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Shambhala is an elegant, floater-air-filled hypercoaster offering wonderful views of the Catalonian seashore and exciting visual interactions with the looper Dragon Khan, which it arches over the top ...

Shambhala is an elegant, floater-air-filled hypercoaster offering wonderful views of the Catalonian seashore and exciting visual interactions with the looper Dragon Khan, which it arches over the top of. The first drop may be the best first drop I've ever ridden; the turnaround is a unique "ampersand" element that feels like an inversion but isn't. Immediately after that is a short speed hill that provides the ride's one pop of ejector air (mostly it is graceful and floaty). This is also a physically beautiful ride, with the "Himalayan" theming around the station and its sky-blue and white paint job. There's a fake "splashdown" element that is really just for show, but it's a nice visual effect. The trains are lovely and comfortable, with staggered seats bearing B&M clamshell restraints that leave you feeling remarkably free and exposed. Toward the end of the ride, there is a midcourse brake run, and after that there's a turnaround and hill that don't do much. If I have one complaint it's that this ending is a tad anticlimactic.

Wild Intamin hypercoaster with a layout that keeps delivering strong surprises and thrills all the way up to the end, never flagging. It's like a play with multiple acts. The first act is about airtim...

Wild Intamin hypercoaster with a layout that keeps delivering strong surprises and thrills all the way up to the end, never flagging. It's like a play with multiple acts. The first act is about airtime and size, with a giant drop into a tunnel leading to a huge camelback, then a turnaround into a series of ejector speed hills. The coaster then blows past the station into a twister section, with strong positive Gs as it goes around a pair of big fast helixes. Finally, it dips into a second tunnel, then pops out into a series of strong bunny hills cutting diagonally through the twister area into the short, abrupt brake run. The theming is Six Flags minimal, mostly consisting of some flats and cutouts in comic-book style, and speakers on the lift hill playing John Williams' iconic Superman theme. Enthusiasts like to complain about the restraints on this ride to the point that I think it's currently over-hated. They are certainly less comfortable than the restraints on a B&M hyper. However, I think they're not that bad and not really worse than RMC restraints. They certainly shouldn't scare you off the ride.

This is my favorite coaster in the world at time of writing, though that's probably because it's my only RMC. It's far from the biggest coaster at Six Flags New England, and lacks the extended lift hi...

This is my favorite coaster in the world at time of writing, though that's probably because it's my only RMC. It's far from the biggest coaster at Six Flags New England, and lacks the extended lift hill truss that most later RMCs had, but it is the most furiously hyperkinetic ride at the park and really gives you the feeling of being in the hands of a madman (Alan Schilke). Every few seconds it's throwing something new at you, usually involving ejector air. There are three inversions: a long zero-G stall punching crosswise through the lift hill, and two roll inversions embedded within the support structure. The most intense moment on the ride may be the double down followed immediately by a camelback hill. Earlier reviews of Wicked Cyclone tended to complain that the third lap is slow. This has never been my experience, and comparing reviews, I suspect they did something to it around 2021 that improved the pacing. I do think that the lap bar restraints can be a bit bulky and you have to fold yourself into the car to some degree, but your upper body is still completely free to respond to this ride's crazy forces. There is some modest theming in the queue and station about a giant storm that hits New England, and the cars are themed to an anthropomorphic storm cloud. For Six Flags, it's not bad.