rolling thunder at six flags is better but this one stil is pretty fun. the first drop and tunnel are my favorites

This coaster is great in that it doesnt aim for gut-wrenching chills like so many built today - its almost polite in its lilting, breezy demeanor. Good hills, and neat tunnel effect. The only gripe I have is about the trains - they could be so much better. Visit the parks museum, and youll see one of the original Prior & Church cars - a real tease, imagining what the coaster was like with those running! Truly lamentable, the loss of the fabled Aeroplane - but at least we have the Dragon. Be thankful!

I had high hopes for this ride, and found myself being a tad disappointed. There are plenty of good drops, but there isnt as much airtime as I thought there would be on this woodie.

Prior and Church original. The first thing an enthusiast will comment on, once he/she reaches the lifthill, is the weird layout of this ride. Generally referred to as "freeform" it resembles a double figure eight. The hills arent huge; the turns arent crushing. Yet, this ride manages to deliver a very satisfying ride. Some nice straight-aways into hills give nice speed sensations and there are an abundance of head choppers. If this was the Prior and Church "family" coaster for this park, one can only yearn to ride the now defunct Aeroplane, which once was the "other" coaster in this park. It is still often referred to as the "greatest coaster ever built".

I was very disappointed in this coaster. It is a classic yes, but if you are really inot classics, the first thing you notice is that it has modern trains. Not only modern trains, but plastic modern trains. They are very uncomfortable, the lap bar is built in a u-shape attached to the bottom of the back of the seat, making very little leg room, the seats are hard plasic. I believe they contribute to the very slow pace of the ride as well due to how light they are. I just dont understand why they didnt get new PTC trains, they would have been much better and would have kept the classic look of the ride.

As I had already said, the ride is very slow. It looked like it has some neat elements, and the tunnel is pretty cool (it is lined with metel sheets that really makes sounds reverberate), but the tunnel is still missing the dragons head, and the pair of double humped drops in the track offer nothing in terms of airtime. There is no airtime on this ride at all in fact, and the turns are so slow they arent even worth banking. I found myself wondering when this ride was going to end.

This ride reminds me of all the times i chickened out when i was a little kid. What a classic.

A good coaster, but not the greatest. The drops are not that big and it would have been a little better is the ride had tunnels or plunged into darkness.

Nostolgia....this was the coaster I always thought about when I was a kid. It was the amusement park I always went to when I was growing up and the Dragon Coaster was the "big" ride. It is a reletivily tame amusement park. However, at the time most rides seemed scary to me and the Dragon Coaster seemed like the Millenium Force of Playland Park. I can remember riding it for the first time thinking it was "ssssoooo scary", but in reality it is just a fun "little" woodie. The Art Deco design of Playland really adds to the theming of the Dragon Coaster, they mesh perfectly. If youre a kid just starting roller coasters this is a perfect ride to break in through....tame, but very fun.

What are you talking about AWcool, its a classic, and for its size is a very good and fun ride, most enjoyable in the back seat like most other rides.

This interesting traditional woodie gives a long and somewhat meandering ride. The trip is quite fun as the coaster maintains a rapid clip throughout the course. The condition of the ride is excellent including the run through the dragon. Playland is a Westchester County Public Park and (to the County's credit) they strive to keep this and about a dozen other original 1920s rides as historically accurate as possible.