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Our Long Local Nightmare Ends: Texas Giant Has Gone Bye-Bye

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 12:11pm by Zac Crain
Filed under Entertainment

Yesterday the Texas Giant, once the tallest wooden roller-coaster around, roughly jostled its last group of riders. It was 19. Tip of the hat to the Dallas Morning News for running that story across from the obits page. Clever. (And don’t worry — it’s basically coming back in 2011, in some form at least.)

5 Comments to “Our Long Local Nightmare Ends: Texas Giant Has Gone Bye-Bye”

Some Guy @ November 2nd, 2009 at 12:50 pm

I loved that coaster but I always wished it had more leg room. Topping two meters makes for painful knees after most of these ride but especially this one!
Really? @ November 2nd, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Worst coaster ever.
kellyk @ November 2nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm

I officially feel older than I did 2 minutes ago.
sjthornton @ November 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm

@kellyk, no kidding. I was working for an SFOT contractor at the time and we watched the thing go up.
gunnertec @ November 12th, 2009 at 6:49 am

I remember when it came out…”tallest, most intense wooden coaster in the Nation.” then, San Antonio got the Rattler and beat it. now, wooden coasters seem so anachronistic, I have no idea why anyone would spend any money building them. It’s more like a Steam Punk idea than something modern.