Rolling Thunder

[[jonrev]]

Was Rolling Thunder (bobsled coaster by where SWT is now) a fun ride. It looks cool to have no track.

[Danhockey04]

I loved Rolling Thunder, thought I was only a kid when I went on it, but it was lots of fun to swing into those turns freely.

[SIC COASTER]

I used to love that ride when I was younger then again I wasn't tall enough for many things then.

[Andrew]

I never got a chance to go on it because my first visit to SFGAm was in 1996. My friend has been on it and says that it was a lot of fun.

[rich12_16]

It was major fun. I remember being dragged off that to the Demon for my first ride on that. I remember seing park maps and such in the middle of the Track, it was similar to waterslide track.

[[jonrev]]

It would be cool if they brought it back for HH and filled its track (?) with water and had rafts run through it. That would be awesome!

[SIC COASTER]

I don't know about that one there Jon thats why they have a family raft ride.

[[jonrev]]

Oh. I've never really been to HH so I didn't know (too busy at the dry park).

[[jonrev]]

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[Trailblazer Tony]

They do have something like that at dollywood. It just uses a rubber tobaggon. It is an awesome ride.

[Shockwavegirl]

I loved Rolling Thunder, thought I was only a kid when I went on it, but it was lots of fun to swing into those turns freely.

Well, you probably wouldn't have fit in the car/sled as an adult.....every grown up I knew had their knees banged on the edge of the car....to tall.

[Galvan]

It would be cool if they brought it back for HH and filled its track (?) with water and had rafts run through it. That would be awesome!

Thats what the lazy river is for lol.

[[jonrev]]

Yeah, but a lazy river is slow.

[FParker185]

ride was fun, though when it went into the block brakes, there would be some very violent jarring, also the seats were quite small, almost sitting on the floor.

The ride currently operates (though with new cars) at Great Escape in New York.

[Geno21K]

Rolling Thunder was a cool ride while it was freely moving through the course, but the transitions back into tracked sections were violent and painful. The seating was also uncomfortable, as has been mentioned. You sat very low to the ground and were prone to banging knees, and shins when the car locked back into the track. I thought it was an okay ride, but nothing to be overly missed. I also couldn't even imagine riding it now that I'm at my full height of 6'2". My legs would get torn to hell. That ride definitely seemed more friendly to the shorter rider.

[coasterfan71555]

I thought that Rolling Thunder was a FUN ride. It was especially so during chilly weather. The cars seemed to ride higher up the sides of the trough when weather was cold. I admit the transitions into the block brakes were a bit rough, but I always enjoyed the ride. It was at the park from 1989 to 1995. Viper was constructed behind Rolling Thunder, and for the 1995 season, their entrances were side by side, right where the entrance to Southwest Territory is now. All in all, it was a quirky, but fun ride, and I feel it was the best of the Intamin bobsleds I rode. And, it had a short height restriction, so it became my nephew's first big coaster ride!Incidentally, Rolling Thunder's cars were the first project by Bolliger and Mabillard!!!