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The Tornado is Adventureland's oldest coaster.  It opened in 1978 which was Adventureland's third year of operation.



The Tornado is a really fun out and back design by Bill Cobb.



There is some great airtime on the Tornado and it is a really fun old school ride that just fits perfectly into the cornfields across the street from it.



The only negative to the Tornado is that it can only run one train so the lines can get a bit long.  It has two trains and used to run them but after adding seat belts that add to the dispatch time along with skid brakes that are not as efficient in stopping a train the park decided to run just one train.  I am not a big fan of changing out parts of a ride but with the park that Adventureland is growing into taking the skid brakes off of Tornado and adding modern brakes in order to run two trains and have the added capacity for when the park fills up would be a good decision to make.



Another good idea would be to get rid of the Dragon.  If you will notice that neither Bond or myself is riding the Dragon.  We decided to leave that pain to John, Draven, Paul, Spencerman and his dad Terry.



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