Washington Fair - Rainier Rush

[cthulu]

Went to the Washington State Fair (that's what they now call the Puyallup Fair) today at lunchtime when I have a few hours free from work. Wanted to ride the new coaster they have called Rainier Rush that replaced the classic mad mouse coaster they sadly got rid of. Anyway, glad they brought in a new coaster but the ride was surprisingly rough for a looping coaster like this, and had some weird braking and track speed. All in all not that impressive a ride. I then went and rode the Classic Coaster a few time back seat, awesome! the rebuild has kept all the character of the coaster (although I hope they get the old sign back up on top) and all you have now is the lapbar with no seatbelts, tons of airtime in the back seat. Its a coaster that never disappoints! Heres a picture of the Rainier rush I grabbed with my phone.

[Voxelmatic]

That ride used to be called Typhoon at Santa's Village AZoosment Park. It's always been known in the coaster community for being an extremely rough ride.

[larrygator]

^It's still better than not replacing the removed coaster.

[Nrthwnd]

I'm glad to read that the good old wood coaster has been given

some new life,with just the lapbar, and no seatbelts, etc. Our

coaster here has proven for over 50 years that some times,

all you need is a lapbar to make a really great wooden coaster ride.

 

"Do The Puyallup!"

(Will never get that jingle out of my brain.)

[cthulu]

Yes, I was glad they did replace the old mouse coaster instead of just remove it. The rumor is that this coaster may just be rented to the fair for awhile though. I was looking at the installation and it was set up in a temporary fashion, instead of putting concrete footings for the support portions they are just on wood blocks on the ground like a temporary carnival set up.

 

Yes Nrthwind, the train set up on the wood coaster is like the fantastic coaster at Playland in Vancouver, which is my favorite wood coaster of them all. There is more airtime on that coaster than anything I have ridden

[Xmeister]

Do they still have that Miler water coaster? I remember it when it came to the Del Mar (San Diego County) Fair in the late 90s but I was too short to ever ride it.

[cthulu]

You know I didn't even look for it but I am pretty sure its gone. RCDB shows it operating til 2012. I know I walked through the area where it used to be and didn't see it but I was short on time and just wasn't paying attention. I have ridden it in the past, it was a short but fun ride, but the water in the flume portion always looked like they never changed it so I only rode it if I was at the fair in the first few days when it was relatively clean as you always got wet. The Schwartzkopf Wildcat coaster is still there as I saw that, so still three operating coasters.

[Xmeister]

^That sound disgusting! I can't imagine that anyone would want to relocate it as it looked like it was in pretty bad shape.

[Mstankow]

I rode the water coaster 2 years ago and it was really fun. I hope it is still there.