Reviews • A Wild Walter

Isn’t it great when you are riding a rollercoaster built for five year olds when you really could be riding the best rollercoaster in the world just a...

Isn’t it great when you are riding a rollercoaster built for five year olds when you really could be riding the best rollercoaster in the world just a couple minutes walk away from you. The things I do for credits.

One of the most overrated coasters at KI for me, everybody raves about this being the best family coaster at the park, but I don’t see it. While I may...

One of the most overrated coasters at KI for me, everybody raves about this being the best family coaster at the park, but I don’t see it. While I may not be the biggest fan, it’s a somewhat fun ride with decent pace and might be the most intense coaster that everybody in the family enjoys.

For the height they worked with, this is a masterpiece. If there was a stats to airtime duration ratio, this would have to be on the upper end of the ...

For the height they worked with, this is a masterpiece. If there was a stats to airtime duration ratio, this would have to be on the upper end of the spectrum for sure. We need more of these gravity group family woodies because they are great. I could see this fitting at a park like Silverwood or Holiday World that doesn’t have much of a thrill gap between two coasters.

I just don’t get the hype man. The scenery isn’t grown in yet so it really isn’t a scenic ride. The launches are fairly weak, and the profiling on the...

I just don’t get the hype man. The scenery isn’t grown in yet so it really isn’t a scenic ride. The launches are fairly weak, and the profiling on the hills makes it so that there is no airtime to be found on the entire ride, even though they had potential for some. Why are enthusiasts acting like this is one of the best family coaster in the world, when it got beaten by Blue Streak at CP in my rankings?

Don’t get me wrong, I love this ride. Out of my weak credit count of 40, it came in at number four, which seems high on the surface, but that means it...

Don’t get me wrong, I love this ride. Out of my weak credit count of 40, it came in at number four, which seems high on the surface, but that means it’s barely in my top 10% of coasters. I thought this would be my number one or two. It was definitely overhyped for me, and I have heard that it runs on different wheels depending on the year, but I don’t know it just wasn’t it. The airtime was strong floater at best and I expected to be flying through the double up, but it felt like I was riding down the drop on Woodstock Express. Just slow and disappointing. The drop was fun though!

This may just have the worst capacity in the park. It is super popular among the gp which makes the problem worse, and now with Orion, they may ride t...

This may just have the worst capacity in the park. It is super popular among the gp which makes the problem worse, and now with Orion, they may ride that and see this ride next to it and figure, “Might as well ride it while we are here!” That’s my main complaint, but the ride is also super rough and the trains are uncomfortable. I can stand a rough ride, but the trains may ruin it for some. This ride does have some upsides, though, like the launch, theme, and fact it’s indoor, but the cons, especially capacity, outweigh the pros so much that it’s the worst thrill coaster at the park, and three family coaster beat it, that being Bat, Racer, and Backlot. As a homeparker, I just can’t justify riding every visit, which is why my ride count isn’t even double digits.

This is the most underrated rollercoaster in the world. The ejector on this ride is INSANE, especially at night. Get a night ride on this, it’s sure a...

This is the most underrated rollercoaster in the world. The ejector on this ride is INSANE, especially at night. Get a night ride on this, it’s sure as heck worth it. This beats out every B&M in Ohio (except Diamondback I still love you 😘).

Another great creation of B&M, this blue giga coaster may be outshined by a coaster 1/3 of it’s size in the same park, but this ride delivers a fairly...

Another great creation of B&M, this blue giga coaster may be outshined by a coaster 1/3 of it’s size in the same park, but this ride delivers a fairly intense experience, most notably the Orion’s Belt, and some great moments of airtime. Two moments of floater, two ejector, one flojector. You start off with an incredible first drop, diving into a ravine and delivering arguably the best airtime moment in the ride. Next comes two useless elements, an airtimeless wave turn and a rip-off treble clef delivering no forces. I would rather have to i305 type snaps, the first a little less drawn out going 45° to the right, and the next being way more sustained going all the way back into the next element. However, you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit. Up next is a flojector speed hill with 5 awesome second of air, then a camelback giving the last floater moment. Then we head into a massive gray-out inducing helix into a mini twisted dip which gives possible the best airtime on the ride. The ejector is most definitely the strongest, however it’s not sustained, so some may prefer the first-drop like me. And then the pop into the brakes comes shortly after. I would’ve liked to see more to the layout, as when you pop into the brakes, you have half full tank of gas.

The most intense ride in the park, this invert suffers from a rattle. In all rows but the front, this rattle can get intense if you’re on the wrong tr...

The most intense ride in the park, this invert suffers from a rattle. In all rows but the front, this rattle can get intense if you’re on the wrong train and can ruin the ride for some. I can get past this, though, and enjoy the ride for its intense inversions.

Man I love the intensity. There’s no rattle, no matter what people say. The inversions snap you like crazy. Funny story, on my first ride, the restrai...

Man I love the intensity. There’s no rattle, no matter what people say. The inversions snap you like crazy. Funny story, on my first ride, the restraint popped up all the way on the lifthill, so I just used this to my advantage and gave myself a few clicks of room between myself and the restraint. Then the restraints were crushed onto me at the end of the first drop, so that was fun. Almost four stars, but I’ll settle for three and a half.

It was fast! It had a ton of weak airtime moments, and that’s about it. The pace was definitely the best part, but honestly the airtime was weak and i...

It was fast! It had a ton of weak airtime moments, and that’s about it. The pace was definitely the best part, but honestly the airtime was weak and it just felt like another upper-half GCI.

I mean it isn’t mind blowing. In terms of wings it is just super average. It makes for a cool park entrance and spectacle, but the actual ride isn’t m...

I mean it isn’t mind blowing. In terms of wings it is just super average. It makes for a cool park entrance and spectacle, but the actual ride isn’t much to praise. It moves pretty slow, and although that makes for some nice hang time, I would still rather have the intense, whippy inversions that Raptor had over the slow graceful ones. Still an okay ride, just nothing to rave about.

Throw theming up there in the pros, I can’t add anymore. I don’t care how hyped the shed was, it’s a great ride, and I don’t care how OVERRATED the ri...

Throw theming up there in the pros, I can’t add anymore. I don’t care how hyped the shed was, it’s a great ride, and I don’t care how OVERRATED the ride is, it’s a great ride. Seriously though, people have to chill with the rave reviews and talk about Diamondback, that’s something to rave about.

I love this ride. I’m proud my home park has an elite coaster like this. If you couldn’t tell, diamondback is a B&M hyper and has loads of floater air...

I love this ride. I’m proud my home park has an elite coaster like this. If you couldn’t tell, diamondback is a B&M hyper and has loads of floater airtime, maybe the most floater in the world. It’s so sustained that, in the back row, you sustain airtime on the first hill from the start of the ascent all the way to the valley of the hill, and your butt is in mild pain. Speaking of mild, this ride is not intense. It may look intimidating, but on the ride it’s pure fun. There are no extreme positive or negative g’s, nor shoulder breaking laterals *cough cough backlot.* If heaven was a ride, this would be it. You go deep in the woods in the middle and glide along and on top of the midways in the start and end, and it’s a great experience off-ride because of that splash down. It is super picturesque and a staple of off-ride footage at Kings Island. I give it a 4.5 because I wish it could have a little added intensity. Maybe make that turn into the mid-course tighter, but that’s my only minor complaint. Over all a great ride.

I fell asleep. There are no forces. It is literally just a kiddy coaster with your feet hanging as a gimmick. These Vekoma rides are so boring, and I ...

I fell asleep. There are no forces. It is literally just a kiddy coaster with your feet hanging as a gimmick. These Vekoma rides are so boring, and I know it’s built for five year olds, but this ride is simply not enjoyable. I have more fun pushing a shopping cart around a mall and making it spin than this. I literally fell asleep, and this line took a whole hour.

Pretty mid. For a family coaster, it’s good, but not really appealing to me. Also, it was a staircase wait, and I still had to wait forty-five minutes...

Pretty mid. For a family coaster, it’s good, but not really appealing to me. Also, it was a staircase wait, and I still had to wait forty-five minutes because the operations were so slow. I simply cannot comprehend why the operations at Dollywood are so slow. They take forever!