Zadra • Energylandia
Zadra features
Reviews 102
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Pace Fun Smoothness Too short Disappointing!
I was preparing my self for a while to ride this beast, mentally i achieved to expect nothing from it to be sure i'll be judging it properly, but once you are there visually the ride is immediately pressuring you, from the outside it looks absolutely demonic. Surprisingly i enjoyed a lot their dispatch system with screens.. Anyway, after a ride i was clearly blown away but i was also missing something, the pace is so intense i couldn't realise and feel anything physical. The forces are here but from the drop, to the airtime, to the outbanked element, i was simply jumping in my seat without the feeling of grace you can feel during a beautiful parabolic ejector (like the first hill in Hyperion, Goliath, and EGF). I did this ride more than 50times, i had a 1hour ERT which i could stay in my seat without leaving it 15times in a row, i tried every fucking seats in the train, and i came to this conclusion: first the ride is better in the first row, but it's clearly not worthing to wait in the "first row waiting line", it adds 30min to the wait for a 30sec ride the ratio is ridiculous. Otherwise the best seat to experience the ride is back row on the left, expect to fly over your seat in every directions, it's sharp, harsh, violent but soooo much less painful than an Untamed (Untamed is higher in my top because on many more parameters btw) the screens at the dispatch helps a lot to catch every single occasion to go on it even more if you are a single rider. Whatever after a ridiculous amount of consecutives rides i never had any pain on my legs which is a great performance for a RMC and their stupid lapbars i guess, the ride is insane and packs a lot of crazy situations and funny moments to experience but don't expect those feelings that makes you feel like an astronaut, you'll just be exited and triggered by its awesomness.
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First Drop Intensity Smoothness
I have ridden 64 coasters in Europe and Zadra is the best of them all. She is so intense - especialy in the back row, smooth, fast, well paced, well designed, just perfect! She is a beast! She is queen of roller coasters! Queue line is the longest in the world but you get great views of this beauty and audio is also very good. No problems with lap bars, no problems with additional shin guards. I recommend night rides during Magic Nights in summer. No cons.
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Airtimes Pace Masterpiece
Incredible speed throughout the massive layout. Zadra delivers a surprising amount of G+ for an RMC, along with fantastic sideways and ejector airtime!
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Pace Fun Intensity
First of all WOW this is a beautiful coaster. It looks insane in person. Already seeing it tower above the trees from the train when arriving at Energylandia is incredible. This ride has some really fun elements on an incredible scale. Though as with all other RMCs that I rode until now I have the same thing to criticize: These rides just tend to lack intensity in the transitions between the elements. However out of the ones that I rode so far this one does it best. I even got a gray out on the first turnaround element which is the first time on an RMC for me. Unfortunately the ride feels a bit short even though it's insane track length. The ride is very well paced which means that it makes it through the massive amount of track in no time. Also the very powerful brake run hits very hard which on one hand is uncomfortable (especially in combination with RMCs stupid restraint design) and on the other hand it is sad because the ride could easily have been extended to be longer. Also something to mention is that the operations at Energylandia make you walk around if you want to reride Zadra which is unfortunate because the station exit to station entrance is a walk of around 700-800m and it makes the ride very non reridable.
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Pace Fun Intensity Discomfort Lap Bar
I've waited almost a year for riding Zadra, which was opened a week after my previous visit in Energylandia. My expectations were very high and reality, unfortunately, does not match them in all aspects. Visually beautiful, Zadra is located in Dragon Zone - area which looks much better then every other park zone due to its theming. The atmosphere of medieval village disappears however in ridiculously long queue line, which has no theming at all. After beautiful Hyperion station and overall presence of Dragon Zone it is a bit disappointing. Finally I'm in the train - OMG, the restrains are so uncomfortable! Lap bars have additional shin guards, which caused giant bruises on my legs after only 3 rides. Ride experience? After extremely noisy chain lift the drop comes - very good in last row (nice ejector), ok in the middle rows. After the drop, train reaches its top speed of 121 km/h and maintain great pace till the end. After twisted top hat the Zero-G stall comes - one of 2 best moments of the rides, which looks spectacular from the outside. Couple of turns and second best moment comes - great right turn immediately followed by sharp left - masterpiece! Shortly after you reach great ejector hill, followed by second inversion. Last section is close to the ground and to the structure of Zadra, with the final, third inversion and... ouch, painful, hard brakes at the end. The train has enough speed for further 200m of track, which is unfortunately missing. Overall, awesome ride, with extremely high G-forces, very intense with great pacing, but also with couple of drawbacks: uncomfortable restrains, brutal brakes and lack of theming. So which one is better: Zadra or Hyperion? They are different, so it is difficult to compare them, both have pros and cons, but let me put it this way: every time I'm in Hyperion waiting for departure, I'm excited and scared a little bit. And I love this feeling. On Zadra, I felt this only once, before the first ride.
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Lap Bar Pace Ejectors
This coaster is just pure insanity, balls to the walls from beginning to end, every element is tight and whippy, it's pure insanity and I love it, very, very good ride.
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Pace Masterpiece Smoothness
The ride is absolutely insane. I'm glad that RMC did not pack shitloads of small ejector pops, it stays well-paced till the end!
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Airtimes First Drop Intensity Harness
What an incredible coaster. The first drop packs a big punch, followed by an intense turnaround with great airtime. The outside banked turn is the craziest part, pretty low to the ground and fast as.. The twisted hip at the end is the cherry on top of the cake.
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First Drop Inversions Fun Too short Intensity
Packs a real punch with it's first drop and turnaround but fails to keep up this level of intensity for the rest of the ride. Has some incredibly fun inversions and is gorgeous to look at though.
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Pace Intensity Smoothness
Absolut fantastic! This ride ist awesome. It's main pro ist pace. Only cons are the crazy long Queue line, that you can't skip... It would battle Steel Vengeance for the No. 1 spot if it was a little bit longer.
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Pace Smoothness Layout
I have no words, this is the best coaster in Europe to me as of 2019. As stunning visually as it is as a ride experience. After you have conquered the much too long queue line, you are in for a serious treat, as soon as the coaster has warmed up for a few hours. First drop into the structure is amazing, especially in the back. As soon as you reach the bottom, you are shocked by the stupid amount of speed at an insane level of smoothness. Climbing up the turnaround-hill you get some good airtime before going down again. Then you get the zero-G-stall - not my personal favourite element, as I think the feeling is not so different from other similar conventional elements that it feels like something totally new, but it is immense fun. The following outbanked turn is very whippy here, the subsequent floater hill acts as a much needed breather point, but fortunately is not as long as Hyperions. A great inversion through the structure is followed by two amazing camelbacks with Untamed-quality ejector. My favourite part of the ride is the violent twisted airtime hill to the left that follows. Final inversion and then you slam in the brakes like crazy. Ride it and be amazed but wait for a couple of hours until the ride has reached its full potential. My current #1 in Europe.
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Inversions Masterpiece Ejectors Harness
Zadra is truly an incredible ride. There are eight moments of nice ejector airtime, including an insane 90° first drop and a crazy turnaround (this is definitely the highlight of the ride), that gets stronger towards the end of the day but wild airtime is not what Zadra is about. The ride is about speed, incredible pacing, twisty transitions, perfect zero-g inversions and some quite scary headchoppers. Personally I don't mind having fewer but more sustained moments of airtime instead of those quick bursts of ejector, one after another, that RMCs are best known for. The ride is glass smooth and I absolutely loved how the inversions are shaped. The only thing I didn't quite like about Zadra are the restraints. Lap bars and seat belts were fine but I don't really see the point of using shin guards on this ride. Prepare to have your thighs and shins bruised after a few re-rides!
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First Drop Intensity Smoothness Too short
What can I say about Zadra. Best coaster I've ridden so far. Amazingly intense, in back row - masterpiece! What's more it's super smooth and it just fly over the track. You feel like the trains are not slowing down even a little bit during the ride. You will not experience airtimes on this coaster, but if you prefer intensity over airtimes - it's the perfect coaster. Maybe a little con - too short. I think 300-400m track more would be great. Anyway - 5 stars!
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SUPER ! ! ! !
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Inversions Masterpiece Ejectors
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Pace Masterpiece
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Airtimes Intensity Layout Discomfort Lap Bar
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First Drop Nice surprise! Comfort
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Comfort Pace Masterpiece Too short
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