Earliest coaster credit closures

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1. Is your first wood coaster credit still operating?

2. Is your first steel coaster credit still operating?

3. What was the first coaster on your track record to close? (At some point all your credits were still operating, until this one closed.)

4. What is the earliest coaster credit on your track record that’s no longer operating? (So if you listed them all in the order that your first rode them, what is the first one listed that’s no longer open?) note this may or may not be different than any of the above answers.

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Mine:

1. Is your first wood coaster credit still operating?

Yes, Hersheypark’s Comet

2. Is your first steel coaster credit still operating?

Yes, Magic Kingdom’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

3. What was the first coaster on your track record to close? (At some point all your credits were still operating, until this one closed.)

Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s Drachen Fire in 1998

4. What is the earliest coaster credit on your track record that’s no longer operating? (So if you listed them all in the order that your first rode them, what is the first one listed that’s no longer open?) note this may or may not be different than any of the above answers.

Depends how you look at it. Adventureland’s Hurricane is #6 on my list, but It has been relocated and is currently operational.

Six Flags Great Adventure’s Great American Scream Machine is #8 and no longer exists.

[acer510]

1. Yes Racer at KI in 1973 at age 14
2a. Yes not remembered but Dad(age 86) says it was Matterhorn
Bobsleds at Disneyland in 1963 when I was 4 years old 2b. No first one I remember was Barvarian Beetle at KI in 1973 at age 14 #3 & 4 in next post

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3. Barvarian Beetle in 1978 4. Barvarian Beetle is #2 on my list and it no longer exists.

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1. Is your first wood coaster credit still operating?
2. Is your first steel coaster credit still operating?
3. What was the first coaster on your track record to close? (At some point all your credits were still operating, until this one closed.)
4. What is the earliest coaster credit on your track record that’s no longer operating? (So if you listed them all in the order that your first rode them, what is the first one listed that’s no longer open?) note this may or may not be different than any of the above answers.

Jet, travelling Schwarzkopf Jet Star in France. It was set up at Babyland-Amiland last year but never operated there and apparently it isn't going to now. Shame.

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1. Is your first wood coaster credit still operating?

No - Little Dipper at Kennywood

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2. Is your first steel coaster credit still operating?

Yes - Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland

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3. What was the first coaster on your track record to close? (At some point all your credits were still operating, until this one closed.)

Racing Whippet and Dips, both when West View Park closed in 1977

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4. What is the earliest coaster credit on your track record that’s no longer operating? (So if you listed them all in the order that your first rode them, what is the first one listed that’s no longer open?) note this may or may not be different than any of the above answers.

Same as #3

[spacemtfandlp]

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1. Is your first wood coaster credit still operating?

Yes, although moved to another state. It was the Florida Hurricane at Circus World/Boardwalk and Baseball in FL. It was moved to Magic Springs and is now the Arkansas Twister.

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2. Is your first steel coaster credit still operating?

Yes, the Petites Montagnes Russes at La Ronde. The Arrow Mini Mine Train is now called La Marche du Mille-Pattes. (Millipede Walk)

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3. What was the first coaster on your track record to close? (At some point all your credits were still operating, until this one closed.)

Italian Roller Coaster at Great Escape. It closed in 1988 and I rode it around 1986-1987 as a kid.

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4. What is the earliest coaster credit on your track record that’s no longer operating? (So if you listed them all in the order that your first rode them, what is the first one listed that’s no longer open?) note this may or may not be different than any of the above answers.

Italian Roller Coaster.

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1. Is your first wood coaster credit still operating?

Yes - the Thunderbolt at Riverside! Or SFNE as it is now. Back to one train operation even, just like the "good ol days".

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2. Is your first steel coaster credit still operating?

Also affirmative. That was Space Mountain at MK.

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3. What was the first coaster on your track record to close? (At some point all your credits were still operating, until this one closed.)
4. What is the earliest coaster credit on your track record that’s no longer operating? (So if you listed them all in the order that your first rode them, what is the first one listed that’s no longer open?) note this may or may not be different than any of the above answers.

The coaster earliest on my count that's dead is Black Widow (#4 on my count). However the first coaster on my count to actually close forever was a different Arrow Shuttle - the Python at Six Flags America/Adventure World. I rode that in 1998 and it closed the same year.

[CanobieFan]

Oddly difficult for me to do this one... I didn't start 'counting' or keep track of stuff until I already had +100 coaster ridden. It wasn't until 2000ish when I learned about 'counting' and I never made my own list until 03... So the order of my first 100 or so credits arent in any sort of order (I don't even know my first coaster...) although I know the years for some based of vacations we took (ie: Disney in 95)

1. Is your first wood coaster credit still operating?
- Not sure. It's either Yankee Cannonball (still operating) or Flyer Comet (gone)

2. Is your first steel coaster credit still operating?
- Probably, my parents had taken me to parks my entire life... so I don't know what my first coaster even was but we made yearly visits to Canobie, Whalom, Yorks, Storyland, and Santas Village....and the local fair. So somewhere in New England is/was my first steel coaster... and even credit.

3. What was the first coaster on your track record to close? (At some point all your credits were still operating, until this one closed.)
- Maybe Flitzer at Yorks, closed 1998.... Or the Galaxi at Pirate's Fun Park (unsure when it was removed)


4. What is the earliest coaster credit on your track record that’s no longer operating? (So if you listed them all in the order that your first rode them, what is the first one listed that’s no longer open?) note this may or may not be different than any of the above answers.
- Again, not knowing my order for anything ridden in 90's its hard to say, but I'd assume the Flitzer at Yorks. Its for sure the first coaster I remember *not seeing* on a return visit. And that was gone before the Riverside coasters left in 99, Galaxi left PFP before 99 as well but I cant put a year on it but I do remember going on a summer camp field trip and having it be gone.

[Heather Kendrick]

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1. Is your first wood coaster credit still operating?

Yes (Beastie/Woodstock Express at Kings Island).

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2. Is your first steel coaster credit still operating?

Yes (Junior Gemini/Wilderness Run at Cedar Point).

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3. What was the first coaster on your track record to close? (At some point
all your credits were still operating, until this one closed.)

Simultaneously, everything that closed with Geauga Lake. (Raging Wolf Bobs,
which closed a few months before the rest of the park, was down both times I
visited the park.)

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4. What is the earliest coaster credit on your track record that’s no
longer operating? (So if you listed them all in the order that your first
rode them, what is the first one listed that’s no longer open?) note this
may or may not be different than any of the above answers.

I believe that’s WildCat at Cedar Point, if I have the order of things
right. Like CanobieFan, I didn’t start counting until I already had around
150 coasters done and my recollection of the order of the earlier ones
isn’t always reliable.

[Ansley]

1 First wood coaster was junior NAD woodie at The Granby Zoo in Quebec. I think it was called the Comet. It would also be the first coaster that closed after I rode it as it only lasted a few years.
2. First steel coaster, and my first coaster was the kiddie coaster at La Rinse. It is still operating I was about 4 years old. I don't remember the current name of the coaster.