Sadly for track wise you will never see the original again. In 2019 the track got analysed one last time and due to the fact it hadn’t been looked after since 2012, it was to far gone with rust and deemed it would be near impossible to take apart without breaking it. The track got destroyed in February 2020. So it’s gone for good sadly 😔. Have a Google of some UK articles for Feb 2020 with the Knightmare
Such a unique breed of a Coaster that got treated poorly since the Park's closure. I never got to ride it, but remember seeing it on the UK Coasters Website & seen it's construction progress when it was being re-built a Camealot. Was devastated when I saw it was destroyed in Feb 2020.
As much as it hurts for me to say this, there is zero chance this coaster will ever come back. The demolition video quite clearly showed the coaster’s track and support being torn apart and destroyed. If it was dismantled earlier, it may have had a chance at another park, but sitting SBNO for so long in it’s given environment took it’s toll and rendered it more expensive to repair than to just buy a new roller coaster of similar intensity. So yeah, suffice to say Knightmare is gone forever.
I never got to ride this, but I did go to Camelot a couple of times. Though as I was (and still am) closer to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, that’s always the preferable park due to more and frankly better rides.
Home park. Gutted when it closed, shame. No chance of it being rebuilt, it was literally ripped down and snapped apart. Drove past the other day. They are using the remainder of the park for a zombie style drive through attraction
it was a fun ride when it opened, got to ride it a few times... but i do have to say you got some of your timelines a little out of order.... the Southport planning was the first rumour after the park closed, and there was even a model created that showed the planning application, bright red and white paint job but the council wouldn't allow it, the train falling off the lorry did happen, however the demolition of the ride didnt happen for a looong time after the southport planning, it was sat just off the m6 motorway visible for years, just sat rusting away, then not that long ago it was ripped down, so unfortunately wont ever run again, after how long it had sat rusting i wouldnt imagine it would be runnable again anyways
One of my all time favourite coasters! I consider myself very lucky to have ridden Knightmare about 5 times in 2011 when the queues were really low (it was actually quite addictive!). Definitely one of the best moves Camelot ever made to bring it to the UK, even the shoddy aftermarket welding and the rusted look gave it even more of an edge, personally gave me the feel of “this is proper dodgy, could fall apart” - turns out it was actually the safest ride of the park (and that’s a wholeee ‘nother story!) Also that “psycho drop” definitely deserved its name, it’s hard to even explain the insanity of it unless you went on it - absolutely one of the best, and it’s an absolute tragedy to the coaster community that the local council would just scrap it like that . Southport shouldn’t have messed about like they did, it was a ready mad legend and they pissed the opportunity away quite frankly. Okay rant over, thank you for coming to my TED Talk 😂
If you ever decide to cover more Schwarzkopf’s, I’d be happy to give you some links to some awesome old photos and videos that are hard to find and took me a while to discover. Thriller is one you should definitely check out :)
Im so glad I had the chance to ride it back in 2011. This one was surprisingly ultra smooth, like gliding over the clouds. Never experienced something this smooth before...
Camerlot is now being used as a year around scare maze, what a shame it was a good park in its day. I did hear on the grape vine it will be q housing estate soon though when planning goes through.
This is a 20 minute drive away from my house lol. Never got to go there tho as it closed shortly after my birth. I knew it was demolished as I stopped seeing it on the moterway and I found some really good drone footage of it online
2:40 - You missed Lightning Coaster at Nasu Highland Park in Japan. Same main layout as Jetline and Knightmare, just with a different first drop. It was built as a joint project between BHS and Meisho Amusement Machines.
Nope, it wasn't smooth at all, at least after being relocated to Camelot. I have never been to Japan so I don't know how smooth it was originally. I have ridden both Lisebergbanan (same track) and Jetline (almost a clone), and they do run very smooth, so maybe the roughness was due to relocation and.. well.. Camelot being Camelot. ;-) Looking at the track, it is really obvious that Antom Schwarzkopf was involved, as he worked with Zierer after his own company went bankrupt a few years prior. The most fasctinating technical aspect on both this one and Jetline is the curved lifthill that uses a chain to pull the train up. Sure, everyone can build a curved tire drive lift, but a curved chain lift? That is rare.
Great channel. I was in the carnival business for many years and my dad owned a pinfari coaster at adventure land in Illinois. That rides last location was daytona beach Florida as sandblasted. So sad to see it in the condition is was before being dismantled. No idea if it was scraped or being stored for refurbished reasons. Thanks for your great content
Sooo southport pleasure Island what I found out was they was looking at installing it but the track was too far gone with rust etc and would of cost way to much to sort out and salt it won't be built again southport pleasure Island announced a new zaperla lighting coaster opening next year I think which is a huge ivestment for the park since it reopened in 2007 as when it closed in 2006 most of the rides were removed and it now. Operates with travelling rides coming in n out n being swapped about but this new coaster is a permant fixture and there biggest investment in years !
No way did you mention Camelot. I live 6/7 miles down road from there. I mean nobody round here mentioned Camelot even when opened. Which is why it closed cos it was crap. We even had the works Xmas do at the hotel there once . I remember knightmare being pretty crap when I last went there as a kid. Also I doubt Southport pleasure land will re open it there as that place is rubbish and just flat rides and arcades. All the coasters from Southport went to Blackpool pleasure beach quite a while ago from memory
What the hell? This ride looks AMAZING! Some of the weird coasters you touch on I consider a lost cause since they’re in China or whatever, but why was THIS lost?? Kind of pisses me off because it’s a legit piece of coaster history. Is there not a way to track the sales dates of it in the Uk or is that private?
That's Tower of Terror, a completely unrelated Schwarzkopf Silberpfeil coaster, that operated until 2000. It now operates at a Croatian theme park called Fun Park Biograd under the name "Big Blue."
Considering it’s been properly demolished and not just dismantled, it’s not coming back
Sadly for track wise you will never see the original again. In 2019 the track got analysed one last time and due to the fact it hadn’t been looked after since 2012, it was to far gone with rust and deemed it would be near impossible to take apart without breaking it. The track got destroyed in February 2020. So it’s gone for good sadly 😔. Have a Google of some UK articles for Feb 2020 with the Knightmare
Thanks for the information
Such a unique breed of a Coaster that got treated poorly since the Park's closure. I never got to ride it, but remember seeing it on the UK Coasters Website & seen it's construction progress when it was being re-built a Camealot. Was devastated when I saw it was destroyed in Feb 2020.
As much as it hurts for me to say this, there is zero chance this coaster will ever come back. The demolition video quite clearly showed the coaster’s track and support being torn apart and destroyed. If it was dismantled earlier, it may have had a chance at another park, but sitting SBNO for so long in it’s given environment took it’s toll and rendered it more expensive to repair than to just buy a new roller coaster of similar intensity.
So yeah, suffice to say Knightmare is gone forever.
I never got to ride this, but I did go to Camelot a couple of times. Though as I was (and still am) closer to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, that’s always the preferable park due to more and frankly better rides.
I rode this in Japan. It was one of the best coasters I have ridden in Asia.
Home park. Gutted when it closed, shame. No chance of it being rebuilt, it was literally ripped down and snapped apart. Drove past the other day. They are using the remainder of the park for a zombie style drive through attraction
it was a fun ride when it opened, got to ride it a few times... but i do have to say you got some of your timelines a little out of order.... the Southport planning was the first rumour after the park closed, and there was even a model created that showed the planning application, bright red and white paint job but the council wouldn't allow it, the train falling off the lorry did happen, however the demolition of the ride didnt happen for a looong time after the southport planning, it was sat just off the m6 motorway visible for years, just sat rusting away, then not that long ago it was ripped down, so unfortunately wont ever run again, after how long it had sat rusting i wouldnt imagine it would be runnable again anyways
It Was An Amazing Schwarzkopf. It's Sad That It Has Been Demolished :'(
it wasnt a schwarzkopf it was degsied by them track however wasnt from them
@@NickyD I Still See It As A Schwarzkopf Coaster
There's a near identical clone of the coaster in Sweden called Jetline
One of my all time favourite coasters! I consider myself very lucky to have ridden Knightmare about 5 times in 2011 when the queues were really low (it was actually quite addictive!).
Definitely one of the best moves Camelot ever made to bring it to the UK, even the shoddy aftermarket welding and the rusted look gave it even more of an edge, personally gave me the feel of “this is proper dodgy, could fall apart” - turns out it was actually the safest ride of the park (and that’s a wholeee ‘nother story!)
Also that “psycho drop” definitely deserved its name, it’s hard to even explain the insanity of it unless you went on it - absolutely one of the best, and it’s an absolute tragedy to the coaster community that the local council would just scrap it like that .
Southport shouldn’t have messed about like they did, it was a ready mad legend and they pissed the opportunity away quite frankly.
Okay rant over, thank you for coming to my TED Talk 😂
The cars were on ebay last year, they were down in a lock up on Kent.
One of the knightmare trains was actually sold on eBay in 2020/2021!
If you ever decide to cover more Schwarzkopf’s, I’d be happy to give you some links to some awesome old photos and videos that are hard to find and took me a while to discover. Thriller is one you should definitely check out :)
Will do! Thanks!
Im so glad I had the chance to ride it back in 2011.
This one was surprisingly ultra smooth, like gliding over the clouds. Never experienced something this smooth before...
Camerlot is now being used as a year around scare maze, what a shame it was a good park in its day. I did hear on the grape vine it will be q housing estate soon though when planning goes through.
I vaguely remember going up the m6 and seeing this off to the side
This is a 20 minute drive away from my house lol. Never got to go there tho as it closed shortly after my birth. I knew it was demolished as I stopped seeing it on the moterway and I found some really good drone footage of it online
We used to go camelot on a bank holiday and the traffic was a knightmare .
2:40 - You missed Lightning Coaster at Nasu Highland Park in Japan. Same main layout as Jetline and Knightmare, just with a different first drop. It was built as a joint project between BHS and Meisho Amusement Machines.
czcams.com/video/cVp6dJy_yJ0/video.html POV here
Always thought this was the "beefiest" track designs! I'' bet it was smooth. I'm sure it was a bear to fabricate as well. great video!
Nope, it wasn't smooth at all, at least after being relocated to Camelot. I have never been to Japan so I don't know how smooth it was originally. I have ridden both Lisebergbanan (same track) and Jetline (almost a clone), and they do run very smooth, so maybe the roughness was due to relocation and.. well.. Camelot being Camelot. ;-)
Looking at the track, it is really obvious that Antom Schwarzkopf was involved, as he worked with Zierer after his own company went bankrupt a few years prior.
The most fasctinating technical aspect on both this one and Jetline is the curved lifthill that uses a chain to pull the train up. Sure, everyone can build a curved tire drive lift, but a curved chain lift? That is rare.
It was called the tower of terror before nightmare, I grew up going to Camelot hundreds of times, so sad it's gone now
Thank you for this!! Love these so much fella...You Are The World Champion 💯🔥🙏
Haha appreciate the support my friend!
I actually saw this! I went up to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, and you could see it from the motorway! Shame it's gone, never got to ride it :(
There is something fascinating about abandoned coasters. Very magical
Great channel. I was in the carnival business for many years and my dad owned a pinfari coaster at adventure land in Illinois. That rides last location was daytona beach Florida as sandblasted. So sad to see it in the condition is was before being dismantled. No idea if it was scraped or being stored for refurbished reasons. Thanks for your great content
Ive ridden a jetline since its at my home park. Ive also ridden Lisebergbanan.
This was my big first coaster! I was only 9 years old when I went on it..
Will not come back well and truly buggered it when they pulled it down snapping bits of track and all sorts 😭
Lol weird enough, I was on rcdb the other day and found this on there, and then this video got uploaded. I that’s pretty cool
You used to be able to see it SBNO from the motorway.
Check Jetline in Sweden, Gröna Lund.
Same layout
Man never blinks, so he never misses 💪💪
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A lot of the ride is at Southport Pleasure Land in storage. If you come and visit you can see it
This ride is from my home park :D
if you waned to see the 2 last surviving schwarskopf coaster then you should visit Sweden to see them
A clone of this would be cool. A cool spot for it would be Fiesta Texas. Imagine it next to the quarry wall, that would be cool!
4:39, probably not , because it was scrapped
There is a scear attraction around the old camelot theem Park next month in February. Nightmare was an amazing coaster though.
longer videos please
I got the chance to explore this coaster when the park shut down never got yhe chance to ride it unfortunately
holy sh!t, i rode that when i was a kid.
Sooo southport pleasure Island what I found out was they was looking at installing it but the track was too far gone with rust etc and would of cost way to much to sort out and salt it won't be built again southport pleasure Island announced a new zaperla lighting coaster opening next year I think which is a huge ivestment for the park since it reopened in 2007 as when it closed in 2006 most of the rides were removed and it now. Operates with travelling rides coming in n out n being swapped about but this new coaster is a permant fixture and there biggest investment in years !
it was torn down and scrapped m8, it was a cool ride.This ride was called knightmare,
Great video! You should do one on Nightmare at Crack Axel Canyon at Great Escape!
Do a video on chaos at opryland. Such an interesting indoor coaster
The track and frame of this roller coaster was sadly sold as scrap metal 😔
I hope it dose re-open
Would have loved to have rode it in Japan with the mountain theming; Intense!
Cool video, cool channel.
Thanks!
it should be recreated
yo that’s sick
Very intense swartcof
No way did you mention Camelot. I live 6/7 miles down road from there. I mean nobody round here mentioned Camelot even when opened. Which is why it closed cos it was crap. We even had the works Xmas do at the hotel there once . I remember knightmare being pretty crap when I last went there as a kid. Also I doubt Southport pleasure land will re open it there as that place is rubbish and just flat rides and arcades. All the coasters from Southport went to Blackpool pleasure beach quite a while ago from memory
Sorry i meant it use to be called tower of terror
The rides
now gone
LETS GO
I Don’t think it won’t happen it’s Scrapped for good.face it.
where did it go?
There is a exact clone of this ride in Russia and that is still in operation there today.
They finally tore it down? nightmare
Its long gone. Early 2020 they gas axed it and fed it to the scrap man.
What the hell? This ride looks AMAZING! Some of the weird coasters you touch on I consider a lost cause since they’re in China or whatever, but why was THIS lost?? Kind of pisses me off because it’s a legit piece of coaster history. Is there not a way to track the sales dates of it in the Uk or is that private?
I’ve been left hanging
I am like number 437.
what are the similarities to lisebergbanan?
@@djavatar68 meant layout wise but that works
this coaster was demoltioned in 2020 its gone
This was called the beast back in the 80s n early 90’s use to have a loop within a castle ..😀
That's Tower of Terror, a completely unrelated Schwarzkopf Silberpfeil coaster, that operated until 2000. It now operates at a Croatian theme park called Fun Park Biograd under the name "Big Blue."
Where did it go. Easy Got gas axed and chopped up into easy smeltable chunks for the scrap man.
Here’s a fact: my grandad broke his back on this ride
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