A Knock-Off BETTER than the ORIGINAL?? | Say Hello to the Soopa Loopa!

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What’s going on guys and welcome back to the channel! In 1969, a small theme park known as Lightwater Valley in the UK opened to the public for the first time. The park provided an inlet for fairly new companies to test products, concepts, and ideas. Of these new products came a first of a kind coaster that seemed to do well for the park. However, as time went on it began getting ridiculed for its roughness and criticized as a copy-cat coaster. But why was this and where is the coaster now? This is the past-present modern day story of Lightwater Valley’s Soopa Loopa. 😝🎢
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@friedrich_ast1292 2 жыл бұрын

The coaster isn’t really rough. I rode it a couple weeks ago and its really smooth for this age.

@FunboxKaraoke 2 жыл бұрын

This is the kind of research / RCDB'ing that I appreciate in a roller coaster video. You've earned a subscription.

@NationalCoasters 2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear! Thanks for the support 😎

@sustainedfloatercoasters5103 2 жыл бұрын

Dude I love these videos on lesser known coasters, there are/were a lot of awesome rides out there that no one knows about! Keep the good work up!

@NationalCoasters 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! 🔥

@gaz11h 2 жыл бұрын

rode it at the American Adventure, one little feature it did have was a couple of rear facing seats near the rear of the train they made for an interesting ride

@ShockerTopper 2 жыл бұрын

It's crazy to me that they can disassemble and reassemble the ride over and over...like you would think that one specialized piece gets lost and it's game over. Damn..just crazy to me that they have all these different engineering teams working on it.

@robwarner9371 2 жыл бұрын

This ride was so much fun! Had loads of rides on it when it was at American Adventure. The best bit was the face-to-face seating at the back of the train. The backwards-facing seats were highly sought-after.

@NationalCoasters 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@ajmullins3068 2 жыл бұрын

I love the lesser known coasters, I grew up around a park called Americana in Monroe Ohio and as I got older introduced to my home park of kings island but til this day I still remember the coaster at Americana in the early 90s, if it weren’t for these stepping stone coasters many of us enthusiasts wouldn’t be around 🖤

@MrPaulBriffett 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when I was a child and saw this at American Adventure.

@coasterhockygamingboy9549 2 жыл бұрын

This coaster actually exists at Legendia now and is very underrated.

@singlerailindustries1763 2 жыл бұрын

2:19 The Structure Of The Loops Look Exactly Like The Ones From The Schwarzkopf Loopers

@allmighty_boy1903 2 жыл бұрын

Fr right

@Colaholiker 2 жыл бұрын

And the track design looks like Schwarzkopf's Shock Wave at Six Flags Over Texas. Colossus may has the same kind of loops, but the rest of the track is very different (no surprise, Colossus was built as a traveling fairground coaster, while Shock Wave was designed as a park model...) However, Soquet have a reputation of "drawing inspiration ;-)" from Schwarzkopf coasters, there is (or used to be?) a fairground coaster made by them going by the name of "Le King", which is clearly inspired by Alpina Bahn. (Though in all honesty their quality is nowhere near to what we expect from Schwarzkopf coasters.)

@singlerailindustries1763 2 жыл бұрын

@@Colaholiker Yup

@revparsons3tl 2 жыл бұрын

I loved that ride at American Adventure was half an hour away from where I live

@michaeltaylor1603 2 жыл бұрын

I like how the two loops "kiss" each other. To bad it's rough! It looks otherwise to be a good coaster (maybe) back in the day. LOL! Tic Tac name was pretty funny!

@blitzp0121 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's pretty fun one, for a long time it was the only coaster in Poland to go upside down, so it's kind of fan's favorite, even though Lech coaster stands just next to it

@topherwolf1113 2 жыл бұрын

I don't remember it being called 'Gladiators', I remember it being called the 'Iron Wolf Twin Looper', before the 'Iron Wolf' part was dropped a few years later. Wolf was a Gladiator on the show, so that was the connection to the Gladiators.

@jeroen3241 2 жыл бұрын

I rode this 2 weeks ago and it was actually not bad. The loops are great and its not even rough. The transitions are a bit jerky and the restrains suck but it was still fun to ride.

@jamesstoffberg1917 2 жыл бұрын

Soopa Loopa Doobity Do, I've got a brand new coaster for you

@FairsNParksNI 2 жыл бұрын

Nice Video! Here's a suggestion: Could you do a video on the abrupt and sudden abandonment of my local park Barry's Amusements? It was a park that has been around since 1926 and has 2 coasters. Everyone in my country is furious about the its closure, Thanks.

@NationalCoasters 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll take that into good consideration 😎... stayed tuned!

@FairsNParksNI 2 жыл бұрын

@@NationalCoasters thanks!

@coasterhockygamingboy9549 2 жыл бұрын

There are plenty of French and Italian knockoff manufacturers too not just Chinese.

@jamesstoffberg1917 2 жыл бұрын

Soopa Loopa lights are gonna find me but I won't feel blue

@markvolpe2305 2 жыл бұрын

Seabreeze in Rochester, NY also had a Soquet double loop coaster called Quantum Loop. I heard it was rough.

@wdburt91 2 жыл бұрын

You should do a video on Wood Coaster (yup, _real_ original.. lol) in Knight Valley in China. In my view, it's one of, if not _the,_ best wooden coasters ever made. If nothing else, it'd make for a great topic for a video.

@NationalCoasters 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you found the next topic, I’ll get to work! 😎👍

@wdburt91 2 жыл бұрын

@@NationalCoasters Lookin’ forward to it!

@MrCollerRoaster 2 жыл бұрын

That would be great

@nenblom 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like a fun ride!

@kubanowakowski3869 2 жыл бұрын

What’s hard in saying Legendia? Because that’s the name of the park where this rollercoaster is located now.

@stevenlimb9076 2 жыл бұрын

I remember going to light water valley when it was ther but i was to small to go on it i was gutted.

@frederikjacob1985 2 жыл бұрын

This isn't the only soquet coaster that has been a rip off of a Schwartzkopf coaster. On the french fairs you also have the king. The knock off of the Alpina bahn of Oscar Burch. Just for your info.

@klinikle5445 2 жыл бұрын

I went on it many times and always enjoyed it.

@asterisks3062 2 жыл бұрын

Btw u say the park name as "Le gen Dee uh" or that's how tpw says Lengendia lmao also it's at the same park as Lech Coaster

@BeMaC 2 жыл бұрын

So i rode the coaster in 2019 and it was smooth, not as smooth as the Vekoma Bermuda Coaster Leech they have but smooth :-) cool research :-) and Legendia is a cool park. a lot of crazy flat rides and Energylandia is also not that far. Katowice itself is cool :)

@10CentZocker 2 жыл бұрын

Ein L i k e 😁👍 für dein Video 🪴🌴 Gruss geht raus 👋...

@dodgersfan8561 2 жыл бұрын

nice video

@NationalCoasters 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Patexer 2 жыл бұрын

looks rough

@360coasters 2 жыл бұрын

lol haha good title

@acrophobe 2 жыл бұрын

You could maybe ask your audience if there are any Polish speaking people who could help you out with the names. Or show the names in the original language on screen instead of saying them out loud if you're worried about botching the pronunciations. Just a thought.