Reviews
  • Jackie ODoyle 4 years ago

    Airtimes First Drop Pace

    Wow. I expected a good, not great, coaster that would fall near the middle of my giga rankings. What I received was a ride that was relentlessly well-paced from start to finish. The drop is Fury-level...

  • Jackie ODoyle 4 years ago

    Lap Bar Fun Smoothness Dead spots

    This is the weakest adult coaster in the park. That said, it's a pretty fantastic racing coaster with many dueling elements, decent airtime, and an interesting layout. It doesn't hold a candle to its ...

  • Jackie ODoyle 4 years ago

    Lap Bar Launch Ejectors

    I've never liked the Sky Rocket II model, and this dinky little ride didn't look like anything special. But the launch is incredible, just a bit less forceful than a Maverick, the top hat gives far mo...

  • Jackie ODoyle 4 years ago

    Lap Bar Layout Ejectors Dead spots

    This coaster operates without lap bars and looks as rickety as my 90 year old grandfather. Needless to say, I didn't expect much more than a fun, if tame, old school woodie. What I didn't expect was t...

  • Jackie ODoyle 4 years ago

    Airtimes Location Layout

    The retracking treated the red side a lot worse than the blue one, and I wouldn't ride this one on a wheel seat. Still a good ride with great floater and fun races, but the bottoms of the hills are a ...

  • Jackie ODoyle 4 years ago

    Airtimes Fun Smoothness

    An excellent ride on its own merits, when racing, this ride is exquisite. The ahead-of-its-time airtime from modern profiled hills shows the brilliance of John C. Allen, and the offseason retracking w...

  • Jackie ODoyle 4 years ago

    Lap Bar Location Ejectors

    A wonderful, smooth, intense ride that, despite the hype in the community, still managed to surprise me. The airtime is varied but relentless, and it manages to sneak in some wild laterals and near mi...

  • Jackie ODoyle 4 years ago

    Lap Bar Comfort Ejectors Dead spots

    The adorable retrofuturistic aesthetic catches the eye. From off the ride, the coaster looks rough, but the padded seats and single-position lap bar make it feel as smooth as a Modern steel coaster. T...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Location Headbanging Harness Discomfort

    The infamous pre-CAD Arrow transitions strike harder here than any other coaster I've ever ridden. The drop is solid, as is the hill and loop. The transition into the turn is rough, but it's nothing c...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Dead spots

    A slow and relaxing ride, this is good if you need a cooldown, but as a ride, accomplishes next to nothing. It would be high on my chopping block to make way for a much-needed modern wooden coaster in...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Dead spots

    This is a family ride, but it skews toward being entirely forceless. The curved station is an interesting throwback, but the ride is entirely slow and offers very little in terms of fun.

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Intensity Smoothness Discomfort

    Wild spinning and a tight, unbanked layout makes for an intense ride that borders on painful many times throughout the course.

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Airtimes Discomfort Dead spots Layout

    The hills give decent airtime, but the turnaround is absolutely lackluster, and the bottoms of the hills are hell on the lower back. In a park that desperately needs a good wooden coaster, Blue Streak...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    First Drop Inversions Harness Discomfort Tear it down!

    Ouch. My legs and nethers were fine, but my head and shoulders took a pummelling. I understand why Mantis got the conversion, it's just a shame that there's a world class floorless right across the pa...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Theming Nice surprise!

    I'm not a fan of dark rides, so the indoor section wasn't exactly my favorite. This seems to occupy the same strange no-man's-land as Backlot Stunt Coaster, too intense to really be a family coaster b...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Dead spots Layout

    A ride without much to it, the straight track connecting the drawn out helices just doesn't make for a thrilling experience.

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    First Drop Fun Smoothness Too short

    Having ridden Valravn, I didn't expect much from another dive machine. I found this one surprisingly fun, with a much more interesting layout; the longer holding brake makes the drop more thrilling as...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    First Drop Smoothness Dead spots

    A weak, repetitive coaster that really suffers from a shorter hold atop the drop than Griffon's. It's smooth, but it just doesn't do much.

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Airtimes Fun Smoothness

    A fun coaster that should really be considered a family coaster (and given a height requirement to match), it loses a lot of its luster when not racing. It's smooth, though, and packs a decent amount ...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Inversions Intensity Discomfort

    The transitions on this Arrow looper weren't as bad as some others, but it was still uncomfortable. The helix was laughable; I could feel every track piece transition into the next, as if they couldn'...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Pace Layout

    A decent early GCI, showing its age and SFA's low maintenance budget (which seems to go mostly to Wild One, and for good reason). Seeing what SFDK did with its cousin, I think an RMC on that scale cou...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Location Dead spots

    A juddery, meandering ride that only gets good just before it rolls into the final brakes. The pretzel-shaped helices over the water are scenic and fun, but until that point, the ride doesn't really d...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Inversions Intensity Harness

    It's a bit rough and shows its age, but it's an intense ride with a lot of interesting inversions and a wild footchopper off of the heart-shaped roll. This is considered one of the worst SLCs? I thoug...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Inversions Launch Intensity Discomfort

    Spaghetti bowls are much less fun in the dark, when you can't brace for the next snappy transitions.

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Theming Fun Smoothness

    A fun, decently thrilling family mine ride with excellent theming.

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Launch Intensity Hangtime Harness Discomfort

    Surprisingly intense, a shocking amount of hangtime on the twist, and then a wild ride through snappy vertical transitions make for an insane, if not exactly the most comfortable, ride.

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Inversions Hangtime Harness Dead spots

    My first trip to Kings Island was the weekend of the announcement that this relic of my defunct home park would close at the end of the season. I'm thrilled that I made the trip, but not because of Fi...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Launch Intensity Dead spots

    Somewhere in the no-man's-land between a quality family ride and an intense launched coaster sits Backlot Stunt Coaster. A sharp banked transition leads into a tight and forceful helix that makes no b...

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Intensity Smoothness

    It doesn't hold a candle to its RMC-converted cousin in Charlotte, but the retracked section is butter smooth and the trademark CCI forces make it a pretty intense ride.

  • Jackie ODoyle 6 years ago

    Location Fun

    A fun, picturesque family mine train.