Coaster reviews

Airtimes First Drop Comfort

Shambhala is a fantastic ride at a fantastic park. It offers so much airtime, ranging from the first camelback and the amazing speed hill to the lesser hills at the end of the layout. This ride also does an amazing job of mixing positives and negatives. There are those floaty hills, and then in between you have intense valleys as well as that turnaround. Shambhala does die down a bit in the second half, but that still doesn’t stop it from being an amazing attraction.

Theming Fun Masterpiece

Smooth, well themed, well paced, a variety of elements, comfortable, intense, and fun.

Airtimes Ejectors Duration Capacity Harness Discomfort

Really find this ride overrated. This ride doesn't do anything unique to any other RMC. I find the ride to be too long and the last few hills are just so uncomfortable. I was expecting this to be a top coaster, but I didn't get that at all. The capacity on this thing is also atrocious for a coaster running three trains.

Airtimes First Drop Ejectors Rattle Discomfort Reliability

I like this ride, but it’s gotten a lot rougher, to the point where it hurts. That airtime is still good, but it’s really rough. Also I’ve definitely experienced better airtime

Inversions Smoothness

Very Underrated

We rode this as soon as the park opened. I knew of the incredibly low capacity and slow moving lines, so we went there first thing. We were the first ones on it for the day. There was still no one at in the queue when we returned back that the station and we wanted to ride it again immediately. The attendants made us do the walk. We rode it twice and never went back. It was decent enough. The off camber / opposite banked turn wasn't as thrilling as I envisioned. Beyond that it just provided a decent little ride experience. Think of it a wild mouse on a mild steriod binge. Decent overall coaster. Excellent addition to the park.

I was super excited when this coaster was announced. I love GCI's. My favorite is/was Ozark Wildcat at the now defunct Celebration City. So at the time this would have been the 3rd GCI in the state of Missouri. The third being American Thunder (It was Evel Knievel back then) at Six Flags St Louis. Prowler, I am sad to say is a very, very distant third to those other two. I don't quite know know what to say other than it just didn't deliver. I rode it first in the back and it was a bit rough without the usual sweeping and comfortable transitions that GCI is know for. I then immediately rode it again in the front. Unfortunately it wasn't much better there either. It just didn't deliver forces and stay smooth like other GCI's. There was very little air and absolutely none of the famous "sideway" air that Ozark Wildcat was the absolute best at. It could be the park--they have a way of building coasters that should be great on paper, but just end up being duds--both Mamba and Patriot fit that bill as well. I'm not sure what is wrong with this version, but it simply doesn't deliver.

Airtimes Location Layout Rattle Discomfort

Amazing ride the layout and airtime is amazing and to top it off it takes place in the woods. It is best rode at night and the lines can get long. It has not been named best wooden roller coaster 5 times for no reason. I would change nothing about the ride except about how much rattle there is. After you ride it a couple of times in a row you will be in a little of pain. But once again overall an amazing roller coaster.

First Drop Inversions Fun Headbanging Too short Harness

This Gerstlauer Eurofighter is a fun ride. I had more than 20 rides during my last visit, and it offers a good package of elements considering the length of the ride. This ride is extremely short. The first drop is amazing, the loop isn't taken with much speed but I didn't feel like I got much hangtime either. The barrel roll is a really good inversion tho. The most negative thing about Falcon is the harness. It's an over the shoulder restraint, so for shorter people it's quite uncomfortable because of the headbanging, but for a taller person it's uncomfortable because the restraint really pushes your shoulders down. For a park like Duinrell it's a good ride tho!

Discomfort Dead spots

This ride is just a standard Zierer double 8 kiddie coaster. The trains are a nightmare for taller people, and the train barely gets over the smaller hills. There are so many better kiddie coasters nowadays, and I would give this ride 1 star if it wasn't a classic, but it is.