The Defunct Coaster Memorial Thread

[Dirk_Ermen]

Paradox wrote:

Didn't that burn down in an accidental fire?

Yush, It burned down due a short circuit somewhere in the electric wiring.

[rcmaniac25]

TTD03 wrote:

RIP Disaster Transport and Laser!

Ah... Laser. What I still consider the first "real" coaster I ever went on.

[Paradox]

Dirk_Ermen wrote:

Paradox wrote:

Didn't that burn down in an accidental fire?

Yush, It burned down due a short circuit somewhere in the electric wiring.

Wow and that ride looked like it had a very expensive theme going on. It is a shame to see such great rides like that go. At least Phantasialand has Black Mamba now!

Laser - Dorney. You will be missed.

R.I.P. Superwirbel at Holiday Park as it was my very first roller coaster that got deconstructed in 2013.
Also it had a much better pph-value than Sky Sream that is there now.

Edit: 28.12.2014:

For those who are interested in still experiencing the ride here??????s my memorial recreation of it I uploaded a while ago:

http://www.coastercrazy.com/20224/Superwirbel

(No advertising, just informing )

[Dirk_Ermen]

Der LK 7531 wrote:

R.I.P. Superwirbel at Holiday Park as it was my very first roller coaster that got deconstructed in 2013.
Also it had a much better pph-value than Sky Sream that is there now.

I'm going to miss it too, good thing we still have the corkscrew piece in place to remember the ride. I've done plenty of rides on this classic and it was a shame that they let it go. There is plenty of space in other areas of the park. Imo they should have build Sky Scream at a different spot in the park. But I can understand they didn't want to keep throwing money at the old ride.

[mkingy]

Dirk_Ermen wrote:

Der LK 7531 wrote:

R.I.P. Superwirbel at Holiday Park as it was my very first roller coaster that got deconstructed in 2013.
Also it had a much better pph-value than Sky Sream that is there now.

I'm going to miss it too, good thing we still have the corkscrew piece in place to remember the ride. I've done plenty of rides on this classic and it was a shame that they let it go. There is plenty of space in other areas of the park. Imo they should have build Sky Scream at a different spot in the park. But I can understand they didn't want to keep throwing money at the old ride.

Awh cool glad they kept a piece of it - they did the same for corkscrew at Alton Towers - put the double corkscrew at the entrance!


source: http://porsmond.bravepages.com/Alton/Alton11/Alton.html

[Dirk_Ermen]

Only at Alton they have repainted the track to different colors. Can't say that with Superwirbel:

It looked even better at night:

[mkingy]

Ahh so they've left it in-situ?

[TTD03]

rcmaniac25 wrote:

TTD03 wrote:

RIP Disaster Transport and Laser!

Ah... Laser. What I still consider the first "real" coaster I ever went on.

Same!

mkingy wrote:

Ahh so they've left it in-situ?

They moved the it around 15 meters away from it??????s actual location to use it as a gate over the entrance to the new themed area.

[Blase Rhine]

R.I.P. Led Zepplin: The Ride from Hard Rock Park. You truly were an amazing piece of steel.

[TTD03]

Blase Rhine wrote:

R.I.P. Led Zepplin: The Ride from Hard Rock Park. You truly were an amazing piece of steel.

I always thought that was a crap B&M

Rip gwazi you were once a good ride but no longer a Good one maybe if you had more retracting to fix ya

[TTD03]

^ Forgot about Gwazi needing to be added to this list.

R.I.P. The Sparkler at Holiday World... Kind of.

May you be reincarnated into a ugly non matching and horribly named terrible flat ride, even though you never died and I never liked you but still.

[TTD03]

^ lol.