Still a fun ride but i definitely enjoyed the rougher ride more.

I can thank RMC for doctoring up an old worn out Dinn corporation coaster

I’m glad I’m not the only one who would ride the original giant until I was too bruised and battered to continue.

In it's early days, it was truly the best. 🎢

Yeah, can verify. In it's later years it required some degree of masochism to go on this thing.

It was my first roller coaster as well. My mom was so worried I'd lift out bc I was lifted up in the seat. I loved it. My mom got a headache. I haven't ridden the new one. I think I rode this when it was new. But I wish they'd left it alone.

I can hear your mom on the first drop

I felt like I was beat to death when I first rode this one.

Clifton Thomas so did I I rode it today and I'm 10 and I died

I rode the new one a few days ago, I LOVED IT, but the drop was SO FREAKING SCARY.

Michael Harrington I didn't realize that on ride because I have a syndrome and my head bobbled around lol 😂

omg yes try mr freeze

Yeah but.. Judge Roy Scream sucks

tobylishus vasquez Ride it in the middle seat of the 3 seat car. It's an amazing difference. The second to last seat on the train is a surprisingly good ride. The 1st and 3rd seats of each car are over the axles, which beat the living shit out of the bottom of your seat.

john ulmer makes it smoother?

I know I'm 3 years late, but I really like the RMC retrack, but I wish the layout stayed exactly the same (but keep the steeper drop and the heavily banked turns like the NTG has)

Yea but the old one has a longer drop

lol

calvin salvin they're obviously being sarcastic. How old are you?

Oof

Once is enough!

Hold up

We’re probably the same age, great comment!

HA! Same!! It was so worth it too. It will always be my favorite coaster.

Yep. It was a nice ride. ❤❤❤

Yeah. I really liked the original version of the Giant. It wasn't rough to me at all. The Freeze was a rough ride to me though, but not the original Giant.

new tg: EJECTOR AIRTIME

New TG: OVERBANK

Also the woman fell out after iron horse treatment

Ok??? They're just pointing out the truth. Roller coaster enthusiasts can't stand opinions

I know me too!

why? 💁

My screen is already cracked ;3;

Same the new Texas giant was my very first roller coaster (I'm from arlington) and I rode it the year it opened in 2011. I wish I got to ride the original If only I got the guts a few years before.

Pretty rough.

GeminiTIGER Tbh, the only coaster redoings I've preferred to the original were when Cedar Point gave Blue Streak a sky blue color (albeit before I was born, haha!) and when Carowinds repainted Ricochet green. All the other coaster repaintings/remodelings I hated.

GeminiTIGER How is being "beaten senseless" a good thing? Shouldn't the mark of a truly great coaster be when you can get off, saying "What a great ride!", while heading back towards the queue line? Also, the person who died was [for lack of better words] too large to be securely fastened. It had nothing to do with the revisions. If anything, it's the ride operators' fault for letting her ride. I have no idea where you got the idea that Texas Giant was as tall and as fast as Titan. The rest of your comment is just your personal opinion. Please treat it as such.

Dolphanatic Being beaten senseless is a figure of speech, not to be taken seriously. What I was saying is that it offered a much more different experience than any other roller coaster in the park. And my opinion is obviously shared by number of enthusiasts as the original Giant was indeed an award winning design and a top 10 roller coaster for MOST of its lifetime. I didn't say it was AS tall as Titan, I was comparing and contrasting Titan with the Giant pointing put that as tall and as fast as Titan is (its best attributes), the Giant still was the better rollercoaster (meaning a roller coaster doesn't have to be tall or fast to be awesome). The woman died as a result of a loophole in the fail safes that only an operator could've stopped. It was negligence. Not because she was fat.

GeminiTIGER "The woman died as a result of a loophole in the fail safes that only an operator could've stopped. It was negligence." That's basically what I just said.

GeminiTIGER First of all, this isn't a classic. The classics are way older than this. This literally opened in the 80s. DO you consider anything from the 80s classic? Classic woodies are ones like the Coney Island Cyclone or the Knoebels Phoenix. Second of all, maybe it did provide a different experience, but not a good one. In what world is a rough roller coaster enjoyable? You should want to ride it again, not head to the nearest water fountain to take an Aspirin because you have a splitting headache. Now, it's not ugly. The red adds a nice color to the blah brown wood. And the woman didn't die because of the revisions. She was too "big" for the restraint to properly lock. The attendant said she was fine. And a sensor on the operator's control panel malfunctioned so it didn't alert them that the bar was not completely locked. They are perfectly safe though. The new version is probably much safer than the original. RMC has revised and built many coasters, all of which are amazing and incredibly safe. In the end, the accident the attendant's fault, but a sensor failed, not alerting them to the problem. SO RMC is not ruining classics, they are making painful and rough coasters that the parks were wasting money on enjoyable again. I respect your opinion and I am giving mine. I also thought I should correct your factual errors too in a bit greater detail.

SOCAL3800 well it was a Dinn Corporation so that's not surprising

True.

I'm ngl my little brother and I used to try to ride in the death car when we had season passes. I understand why she passed away though. The employees didn't used to check the locks properly they would just go through the motions, and just touch it. Also most of the employees are in high-school, but they didn't properly check her seat so she flew out. The next year when we went back they double checked and really tried to see if your locks were working. They changed the lock checking policies to keep more people safe. She died because a bunch of kids were half assing their job not realizing lives were at steak.

thesoftparade1990 No you're not alone on that thought.

I felt like I just got beaten to a pulp coming off the old Texas Giant. I was in extreme pain. It was so unbearably rough, far worse than Mean Streak, in my experience. All my friends also said the old Texas Giant was horrible. I much prefer the glossy smooth New Texas Giant with spectacular airtime. But that's just me. If you like rough rides, then that's perfectly fine, and you're not alone. A couple really rough woodies that still exist that I've ridden that you might enjoy are The Boss at Six Flags St Louis, and the roughest ride I've ever been on: Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags over Georgia.

I think NTG was better because when the old one was still there i was like 3 now i am 11 so idk

Lol this is the old one

Yeah, the RMC Texas Giant's drop is 79°!

Big agree. That last half felt never-ending and it was so tight that you had no idea what was going to happen next. Felt like you were friggin flying.

She died on the updated version that they made in 2011 from my understanding. I believe this footage is of the original coaster.

Um, that woman died on the NEW one.

+The Sun that's the point

The Sun Thats what he meant.

Grady Pennington actually the when the new texas giant came in the restraints clicked but then the incident came along and they replaced the clicking restraints with hydraulic restraints

Grady Pennington they used to click I remember

that’s what made it fun!!

Thats not the roller coasters fault....its the lazy workers fault....she was to “big” the bar did not come down correctly and she fell of,...

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