Orient Express

[christianscoasters]

The Orient Express at WOF was taken out a couple years ago, but I never got to see where it went. Was it scrapped, or did it go somewhere else?

[texasgiantrules]

Idk if it got scrapped or if it's in storage, but it definitely did not go somewhere else.

[CP_RULES]

Judging by the manner it was taken out, I doubt it will be running again any time soon. RCDB doesnt say anything about it being "in storage," nor it being relocated.

 

 

 

 

All pictures from http://www.worldsoffun.org/photo_gallery.asp?whicharea='Worlds%20of%20fun'

(At the bottom)

 

EDIT- I cant get the link to work, just copy and paste into your browser.

[coasterdude5]

Does anyone have a layout shot of this coaster? I can only find pictures of the loops of it.

 

It would've been cool to see it at another park, but was Spinning Dragon it's replacement?

[CP_RULES]

but was Spinning Dragon it's replacement?

 

Partly. Both Patriot and Spinning Dragons occupy the space that OE did.

[LOVE SFKK]

I remenber about the time it was being taken out, that it was going to go to another CF park, but it wasnt it that great of condition anyway so they scrapped it.

 

A lot of people were really upset becasue it was ''famous'' in its hay day. I have ridden it and im sorry, but it SUCKS. Its worse than Viper or Ninja or GASM. Its not a very big loss and i think SD and Patriot are great additions that really helped the park

 

 

Ill ask my cousin if he can send me some pictures becasue he used to be a ride op for it and took lots of pics of it one a weekly bases. He may not though cuz hes living in amsterdam right now

[rbpia]

A lot of people were really upset becasue it was ''famous'' in its hay day. I have ridden it and im sorry, but it SUCKS. Its worse than Viper or Ninja or GASM. Its not a very big loss and i think SD and Patriot are great additions that really helped the park

 

Orient Express was a great coaster in its hayday. It definately did not suck. But the last few years it did deteriorate to an completely miserable painful ride. I am one of the ones that was sad to see it go because of the great memories of a great coaster, and the fact that it left Boomerang as the only looper in the park.

 

I agree that SD and Patriot were great additions to the park.

 

WOF really seemed to have a problem with maintaining Orient Express and Timberwolf. Hopefully this is something Cedar Fair can correct. How about if they do the same thing to Timberwolf that they did with Orient Express. Tear it down and build a better one. Hmmmm, Intamin Prefab?

 

ron "I know, no Intamin. But a guy can dream can't he?" Patton

[christianscoasters]

The first and only time I rode OE was when I was I think 8 or so. I rode everything and was looking forward to OE. After I rode it, I had an extreme headache. I thought that they needed to snug the wheels a little better. I thought that the layout was very nice and creative. I swore I would never ride it again. As for Timber Wolf, it is (or was) recently retracked. I think that taking Orient out was a good idea. I go to Theme Parks for fun, not pain. I would like to see Intamin or somebody else make a clone of OE. As for people who want shot of the layout, the best I can do is go to www.rcttown.com and go to downloads and you'll eventually find it.

[coastercrazy216]

Yes, that damn thing got scrapped! I didn't know that though.

[coasterdude5]

^^ For some reason, I always thought OE was a terrain coaster (I guess because of Loch Ness), not sure why, but now that I saw the recreation, it doesn't appear to be.

[Nrthwnd]

OE introduced me to my first steel coaster SURPRISE, that being the pretzel looping 'thing' it speeded into, just before the end of the ride? Never saw it, or saw that coming, which was great for a first-timer like me on it. (Sorry, am not techno-geeky enough to actually know the coaster 'term' for that configuration...)

 

I also got to fulfill a theme park dream-come-true, and that was FINALLY riding the Zambeezi Zinger (sp?) while it still operated back in mid-90s! Had known about it (with old info.flyers and pix) since the park originally opened, so that was very cool to ride, for me back then.

 

And the Orient Express was a nice bonus, heh heh.

 

[viking86]

^^ For some reason, I always thought OE was a terrain coaster (I guess because of Loch Ness), not sure why, but now that I saw the recreation, it doesn't appear to be.

 

I would call it a semi-terrain coaster. Look at the pictures on RCDB to see what Im talking about. You cant judge a coaster based on a recreation made in RCT.

 

It was a great looking coaster, so its a shame that the ride wasnt any better....

[haydawg149]

For those of you that say it sucked, have you ever ridden it before the last couple years? The ride was rough, but wasn't intolerable until it's last few years.

[Satoshi]

Does anybody have that POV?! For people don't ever ride on OE

somebody needs to share it to everybody in TPR land!

[westipher97]

"Partly. Both Patriot and Spinning Dragons occupy the space that OE did"

 

 

 

This is not true, Spinning Dragons is where the dolphin show/dive show used to be and Patriot is where the Rockin Reeler and a couple of shops used to be plus open space in front of the park.

[christianscoasters]

When I said that Patriot took up part and SD took up... blah, blah, blah, I was qouting from my friend, who went to WOF early last year. He said it appeared that Patriot was on a small, if any, space of land that OE was on. He also said SD took up most of the space. So, sorry for the people who said I was wrong. I actually don't know because I haven't been there since OE was taken down. I just remember the ride being rough and thinking it should be taken down.

[Homer]

Look at a 2003 and 2006 map and compare them.

 

Patriot is further away from the Orient Express area.

Spinning Dragons only took up a fraction (about less than a half) of Orient Express' space.

 

Therefore, Orient Express' old spot still lies half empty. Park expansion maybe?

[OzCatter]

The only thing that uses anything that OE did is Lore of the Vampire uses the old queue during Halloweekends.

 

And OE was melted down and sold as scrap

[westipher97]

^Well, I would have to agree with everybody but you. Spinning Dragons takes up most (not all) of the space that OE did. Patriot takes up a small fraction of the space.

 

 

I worked at that ride from 1999 to 2003 so I should know. Have you ever been to the park? SD sits in front of the old photo booth and Patriot sits to the left of the old tunnel so non of those rides occupies any space where the actual ride was, maybe the queue line but not the ride itself.

[Swoosh]

Spinning Dragons does not occupy any of the space that the Orient Express occupied and neither does Patriot.

 

Spinning Dragons is located completely to the south of the Orient Express station, whereas the OExpress was located completely to the north. The only thing that you MIGHT be able to argue that the two occupy is the that the break run for OExpress would come quite close to SD's first drop.

 

As for Patriot, it is located completely across the access maintenance road from where Orient Express was. Have you even been to the park?

 

Google Earth the park for yourself and see what we we are talking about.

 

Here are two photos of OExpress that I found -- is that a good enough POV for those who have not seen it first hand?

[westipher97]

Thank you Swoosh, well said.

[SharkTums]

http://www.themeparkreview.com/videos/volume3.htm

 

Theme Park Review Volume 3 has a full onride of Orient Express.

[OzCatter]

^Well, I would have to agree with everybody but you. Spinning Dragons takes up most (not all) of the space that OE did. Patriot takes up a small fraction of the space.

 

 

I worked at that ride from 1999 to 2003 so I should know. Have you ever been to the park? SD sits in front of the old photo booth and Patriot sits to the left of the old tunnel so non of those rides occupies any space where the actual ride was, maybe the queue line but not the ride itself.

 

You are so wrong.

 

The pool of water around the queue is part of the old pool of the dive pool. The old on ride photo for OE is still standing.

 

Hehe, WOF posts make me laugh when people get their facts wrong, good to put them straight D-Ho

[steel]

^Well, I would have to agree with everybody but you. Spinning Dragons takes up most (not all) of the space that OE did. Patriot takes up a small fraction of the space.

 

You are completely wrong. Neither coaster comes close to taking up OE's lot. If you are so sure about this, then why is OE's old station still there and why is it something like 30 yards away from any part of Spinning Dragons? Patriot is at the very least 75 yards away from it. I realize there was a helix there, but it didn't get as far as Spinning Dragons.

 

^^ For some reason, I always thought OE was a terrain coaster (I guess because of Loch Ness), not sure why, but now that I saw the recreation, it doesn't appear to be.

 

OE was a fully fledged terrein coaster, or at least that is my understanding of it. I never saw it running from the park, but it was basically located in a "bowl" of land. It certainly wasn't as "terrainy" as Loch Ness Monster, but it's a large elevation difference between the level of the parking lot and the bottom of tht area.

Also, the layout is basically Vortex without the corkscrews.

There's a tunnel that curves to the lift. After that, you turn toward the straight drop, which leads to the turn that you see in the pictures on page 1. That leads into the first loop, which goes into a turn to a brake run alongside the lift. The track then turns and drops into the second loop and moves into the "kamikaze curve" element. Then there's a helix and you're done.

[Jive]

I remember hearing that SD and OE we're supposed to coexist for at least one year but OE was torn down a year earlier than expected due to maintenance costs. This could be completely off base though.

 

Steel is right about SD not coming within 30 yards of OE's brake run. When you exit Lore you're basically right under the area that the brake would occupy and you would be able to see that SD is still a ways off.