As a Connecticut local who grew up with Wildcat, it's a childhood classic...that does indeed suck nowadays. I was legitimately concerned that I had sprained my back after riding it. It's between that and Maryland's Mind Eraser for the worst coaster I've ridden.

@jamesyoder11

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, nothing can compare to the awful Volare model and Pegasus. That said, I haven't experienced Wildcat yet. It was closed when I visited.

@ryanwalsh3938

4 күн бұрын

It’s terrible. I rode it back in the day with the PTC trains and before it was retracted and it was awful. It felt like that ride was going to collapse.

The fact that we need an RMC Wildcat here and at Hersheypark is staggering.

@BurgerInATux

2 жыл бұрын

Lol ikr

@ethanhcomposer

2 жыл бұрын

the curses of wildcat

@ItsSiebay

2 жыл бұрын

Can we send one to Frontier City as well? Lol

@tylarlozano1229

2 жыл бұрын

@@ItsSiebay Frontier City’s Wildcat actually runs quite well, they really just need a Raptor if anything, plus Wildcat works well for the lineup Frontier City has, but that’s just me.

@coasterthekid8867

2 жыл бұрын

I wanna see rmc lightning racer instead and we can just burn wildcat

Watching this channel makes you realize there’s so many small parks the no one knows about. These small parks are sometimes pretty cool

@Nitrolord

2 жыл бұрын

Unless, of course, you live in Connecticut, in which case this and quassy are kinda all you get unless you go out of state. Compounce is a fan favorite here

@willlima1297

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nitrolord the good thing is you only have to go out of state literally 300ft in order to reach the next big park in MA

@jameson_coasterlover3411

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nitrolord or I live in ri so I have every park like sfne lake compounce and canobie lake park

Fun fact, Ghost Hunt is the first Ghost Blasters attraction ever built. All other versions, including Boo Blasters, were inspired by Ghost Hunt. The new targets and guns were installed in 2017 by Lagotronics. The park spent $500,000 upgrading the ride and it's better than ever. So glad you got to experience one of my home parks again!

I love how ghost rider and wildcat got the “same” treatment when one is running like it’s new and the other is running worse than it used to

On most wooden coasters, retracking the ride is seen as a plus. From what I’ve gathered, before it’s 2017 retrack Wildcat was rough, but not intolerable. AFTERWARDS, it supposedly became unbearable, meaning that, somehow, the retracking made the experience worse, which I’m not sure how that’s possible

@JoeMamaLlama1234

2 жыл бұрын

We need like titan track or ibox track or gravity group rebuild the coaster from scratch. This thing beat me up so bad my doctor thought I got concussed. It was nuts

@smuella

2 жыл бұрын

2014 it was a little underwhelming but not bad. Amazing that the retrack seems to have changed it for the worse.

@JoeMamaLlama1234

2 жыл бұрын

@@smuella somehow that's even possible. You'd think a retrack would make it smoother. Or if it didn't improve smoothness maybe get rid of some pot holes or jolting of the track to make better transitions. But no. Somehow it's far worse.

@SpectrumAssociates

2 жыл бұрын

Wait until they slap hard over the shoulder restraints on Wildcat.

As someone who doesn’t care about roughness, I love wildcat as the roughness takes a boring ride and makes it a chaotic and fun one

Besides missing the old triple up, this ride is perfection…!

Boulder dash it’s so much better at night

I lost it when she said advanced darkness, this one's a keeper dude

I wish it was easier to get night rides on Boulder Dash. Now that they stopped Haunted Graveyard, you pretty much have to visit on a summer Saturday night.

@amusementnow4416

2 жыл бұрын

Go for an ACE or other enthusiast club event... awesome. I rode 13 times without leaving my seat.

@mrknowhere6457

Жыл бұрын

​@@amusementnow4416I've always wondered, do you have to be a paying member of Ace to be able to attend those events? Or can you just show up? They are holding a conference at my home park, Lagoon this year, and I would love to attend it, I just don't really know how it works lol

@amusementnow4416

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you need to join ACE first@@mrknowhere6457

Not sure if it has degraded in the last year since this video but I had my first visit to Lake Compounce today and OMG was Boulderdash rough! A roller coaster shouldn't be so much work for me to fight back against it trying to injure me. It was so disappointing because all the while, I was thinking - this layout and aggressiveness is perfect! All it need sis RMC to smooth it all out. Wildcat was closed, but if it' even rougher, I'm fine with avoiding it. Other than that, the park is beautiful, the other coasters and flat rides were awesome, the music was great, and end of night fireworks was the perfect cherry on top. The park is also a manageable size if you have kids like me. I highly recommend anyone visit.

thats crazy how you found wildcat to be so bad. I remember riding it right after the retracking and it wasnt that great but i thought it was fine. Sucks how its gone downhill. But you cant beat boulder dash absolutely amazing insane coaster I gotta get a night ride one of these days with how you described it.

If you think Wildcat is rough, The Hurler at Carowinds will shake the bones out of your skin.

“Well, why don’t we start looking?”

Okay, I would make a comment on how good this video is (it's great) but 5:03 HOW IN THE HELL HAS SARAH NOT SEEN ROTS? ABSOLUTE INSANITY LMAAAAOOOO

@CoasterStudios

2 жыл бұрын

I know, i’m workin on it

@dimanboi1526

2 жыл бұрын

@@CoasterStudios good luck Taylor, fighting the good fight lol

I love rollercoasters and I also love this channel!

Wildcat blows. Needs to be RMC'd, would be insane. And a nice difference from any other coaster in NE.

I'm very jealous that late opening hours in parks are the norm in the US. loved the evening vibes in this video

The fact Hayden Christensen is coming back for the Disney+ original Obi Wan and Ahsoka has me so hyped lol

I cannot wait to see your guys reaction to Wildcat.

@thequackenscoasterchannel2927

2 жыл бұрын

Ngl I'm glad they agree. It's my least favorite wood coaster I've ever ridden.

Boulder Dash is one of the few coasters left on my bucket list in the US!

As a previous employee I can tell you even we hated wildcat. But man I loved working Boulder Dash, best summers ever.

Great Vlog! Wildcat Is definitely my least favorite coaster for sure, a good description of it is driving down a gravel road and your tires are falling off. Boulder Dash is amazing at night!!! When was this vlog filmed?

@CoasterStudios

2 жыл бұрын

Can agree with the Wildcat comment! This was filmed August 2021

Wildcat is on the short list of credits I've decided I will never get, until something is done about it. I've been warned. I'm over 50 and I can't take that. And it's a pity, because the thing is so iconic. You see it right at the entrance and it just beckons you. On the bright side, Compounce's Boomerang is actually not bad. (And the immortal awesomeness of Boulder Dash goes without saying.)

@phoenixshade3

2 жыл бұрын

I'm also over 50 and just getting back into coasters after a 20 year absence. I can safely say that I rode Roar at SFA with a some trepidation because of the roughness at certain spots. My fears turned out to be unjustified. It didn't bother me at all, despite having suffered a herniated disc in the past. (And I found the ride more enjoyable than most, too.) Note: I have always taken a mobility-centric approach to my back issues. I never had surgery even though it was recommended at one point, but my outcome is BETTER than typically acheived through surgery.

@Mister_Brown

2 жыл бұрын

@@phoenixshade3 roar is enjoyable and smooth as glass compared to wildcat, they really needed to leave the no divider buzz bar trains on it so you could bounce around on wildcat. think carowinds or kings dominion hurler right before they added the trim or current carowinds hurler but without the insane padding and with even more jackhammering

Excellent 🔥

Wow your videos are great I loooooove rollacosters

Lake Compounce is my home park but I just went to it for the first time a couple weeks ago. We rode wild cat right after it opened. We weren’t expecting much cause we heard it was awful but we had a little bit of hope after hearing it was re tracked. This first section kept this hope high and then it gave our group such awful whiplash.

Taylor, what is it with you and entrances? First the Sea World entrance debacle and now Lake Compounce as well? I think we need to start a GoFundMe to buy you paper maps to use from now on. 😂😂😂😂😂

I got several night rides on Outlaw Run, and it was AMAZING!

@BackSeatJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

At night, Outlaw Run's lights for the on-ride photo should be considered a war crime.

I'm wondering with Wildcat being so negatively recieved, will the park eventually decide to tear it down despite being a historic coaster?

Damn it. My home park. Wish I knew you were going. Would’ve loved to have met you

I had the same problem with Google maps, we ended up doing a giant loop around the park before we found the parking lot lol

As a local I visit the park every year and I’ve been on Wildcat once when I was 8. We know not to touch it 😂

How could you not mention one of the prettiest Boomerangs in existence? That blue and those sparkly purple trains are AMAZING. And the ride was pretty darn smooth lol.

@triple7marc

Жыл бұрын

Because it's a Boomerang lol

@tim850csi

Жыл бұрын

@@triple7marc Yeah yeah, lol. But there are some really good ones and really bad ones. this is a good one!

@triple7marc

Жыл бұрын

@@tim850csi True, but it’s still irrelevant lol

“Look at me Squidward: I’m riding Boulderdash … at night!”

If you wanna feel real pain, ride Blue Streak at Conneaut, is great fun pain though.

Not just the night ride, Boulder Dash is great during October with all the foliage changing colors around it. People often forget that.

@thomasxl200

2 жыл бұрын

Rode it 4x today, can confirm

@dougronald561

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasxl200 that’s great

Wildcat was my first ever roller coaster. It scarred me mentally so badly that i was afraid to go on roller coasters for like 15 years cuz i associated them only with pain...and this was well before the current retracking.

Boulder Dash is a huge fast jack hammer ride, rode back it was worse, front is almost as bad. I remember riding this when it was new, it was a pleasure, now it’s just plain painful. Needs new track and new train with round wheels, these square Fred flint stone ones got to go.

What a night-and day differrence from boulderdash to wildcat😅

The Dualing Wooden Coasters at PortAventura are very very bad too!!

I just went here for the ESPN picnic , I did not go on WildCat It's to rough. But still a beautiful classic

Phobia’s entry sign is pretty sick

You guys need to come back to Lake Compounce this summer to reride Wildcat. They redid the track again and its much better now!!

@CoasterStudios

2 ай бұрын

I’ve heard it’s way better now!

2:25 That's Great American Scream Machine at SFOG. Jackhammer like a bastard on valleys.

7:00 same outlaw run is my favorite night ride

I was blessed to be able to ride Boulder dash the day it opened. Rode it 13 times and it's what got me into coasters. A night ride is a religious experience. Also RMC needs to help Wildcat js

went here a few years ago and stayed there with our camper for like a week or something i dont remember exactly how long,but it was 100% worth it absolutely insane rides

I go here all of the time it is amazing

Had the same issue when I tried to find the entrance

Wildcat got retracked! 😁🥳

Yeah this is the second closet parks to me and wildcat opened one of my friend wounds and we got a headache after

lake compounce is my homepark, I havent riden wildcat in 10 years, I may never ride it again. It is so rough for no reason

Its funny that you guys din't mention mystic timber night rides or did you never have one?

Wildcat is alright. It's definitely not the worst coaster ever, but it's definitely not the best in the park. Went on it earlier today, maybe they did more renovations in the past 2 years but I didn't find anything except for the end part particularly rough. Boulder Dash makes it look like a joke.

Are you going to Hollywood Nights this year?

I was at Lake Compounce a few weeks ago on a college tour trip for my younger son, and I was excited to ride Boulder Dash with my older son who was too small to ride the last time I road it. Unfortunately, Boulder Dash was closed that day, and we rode the Wildcat instead. Terrible ride, particularly the ride restraints. They were against my lower abdomen rather than my hips, and by the time the ride was done, I was afraid I might have organ damage.

@MoLewis57

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't try a night ride on Boulder Dash when I road it in the past, so I can't compare night vs. day, but I will say that my Boulder Dash rides in the day were my favorite experiences on a wooden coaster, because it felt like we were going over and under tree branches for almost the entire ride ( except for the bunny hills outside the woods at the end, which give really nice air time ), and you the trees kept you from seeing what was around the next day. Boulder Dash is one of the few roller coasters that can't be replicated anywhere else.

On my way to great adventure right now!

@Sarcastrophe098

2 жыл бұрын

Have fun dude, hope you enjoy all your rides!

Taylor, You mean Wildcat (here) is worse than other really rough coasters you've either mentioned or ridden! (Wildcat at Hershey Park; any Vekoma SLC except for Great Nor'Easter, Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags over Georgia, etc)

Even with Millennium Flyers and retracking, the ride still sucks. Living in Connecticut I rode this back in 2008, and then came back to Lake Compounce in 2019 with the retrack and it was one of the worst experiences I have had on a roller coaster ever.

@SpectrumAssociates

2 жыл бұрын

Wait until they add hard over the shoulder restraints on Wildcat.

I didn’t get jackhammered as bad on wildcat when I sat front row and no one else was in the train. The more full the train was the worse it got. But yeah never again. I was more sore after the day after Lake Compounce due to Wildcat than a half marathon.

Sarah’s hair do be lookin’ like Narcissa Malfoy.

i hated my most recent ride on boulder dash, almost bruised a rib, no joke.

I rode Wildcat and Boulder Dash in 2016 before the track work... I was just grateful Phobia was there and there was no line. The triple up on Boulder Dash was extremely painful and all of Wildcat felt worse. Went back in 2019...the double up replacement on BDwas the only enjoyable spot but Wildcat still ranks as my worst. Boulder Dash needs major re-tracking by Amuse.

Coasters named Wildcat are destined to be rough rides.

Sometimes these videos are updated and reposted with current date…as a small suggestion, at the beginning of the video or in the synopsis about the vlog, maybe you could include the exact date (and day) that you were there. I enjoy your videos but as I watch, I am interested to see the days you went for certain parks and what the crowd sizes were like as you go on the rides.

I've only gone to lake compounce two times because six flags new england is closer but i went this summer and i waited in line for wildcat but i left because it was too long, but I'm glad I didnt ride that... go ride thundorbolt at six flags new england instead.

You need a pain reliever comparison... Pick one really rough coaster, take Tylenol, see how many times you can ride it. Next day Advil... And so on. The one that gets you the most rides in Wildcat/X2/ whatever wins.

Wait, did you go when you were driving by and Sarah said: "Are there half day tickets for Lake Compounce" or something?

They should turn wildcat into an rmc tbh

@triple7marc

Жыл бұрын

I disagree. It's too historic for that.

Question. Doesnt the park close at 6pm,hiw is it so dark here already before closing time at 6p?

@CoasterStudios

2 жыл бұрын

We got there after 6

@Imowennn

2 жыл бұрын

It literally says in the video the park is open until 10pm

Lake compunce is my favorite park cuz its my home park i go there so much btw you should go back wildcat was reatract and boulder dash got some titan track i love boulder dash and phobia is very fun great park

You can see the track work on Wildcat is downright unacceptable from the station and while in line on that bridge over the track. The track doesn't align even close to itself and there's huge gaps between pieces of track. Just riding from the station to the lift hill is awful. Whoever retracked it should absolutely never be allowed to touch another roller coaster again. This is a small ride and it nearly busts your spine. Image if they retracked a larger coaster how bad it'd be? It'd be worse than son of beast was.

get someone who looks at you the way sarah stares at taylor at 10:25

Lake Compounce is having Gravity Group retrack Wildcat for the 2024 season!

You two talked so highly of Mystic Timbers at night but not mentioned here?

Wild Cat used to be WAY smoother, idk what hapened but it got CRAZY rough in the past 15 years. And the old school PTC trains rode that course so much better

Sooner or later Wildcat with either cease to exist? Or it will be RMC'd.

i personally think that boulder dash was rough it kinda banged up my hip

Hey that's my home park and yes Wildcat sucks! It's very rough and not that great I was hoping it would improve with the Millennium Flyer trains replacing the old PTC trains but it's still way too rough! Wish they would RMC it but I don't think Lake Compounce has the budget to do that unfortunately. Boulder Dash in my opinion is one of my two favorite wooden coasters the other El Toro at SFGA!

i went on wildcat yesterday, now my neck hurts like crazy

Wildcat would’ve been better with buzz bars, the 3 row PTC trains had middle seats that don’t ride on wheels and could give a smoother ride

Boulder dash is my favorite ride of all

Wildcat is so bad.. Rode it 3 years ago. Rough enough to hurt.

I wish we could ride coasters twice as fast so we could get better airtime.

But why celery and ranch?

Yeah, Wildcat needs some serious TLC. Haven’t bothered riding it in years. Wouldn’t be mad if they tore it down and built something completely new or RMC’d it. But if I’m being 100% honest (I’ll probably get a lot of flak for saying this) I wouldn’t be mad if Boulder Dash got RMC’d either. That lovely coaster is starting to get very rough as well. I still wouldn’t be mad if they left it as is either, it’s that good of a woody.

As a Connecticut native I agree that you should never use apple/Google maps to get to lake compounce

I Love To Go To Lake Compounce

2:02 I mean...look at Gwazi...

And then they add a Vekoma SLC.

I went on august 28 wildcat sucked boulder dash got 4 back row rides no airtime and phobia was the only coaster that i actually really liked.

Would you say it was worst then blue streak at cp? I’m talking about wildcat

@mr.noride7226

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t recall him disliking Blue Streak.

@surgeofpv

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.noride7226 My home park is cp so I might not think it is rough.

Y’all know when Taylor says it’s worse than an slc yk it’s bad

When are you comming back to europe and doing poland?

@CoasterStudios

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully next year!

Heello

Wildcat at lake compounce is the worse roller coaster that I have ridden. It felt like my shoulder was going to pop out of my skin, and my neck was tossed around. That was if not, the worst roller coaster experience ever!!!!!!

Waited 45 mins for Wildcat….. this is a stupid hobby

Taylor seems like the person to say “Execute order 66” while driving from Chicago to California.