Texas Tornado at Wonderland Amusement Park was the first ever roller coaster designed by O.D. Hopkins. This coaster stands 80 feet tall and features 2 loops. But it was also designed on a napkin and as a result, this coaster has some bizarre profiling and odd forces. Does that make it good though?
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I think you forgot to mention the "Wagon Wheel" Loop, where the train valleyed and couldn't complete it so they made the track smaller and tighter and used white "Spokes" to support the new loop!
You are far too generous.
I mean I’m surprised it even came out as good as it did for being drawn on a napkin at a cocktail party, like seriously why didn’t Hopkins just wait to get to there office to design the coaster
Great review of an interesting coaster!
I love positive Gs! (hence why Nemesis is my #1)
Looks nice but I'am just not convinced I might ever get out there because it's a pretty small park, it's far away from any of the big cities in the center of the state and I don't know of any reasons I'd have to go to Amarillo in the first place.
Thanks for talking about this! I've always been fascinated by this ride just because of those PTC trains and bizarre loops. I cannot believe they operate it with those ridiculously slow hills 🤪
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Why else would anybody like pull outs if they weren't tight? 😉
I love the weird loops
Hopkins must've been drunk
technology is better now
wtf is this thing
The fact this thing is smoothish is a miracle.
This looks like a No Limits mistake.
Finally someone else who has ridden this! Those forces at the bottom of elements are intense.
Can you do a review of Desert Storm?
It's pronounced "Am-A-rill-oh)
Me : mom can we have shockwave the scharshof
Mom: no we have shockwave from scharshof at home
Shockwave from scharshof at home:
Don't drink and design kids.
What a legend! I love this ride's forces.
Honestly I've never ridden it every time I go I just feel like it's not gonna work for some reason
Wonderland is my homepark
Pretty sure black diamond at Knoebels is a PTC, making its trains another example of PTC steel trains.
I was passing through amarillo and saw this monstrosity. Unfortunately they're closed right now or I would have got the credit
So basically, this is Hopkins Prototype Playground?
Great videos man, hope to see the desert storm next. Hopkins made some weird coasters but boy are they enjoyable.
I know you said you liked Texas Tornado, but to me, it just looks like the coaster equivalent of The Room. So unapologetically bad that it's good (in a way). But that's neither here nor there. The real question is: Shock Wave's vertical loops, or the turn-around on this, which is more intense?
They forgot to turn low friction on.
Rmc Tornado 👀
I've ridden one Hopkins coaster–the little Polar Coaster at Story Land (NH). It's kind of a charming ride, a short and tame family terrain coaster, that seems to have been a drop-in replacement for an earlier, in-house coaster that had an alarming backyard-coaster look to it. But it has nothing in common with this!
Im on a Trip, and I’m Going to Wonderland for the first time Tonight, Can’t wait to add this to my list!
I’m on a trip rn, I’m in Amarillo, At 7:00 Today, I’m going to wonderland, Gonna be My First Hopkins Coaster, Can’t Wait to do it, the restraints look very comfortable tbh.
you know its bad when you can make better coasters in planet coaster
Wait this was designed on a napkin. LOL
Designed on a napkin, that has to be the world’s tiniest blue print for a roller coaster
These trains by PTC look like their Wooden Coaster Trains
You should go to castles and Coasters for Desert storm next, it's the largest rollercoaster in Arizona to my knowledge
honestly on a less busy day, wonderland should keep dummies on the platform so that if anyone gets in line to ride they have dummies already on the train so that it can complete the ride without valleying
This is my home park, and I wish I could ride this one day
As Europapark is the showground for Mack, I have a feeling Wonderland was the showground for Hopkins xD
Totally late comment but am I the only one who’s noticed that early Schwarzkopf loops have a similar ‘structure within a structure’ support system that we see on this ride. I guess we don’t clown on those coasters because it’s intentional lol
I live here, it's an eyesore indeed.
At 4:06 the people in the front had me on the ground
A wonderfully quirky looper for a wonderfully quirky park!
cool.
The AMC Gremlin was designed on an air-sickness bag. A cocktail napkin is classier.
The original Hopkins trains yielded an unusual ride: The roughness (feel) of a wooden coaster, with the elements of a steel coaster.