Reviews • Nathan F

This is a standard Zamperla spinner, and for the first half of the ride I was quite whelmed. Then the spinning unlocked and proceeded to be the single...

This is a standard Zamperla spinner, and for the first half of the ride I was quite whelmed. Then the spinning unlocked and proceeded to be the single most intense spin I’ve ever had on a roller coaster. I could barely walk out of the exit I was so dizzy. Really a huge surprise hit for me.

Hurricane is a pretty janky, run-down looking ride. But that jank works in its favor more often than not, as it provides some fun drops and airtime mo...

Hurricane is a pretty janky, run-down looking ride. But that jank works in its favor more often than not, as it provides some fun drops and airtime moments.

This is a ride that had the potential to be amazing, but roughness really detracts from it a lot. It has relentless pacing and some strong airtime mom...

This is a ride that had the potential to be amazing, but roughness really detracts from it a lot. It has relentless pacing and some strong airtime moments. But it’s all made unnecessarily painful and uncomfortable by some brutal jerkiness, particularly through the inversion. It also makes a horrendous noise as it goes across the ReTrak stuff.

This ride could’ve really been great. It’s surprisingly forceful for a family coaster, particularly with some of the laterals. It keeps its speed real...

This ride could’ve really been great. It’s surprisingly forceful for a family coaster, particularly with some of the laterals. It keeps its speed really well. On paper this should be an elite family coaster. But there is a notable rattle that does detract somewhat from the ride experience. The ride only has one train in the first place so capacity can be an issue. This ride was also barely open on my visit, only running for about an hour out of a 10 hour day due to recurring issues. Also, very weird note but in the station when people sort themselves into lines, they have it set up in such a way that rows 2, 3, and 4 will always be the shortest lines by a wide margin

This is an extremely intense invert. Among the best I’ve ever ridden. It plays exceptionally well with its terrain, diving in and out of trenches. Eve...

This is an extremely intense invert. Among the best I’ve ever ridden. It plays exceptionally well with its terrain, diving in and out of trenches. Every inversion hits really really hard. This is very whippy. Everything feels like it’s profiled just a little too tightly and it is better for it. Only downside is it ran one train all day.

This thing was probably the biggest surprise of my trip to Busch Gardens Tampa. The theming in the queue vastly exceeded my expectations, followed by ...

This thing was probably the biggest surprise of my trip to Busch Gardens Tampa. The theming in the queue vastly exceeded my expectations, followed by a much stronger coaster than I anticipated. This is definitely family thrill territory, not super intense. But it’s a very very well executed ride for what it’s trying to be.

Cheetah Hunt was only running two trains on my visit, so it developed a nasty line. I waited 90 minutes for it. Fortunately, it’s a fantastic ride. No...

Cheetah Hunt was only running two trains on my visit, so it developed a nasty line. I waited 90 minutes for it. Fortunately, it’s a fantastic ride. Not the most intense thing ever, but it’s a super long ride that’s a ton of fun. There’s a few dead spots, but also several moments of solid airtime and laterals, along with multiple great launches. Nice interactions with the skyride too.

The Sky Rocket II’s always have amazing hangtime and some sweet ejector coming off the top of the ride. Unfortunately SEAS always puts the comfort col...

The Sky Rocket II’s always have amazing hangtime and some sweet ejector coming off the top of the ride. Unfortunately SEAS always puts the comfort collars on them which create more discomfort on a Premier train that already isn’t comfortable in the first place. Good ride, but I didn’t need to do it more than once.

One of the weaker large-scale dive coasters, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t pack a punch. Amazing first drop. Always love when dive coasters use the...

One of the weaker large-scale dive coasters, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t pack a punch. Amazing first drop. Always love when dive coasters use the MCBR to make a second dive. The splashdown and tunnel is fun. But there are some moments where the layout is really quite basic in comparison to other similarly scaled dive coasters.

I like the Zierer Forces. They’re pretty solid kiddy coasters. But that said, they’re still kiddy coasters. Air Grover is no exception. It’s fun. It’s...

I like the Zierer Forces. They’re pretty solid kiddy coasters. But that said, they’re still kiddy coasters. Air Grover is no exception. It’s fun. It’s got surprising speed. It’s a kiddy coaster.

This is among the greatest coasters ever built. Relentless from start to finish. Crazy airtime. The death roll is an insane inversion. It simply doesn...

This is among the greatest coasters ever built. Relentless from start to finish. Crazy airtime. The death roll is an insane inversion. It simply doesn’t get much better than this.

Superman: Escape From Krypton was a very generic ride. In a park with loads of stand out coasters, it failed to stand out. The launch was unimpressive...

Superman: Escape From Krypton was a very generic ride. In a park with loads of stand out coasters, it failed to stand out. The launch was unimpressive. The drop was fun, but not special. The wind on the return trip is really unpleasant, and the layout fails to make that wind worth it. It's fun for sure, but not particularly great.

This is a very good kiddy coaster. I got sent around twice. Park is cute. Not really anything to complain about here, but this ride isn’t trying to be...

This is a very good kiddy coaster. I got sent around twice. Park is cute. Not really anything to complain about here, but this ride isn’t trying to be anything special in the first place.

This is just kind of another kiddy coaster. It’s a larger kiddy coaster with a launch. Not really any force to it though. Nothing really to complain a...

This is just kind of another kiddy coaster. It’s a larger kiddy coaster with a launch. Not really any force to it though. Nothing really to complain about given it’s a kiddy coaster, but nothing really that’s super exciting.

It’s a standard issue Vekoma Junior coaster. Goes around twice which is nice. Nothing too special but this model is always one of the top kiddy coaste...

It’s a standard issue Vekoma Junior coaster. Goes around twice which is nice. Nothing too special but this model is always one of the top kiddy coaster models out there

This is my favorite of the Las Vegas coasters. This ride gets a ton of hate because it's really janky and badly paced. Both of these criticisms are tr...

This is my favorite of the Las Vegas coasters. This ride gets a ton of hate because it's really janky and badly paced. Both of these criticisms are true. However, it's still a fun ride. The first few drops are really fun. It has a pair of solid inversions. The helix was forceful. This ride completely fails to deliver airtime every time it tries, but it's big and powerful and makes up for its jankiness and lack of airtime with pure fun factor.

This is an extremely intense and fast-paced ride. It's super aggressive. I don't know what it is about this ride but it takes this fairly standard ser...

This is an extremely intense and fast-paced ride. It's super aggressive. I don't know what it is about this ride but it takes this fairly standard series of Arrow maneuvers with just dramatically more force than Arrow coasters typically seem to do. This would make it one of Arrow's best coasters if it wasn't so dang janky and rough. The jank is typical Arrow jank, where every transition kinda sucks, but this is paired with some roughness throughout the layout that leads to some serious headbanging, especially in the front. I loved this ride for its aggressiveness, but it does not run well.

This is a very fun ride, anchored by two standout moments with a ton of nothing in between. The first drop on this ride is powerful. You build up a lo...

This is a very fun ride, anchored by two standout moments with a ton of nothing in between. The first drop on this ride is powerful. You build up a lot of speed coming off the lift hill and the small trains get absolutely yanked over that drop. After that, the ride gets very slow and stays slow. Mostly it's fun, but it can be pretty forceless, especially when it wraps around itself at one point. This ultimately leads into a final moment though that delivers one of the single greatest hangtime moments on a coaster. Super fun. Definitely a solid ride, just very uneven.

This is a difficult ride to evaluate because it doesn’t really know what it wants to be. It’s too much of a dark ride to be a great coaster but it’s t...

This is a difficult ride to evaluate because it doesn’t really know what it wants to be. It’s too much of a dark ride to be a great coaster but it’s too much of a coaster to be a great dark ride. Ultimately, the shooting sections are bad. The coaster sections are fun. The theming is significantly better than anything else in the park, and it’s one of the better themed coasters out there. It’s a very fun ride all in all that mostly works out to be an elite, if inconsistent experience

Holy headbanging! This ride isn’t the worst of this model, but that’s a low bar. There are almost no forces aside from the rattle through the entire l...

Holy headbanging! This ride isn’t the worst of this model, but that’s a low bar. There are almost no forces aside from the rattle through the entire layout. It’s a terrible coaster.

This ride has some wild jank to it that isn’t always good. It also seems profiled too tightly so it slams you around a lot. Sometimes that’s fun. Some...

This ride has some wild jank to it that isn’t always good. It also seems profiled too tightly so it slams you around a lot. Sometimes that’s fun. Sometimes it’s not. Notably it does require a full train and prohibits single riders, which on a very low-crowd day meant it sent trains fairly infrequently.

This is almost a run of the mill family coaster. The layout is uninspired. It runs smooth. But it has onboard audio which really makes it a little ext...

This is almost a run of the mill family coaster. The layout is uninspired. It runs smooth. But it has onboard audio which really makes it a little extra memorable. Nothing too impressive, but in a park generally full of poor presentation it stands out.

It’s another Maurer spinner. Probably spins a bit more than average. But like the others I’ve done, this is a fun ride with solid spinning that probab...

It’s another Maurer spinner. Probably spins a bit more than average. But like the others I’ve done, this is a fun ride with solid spinning that probably isn’t gonna be the most memorable coaster of your trip.

It’s definitely an old wooden coaster. Good enough layout with some decent airtime pops to make it clear why this ride has stuck around all these year...

It’s definitely an old wooden coaster. Good enough layout with some decent airtime pops to make it clear why this ride has stuck around all these years. But it runs rough, as old wood coasters tend to do.

This is the intensity king at Lagoon. Two forceful loops and two fun helices. Not a whole lot to it. Ride is smooth enough. Everything it does it does...

This is the intensity king at Lagoon. Two forceful loops and two fun helices. Not a whole lot to it. Ride is smooth enough. Everything it does it does well. Bur it just doesn’t do much.

This ride is a tale of two halves. The launch and tower is a truly unique experience that makes this an unforgettable ride. And the first half as a wh...

This ride is a tale of two halves. The launch and tower is a truly unique experience that makes this an unforgettable ride. And the first half as a whole is a strong Infinity Coaster-esque layout. But it has a really dumb second half that is kinda rough and forceless. Ride also has bad restraints that come down farther during the ride. Overall a good coaster with some serious flaws.

Cannibal is a phenomenal coaster. It takes each element at a perfect pace for the element. First drop is elite. Most of the ride is on the intense sid...

Cannibal is a phenomenal coaster. It takes each element at a perfect pace for the element. First drop is elite. Most of the ride is on the intense side, but with a super graceful lagoon roll. Has a bit of a rattle that doesn’t detract from the ride.