David Parrett - Reviews

Best ride in the park, especially back row starting backwards. It’s disorienting getting launched backwards through a ride like this but then it pauses up high on the spike and you get to really enjoy...

Best ride in the park, especially back row starting backwards. It’s disorienting getting launched backwards through a ride like this but then it pauses up high on the spike and you get to really enjoy it and finally see everything. The height is amazing and the hang time in the inversion is such a unique element it makes me wonder why Intamin’s top hats don’t invert like this.

The theming and integration with buildings and tunnels is truly amazing and if Six Flags took better care of it then it would be Disney quality themed ride. It’s a rare mine train that deserves a reri...

The theming and integration with buildings and tunnels is truly amazing and if Six Flags took better care of it then it would be Disney quality themed ride. It’s a rare mine train that deserves a reride for me and this one really puts all others to shame for being just a jerky steel coaster with no theme in a field. Kings Island has a decent mine train but nowhere close to this and what’s up with Cedar Point’s sad mine train with no theme or buildings or tunnels or animatronics?

This Morgan felt like a pre-computer design that is comfortable but still awkward with its transitions. The forces are odd and almost ejector in the back row as you go down the drops. The front gives ...

This Morgan felt like a pre-computer design that is comfortable but still awkward with its transitions. The forces are odd and almost ejector in the back row as you go down the drops. The front gives a more floater feeling in the bunny hills at the end. It’s a beautiful coaster to look at from underneath and on the ride with wonderful views of the park.

This ranks up there with Mystic Timbers and Thunderhead as a super fast, smooth, and intense coaster with lots of airtime and laterals. It’s world class. I love the straight first drop into that huge ...

This ranks up there with Mystic Timbers and Thunderhead as a super fast, smooth, and intense coaster with lots of airtime and laterals. It’s world class. I love the straight first drop into that huge first hill and then it goes all curvy and whips you side to side almost like I305. The way it transitions smoothly from one element to another and banks so well is possibly the best I’ve ever experienced in a wood coaster.

I rode this on a bad day last year and wasn't impressed but then got a chance to ride it a bunch and I definitely appreciated the insane airtime pops all throughout the layout in both the front and ba...

I rode this on a bad day last year and wasn't impressed but then got a chance to ride it a bunch and I definitely appreciated the insane airtime pops all throughout the layout in both the front and back of the train with only buzzbars to hold me in my seat. It's also running butter smooth so Knoebels has absolutely mastered the wooden coaster art form. I still hesitate to say I prefer Phoenix to Twister (more unique design), the Beast, Thunderhead, or Mystic Timbers but it's an elite tier wood coaster.

It didn’t feel as tall as my favorite dive Griffon, but I loved the graceful and not too forceful layout. It’s also better that it doesn’t have a mid course break run like many other dive coasters. Th...

It didn’t feel as tall as my favorite dive Griffon, but I loved the graceful and not too forceful layout. It’s also better that it doesn’t have a mid course break run like many other dive coasters. The operations were possibly the worst I’ve seen for any coaster with 5+ minutes per dispatch. The crew seemed to be working hard and not accomplishing much.

I had forgotten how great the launch and top hat on this ride are. It's absolutely insane. The wind makes my eyes nearly stay shut, the speed is like free falling sky diving, and that's before going u...

I had forgotten how great the launch and top hat on this ride are. It's absolutely insane. The wind makes my eyes nearly stay shut, the speed is like free falling sky diving, and that's before going up 450 feet. That final airtime hill is so intense too. Does it belong in comparison with other coasters, probably not, but it's still possibly the most intense coaster in north america, including its neighbor el toro, and X2. For your own sake, ride this in the front row!

This does okay but not great as a family coaster. The kid behind me was crying after smacking his head with the roughness. E&F Miler should stick to smaller rides, I’m sorry to say. The track is that ...

This does okay but not great as a family coaster. The kid behind me was crying after smacking his head with the roughness. E&F Miler should stick to smaller rides, I’m sorry to say. The track is that old fashioned I-beam stuff and the trains have undersized wheels for a 43-foot tall ride.

This was my first S&S non-4D free spin so I was really looking forward to something different. As it turns out, this is extremely different. The forces you feel are not so much rattle and roughness as...

This was my first S&S non-4D free spin so I was really looking forward to something different. As it turns out, this is extremely different. The forces you feel are not so much rattle and roughness as just very strange and abrupt turns and twists at high speed. The coaster is smooth and the trains are great. The track is as though designed in Roller Coaster Tycoon. It’s extreme but the forces and speeds are just not profiled well so you end up sort of getting yanked this way and that way.

It was a pretty standard boomerang experience, thankfully not too dizzy afterwards. The interesting thing about this boomerang is the station building seems to be a very small custom wood building wit...

It was a pretty standard boomerang experience, thankfully not too dizzy afterwards. The interesting thing about this boomerang is the station building seems to be a very small custom wood building with a serious head-chopper as you are about to head back into it off the first drop.

It’s a good Vekoma SLC, and has a lot of intensity without too much rattle. Exiting the double roll towards the end my head hit the seat and that hurt so I didn’t escape completely unscathed. I love t...

It’s a good Vekoma SLC, and has a lot of intensity without too much rattle. Exiting the double roll towards the end my head hit the seat and that hurt so I didn’t escape completely unscathed. I love the white and dark teal colors and the views of the beach. The lockers were complimentary and they do run a metal detector.

Great White is a wonderful and well maintained wood coaster that has just the right amount of rattle and smoothness that you want in a wood coaster. The drop right out of the station is a great touch ...

Great White is a wonderful and well maintained wood coaster that has just the right amount of rattle and smoothness that you want in a wood coaster. The drop right out of the station is a great touch and you really move fast through the tunnel under the boardwalk into the lift hill to the point some riders were screaming down there. I mostly rode near the back about 3 times and the thing I liked the most other than the unusual views of the beach were the wonderful floating airtime on each drop. The turnarounds were relatively smooth and fun and the whole ride just has a sort of grace to it with the swoop into the final brakes. It’s not super intense but it’s a wonderful coaster.

Ice Breaker was probably my favorite at this park because it doesn’t give me a headache and it has more thrill than Pipeline. It’s good for families but I wish its capacity was better. The swing launc...

Ice Breaker was probably my favorite at this park because it doesn’t give me a headache and it has more thrill than Pipeline. It’s good for families but I wish its capacity was better. The swing launch was great with pops of airtime.