and coasters! Its a real hit in the nostalgia feels seeing the old ads from the parks I used to (and still mostly do) love.
Thank you so much
"Lethal Weapon!" - such a perfect name for a Vekoma SLC...
It's true haha
My mother accidentally rode the lethal weapon while pregnant with me without knowing it, obviously it wasnt lethal enough because I still made it out! but that thing seriously gave concussions I wasnt surprised they tamed it down
Just wanted to say I appreciate how recently, you've done your videos in kind of a "series" where every few videos seem to be related about a specific topic. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
R.I.P Tower Of Terror ✝️. You Will Be Missed.
RIP
@@ExpeditionThemePark I Hope Superman Will Stay With Us..... It's An Iconic Coaster Of Magic Mountain.
@@johngriswold4303 I Love Viper. It's Tall.... Long And Has Incredible 7 Inversions... I Hope Viper Will Get Re Tracked.... I Don't Want To See It Go
@@johngriswold4303 Yeah.
@@johngriswold4303 So basically if a park decides to remove a coaster you don’t go to it? That’s sad....
Always awesome to see that we do have somewhat of an interesting theme park history here in Australia. First trip to Dreamworld was on 3 December 2019, booked it that year. The bloody thing closed a month prior to the day haha oh well
Ah dannngg
Fun fact, towards the end of its life the tower of terror 2 costed well over $4000aud every time it launched. And it has also only been able to reach around half way up the tower compared the ¾ in the opening decade
Well no wonder they'd make us wait until there was enough people to fill the car 😭
Vortex at Kings Island had closed just a week before Tower of Terror! Two icons lost in two weeks...
That's true!
The vortex was the very first rollercoaster I ever rode, then the King Cobra both of which are now gone, but those two rides started my love for coasters.
I'm glad the Beast has been able to hang around so long, what a great wooden coaster.
Ahh what a classic. I’ll never forget it’s last day, all of us staff rode it over and over after the park closed, and I was lucky enough to ride the last ever ride. It really was an icon, as soon as you heard it roaring out of the tunnel, everyone would stop and stare.
Dreamworld won’t be the same without hearing the alarm sound followed by the roar of this in the background. I remember the days it use to go almost to the top of the tower and have seen it go to the top empty when doing the morning test runs
I was very fortunate to get my last rides on this as I went to the park just a week before they were announcing it was gonna be decommissioned, an iconic ride that I will never forget!
That backwards tunnel really did look awesome.
So cool
Ah yes, the gold old days in 1995 when you could because a destination for coaster enthusiasts by adding an SLC
Haha right
This is only true in places like Australia, and it didn't even need to be an SLC. Literally ANY "major" steel coaster would qualify due to scarcity. But a US park in the mid 90's for ex, was NOT going to become a "coaster enthusiast destination" just by adding an SLC...
It always tickled me how the cars on these type of roller coasters kind of reminded me of the DeLorean time machine!
they do!
Would love to see you do a video on the troubled history of Dreamworld. from the unsafe feeling minecart ride, constant problems with the buzzsaw, to the abandonded water park (that for many years would be seen on the train ride), to the river rapids accident and the lack of safety they had for the whole park. And even to now where they have just tried to hide their past mistakes (like concreting the river rapids and sticking a coaster there, instead of just keeping it a natural river and haivng a nice tribute with the coaster over it. or abandoning the river paddle boat in the middle of the lake, or when they turned it into TOT2 which most people here will agree that it wasnt nearly as good) ive yet to find a video really disecting Dreamworld history
Lethal weapon just closed down could you please keep on the Aussie theme
I will do more
Wasn't it nice of Movie World to announce the closure of Arkham Asylum? I'd have loved to ride it one final time.
I saw the title and was expecting a deep dive into the world of the twilight zone and Disney imagineering... little did I know..
Aha I did that one already!
ikr
@@FunkyStudios oh yeah funky, I see they finally released you from jail
@@Ethan839 exactly
I love seeing you do Aussie Parks!! I love your channel and it makes it extra exciting to see the parks I grew up with being mentioned. you should discuss the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast. It was a family favourite but in 2016 a tragic accident happened that uncovered the truth behind the safety and terrible maintenance history of ride. the Court hearings were very interesting and have lots of information for you to touch on. I'm sure plenty of Aussie's like myself would love to see you cover this ride and its eventual extinction. Thanks!
Thanks for covering this much loved ride from my youth. I still remember like it was yesterday the first time I chickened out on this ride in its opening year with my dad (I was 9) and the ride operator let me sit in the booth and launch the ride instead! Was suddenly brave after that so he let us ride straight after without lining up again. It never got as high up that tower as it did in that first year.
Thanks for watching!
Tower of Terror is one of the best roller coasters located at Dreamworld!
Yesss
I went to movie world with my parents as a kid. I remember being super disappointed that I was too short to ride the lethal weapon. Fast forward about 15 years and I'm back as an adult. I was super exited to finally ride the lethal weapon.....it was closed for maintenance. I still to this day have never riden it.
Ahhh of course typical
My biggest closed Aussie ride regret is never getting a chance go on the Gremlins ride at movie world. Nothing thrilling but just a huge gremlins fan growing up. My wife whose Australian rode it as a kid and was scared and now hates gremlins ( I don’t even know how we are married !) haha . Great video as always
me too!!
I really wish they would bring it back. I loved it so much
This was my favourite ride at dreamworld for so many years!!
I’m so happy to see a video on this ride in particular!! Thank you for doing our record breaker some justice!!
Thank you for watching!!
So happy you did a video on the tower of terror!! Dreamworld is my home park and I grew up there as my parents worked there during the week and on weekends! This was my favourite ride and it still is! You should do a deep dive into the river rapids ride that was removed from dreamworld due to the deaths of a few people when the vessel flipped over on the conveyor belt. Turns out one of the jets to filter water from the pond near by stopped working causing the water level dropped. My parents mentioned there were a lot of issues with that ride before the incident
Yeah i will one day !
I was lucky enough to ride this on my (to date) only trip to Australia in 2005 (when I also went to Scenic World) and I remember my mum being absolutely terrified of this ride. I rode Superman: The Escape three years later and they felt like two different experiences despite being almost identical rides. A shame I'll never get to ride ToT again if I ever go back to Australia. I do feel privileged to be one of the select few to have ridden both rides, however.
Yeah glad you got to ride once at least!
@@ExpeditionThemePark I don't think going backwards on a reverse freefall coaster is as exhilarating as you can't feel the speed compared to going forwards. I still would have liked to have ridden ToT after it got revamped though.
Great video! Thanks for making it. Will always miss riding the ToT at dreamworld
Thank you so much for watching
When I see a new video from you I know I'm about to get some super detailed new info on a ride or park. Your content is top notch my man. Hope to get to meet you at one of the parks someday. and the use of that og RCT music was great
Thank you so much!
I grew up with this ride and I’m so happy you guys covered it! It was my family’s favourite that we all went on together. It’s unfortunate that it recently closed down.
A shame!
Grew up going to Australia several times a year and Dreamworld was always a mandatory stop. I ADORED that coaster and that feeling it provided. Thanks for a great mini documentary on it, brought back fun memories :-)
I love the videos on Australian parks it’s really cool to see my home parks get some recognition. An idea can you do the Bermuda Triangle. It’s an extinct attraction at Sea World Australia, an absolute classic
Do one of those videos about Monte Makaya, which held the inversion record with Dragon Khan and inspired the layout of Colossus, but no one ever says anything about it
I will one day
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
Thank you!
6:45 Legend has it that the mullet wearing guy was the first guy to have that hairstyle until it became a craze with the Eshays.
Love seeing Aussie parks getting covered. Dreamworld is only a 40min drive from me so I've been probably hundreds of times. It's so weird to see the Tower without the big track up the side.
Hopefully we'll see more Gold Coast attractions soon!
for sure!
Had the pleasure of riding this in 2004 in its original format whilst on holiday in Queensland
a nice credit to have!
And then came Kingda Ka that took over for the fastest and tallest coaster aside from Top Thrill Dragster
Yepp
This was one of my favourite rides. Gutted they closed it and so glad I got to ride it on closing weekend!
wish i could of got a last ride in!
I didn’t even know they closed the ride 😢 great video my friend!! More Aussie content please 🙏
Good for us.
Awesome vid as always! I hope one day you can find a story from Worlds of Fun (Kansas City) to use for a video, I recall you mentioning my home park a few times in the past.
Though, it's been over a decade since a new coaster
I will for sure
Another informative and well presented episode.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who looks forward to new episodes but also enjoy rewatching older ones.
But the real reason we all love this channel is those hilarious puns
I am still dabbing my eyes from the hilarity
You should do more puns
LOTS MORE
I suspect a contract on my life has just been taken out
Oh I would fill it with them if I could
Oh dear God please no
In all honesty I think you should be locked in a punitentiary 😁
I've been waiting for this one! Please do more Australian rides!
I will in the future!
I live right across the road from Dreamworld & 10 mins away from the other theme parks ! I went on the Tower of Terror when I was 7 ! Giant Drop is so much better I think , but I do miss it !
Hi, from the UK. I have been on the version 2, of the ride, loved it, as well as the giant drop. Been to WB Movie World, loved the Superman coaster, but the new DC Rivals coaster looks cool. Also did the Beast ( wooden coaster ) at Australia's Wonderland, ( Sydney ) sadly that park closed down many years ago.
Dreanworld, went there on holiday back in 2000 and my siblings took a ride on that very ride. I was terrified by it's height, I only rode the sky lift and steam train lol. Still a pleasant holiday memory though, I was just 9 then.
A good holiday!
I asked for this a little while ago and boy did you deliver! Great video as always.
Thank you so much
Admittedly I freaked out a little bit when I saw my name in the video! Very informative. I loved Tower of Terror, both instances. Rode many times over the years.
Yessss thank you!
hands down best ride iv ever ridden.should toatally do a video on the other rides at dreamworld, like the WIPEOUT that was also demolished..
as an Australian who goes to dream world and loves my country... this makes me happy
This was hands down one of my favourite rides in the world. I much preferred it to Magic Mountain's 'Superman: Escape From Krypton" which I rode a few years back. I've been on it countless times over the years and was lucky enough to experience both the forwards and backwards launch. In 2019 a few months before Dreamworld announced it's official closure I unknowingly rode it for the last time and was heartbroken when I saw the news. While it's true towards the end it was quite rough, didn't go as fast or as high as it once did and was always having problems it was still my favourite ride at Dreamworld, and though I totally understand why they decided to retire the Tower of Terror I'm still gutted that I'll never get to experience it again
OMG YAAYYYYYY i grew up going to dreamworld. would you ever cover the history of the nickalodeon section from the 90's-10's ish???
These videos are great to watch on a lazy Sunday morning😃
Happy Sunday!
Dreamworld has struggled since the unfortunate deaths on the river rapids ride. New coaster parts have been arriving weekly though, hopefully a glimmer of hope.
I hope so!
I got to do the raft ride in 2010, thankfully.
I like that u showed a big brother season 1 intro for some reason xd
13:45 that line made me get flashbacks to the tragedy they needed to recover and they got rid of it
yeah
I loved Superman The Escape, i'm pretty sure this one would have shattered the glass ceiling for me ,sucks it no longer stands .hey if your ever looking for obscure park expeditions. Here in Phx Az we got a place called Castles n Coasters, witch atleast for us locals is an institution with a looping coaster called Desert Storm ...just in case you were looking for a video topic .As always love the channel bro keep on keeping on
Every ytber: look at these cool effects i used in filmora/skillshare
Expedition theme park: wow looks at it spin.
easily pleased haha
I was there on the last day of operation and was in either the third or fourth last car of the day. Was very emotional. Such a good ride and will always be my favorite ride that Dreamworld has ever made. I'm keen for this new roller coaster though.
Yeah it looks fun
If they REALLY want to make a ride that captures the essence of Superman flying through the air, they should make a giant catapult that just launches you into space.
Yeh that’ll be realistic lol
Ahem, Superman Ultimate Flight at Six Flags Over Georgia/Great Adventure/Great America?
I have photos and of this ride and use to drive around underneath it as a child
man it's too bad these rides are gone, looks like a lot of fun!
Yeah!
another fantastic video, thanks for your hard work.
thank you so much!
14:57 "Terror of Terror"
Even in the subtitles. Was that intentional? 😅
Huh, always cool to learn something new about my local parks.
Tower of Terror II looks like my worst nightmare.
Great video! I loved this ride so much. First went on in 1998 and was lucky enough to experience it on it's last day of operation (have some videos on my channel, cheeky plug lol). RIP
Great video very interesting
The original Tower of Terror was an absolute weapon. 0-160kph in just 80m! The updated Tower of Terror II with its +200m run up with the cart facing backwards had nothing on the original format. Still miss it dearly along with the wild west section of the park. I at least wish they kept the part of the ramp that went up the tower to symbolise what was once there.
Hope you can do more Australian theme parks soon
I got to experience a e stop on this after it had left the launch track...
Reverse bit was wild... no power to the magnetic drive so we flew past the station into its solid state brakes.
Great video!! Great work!!!!
Thank you!
Awesome stuff!!
Thanks!
Please do Shockwave from SFGAm next!!! This was great as always!! 👍🏼
I only went on Tower of Terror once but I’ll always remember the experience
Was a great ride when it first opened, rode it many times in those first years, pity it spent more time down for repairs, towards the end of it's life, never got a chance to ride it one last time
yeah!
Dreamworld and movie world are the only theme parks with roller coasters for about 1000km (2million miles) they’re also pretty much across the road from each other
Used to go there every summer holiday when we visited my family in Queensland!
Nice!
I miss the Lethal Weapon already. I have quite a few fond memories of that coaster.
I also miss the Wipeout and Tower of Terror.
Australia doesn't have many decent coasters and thrill rides, so it kinda sucks when several major ones close over a relatively short duration.
Yeah a real shame really
I only rode Lethal Weapon once and I just remember it really hurting my neck like the majority of Vekoma SLCs do.
Omg thank you for doing another Australian one.
Of course!
Thanks for the free trial on skillshare
Hope you learn something good!
Magnets so strong that Skynet pisses it’s cyber pants
2:47 goooddddd I loved lethal weapon ❤❤❤
13:41 "and some for obvious reasons" well that's one way to address that tragedy and the removal of that ride without addressing it and removing focus from the topic of the video 😅
when you say they got a crane from Melbourne, my whole body cried haha for those not familiar, Australia is bloody huge and melb to goldie is a 20 hour drive. imagine A huge lorry with the biggest crane in the country going 20kpm doing that hahah it would have taken a week and pissed off so many motorists on our often 1 lane highways. Just a thought...
Thankfully I got to experience Tower of Terror at Dreamworld, literally the day before it was to close and become the Tower of Terror 2.
Dreamworld also had a big overhaul with management and there rides after 4 people died on on of there rides and been struggling since. It was found out that they had not been maintaining the rides throughout the park, cutting cost. Thunder River Rapids Ride rafts collided in 2018, the 4 adults on the ride died rather grewsome death's while 2 children survived the ride. The park was closed for a while after as it was all investigated and they found problems on a few of the other rides.
Thankyou great video 👌
Glad you enjoyed it
Cool graphic at the beginning lol
Yeah!
This has nothing to do with this rollercoaster, but what happened to the animals from Wonderland Sydney?
I don't know actually
The animals from wonderland were distributed to other wildlife parks around eastern Australia. Some to featherdale (nearby), but the big croc was relocated to the USA.
@@kimstark6125 thank God, that was on my mind
I like his videos because they are really funny and goodly interesting
thank you!