[mark40511]

With any wooden coaster the first general rule is not to sit in the last row of a car. In that seat your back is aligned directly above the wheels, so any vibrations will be felt more.

I had a good ride in one of the middle seats of the last car on Thunder Road this year.

I never knew this! LOL - I always grab the back seat of any coaster pretty much or closest to it that I can, because of the first drop and being pulled by the car........I have rarely ridden in the very front on any coaster, but I have a few times.....TR was no exception for me. I always got the front when it went backwards, which was the front, but the very back.

I was watching a POV of twisted colossus and how you get to ride the blue, then it goes to green.......I was imagining something similar being done to TR, where they make it so you ride one side, go back up the lift to ride the other side.....not that that will happen, but that thought just entered my mind after watching the TC POV.

[Chris]

^That would have given us the longest wooden coaster in the world.

[pproteinc]

^ I think The Beast still would hold on to that crown.

[Chris]

^
Thunder Road: 3,819 + 3,819 = 7,638 feet
The Beast: 7,359 feet

[RollerBee]

^Never rode The Beast but POVs on YouTube make it look interesting.

[Jay]

It isn't. Go 3 hours west and ride a real woodie.

[tarheel1231]

^ But Voyage is a "hybrid."

[RollerBee]

^Is the Coney Island Cyclone a woodie?
^^Now that is a great answer there Jay!

[Merthecat]

Wait...Thunder Road opened in 1976, right? So wouldn't that make this year it's 40th anniversary?

[CodyH3333]

2015-1976= 39

[RollerBee]

No, I got married in 2006 and my tenth anniversary will be 2016 and my twentieth will be 2026. So explain 2002 being Carowinds's 30th Anniversary?

[Merthecat]

2015-1976= 39

No, because if you include 1976 as one year, it makes this year the fortieth.

[Chris]

1. 1976
2. 1977
3. 1978
4. 1979
5. 1980
6. 1981
7. 1982
8. 1983
9. 1984
10. 1985
11. 1986
12. 1987
13. 1988
14. 1989
15. 1990
16. 1991
17. 1992
18. 1993
19. 1994
20. 1995
21. 1996
22. 1997
23. 1998
24. 1999
25. 2000
26. 2001
27. 2002
28. 2003
29. 2004
30. 2005
31. 2006
32. 2007
33. 2008
34. 2009
35. 2010
36. 2011
37. 2012
38. 2013
39. 2014
40. 2015

[tarheel1231]

2015-1976= 39

No, because if you include 1976 as one year, it makes this year the fortieth.

40th season, an actual forty years would be 1976-2016. By your logic, when infants are born, they are already 1 year old.

[Littlegiles]

Rode twice today and still no lined and maybe 20 people in the entire station. I really thought with all the "Save Thunder Road" hashtags showing up on EVERYTHING that Carowinds posts, surely the lines would be longer.

I know they did have to close the SC side for a while after a little girl busted her nose on the lapbar....not sure how she did it, but there was blood everywhere. I think she was ok and her mother didn't seem to be freaking out. She said she did it on the first hill.