El Toro • Six Flags Great Adventure

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This ride has the best airtime I have ever experienced. It is currently ranked as my 2nd favorite just below Steel Vengeance. Smooth but not as smooth as everyone says.

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El Toro is the second best coaster behind Fury 325. This ride is pure awesomeness, especially in car 4, row 2. The cable lift is so fast, and that first drop sends you flying out of your seat. Every hill provides strong ejector airtime, the best I have ever experienced. The twister section is very intense and fun, and because it has steel topper track, it is very smooth for a wooden roller coaster.

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El Toro is known to be the best wooden roller coaster in the world right now according to the golden ticket awards. To me, El Toro is perfect, besides it’s intensity. It’s speed and airtime are so extreme, that you’ll get a slight beating depending on where you sit. I sat in the very back and on the second hill, I banged my head on the back of the train. That doesn’t mean that wherever you sit, you’ll get a rough ride. It just means that if you sit more towards the front you’ll have a perfect experience on this amazing coaster. El Toro, is perfect in its airtime, speed, turns, and theming.

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Perfect ride no flaws

First Drop Smoothness Ejectors

Never felt so ecstatic on a coaster! The hills had powerful ejector air, as well as some floater. There was a particular hill with extreme ejector air straight into a series of banked turns which was my absolute highlight. It was very smooth. The last two hills felt weak compared to the rest of the ride though, hence the 4.5 stars.

First Drop Ejectors Rattle Dead spots Lap Bar

El Toro, while the airtime is extremely powerful, is badly paced, has an annoying rattle, and probably the worst wooden coaster restraints I've ever ridden in, that makes the airtime painful. After the explosive start with the first drop, two sustained ejector hills, and cool turnaround, the ride dies. The rest of the ride is hills without airtime and rattly banked turns, save for the Rolling Thunder hill. Probably the most overrated coaster I've ever ridden. I understand the appeal for sure, but this coaster isn't for me.

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El Toro is one of the most intense wooden coasters out there, and is well-known for it's incredible ejector airtime. The airtime is more than any other coaster that I have ridden, and I fail to see how any other coaster could provide more airtime than El Toro. The first drop in the back seat is one of the best coaster experiences in the world, as the front of the train pulls the rest over into an incredibly steep angle of descent. Following the first drop are 2 hills that provide an intense sensation of sustained ejector airtime. Following these two airtime hills and the overbank the relentless pace takes a break for a bit until what is arguably the strongest airtime moment of the ride, the infamous "Rolling Thunder Hill" that dives over the only remains of the dismantled wooden coaster before completing the circuit with a quick bucking bronco finale that gives the ride its name. Although the ride doesn't have a lot of theming, and there is a small dead spot in the middle of the ride, El Toro is an amazing ride that deserves its spot as one of the best wooden coasters in the world.

Airtimes Layout Ejectors Discomfort Lap Bar

I get that it is a splendid ride full of incredible airtime, but honestly, having a seatbelt buckle jabbed into my flesh over and over and over again by the tiny Intamin lapbar that damn near bruises my legs on every hill just isn't very pleasant. A real rethinking of this ride's restraints could go a long way.

Airtimes First Drop Masterpiece Theming

El Toro! What a ride this is. This could honestly be the best woodie in the world. Anyways, you start off with a cable lift followed by the INSANE first drop. This gives tons of ejector air and is followed by more giant ejector hills. But there is quite a bit of intensity on these hills as well. Overall, El Toro is the god of ejector air and backs it up with intensity and high capacity trains.

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