Carowinds Review | Charlotte North Carolina Amusement Park
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2022
- This Cedar Fair park sits on the border of North and South Carolina, and is home to 14 different roller coasters! While it's a top destination for coaster enthusiasts, there's a whole lot more to experience here, and we're going to discuss it all!
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So proud of my home park! I remember how it was back before Fury, and it's incredible to see just how far the park has come.
same
Same
Same here I was there yesterday and did fury 2 times copperhead 2 times and intimidator 4 times
i'm going to carowinds this year!
This park is fantastic. It's a great combination of rides and atmosphere. If I could tweak just a couple of things I would add back some water rides and put in more trees for shade. There are a lot of hot open exposed areas which can be an issue in the summer. You'd think one of the signature southern parks would really keep that in mind.
Amen 🙏
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO, i have been waiting so long for another carowinds video, it’s my home park and i got 25 visits last season. Thank you and love the channel!
I am about to go my first time this season, today!
Carowinds is such a great park. In 15-20 years, it will be top 2 in the chain once they axe the low tier coasters and add better ones.
@@snuffedtorch3683 agreed
25?!? I didn’t know that could be possible LOL
Do they still have their gemstone mining? I grew up going to Carowinds and I thought they took that out.
Love this park. My wife and I just visited a couple weeks ago and had a great time. Really liked how they started a food and wine festival type thing with the State Line Festival. They need to up their food game on it, but I was happy to see the effort made. All in all, great park, always a good time there.
Love that place
This park is super fun and I've been going with my grandparents since a kid and still love the park to this day!
I remember flying to Charolette Douglass to switch planes and I saw all of Carowinds close down out of the window and I just thought it was crazy seeing the whole park and all of the roller coasters for the first time. I will be going this summer and I am super excited.
I love this park. I'm from Germany and i had two very empty days at the park. Fury 325 is actually my favorite coaster. But Intimidator was also very nice. What do you need more? Okay, an Intamin Launcher would be nice. I will definitely come back, in the next few years. Nice video, as always.
My home state’s park! Just visited it the other week for the first time since before Copperhead Strike and had a wonderful time. The big four there are absolutely amazing and are in my top 25 out of 92 as of right now, but for me outside of a few areas I wasn’t all that impressed with the atmosphere and theming of the park, which maybe I’m just used to going to the Florida parks all the time these days. The main entrance is wonderful being greeted by Fury and Intimidator, camp snoopy area is really pretty, and copperhead strike had some fantastic theming as well, but other than that I would like to see better atmosphere everywhere which they’re definitely on the right track to do. Fury and Copperhead definitely had the best ops.
I have mixed feelings about people saying hurler should be RMCed just because I’d want Carowinds to have a huge ibox tracked ride and Hurler is pretty short in height and length.
Hot take that might just be me, but I think Vortex should just get removed and replaced with an RMC Raptor. Meh ride, terrible dispatching.
Fury and Copperhead should always have the fastest dispatches because guests can’t bring bags into the station
@@samuelahoffman true true, which is nice for both those rides but I don’t like how there is only two rides where I have to rent a locker, and I don’t like that I can’t do an all day multiple location one like at many other parks. It’s like the same system too but they don’t have that option so every time I went to either ride had to rent a locker which wouldn’t be as annoying if it was consistent across the park
Definitely agree on the vortex, annoying to board and painful the whole ride no matter what you do 😬
I think Vortex and nighthawk should be removed the plots are right next to each other perfect for various types of new rides
I really like how they’re adding a new themed area with more modern flat rides to make the flat ride lineup better. I really think they should add a few more thrilling flat rides, a gci wooden coaster, a water ride, and rmc hurler
This park has a special place in my heart, Thunder road being my first “big ride” and living close to Carowinds I went a lot before I moved, went back in 2017, but haven’t been back since and would love to go again in the near future
The park is barely recognizable at this point... in a good way.
I went to Carowinds in 2022 and thoroughly enjoyed my time there. Both Afterburn and Fury 325 are excellent, with Fury becoming my number 1. This park has a solid collection of flat rides. Carolina Harbor was also fun. One bit of random fun occurred at this park for me. I drive a Jeep Wrangler, and I walked out and was greeted by a rubber duck.
Carowinds is my homepark, and this review pretty much hit the nail on the head. I think Scarowinds is great, but purchasing fast lane (and getting to parking over an hour early) is a MUST for that event
I visited this park 4 years ago because I DM’ed Taylor in instagram asking him “Carowinds or Kings Island?” And he said Carowinds. It was one of my favorite experiences ever at an amusement park.
Moved to NC 3 years ago and feel proud in calling this my home park
I remember spending SO much time there when I lived in NC. It was back when Paramount owned them and when Days of Thunder and The Vortex were brand new, then getting to experience new additions like Drop Zone, The Hurler and ScreamWeaver.
That, and how Harmony Hall was always the “meeting spot” when there with friends.
Just visited it this past weekend! My home park. They have gotten better over the years. I will say, ride ops this past weekend was really struggling at time, but, it's early in the season. Still, LOVE it there!
I will say I actually remember seeing you at SCarowinds 2021. I saw you and instantly recognized you. For my first Carowinds experience that definitely topped it off. Thanks for the content.
I’m love my home park especially since they added Fury I love how the park is made to bring people from NC and SC together and others around the world it’s an outstanding park
Great review! You covered it all! Carowinds is my home park, and I'm a perennial season pass holder. I agree with your thoughts on Nighthawk, Hurler and the need for a water ride. I do love the classic rides in County Fair, but some of the others are like you said, just "OK", meaning ride them once and then done (Ricochet, Scream Weaver, Drop Zone, the Cyclone, Vortex) I too bounce back and forth between Fury, Copperhead, After Burn and Intimidator. Fortunately those 4 alone are worth a 110 mile trip each time. Scarowinds is so slow with maze queues, the best part is the atmosphere. The smell, the fog, knowing there is a scare actor around every corner. I'm looking forward to Winterfest, the park looks great lit up!
Just attended the State Line Celebration over the weekend. We loved it. This was our first time coming to Carowinds. We will come back in June!!!!
Went to Carowinds once in summer of 2019. Park was dead so I was able to get 19 rides on Fury in every row. Ops there gave me a lot of room for airtime as well. Fury was the only ride that had good ops even though they ran 2 trains, every other coaster had slow ops and ran one train. Intimidator and Copperhead Strike ran 2 out of 3. Nighthawk had a 45 minute line because of 7 minute dispatches and with one train ops, that's 6-7 trains per hour. It's possible ops are better on busier days. Park was clean and charming but not to the level of Kings Dominion or Knott's. Clientele was pretty ghetto when I went with a lot of line cutting, rude teenagers that can't stop cussing, and guests filming on rides illegally with the park not giving a damn about any of it. And some guests were completely ok with line cutting. (Do that at Great Adventure and you get kicked out and banned. I reported a line cutter to a Kingda Ka op once and they got security to ban the cutter.) Also there was a rude Chick Fil A employee that told me I couldn't get a refill there. Food was great overall, Harmony Hall is by far the best restaurant in the whole chain, and every time I ate there, they had a band doing ragtime covers of pop songs. Overall great park, third favorite in the chain, a park you can easily do everything in one day if crowds are low. If you're from out of town, be sure to spend a second day just to ride Fury over and over again. I had a hard time choosing this or KD better but I prefer Carowinds because I prefer Fury over I305 but barely.
Line cutting was a huge issue when I went in early April. They were checking bands throughout the day but about 3 hours before the park closed only Fury and copperhead had people checking. It was mainly noticeable within larger groups of teens and many people called them out for not having a band but unfortunately the ride ops did nothing. Definitely slowed down the line and the crazy thing was how many people were doing it.
I was literally just watching a Carowinds video and then this review pops up lollll I love it
Love you're vids man, you're the reason i rode my first roller coaster
I remember going there since I was at least ten years old and still remember it when it had the Paramount theme. I’m glad to see what Cedar has done with it, even if I haven’t been able to visit for a long time since coming to Korea. Nighthawk has been a mediocre to bad ride since it opened and was still themed to the Borg.
Am looking forward to visiting this park in June.
Ok so long story-
I love Carowinds so much but the last time I went there was in middle school and let me tell you, definitely gonna remember that day for the rest of my life.
I was determined my first ever roller coaster was going to be Fury and it was, absolutely insane, still one of the best rides I’ve been on. My legs were wobbly after it but the smile on my face was so big.
So after that I wanted to go on more but I wanted to take a break because once again, it was my first ever time going on something intense. But my dad had the bright idea to take me on drop tower immediately after, so I cried, I told him I didn’t want to, he said it was gonna be fine, you know normal stuff dads say when you’re scared! Got on the ride, hated it, afterwards, I felt super nauseous(side note: it was like 100 degrees outside too) so I decided to eat right after…just filled with good ideas there
Anyways about 2 hours later, I still felt sick, but I also wanted to go on Afterburn, so we got in line, we were on the staircase just about to get on the ride, and that’s when…
I threw up……yayyyyy
So immediately my mom held my head over the railing, and…
just as I thought it couldn’t get worse…
I heard from right below me,”OMG MY HAIR”
So tldr: ✨I threw up on somebody’s head✨
…Yeah…Definitely gotta go back there to redeem myself after…that💀
My first of many vist to Carowinds was 1977, I have seen so many changes in that park. Back in the day it had a monorail, jalopy cars, a paddle wheel river boat, a log flume, a train, and of course Thunder Road. I think the oldest things there now are the Sky Tower, the bumper cars, the "fun" house and a few of the kid rides. The Pavilion used to have a lot of big name acts also, dont hear much about it anymore.
Been going here since 1986 and its good to see County Fair come back
Awesome to hear so many nice things about the amusement park I grew up going to!
Love this park. If you’re someone who lives nearby and doesn’t have a pass you need to get one because it’s worth it! The water park has some awesome slides and the roller coasters are just incredible. There’s also a ton of outstanding rides outside of the roller coasters.
Gonna be going to this park for the first this summer with my family! Sooo hyped to ride Fury 325!
This park is probably top of my list especially with the fact that I could easily do it on a weekend, I’d be kind of a long drive but not too bad.
I love carowinds. As being an associate there at one point its a really good park especially with the additions of fury and copperhead lately. Hopefully they fix the rip roaring rapis area and old dinosaur alive area and expand even more
Omg I needed this because I'm going to Carowinds this Summer
My GF and I are currently planning to move to North Carolina to either Charlotte or Raleigh. Even though she's not a big fan of coasters it would still be a really fun thing to have nearby and I'm super excited to finally experience some of their world class coasters.
Hoping to go here next year. Park looks awesome so really hope I can go!
We visited Carowinds last summer. Great park and we stayed at the hotel onsite. That made it nice to just walk to and from the park.
You need to visit Kennywood this year. Phantom's Revenge got repainted as did Thunderbolt and the Jack Rabbit. Racer is next in line plus they have made multiple improvements.
My biggest problem with this park is it gets way to hot and there is almost no way to cool down. Also nighthawk gets too much flack, it’s a pretty awesome ride and I like it more than intimidator tbh
Thanks for the re-review of my home park. With Carowinds being one of their flagship parks I think it's one to pay attention to in regards to how they are changing their business model in the post-covid era. I think staffing issue affect Carowinds like any other park and businesses are learning that they less staff they have to have, the better. I think less coasters and thus less operations staff and more quality coasters and themed experiences is where they are going with the chain in the future. I think the next smart move for them to make would be to make a themed area in Dinosaur's Alive's plot similarly to what they did in Cedar Point and emphasizing the state lines at the front gate and through the park a little better like it was in the Paramount days. That's one thing Paramount did right.
Nighthawk is closed for maintenance until end of spring because they're going to update the trains and keep it going presumably for a few more years. I say that because I saw Firehawk's trains right out in the open when riding Fury so expect them to keep it going for a while. Just confirming what we all knew would happen though. I think if any coaster in Carowinds goes, it's Vortex because the paint job on Carolina Cyclone tells me they plan on keeping it going for a while as well. And I don't mind even if it's just for being beautiful to look at. One of the greatest paint jobs I've seen on a coaster honestly.
While I think converting Hurler with RMC and finally giving them a well needed ejector airtime machine is their next best coaster move I really don't know what they are going to do. Something like Infinity Falls at Seaworld would be a big crowd pleaser but between Volcano and now Dragster I don't think Cedar Fair has a great relationship with Intamin. A high capacity water ride would eat people along with the water park so it's still a win for coaster enthusiasts in terms of line lengths. Speaking of which, I think an interesting thing to note is that they took away fast lane plus and just went with fast lane and only -really- enforce it on Fury/Copperhead/Goldrusher and only half of the time Afterburn/Intimidator/other attractions. It's also a staffing issue thing.
This is one of my bucket list parks
First!
Carowinds is my home park and I love it to bits!
I did go to carowinds very recently and fury’s operations where terrible!!!
And it was on an extremely busy day
I think they got a new crew for the 2022 season
Same!
Great video, this place is definitely on the park bucket list
Going on my first trip there in September! Can’t wait to finally ride fury
I've never been here before, but now after seeing this it's at the top of my list
This is just what I was waiting for. I might be planning a trip here and your reviews are super helpful. Also, there aren’t any high quality POVs of Intimidator and it would be great if you could post one.
Going for the first time since 2015 on Tuesday. Cant wait to ride Fury again. Rode it 6 times when i went in 2015. Also cant wait to ride copperhead strike too.
I’m going here soon I’m pretty excited
We’re are heading to Charlotte tonight and will be there tomorrow for the first time! We’re so excited! I’m closing in on my #100 coaster credit, I currently have 93. I hope to make Fury 325 my 100th. We are staying at the Springhill Suites for free, gotta love hotel points! It’s also nice we won’t have to pay for parking and we can walk up to the gate. I hope the weather cooperates, because it looks like a chance of rain in the afternoon. We’re hoping for some night rides on Fury 325, Afterburn, and Cooperhead Strike.
Went to Carowinds for Spring Break, unfortunately didn't get a good ride on Fury (rainy and cold one the first day, down much of the day on the second for wind). This lead to me absolutely LOVING Copperhead its number 2 on my favorites list at this point until I get back and get a good ride on Fury. Afterburn blew me away though. That Fury treble clef is GORGEOUS and even with the bad weather it was still my second favorite.
great review! i got to go for spring break, it’s been a month already and i still miss it!
I am visiting Dollywood next year. I am hoping to fly into Charlotte and spend a day here before driving up to Pigeon Forge the next day. This place looks awesome.
Love my home theme park!
Really well done video
Fun Fact: Carowinds is 36.9 miles away from Charlotte Motor Speedway and 13.5 miles away from the NASCAR Hall of Fame
i love carowinds videos!
Hi, Angie from eastern North Carolina but live in Colorado now. Been there 2 times. Loved it. Will hopefully go back again soon. About to subscribe to your channel, and keep watching your videos. Watched the one on Kings Dominion, and loved that one more than this park, just my opinion. Been to Kings Dominion more than 5 times. Anyway, hope everyone has a Safe, Blessed and Wonderful day... ❤️🤗👑💐👑🤗❤️
Great video. Carowinds being my home park I'm kind of biased but I love this park started taking the kids when we moved down here in the late '90s back even when it was a paramount park but you're right cedar Fair has done a lot to it and it's come a long way
I honestly prefer the Paramount days. While I like Cedar Fair, I do not like how they are making their parks all look the same. The entrance for Carowinds is ok, but it is just a copy paste from Cedar Point's entrance. I much preferred the plantation entrance. The park was more unique under Paramount, and it seems like Cedar Fair is stripping all their parks of their originality.
Just went Friday and rode Fury 5 times. I know it’s not that many but it’s so worth every ride.
First trip on Sunday, staying Monday for Winterfest. Excited Fury will be open, but for some reason I just can't catch a ride on a B&M Hyper since Intimidator is down for the season. Also looking forward to my ride on Nighthawk. I missed Stealth at PGA years ago, so this will be my first Vekoma Flying Dutchmen. Great review, got me hyped for the trip. Thanks T for all the great content.
The Hurler got rough as hell as years passed. 20 years ago it was Wayens World themed. Had the dougnut shop and everything.
I agree almost 100% with the review! The only thing that I did not agree with was the food in Harmony Hall. My wife and I went in 2019 and we paid nearly $50 for a souvenir cup and ONE entree for the both of us. Tasted like they reheated it in the microwave from the day before. I truly hope this is a current review and they have upped their culinary game since then! :)
6:48
Scrolling through the comments made me think of the last time I visited a local amusement park. My parents had dropped me and my friends off that afternoon. We were having a good time. We were trying to get on as many rides as we could since we were only going to be there for a few hours. There was a decent amount of people in the park when we first got there. However, as the sun started going down, the crowd started to dwindle a bit. After a while, dusk set in and the sun started to go down.
It was 6:48pm. I remember because I was checking to see how much time we had left. We had just gotten off a rollercoaster and I needed to take a break and use the restroom. I told my friends I would be right back. I was only in there for a few minutes. However, when I came out, I couldn’t see my friends. I looked around a bit, but I didn’t think too much of it at the time. I figured maybe they went ahead and got back in line for the roller coaster. So I headed for the ride entrance. When I got near the entrance, I started peeking at the queue line. There was still a small crowd of people hanging around the plaza near the entrance. I didn’t see them so I kept looking around. I even looked back towards the restroom I had just left to see if maybe I missed them on the way out. And that’s when things started to get weird.
Out of the corner of my, I could make out someone standing near the lockers which were close by the ride entrance. I kind of got this feeling that made me hesitate to get a more direct look at the person. As I kept looking around, I felt a slight cool breeze on my neck as the sun which had kept us warm earlier in the day was now setting below the horizon. It was getting darker. It was getting colder. I started to get this uneasy feeling. It was like this feeling that someone was watching me. I turned back around to look at the entrance to see if I had just missed seeing my friends. That’s when I saw him.
There was this man standing there and he was staring right at me. He just stood there, staring. He didn’t move. He stood there glaring his eyes right at me. It wasn’t a curious kind of stare or a look of joy someone might have watching a kid having fun. It was just a blank kind of stare. A creepy kind of stare. It was beyond creepy actually. It was a sinister look …one that puts the fear of death in you. What’s worse is that he didn’t even seem to blink. My heart felt like it dropped all the way down to my stomach. I was thinking..hoping that maybe he wasn’t really looking at me. Maybe he was looking at someone behind me. Maybe he had a family member or friend that was right behind me. I quickly looked behind me. ..No one was there.
I was really starting to get nervous. My friends were nowhere in sight and my parents wouldn’t pick me up for another hour or so. I begrudgingly looked back thinking maybe I was just imagining things. However, he was still standing there. He kept standing there, staring at me, right into my eyes. It was as if he wasn’t just staring at me but staring through me; a stare that felt like it could pierce right through my soul. I froze in fear. I couldn’t move. My hands gripped my lanyard that was dangling from my neck so tight, I thought it might break off. I could only hear occasional screams coming from the ride behind me. Never have I ever found those kinds of screams sound so comforting. As they were screams of excitement and fun, knowing that the thrill would eventually come to an end. My eyes seemed to stay transfixed on his eyes. I couldn’t look away. It was almost like I was in a trance. It’s like when you’re sitting on your couch with your blanket watching a horror movie alone at home in the dark and trying to look away during a climactic scene, but you just can’t help peeking at the tv screen to see what happens. My mind started to race with endless thoughts. Why does he keep staring at me? Did I accidentally cut him off in line? Do I know him? Does he know me? Does he know my parents? He didn’t look like any of my friends’ dads.
The more thoughts that raced through my mind, the more crazy they became. Maybe he was a former ex-boyfriend of my mom who she never spoke of that she dumped and is now bent on getting revenge on her family. She never did talk much about her past or about any former boyfriends she may have had. Maybe he is a disgruntled worker from my dad’s workplace who got fired and now wants revenge on his family. After all, I’m not really sure exactly what my dad does at work. Maybe he’s a supervisor. Maybe it’s something even more crazy. Maybe my dad’s a spy and this guy is some type of foreign adversary that wants to threaten his family for whatever secrets he knows. I know what you’re thinking. This is crazy. But you’d be surprised how your mind works when you’re under duress.
As he relentlessly kept glaring at me, I kept thinking about who this could be and asking myself why he wouldn’t leave me alone. Maybe it’s just some psycho. Maybe this guy had a rough life and he had finally had enough that he finally just snapped. Maybe he had a really nice life and he just had a random psychotic break for some unexplained reason. After all, you never really know what makes someone go crazy. I was afraid to keep looking at him. I was afraid not to. What if I walked away and he started to follow me. What if I walked away and he was waiting for me at another ride or even at the exit. What if …what if I turned my back and then seconds later I felt a cold rough hand grab the back of my nec- just then, I felt a hard slap on my back.
I turned around. It was my friends patting me on the back. Man, was I ever glad to see them. They were all excited. They had just gotten off another ride that was close by. They thought they would get in an extra ride while I was in the restroom.
I was still a bit in shock to say much. They wanted to get on the roller coaster again now that it was dark in order to get in one last night ride. They started heading for the entrance. I didn’t move initially as I was still trying to loosen up after being gripped in fear for what seemed like an eternity. The whole thing seemed like it took forever but I’m sure it probably only took a minute or two. There was still a chill in the air. My friends had gone on ahead and walked to the queue line. I didn’t want to look back towards the lockers where the man was standing. Then I heard a loud bang.
Out of sheer reaction, I peeked back towards the noise. It was in the direction of the lockers. …I wished; I hoped that the man would not still be there. Please God, please don’t let him be there. My eyes gazed over by the lockers. My heart dropped again. A girl had just thrust her locker door shut after getting her belongings out.
I took a deep breath and gave the area one last look. I didn’t see the man. He was gone. He was gone for now. I looked back towards the ride entrance, almost forcing myself not to look towards the lockers again in hopes of fooling myself in to thinking everything is now safe. I quickly rushed back and caught up to my friends who were already in line.
I’ll never forget that night. To this day, I still wonder who it was and if I’ll ever see him again. I will never go back to those lockers. Even now, I try not to make eye contact with anyone in a crowd. You just never know who might have eyes on you.
Man, you should legitimately consider making books. The way you described it was spectacular!
@@sledge2105 ty!
Carowinds is actually my home park! I am so lucky!
First time I went it rained and we had the whole park to ourselves for like an hour and a half and got free churros. Amazing park!
This park frustrates me, it has so much potential to be super great. Definitely lacking a water attraction outside of the water park. Would be nice to have 1-2 waterpark rides, combined with a RMC of Hurler, and a major coaster at the front to replace nighthawk, i.e. floorless dive, would definitely raise the stock for this place.
I really want to go to Carowinds someday!!!!!
Great video
Great park. I went there the other day for the first time and it was fun. One big problem though was that it had very inconsistent operations on the rides. Fury, Hurler, and Carolina Cyclone had a lot of issues with slow dispatches that really hurt the wait time. Part of this may have been because a lot of the other guests were not following instructions and were being generally rude to other guests and employees, and nothing was really done about it. It was decently busy with a lot of young teenagers without parents, so that may be why. We went back the next day and it was mostly fine, except Fury still had issues with getting trains out in a timely manner. There weren’t any issues on Copperhead Strike, Afterburn or Intimidator though.
Dont forget Mountain Gliders, super fun to stall/snap!
I bet this park's gonna get a lot of love in the future given that the new six flags's headquarters is in charlotte where the north carolina half of carowinds is located
I remember when it was nickelodeon and cartoon network themed. So many wonderful memories.
I’m on a road trip to Carowinds brand I’m super exited
Nighthawk is so good I love it
When we were there, North Carolina was doing a tax free weekend but South Carolina wasn't. All of the shops in the North Carolina end were very busy and the ones in South Carolina were empty
I had so much fun when I visited Carowinds last year. It wasn't as good as King's Island and Cedar Point, but I too believe it'll get there one day. I love Fury 325, Intimidator, Afterburn, and Copperhead Strike! Nighthawk was great too, and Ricochet IMO was the sleeper hit of the park. I hope Vortex goes floorless, that way I could get to ride it, hopefully. An RMC Hurler would be awesome too!
Late to the comment but it will definitely get there! They bought the park from Paramount in 2006 and that's when changes started happening, it's been taking them awhile to renovate and add rides but I can see it catching up to King's Island and Cedar Point in the close future.
I used to watch a long time ago. Then you had 40K
GLAD you kept with it
I loved this park during my visit about a week ago. The only thing I didn’t like were the slow operations (besides Fury). Fury is my new #2!
I used to live in Charlotte N.C. & I defiantly miss going to Carowinds!! Oh & p.s. my fav. ride is the Vortex
I heard that cedar fair, and RMC will be working together sometime this year. And people, and coaster enthusiasts are saying that hurler might finally get RMC, or they will add a single railed coaster to the park. Because people are saying if they RMC hurler, they won’t have a wooden coaster anymore. And with a park with such a large selection of coaster, they basically need a wooden. So, if they RMC hurler they will have to add another wooden coaster. And people just don’t see that happening. We just gotta wait and see.
A GCI would be perfect. They should still RMC hurler, though. But I do hope they put a woody where the dinosaurs alive land used to be or where the rapids was at. I also do hope they remove nighthawk and put either a dive coaster or single rail.
I would MUCH rather have an RMC in the park over a GCI. They can do that down the road (or preferably get a Gravity Group or Intamin prefab).
I would love to visit this place. I live by Dorney Park and Cedar Fair has pretty much abandoned that park.
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Aeronauts Landing looks sick asf. Definitely gonna round out the area from Afterburn to where Carolina Cobras is located. One minor issue besides the lack in quality of their supporting coasters is they have alot of open areas where a flat ride could fit. Like there's a mini space near by intimidator that could fit a great minor flat ride.
Just visited. Rode Fury more times than I can count. Easily my favorite coaster I’ve ridden! Hurler was the most painful ride I’ve ever ridden, definitely needs to be pitched, along with vortex.
I used to go all the time as a kid. They tore down my favorite, Thunder Road
And i live in Pittsburgh so Carowinds is 8 hrs away. I hope to return there to ride that amazing looking Invert
Last time I was here was as a kid during the summer when I visited my uncle who was living in Charlotte at the time
Going in may. I have NEVER been on a real rollercoaster before but im gonna have to go on fury fr
Intimidator and fury really complement each other. They are completely different rides, but both are great in their own way. Kinda like Diamondback and Orion at Kings Island.
And don't sleep on ricochet or Woodstock Express. You won't code brown on those two but they are absolutely smile-makers.
Went last summer flr the first time it was great
I love Carrowinds. It’s clear Cedar Fair loves them. It’s my 3rd favorite Cedar Fair park, right behind Cedar Point and Kings Island.
I actually like Hurler, if you find the right seat, it's actually pretty smooth and I love the turns
I love that park
No joke I've been watching thoosie vids for about 2 years now and for some reason Fury325 hasn't stuck in my head as a top tier rolly. Guess I got some more content to consume
You need to ride it
Considering the lack of water rides, I think something like a Mack Power Splash would work really well here.
I went to Carowinds about a moth ago. I enjoyed it, and if I plan to go back, but it’s only a once every couple of year park because it’s a 10 hour drive for me.
I grew up in Rock Hill, SC so Carowinds was the hangout spot in high school after classes. It was Paramount at that time though. They need to get a hybrid coaster in there. The Hurler is still rough even though they replaced some track. Sure that coaster will be a nightmare in the future with replacing track. It’s up there where Thunder Road was for roughness. Launch is always good. Copper Head Strike is fun but I don’t think it would hurt to have one more. Please get nighthawk out of there. Prime real state for something better. Signage really can bring people on a coaster. Changing the name on Intimidator was cool but three signage is not up to par like others.
I’m from North Carolina but have always loved Busch Gardens Williamsburg more! 🤫
I would like to see a video of your top 5 parks in order since im pretty sure you have been to every single one of them in the US lol