Coaster reviews

Smoothness Dead spots

It's a very smooth ride that doesn't really do much of anything. Didn't get much spinning either.

It's a family coaster. Two laps per cycle. I noticed it had a tendency to undershoot the station, so the back row would have to be pseudo-evaced.

Launch Intensity Smoothness Discomfort

It’s intense, the launch is pretty forceful, and smooth. Except for one spot, not in a rattle way though, on the break run, you really stop abruptly which slams you into your lap bar.

First Drop Nice surprise! Layout Too short

Found it quite smooth - not a huge fan of gerstlauers but this was more my kind of thing. Launch is VERY unexpectedly snappy and I kind of wish I'd gotten into a better position for it the first time as it kind of hurt - but after that it was a fun, short ride with cool inversions and a nice fluid layout.

Airtimes Theming Masterpiece

Just a game changing masterpiece from start to finish. Gorgeous, perfectly paced, dizzying in the best way, overwhelmingly good. Also really appreciate that its theming has moved past 'terrifying! Dare you ride??!' style marketing and embraced the idea that rollercoasters are transcendent, pleasurable experiences that people can love on their own terms rather than as a side-effect of death-defying fear - it feels like an artform maturing. Audio is magic, airtime and hangtime at any and every weird angle you can imagine, fabulous launches, the way that slow, graceful opening inversion feels like the machine is telling you 'don't worry, man, it's cool, I've got this, you can let go for the next couple of minutes, it's ok...' - a pure joy. Love love love it.

Intensity Rattle Dead spots

Its got some nice drops and airtime but its rough and some dead spots

Launch Pace Hangtime Capacity

This is a great investment into Chessington, in terms of the ride experience anyway, and easily the best ride on park. I was really quite surprised by how good the ride was, particularly with it's family-thrill billing. But what we've got is some really good theming, which will only get better as the planting grows up around the area, a nice snappy launch through the station, and a great layout which is paced absolutely perfectly to deliver a good ride experience, but without being too intense for it's 1.2m height limit. Particular highlights for me are the spike in the back row, which is awesome and gives a nice airtime moment, that launch, the inversion which is taken at a great speed to give some nice hangtime, and the helix up the jaguar shrine which starts out decently intense and then gives some great sideways hangtime as the train stalls to make it's return journey. This really is a great coaster for it's family thrill tag, and Chessy and B&M have done a superb job. The clear problem here though is the capacity, hence it loses a star, because this is one slow moving line. The virtual queue is working well, and I hope Chessington keep it in place for a while yet, because this thing will be pulling 120 minute queues left right and centre otherwise. And the not waiting behind the airgates thing is stupid, they need to get that sorted ASAP as it adds unnecessary time onto the process. Whether it's the right investment for this particular park - one of the busiest in the UK and certainly the one that struggles most with queues on busy days - remains to be seen but for now, I look forward to enjoying plenty more rides on a great coaster

Airtimes First Drop Ejectors Discomfort Airtimes

Clunky. That's the word. Like other Morgans, each airtime hill is followed by an abrupt "clunk" as the train refamiliarizes itself with the track. Anyway, the first drop is good, and the first half has nice floater airtimes. The helix is fun and provides good positive Gs. The bunny hills at the end have good ejectors, but each is followed by the "clunk" that slams you back into the seat.

Capacity Nice surprise! Fun Theming

The coaster itself is OK, but I didn't like the Ekipa sponsorship. And by the way, if you don't know, what Ekipa is - it's pretty much just a bunch of overrated youtubers who make cringy content just for money. They're extremely popular in Poland that they released a lot of merch (e.g. ice cream, shirts, notebooks etc) that sold out instantly, especially with children and teens alike. Speaking of the coaster, I prefer Light Explorers to Boomerang, because it has more drops and surprises.

Intensity Headbanging Harness Discomfort

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