• A Wild Walter

    Airtimes Fun Duración

    It was fun. I never understood how people thought it was rough. There aren’t issues, it’s just kind of there and a one and done.

  • A Wild Walter

    Airtimes Primera caída ¡Decepción!

    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!

  • A Wild Walter

    Airtimes ¡Buena sorpresa! Fun

    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.

  • A Wild Walter

    Airtimes Velocidad Intensidad Demasiado corto

    Going in, I knew it would be good, but oh my gosh, it was way better than I thought, beating out rides I thought for sure would be better like Storm Chaser and Twisted Timbers. It starts off with a good looking lifthill and sooner than you know it, you’re being tugged down that steep drop. You take a lateral filled turn and go into a camelback that feels very similar if not better airtime than the first drop. You enter a large yet fast turnaround. You don’t go all the way to the ground before going into another hill that moves into a wave turn and an ejector filled downdrop which has a great tug in the back row. You go into another turnaround that has two more ejector moments. You go into a speedy and lateral filled s-bend that is very underrated before those famous thigh breaking bunny hills. If yo7 couldn’t tell, I love this ride.

  • A Wild Walter

    Situación Velocidad Fun Demasiado corto ¡Decepción!

    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.

  • A Wild Walter

    Airtimes Lap Bar Duración Intensidad

    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.

  • A Wild Walter

    Airtimes Situación Velocidad Demasiado corto

    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.

  • A Wild Walter

    Primera caída Capacidad Lap Bar Demasiado corto Tiempo muerto

    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.

  • A Wild Walter

    Situación Fun Duración Tiempo muerto

    All though some may argue that the Beast is a rough, boring ride with no forces or any type of good elements, while I may slightly agree this is one of the most pure fun coasters for me, and also that’s untrue because that final helix is intense. While I may have some bias as this is my first big boy coaster and is very sentimental to me, this is one of the most fun coasters I’ve ridden in my puny credit count, but there are so many pros I can’t choose which ones stand out the most.

  • A Wild Walter

    Capacidad Inversiones Intensidad Vibración

    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.

  • A Wild Walter

    Intensidad Incomodidad

    By discomfort, I mean how I get a headache on 75% of my rides. Don’t hate it, don’t love it, it’s fine as it is but I don’t usually ride it.

  • A Wild Walter

    Tematización Situación Launch Vibración Capacidad Incomodidad

    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.

  • A Wild Walter

    Tematización Situación Duración Layout

    Layout delivers nothing, and I know it’s meant to be a family coaster, but just not my type of ride. Fun theming and setting though.

  • A Wild Walter

    Airtimes ¡Buena sorpresa! Vibración

    Nice junior woodie.

  • A Wild Walter

    Torta Capacidad ¡Romper en pedazos!

    Need I say more. This ride is borderline terrible.

  • A Wild Walter

    Airtimes Capacidad Lap Bar Tiempo muerto

    Best family coaster in the park. Number six in the park for me, this is an underrated gem.

  • A Wild Walter

    Airtimes Capacidad Lap Bar Tiempo muerto

    Best family coaster in the park. Number six in the park for me, this is an underrated gem.

  • A Wild Walter

    Launch Obra maestra Ejectors

    OMG BEST COASTER AT THE PARK 100000/10 WOULD REDOMMEND!!!!1!1!!!!!11!!!!!!111!!!!!

  • A Wild Walter

    Tematización Launch Intensidad Incomodidad Confiabilidad

    This ride is far from reliable, and while the second best family coaster at the park, it’s uncomfortable which can make the ride unenjoyable.

  • A Wild Walter

    Airtimes Primera caída Ejectors

    No negatives about this ride. It’s one of the most perfect rides in the world outside, based on reviews, velocicoaster. I’d give it the crown as the best small scale rmc (based on reviews,) best Timbers of the two I’ve ridden that are popular choices for the best, and best coaster that only turns left, granted there’s not many of those. The first drop is super unique, and I’d argue is one of the best rmc elements. You have a little speed and as you grow down the drop you pick up more and go straight into an ejector pop, which are littered throughout the ride. This may just have the most ejector pops in the world. It is only ejector, no floater. If you like sustained floater and not ejector, this is not your ride. You’re better off on something like Racer 75 or Grizzly. This is an all around great coaster and the second best at the park.

  • A Wild Walter

    Velocidad Intensidad Suavidad

    Holy Crap this ride is insane. This is my favorite roller coaster in the world. The intensity is unmatched and the pacing is relentless. That towering first drop, though trimmed, is one of the best in the world. That first turn caused me to lose all my vision and nearly black out, and I sustained it for the whole ride. I had to stop after ride four because of how draining it was. I could complain about the lack of lap bars and use of shoulder strap, but I won’t because there wasn’t any head banging and it was fairly comfortable. Couldn’t recommend this ride enough.