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Seems like the Golden Nugget always had the longest lines. It seemed cool in the 60s & 70s. Hunts Pier was the best back then.

The original! EDIT: Oh, wait, this was the revamp w/ with all the Dino's...still cool though.

I love this ride it need to come back and after the fire destroyed the whole ride😢

i can almost smell the old grease. thank you for posting ❤

This was the ride that got me interested in exploring abandoned mines! We used to go to Wildwood every summer for a week in June and I remember riding this back in the mid to late 1970s. It really was a spectacular ride and unique. The later additions of the dinosaurs, crashed helicopter, and things like that kind of ruined the old western theme and made it somewhat visually jarring. Not too far from this ride on the other side of the pier was the Whacky Shack. Another great dark ride! I used to ride that too as a kid - it was my favorite ride on the pier! Always have been a big fan of dark rides and haunted houses. And horror movies.

They ruined it by adding, a crashed helicopter, and dinosaurs. What do they have to do, with a mining shaft??

So it’s a mine-themed ride, with military vehicles crashed on the top, haunted skeletons inside AND dinosaurs? I’m so confused!

The greatest ride ever!

It felt like you could spoon happiness out of the air... A truly magical experience. Thanks for sharing!

I use to keep my eyes closed almost the whole time when I use to get on except when we were outside. LOL I miss the good ole days! This was a gem in Willdwood NJ.

What year was this taken and how old were you at that time and what year

Got my foot stuck in the OG Golden Nugget in 1983

1:57 back in the 90s I was sitting towards the back, and someone up front dropped a killer FART right as we entered this got dam tunnel. And we was trapped in that stink no where to escape to! 😵

I love old rollercoasters.

The Once Mighty Colossus had been severely butchered in this video. The PTC Trains were replaced by those devilish Morgan Trains that didn't ride well on a Wooden Rollercoaster, and the Double Down was covered over with that lame assed block brake. The PTC Trains also traveled so much faster and provided some Awesome Airtime. Now The Once Mighty Colossus has been completely destroyed by Ruin My Coaster (RMC) now Twisted Colossucks.

Back again, what an incredible, brilliant, amazingly designed ride. .

Wow....this was weird. I went on this as a kid and dont remember any dinosaur references whatsoever. I also have video of it in completion from 1993....ill have to dig through the archives and compare to this experience! One thing that stayed the same - the squeal on the turn after the first drop!

Loved that ride rode as kid and took my kids on it been on the kneel version not bad when the dinosaur craze hit wildwood it ruined it

Remind me when I go wildwood and old man pay me $200 touch his bird in bathroom morey pier.

God this took me back to the great memories back then.

Such great memories of this ride on Hunts Pier.

Not that I NEED to comment on these videos when I see them, but this parade was directly responsible for my musical talent as a child. The guys on the floats drumming made me ask my parents if I could do that too. Spent 10+ years as a practicing percussionist and went off to do lots and lots of honors symphonies. Even went and recorded for Disney in high school. So thanks, Disney!!!

A lot of things are different from what I remember from the early 80's but the track is the same. Great ride.

The voice of the Sage of Time was Corey Burton!

Other than National Lampoon's Vacation, I wish someone could post a full POV of Colossus when it operated with the PTC Trains from 1979-1986. And not from a documentary. The PTC Trains traveled much faster than those devilish SUCKY MORGAN TRAINS that completely ruined Colossus.

IT IS SO GOOOOD!!!!!!! =D

When whoever it was took over the pier from Hunt's, they really screwed it up. What do dinosaurs and helicopters have to do with the old west? So sad.

Knoebels kept a few reminders of this rides past. The cart that comes at you from the left is still there but as a still object.

This was my favorite ride. It's wonderful that someone made and posted a movie of it. With adult eyes, it is really creative and must have cost a fortune to build.

Still can't believe its gone. Rode it at Knoebels, awesome awesome job, but it should have stayed in NJ right where it was.

It was about a 4 minute ride and got your money worth! I rode on that ride many many times back in the 60'S and 70's 😁

Just tried this with virtual reality glasses and bone conductor headphones - awesome wow!!

Thanks for sharing the memories I can still smell the place 😂

Got stuck on here once.

I just relived my childhood with this! Thanks for posting it!

I can't thank you enough for this; I went last weekend to find this ride and they told me they tore it down because it was made mostly of asbestos! Lol

I have made a virtual Golden Nugget in Planet Coaster. I’m attempting to build a virtual Dinosaur Beach circa 1996 as well as the three Morey’s Piers and what used to be Nickels Midway Pier with Castle Dracula. Castle Dracula burned down Jan 16, 2002. Most of it collapsed to the ground, only the front gate and the stands/games on the side were standing after the fire. Two minors were arrested by a nearby officer after they ran out and down to the street. The distance between piers is not to scale as there isn’t enough room. I left out Sportland Pier due to lack of room. It was basically go-karts and the shuttered Dr. Blood’s House of Horror 2 level dark ride by the 90’s anyway. But in the 60’s, 70’s to 1983 it was full of mostly imported rides. In 1984 Ted Snyder bought it and the rides sat rotting away for the rest of the 1980’s then most were removed and go-kart tracks built by 1992.

May I use this footage in a video I'm making about this coaster? I will give your channel full credit.

This was and always will be my all time favorite! It was sooo unique, and wanted to ride it over and over every time we went to SFMM, while everyone else hated it. Sad the it was the only one ever and now it's dead!😔 RIP flashback!

This n the escape from dinosaur beach ride were the classics

That was my favorite ride growing up back in the 60'S and 70's, thanks for the memories 💖

Just to clarify when you dive down it is not an inversion

Do you remember escape from dinosaur beach? And the log flume with the long neck dinosaur that spit water out of it's nose at you

Thank you for uploading this! I remember going to this pier when I was 5 years old back in 1996. I for the longest time couldn't remember the name of the place but I looked up defunct amusement parks in NJ and Dinosaur Beach was listed! I'm glad to be able to see this ride again! Now I know for sure I didn't make the whole thing up!!

This is my favorite parade and parade music ever. Wish they'd bring it back.

5 months after the Northridge earthquake.

Sad this ride is no longer around 😥

Memories of me on this with Mom in the 80s

This ride is now the black diamond At Knoebels Pennsylvania. It is an indoor coaster themed about silent hill.

On my ride it was black