As you walk into the queue house for this 80-year giant and walk up the curving ramp to the station you notice the television screens above your head. All of them playing a movie that informs you in great detail about the history of this seventy feet tall wooden coaster. You also pass newspaper clippings that have been framed on the wall heralding milestones of this great coaster.

As you enter the station you notice something uncharacteristic of most coasters, a curved station. You are than greeted by an attendant who assigns you a seat, and if you know anything about this classic woodie, you know that the back is where it’s at.

After boarding the train your restraints are quickly checked by a horde of friendly operators and you are on your way out of the station and into a pitch-black fifty-foot long tunnel. And than your being hauled up the 70-foot lift hill and thrown down over the airtime filled drop.

After you go through a high turn you dive back down to the ground and immediately find yourself yanked back up into an airtime hill. Than you dive back down to the ground and experience a small bunny hill packed with air. You are than brought up again and go over a 1924 version of an MCBR. Than you turn another 180* turn and a small drop than a curved bunny hop leads you into a quick airtime hill that pops you out of your seat.

After you hop over another airtime hill you turn around and start heading back towards the station. You are than taken through a couple more small hills that end you up right back in the station. You than make the curve and screech to a halt. After exiting out the way you came in you end up in a room where you can purchase your on board photos and other Giant Dipper Paraphernalia.

You have just experienced an 80 year old monster fittingly dubbed The Giant Dipper.

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