Negative-G - Six Flags Over Texas 2016

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The New Texas Giant Rollercoaster at Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington, Texas

The "New" Texas Giant is a massively renovated and revitalized upgrade to the "old" Texas Giant.

The old Texas Giant began its life in 1990 when the Curtis Summers designed and Dinn Corporation constructed ride opened to rave reviews. The Texas Giant was the first and the best of the three giant wooden coasters (the others being Mean Streak at Cedar Point and The Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas) to emerge out of the early 1990's.

The Texas Giant when I first rode it in 1997 was a smooth ride with airtime all around, unrelenting speed, thrills a plenty and more than a few surprises. It was the type of coaster anyone would want to ride over and over again.

By the time I had visited a decade later the Texas Giant had fallen far. The ride experience was akin to taking a car with no tires on its rims and speeding over rumble strips at seventy miles an hour. It hurt. After our one ride my trip mates and I got off wanting to never ride it again. It was so bad on that trip in 2007 that the debate in the car was which is worse...the Texas Giant or Kings Island's massive failure the Son of Beast. In the end the Texas Giant needed an epic amount of work to regain its standing as a great ride.

Thankfully in the nine years between that visit and this one the Texas Giant did get that "epic amount of work".