Silver Comet Review, Niagara Amusement Park CCI Wood Coaster | Reopened for 2022!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
- Silver Comet is a Custom Coasters International wood coaster at Niagara Amusement Park. The ride opened back in 1999 when the park was known as Martin's Fantasy Island, but its future was in doubt after Apex closed the park after the 2019 season. The ride recently reopened in 2022 after remaining closed for a few years! But how is it currently riding? Find out in this review.
Video Credits
Crystal Beach Cyclone (Lock 52 Historical Society)- • Crystal Beach, the Cyc...
Silver Comet POV (Coaster Focus)- • Silver Comet Front Sea...
Background Music
Acoustic Indie Folk by Infraction [No Copyright Music] / Never Alone- • Acoustic Indie Folk by...
Gene Staples is a saint, he saved so many failing parks. We need to support this new park Chain and frequently visit these places.
I'm glad these parks were saved.
The vintage POV’s of this ride show it tearing through that middle section. Hopefully a few more years of track work can give it a little more speed through the course.
Great review as always!
I thought it was faster when I rode it a long time ago.
I was thrilled they were able to get the ride open. When I rode it at the end of August, I found it to be fast and surprisingly smooth. I was impressed with the work they did on the ride. And that bodes well for the coming years.
I was most surprised by the smoothness.
@@CanobieCoaster Well, it does have a really sturdy steel support structure, good for keeping it smooth
Holy moly! Glad it’s open again!!
Me too.
45 mins away from my house! Can't wait to see this park restored
Nice!
Seems like a solid wooden coaster
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Certainly glad to hear this park is open again. Really like the looks of this coaster. Same company that built the Mega Zeph at the former Six Flags New Orleans park.
I hope it thrives.
OMG, that Crystal Beach Cyclone looks insane, the things they came up with when there was next to no safety regulations, or very low ones boggles the mind.
It's nuts.
1:53 that was quite a quick stop
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I haven't visited this park yet. At Clementon, Hellcat never opened for me. At Indiana Beach a month ago, Cornball Express opened a few hours late. They have plenty of other rides that kept me occupied until it opened, so I didn't think much of it, but it does sound like a trend. I'm still so happy to see all these parks open again.
Hopefully the delayed openings can be fixed in the future.
Glad you got to ride it 2022! Also glad it reopened. Ashamed how people like to "tag" stuff.
I know.
I'm surprised at the lack of airtime you experienced. I haven't been able to get over there yet (despite it practically being in my backyard...), but it used to have quite a bit not all that long ago. Sitting left to rot for those couple of years probably did quite the number on it unfortunately...
I’m surprised considering you live super close to it
@@ThrillsofColdplay Unfortunately life has been getting in the way and with the end of the season approaching it's unlikely to happen this year. Really looking forward to seeing the park on opening day next season though, Gene has his team working very quickly and has big plans for the future
It's possible it was running sluggish.
I wonder if they were loading the trains or sending them half empty, if that might’ve made the pacing suffer.
Most of my rides were with just 4-6 people onboard, but I didn't have much of a difference with a near full train.
Crystal Beach is on Lake Erie, not Lake Ontario.
A nurse/paramedic stationed at the Cyclone has not been substantiated.
I always had heard about the paramedic, but maybe it was exaggerated.
If this ride was 20-25ft taller, that would do the trick
It would.
saying the way you described this ride, i might skip this park next year unless the shuttle loop is opened by then. (I can only go to one park in the western new york area, so with just this coaster i think id rather go to darien lake again)
The plan is to have (at least) three coasters operating next season: The Silver Comet, Lightning Loop (the shuttle loop from La Feria de Chapultepec), and a Galaxi Coaster. There's plans for a number of flat rides as well, just depends on how fast they can get everything cleaned up and put together.
It may be worth it next year with all the new rides coming.
What's your least favorite first drop on a CCI wooden coaster, of all you've ridden, if you include family and junior ones, and if you exclude family and junior ones?
Zach's Zoomer if you include junior ones. Stampida is your exclude junior ones.
What's the comparison to the ride that inspired it? I am hoping to get on this once Cascabelle opens up or within the next 2 years (whichever comes first).
They appear to really be nothing alike, but not having ridden the original Crystal Beach Cyclone I can only go off POVs.
Location
Website is still a work in progress. Does anyone know if September 25th last day of the season?
I'm not sure.
But Laterals are a bad thing, it's a sign the ride wasn't designed well, great coasters have no laterals thanks to perfect banking, like I305
I like being thrown sideways.
@@CanobieCoaster But that feels really uncomfortable, if I wanted to be thrown around, I would ride a wild mouse or drive my car fast around a corner. I want my turns banked perfectly, pushing me into my seat, not into the poor stranger beside me
How many CCI wooden coasters in the world do you consider as flawed rides?
Examples:
I like most of their rides.
Ptc trains are going to wreck up that track.
I hope they don't.
@@CanobieCoaster but they will. Cars are larger and put stress on the track. Coaster wasn't designed to run ptc trains. I told them to go get the trains sitting in a shed at six flags newprleans that ran on mega zeph. Those were the exact trains that were on thus ride before. Too bad these aren't buzz bar ptc trains lol
@@askjeevescosby2928 What trains was this coaster designed to use?
This CCI honestly doesn't look all that great off ride. It's basically a bunch of turns high iff the ground and shallow drops. I hope it does more than I think.
I could have sworn it held its speed better when I rode it a long time ago.
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Nice!