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Dueling Dragons Red (Sit-Down) - Guangzhou Sunac Land 4K60 POV

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 1d

Guangzhou Sunac Land has a pair of incredibly iconic coasters in Dueling Dragons, with the Red Sit-Down and Green Inverted tracks sharing opposite sides of the same launch, loop, and spike.

Sadly, they no longer duel. But Red is still a really fun ride!

youtu.be/rFPcU6GzIUg

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 3d

Dole Whips. They're just way too sweet for me.

Also those giant turkey legs.

Wind Track - Skyline Luge Busan 4K60 POV

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 4d

One of the surprise highlights of my time in South Korea was my afternoon at Skyline Luge Busan, which is right next door to Lotte World Adventure Busan.

They have 4 different luge track routes you can take. This is the Wind Track (right-right).

youtu.be/otJSy5RXSRI

Pinocchio's Daring Journey [DGRC] - Tokyo Disneyland 4K POV

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 4d

I've always been a bit critical of Disneyland's Pinocchio because of how dark everything is in there, but like everything else at Tokyo Disneyland, the Oriental Land Company takes good care of their ride & Pinocchio's Daring Journey is actually well-lit!

youtu.be/0CG_Qg4xEzI

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Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, I think they do collaborate with a number of other creators, but most of those were likely for footage of the creators rather than clean footage of the ride itself.

But when I offered to let them use my footage and showed them my existing videos I'd done of similar rides, they got excited.

경주월드Gyeongju world 드라켄dive coaster, b&m 국내 최초8k 탑승 영상

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 6d

For reference, this is their current official POV video for this ride:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveo...

YouTube video by 경주월드(Gyeongju World)

www.youtube.com

I Filmed this POV for the Park! Draken - Gyeongju World 4K60 POV

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 6d

This one is exciting!

I collaborated with Gyeongju World to film a bunch of their rides, and now they're going to use my footage for their marketing stuff instead of their old shaky video.

This is their fun dive coaster Draken, their Griffon clone:

youtu.be/PQLu-5WdzkI

I Rode the World's FIRST Tilt Coaster: Gravity Max - LIHPAO Land Discovery World 4K Back Car 360 FX

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Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 6d

And today we're starting off this new batch of ride POV videos with a bang:

It's Gravity Max, the world's first Tilt Coaster at LIHPAO Land Discovery World in Taiwan, from 2002!

Pulls some intense sustained G's but is pretty smooth and enjoyable!

youtu.be/lHjjQTHcvJo

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

Pretty sure it's because they've replaced autocorrect with AI.

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

I planned it. Lol.

Today is the first day in my new batch of POV's. I think you'll probably enjoy the coming weeks and months!

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

In fairness, *I* went to bed before most of that. Lol. I was literally in bed, nodding off, trying to get through posting the last of what all we did last night before I could let myself fully zonk out.

I got behind on posting at Yeti Trek and stayed hours behind all day afterwards.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh [DGRC] - Hong Kong Disneyland 4K POV

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

So I apparently got distracted running around Canada's Wonderland and never got around to posting the link to Friday's POV:

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh at Hong Kong Disneyland!

Can you spot all the differences from the other versions?

youtu.be/G4KioUGDo8s

Frank'N Coaster (On top of a Burger King!) - House of Frankenstein 4K60 POV

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

Hot take:

AlpenFury is the coaster that Kings Dominion should have gotten to replace Volcano.

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

Relevant Coaster POV (even if I did film this one last year):

bsky.app/profile/acoa...

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

So last year, I went up to Toronto for work and ended up popping down to Niagara, where I rode the infamous Burger King Coaster.

Well, this past weekend I did it again, so I thought it was only fitting that it be today's POV!

It's super janky, btw.

youtu.be/puksMETeHco

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Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

Sunday's Thread:

Driving to Muskoka
Yeti Trek
Percival Frostfoot
The Charm of Santa's Village
Moose on the Loose
Back to Canada's Wonderland
More Night Rides
The Conjuring Again

bsky.app/profile/acoa...

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 9d

Top of the morning to y'all!

That's Canada's Wonderland, but they don't open for another couple of hours. And that's not where we're starting things off today.

But we will be back later!

But first...

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

Saturday's Theead:

Darien Lake Coasters & Things
Niagara Burger King Coaster
Nightmares Fear Factory
Sushi Dinner

bsky.app/profile/acoa...

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Saturday from Darien Lake!

It was a bit earlier of a morning than you'd expect for a noon park opening, but it took almost 3 hours to get here from our hotel, including a ~25 min wait at the border.

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

Friday's thread:

Flying to Toronto
First rides on AlpenFury & reactions
Canada's Wonderland Haunt, including The Conjuring
Night Rides

bsky.app/profile/acoa...

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 10d

I love the international terminal. Curbside to airside in literally 3 minutes.

Now onwards for another little coastering adventure!

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

And now it's time to head home.

I had a great long weekend up in the greater Toronto/Buffalo/Niagara/Muskoka area!

If you missed any of my daily threads, I'll link to them down below.

Where will my next adventure be?

Perhaps somewhere else with a new-for-2025 coaster?

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Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

This one is for @dadventureswithwes.bsky.social. Depending on how you count things, this is either incredibly timely or a full year late. Lol.

Frank'N Coaster (On top of a Burger King!) - House of Frankenstein 4K60 POV

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 7d

So last year, I went up to Toronto for work and ended up popping down to Niagara, where I rode the infamous Burger King Coaster.

Well, this past weekend I did it again, so I thought it was only fitting that it be today's POV!

It's super janky, btw.

youtu.be/puksMETeHco

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 8d

In case you missed the end of last night's thread (I was really late in posting things).

You can click through and scroll up to wherever you left off.

Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 8d

And overall, this was a great weekend hanging out with @jkwanny.bsky.social!

My original plan was to just spend 2.5 days at Wonderland, but I'm really glad we made those side trips to Darien Lake/Niagara and Santa's Village.

Would have loved more time, but I don't regret how we spent what we had.

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Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 8d

And overall, this was a great weekend hanging out with @jkwanny.bsky.social!

My original plan was to just spend 2.5 days at Wonderland, but I'm really glad we made those side trips to Darien Lake/Niagara and Santa's Village.

Would have loved more time, but I don't regret how we spent what we had.

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Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 8d

Even though we were only at CW for ~5 hours tonight, we still did a LOT:

3x Leviathan (for me)
2x Wilde Beast, Minebuster
1x Snoopy, Boo Blasters, Drop Tower, AlpenFury, Windseeker, SkyHawk, Behemoth, Backlot, Yukon Striker, Conjuring

Not a bad haul!

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Nathan Firesheets @acoasterstory.bsky.social · 8d

We never actually went over to this front-left corner of the park. Would have offered some nice AlpenFury views.

But we didn't want to do the SLC. And while it might have been nice to make jokes about the fate of Time Warp, we had other stuff to do.

Imagine that's where the next ride will go.