Coaster reviews

Intensity Harness

Amazing and impressive ride. Went on 4 times at winter wonderland incredible intensity. Would have been rated a lot better without the bad restraint felt like I was being crushed.

Airtimes Smoothness Ejectors

Some of the most insane ejector I have ever felt, especially the sustained ejector on those 3 camelbacks. Pacing is fantastic and it's perfectly smooth the whole way through. The inversions are also very unique and there's plenty of cool headchoppers too.

Theming Fun Smoothness Capacity

One of my favorite indoor coasters I've ridden. The theming is super fun, the spinning does not annoy me like I know it would on other spinning coasters. They spin you just the right amount. Being someone who can't typically do spin rides I appreciated that this one was not over done. Highly recommend this ride for kids too, the queue line is fun with crazy circus mirrors, the theming on the ride is cool, overall really underrated ride and would recommend.

Theming Fun

Yes, I do remember the exact date I rode this coaster. My mom (who was the best mom ever) used her saved money in order to make my childhood dream come true: To visit Disneyland. We travelled from Sweden (through Iceland), spent a week in New York and then went to visit my mother's childhood friend in Dana Point, California. We visited Disneyland on Christmas Eve and then visited Disney World on New Year's eve. I will never forget how we stepped off the public mover train at Tomorrowland and made our way to Matterhorn. My dream had come true. And Matterhorn met every expectation I had.

I rode this as a kid in the 80s when my family travelled through Denmark on our way back from Germany. I think I found it fun but it didn't make much of an impact as I remember very little about it.

Fun Rattle

This is a ride that I rode as a kid in the 80s and that my dad rode before me in the 1940s. It's amazing to think we rode the same coaster at the same age. I have come to realise that memories cannot also be relied upon but I have a distict memory of this rollercoaster having more than one track. But I only rode it once. What I have seen from historical photographs doesn't correspond to my memories but possibly this ride changed through the years. I remember the ride being fun but very rattling.

We went on a school trip to Gothenburg in the late 80s and this ride had just opened. I had visited Liseberg previously when they still had their old wooden coaster and the looping coaster was their premier ride (a ride I was way to scared to ride). In a Swedish magazine there was a promotion with a coupon to ride Lisebergbanan. Me and my friend went house to house in our village and asked every neighbour if we could have their ride coupon! When I went to Liseberg that year I had a stack of Lisebergbanan coupons. I didn't have time to use them all but I rode it a lot. I remember the annoyed look at the personnel at the ride since this was NOT the way you were supposed to use this promotion. :P

Fun

Possibly my first rollercoaster and the only rollercoaster still standing from my early childhood. This ride was a very joyful experience for me as a kid and I find it a bit sad that we rate kiddie coasters so low because we compare them to modern extreme rides. I tell myself that I will not be the kind of rider that collect credits just for the sake of getting credits and I don't plan on riding many kiddie coasters in the future. However, I will make an exception for this ride for nostalgic reasons if I go back to Gröna Lund. I first rode this in the late 70s.

One of my first rollercoasters. I had possibly ridden the rollercoaster at Furuvik before this as it was my closest park. I had also ridden Nyckelpigan at Gröna Lund. What is funny is that I remember my friends laughing at me when I told them I found Nyckelpigan (a kiddie coaster) scarier than this one (a coaster we all percieved as a ride for grown ups). While I remember being intimidated by the lift hill (and the rotating radar thing at the top), the ride was more predictable while Nyckelpigan had faster twists and turns. I rode this in the very late 1970s or 1980 at the latest.

Location

This was possibly my first rollercoaster. I don't remember much about it as I was a kid. It was most likely a family coaster but for me it was thrilling. As with my other really early rollercoaster (Radar at Gröna Lund) my strongest memory is the intimidating lift hill and the surrounding pine trees (Furuvik means Pine tree bay). I don't know when I rode this but it must have been late 70s (or 1980 at the latest). I rated this 3 stars but that is just an estimation. Through the eyes of a small kid this was an extremely exciting ride but in hindsight it was probably little more than a carnival ride.