Shockwave Review | The Former Intamin Stand Up Coaster at Drayton Manor
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- An in depth look at what was for a while the only Intamin stand up roller coaster left in operation. It's been operating in the U.K. since 1994, sending riders through 4 inversions in a bizarre, but fun layout! 2023 was its final year as a stand up coaster. Drayton Manor then converted it into a sit down coaster called The Waver, featuring a lower height requirement to make it more accessible for families.
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I remember doing Cobra at La Ronde. That first loop was pulling some good forces. I would had kept it over so many rides at La Ronde
It’s a really underrated ride, the zero g roll is so good and kinda scary
Went on ‘the wave’ as it is known now today, it is running much, much smoother than it was before. The zero g roll with a lapbar is absolutely insane
I'm making my first ever trip to Drayton very soon just to give it a shot. I'm pretty sad that we're losing such a unique ride but I'm hopeful for Drayton's future!
When I first became an enthusiast Shockwave was one of the first coasters outside of the USA that I learned about
So glad B&M seem to have perfected the stand-up concept so many years later with their new surf coaster. I was honestly sad at how rare these old stand ups are, but after riding green lantern at great adventure I understand why. They really just are not the best rides.
Green Lantern at Great Adventure is awwwwwwful!
What's so bad about stand up coasters?
@@JRBowling1997 I think the main problem with Green Lantern was it was too intense for a standup coaster. It turns your legs into jelly with the forces it exerts, it’s a very uncomfortable experience.
@@JRBowling1997 but compare the new surf rider to green lantern, it’s just more graceful and less intense. And with new redesigned trains to adjust for different heights, you can actually focus on the fact that you are standing up on a rollercoaster.
Has a 6 ft 7 coaster enthusiast this has to be one the roughest coaster I have ever been on
shockwave is fantastic, going through that zero g roll on the back left of the train is so good.
I grew up at Drayton Manor, and whilst I've been on this thing absolutely loads, it's not the smoothest or newest these days and I'm fine with it being converted into something else. I won't miss it like I miss the old Snake Train... that thing was absolutely legendary, but stupid health and safety wouldn't allow it these days... anyway, I think the park is getting some much needed TLC so despite the family direction it's taking, I'm happy to see a brighter future for it :)
The snake train was legendary! Didn’t it have some sort of accident though?
Can happily say that I’ve ridden shockwave. It’s a big part of rollercoaster history in the UK with it opening in 1994 along with Nemisis and The big one. Will be interesting to see what they do with it, but the real question is whether it will still be as enjoyable without the unique factor of standing up
I agree, it holds up pretty well for a 1994 coaster! And yes that zero-G roll is *awesome*.
B&M has history of supplying trains for rides built by other manufacturers. Indeed their VERY FIRST contract in the amusement industry was providing new trains for Rolling Thunder (by Intamin/Giovanola) at Six Flags Great America in 1989. In this instance B&M changed the seating arrangement to increase riders per train from 6 to 8.
Since company founders Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard were much involved in designing the track and trains for Giovanola before they started their own, it would make most sense for B&M to provide Shockwave's new trains.
Very true indeed. I just wish SF Over Georgia would do the same to Georgia Scorcher, it'd be so much more fun and whatever anyone does with SFGADV's "Green Lantern." I say "whatever" because tbh the latter would be a star attraction if moved somewhere else and made floorless or sit down, at GADV it's just kinda there, and it's area would look way better with something actually eye-catching like the park used to have.
B&M floorless sit down trains I guess…
In July 2002, during an ERT event, riders were allowed to ride facing backwards.
I remember hearing about that! Crazy!
I have only been to this park once as a kid and that was when Thomas Land was new. I do remember riding the buffalo coaster and shooting ride
I like how the track looks almost identical to a B&M
Bruhhhh I really wanted to ride that ride with its standup zero g roll but oh well.
As an annual pass holder, although it will be sad to see stand up going, I am exited for the future and the new experience this will give
I wish Great Adventure gave us a full year warning with Great American Scream Machine before it but the dust. Still beyond sad, not over it at all. Anyway, these are super unique! Intamin weird Giovanola-ish looking roller coasters are always such an antique to find! Like the TOGO’s too!
Technically it’s actually at the front of the park, you came in the second entrance but the main entrance is next to this
It seems pretty fun!
Word on the street is that SunKid will be making the new train! Which does make a little bit of sense as Loopings have worked with SunKid a couple of times already!
interesting!
I doubt it, surely they've bundled it in a package with intamin for a new coaster and new trains? That would make so much more sense
Oh God Please No, NOOOOOOO (I think it's going to be an intamin Package deal, With a Surf theme, going back to it's original colors of the 30th anniversary (With 2 yellow trains like the Og, And a New name that's Simaler to shockwave but different)
I was lucky enough to ride Le Cobra à La Ronde back in 2015. I glad that I got to experience and Intamin Stand Up before they went extinct. Unfortunately though, I found that particular installation be be unbearably rough.
Cant wait to see what it looks like in the future 🙌
Only live maybe 2.5 hours away but in a small country like England that seems a long way so ive never done this! Going next month, so just in time to get the stand up trains.
Small correction in your stats. 55mph is 85kph, not 33 lol
That worked great at Cedar Point. Now it beats you to a pulp.
I know it won't happen, but i wish that this got it's new sit down train, Plus it keeps it's original train, This way it has a lower height requirement for those that need it, but the stand up option remains.
What type of new trains os it getting? It wouldn have to fit the really old track design.
we don't know yet
When this coasters reaches the end of its life I don’t expect them to retrack it so the new train will outlive the track. Also whilst Drayton Manor do very well they are still quite budget so I can see them paying for a B&M train that will have to have some modifications, especially if it is floorless, when it won’t have a long life
Is there any other manufacturers with a stand up still operating?
Togo has several in Japan, and the one in Italy
Magic Mountain used to have a stand-up coaster called Shockwave. I got to ride it with Tom Cruise.
whaaaaaat for real??
@@CoasterStudios yeah, it was right after Top Gun came out. It was me and his two bodyguards in the front row.
This ride is still going strong.
I didn’t know that Intamin used the same tracks as B&M does
Wait, this is not a B&M??
0:49 - Just that you guys know, 53mph is roughly 85 km/h, not 33. The latter would be slower than mack powered coasters which usually go about 40km/h. 😄😄
yeah, that was a total typo. So sorry!
@@CoasterStudios No worries, thought so 😄
I wonder how much more comfortable it will be with sitting trains.
I wonder who's going to make those new trains. And if they're getting more than one.
0:48 I didn't know 53 mph was only 33 kmh
Sorry about the typo, should be about 85km/h!
Cobra at laronde was the worst of them. No heartline, headbanging everywhere, Super bad restraints. It was a nightware ride in everyways possible.
Why are they getting rid of the stand up coasters?
Because kids are profitable, and they want to make the park a kids park rather than a family par
This ride is such an anomaly with such a weird origin story, not built by some major theme park but basically by a family owned fairground which would normally be happy getting some ride from the European portable circuit like a Pinfari Zyklon.
btw small nitpick but I think you made a mistake converting 53mph to km/h because 53mph is 85.3km/h not 33km/h as you say in the info box at the start
Hey, I can't help but notice that you added meters to your stats as well as feet. Are you doing that to appeal to international viewers?
i would love to try shockwave, but sadly i live in the USA. could u and Sarah do a top 25 together?
Be happy you rode this and did not ride the ones in North America. I got to ride La Cobra at La Ronde and man did that ride SUCK.
I bet Zamperla will put their trains on there
I went Drayton Manor today,but i was dissopointed because the shockwave ride wasn't working
How tf did you get 33 km/h?
Too bad you didn’t get ERT on it. They’ll let you ride standing backwards in the restraints. Definitely NOT recommended (due to the head rest tilting forward), but has been done for enthusiast groups for years. And… their zero-G roll - definitely THE redeeming value of the ride!!
Wait … this ISN’T a B&M? … I’m local to here , have I been lied to all this time ahahha?
Rode this is 1995. Oh to be 11 again 😅
I just done sig down it fells diffrent it now fells like you will fall ou on the sero g roll
Sorry I'm not much english
Why wouldn't they get the new b&m stand up trains.
As mentioned in the video, they want to make the height requirement lower, this requires sit down trains
isn't upside-down airtime just hangtime?
not exactly
@@CoasterStudios curious, gonna have to get to SeaWorld to know how that feels.
I’ve been on an intamin stand up named shockwave but not this one
Can u and Sarah please do another top 25 but a roast battle
I’m shocked that you gave it 6.5. I think it’s the most disappointing ride with no forces and the most unexciting and uninspired layout. Slow to load with only one train… why is there so much straight track - would it have cost loads more for a little airtime hill or something for example?
Here's the big question. As a sit down coaster... surely I can count that as a new credit?
Right?
I will sorely miss it as a stand-up, so come on there have to be some perks!!
Tbf people are arguing if the nemesis retrack is a new cred, if people are debating over that then no way this will be a new cred
@@Yonel6969 I saw something saying new and different trains could be a new cred if it changes the ride experience.. so old vampire at chessington and new could be 2 creds. The nemesis retrack I wouldn't count as the experience is generally going to be the same - sit down, same layout. If they changed the trains to a flying position, new cred, if they added a new element, new cred.. Like TTD, and TT2 - def 2 creds. New trains, new launches, some new track. If it was just new sit down trains and a retrack, no, experience not changed. Maybe you could argue changing the launch changes the experience even without changing the track layout, but that would be stretching it lol...
@@robhaley5136 i would agree only if the track got replaced, which its not, a new train is not a new cred, no chance
@@Yonel6969 What - even if they converted Oblivion at Alton Towers to a flyer 😂 That would be interesting...
Hehe... Hehe....
*t h e i r o n y*
53 mph is not 33 km/h lol. Think you did the opposite conversion.
Your more interesting than that other theme park bloke he waffles on to much
Intamin? Why does it look like B&M?
I'm an idiot. I always thought this was a b&m lol awful ride
If it’s a sit down ride it becomes nothing special at all
you are too young to know about this comparable ride...
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