This roller coaster is my number one favorite of all time! I never watched Jurassic Park before, but the beginning of the ride explained how the dinosaurs escaped and that everyone needed to get away....
This roller coaster is my number one favorite of all time! I never watched Jurassic Park before, but the beginning of the ride explained how the dinosaurs escaped and that everyone needed to get away. The first launch propels you from 0 to 50 mph in 3 seconds, then you twist and turn through the paddock's rockwork, nicknamed the "spaghetti bowl." You'll enter a tunnel and experience a second launch, accelerating to 70 mph in 2.4 seconds. This launch sends you up the 155-foot top hat hill, and you plummet down the 80-degree drop from the top hat. You'll then experience a zero-G stall, a 125-degree overbanked turn, and a banked airtime hill, a 133-degree overbanked turn, and a speed hill. The ride's signature element is the "Mosasaurus Roll," a 360-degree barrel roll over water, and this is an awesome inversion to end the ride. The scary thing about the ride is that it has a lap bar and no shoulder straps (even though it has inversions), so it feels like you're flying out of your seat, especially when there's a 2-second upside-down stall that hangs you there with just a lap bar. Not to mention the smoothness of the ride! When I rode it, it felt so smooth with no head banging or bumps. It felt as if I was on a water slide. Another thing I noticed was that every so often, there were raptors that would pop out or random raptors along the ride that were just standing there. I didn't see this when I was riding it, but I only noticed it when I watched a front row pov after. Since the ride was so fast, the raptors were just a blur as I zoomed past them. Overall, this ride is in first place in my opinion, and I could ride it 100 times!