nbadude44 Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Imagine if Kingda Ka went backwards!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarioSonic94 Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Imagine if Kingda Ka went backwards!! Oh God. I don't want to imagine how a backwards launch would feel. Luis L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsDevs4Lyf Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 That would seriously be one of the most intense feelings because on the way up all you would see is people getting smaller in a hurry, and I think the arch at the top would feel really awkward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted August 26, 2009 Report Share Posted August 26, 2009 Nope, that isn't a Photoshopped picture. It is the real thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CycloneMan Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 WOOHOO! =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hot Dog Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 There are a few other parks with dual track woodies from this era, and some of them ran a backwards train -- Rebel Yell at Kings Dominion, Racer at Kings Island, Thunder Road at Carowinds, etc. In the last couple of years, all three of those parks flipped the trains around so they both go forwards. I wonder if there's a particular reason or if it's just from a change in management. Rebel Yell was fun backwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAcoaster Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 It's a HUGE increase in liability with whiplash injuries. The reason why most wood coasters had those big Volvo style headrests added to them was to help prevent whiplash injuries. Going the other direction offers no bracing for the neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafreak Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 wish they would do it again,backwards was the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasondhsd Posted August 2, 2011 Report Share Posted August 2, 2011 Sorry for bumping an old thread but I arrived here from a link in a closed thread that was posted. Anyway, I know I never rode Rolling Thunder backwards in 84 since I was only 2yrs old but I vividly recall riding the it backwards at some point. I remember going there and and seeing people go up the hill backwards and freaking out since my dad use to tell me about how it went backwards at one point and waiting in line forever to ride it since the line was so long. I don't recall the year sometime during the 90s, I recall still being pretty young so before high school so between 93-97 but I can't be sure. Thing is I can't find any information about it running backwards other then in '84. Unless I've just been told about it so many times I created a memory of it for myself and think its real now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29yrswithaGApass Posted August 2, 2011 Report Share Posted August 2, 2011 ^ Welcome to the site! Rolling Thunder only ran backwards in 1984 so it may have been a different park that you were thinking about. Lightnin' Loops ran backwards (and forwards) until 1992! Maybe it was that ride! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasondhsd Posted August 2, 2011 Report Share Posted August 2, 2011 ^ Welcome to the site! Rolling Thunder only ran backwards in 1984 so it may have been a different park that you were thinking about. Lightnin' Loops ran backwards (and forwards) until 1992! Maybe it was that ride! Thanks very cool site! Anyway, no I recall it being Rolling Thunder, I remember being pulled up the hill backwards. I did ride Lightnin Loops as well. The only other place I would of rode a wooden coaster would of been Wildwood. Maybe it was just a memory I created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scipiomask Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 I thought I heard that it ran backwards during Fright Fest in the 90's. Anyway, I'll pass on that one. The ride's painful enough when I can tell where I'm going.... El Toro backwards, though, that would be TERRIFYING. Backwards ejector air? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafreak Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 im pretty sure we will never see they day when the woddies run backwards again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees99 Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 Should just called it Rolling Pain Thunder. What happened? I don't remember it being painful back in the early days of the ride's existence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFGAdv10 Posted August 15, 2011 Report Share Posted August 15, 2011 To me Rolling Thunder doesn't hurt for me. But can anyone see Rolling Thunder running backwards again. Like American Eagle at SFGAm. I hope that happens next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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