A very underrated family coaster, very smooth and re-rideable as well as a great surprise ending that makes the ride well worth doing any time you're ...
A very underrated family coaster, very smooth and re-rideable as well as a great surprise ending that makes the ride well worth doing any time you're at Towers.
One of the best family coasters in Europe. Loved the ride system design and theming/storytelling throughout. It very impressive how Mack and Europa Pa...
One of the best family coasters in Europe. Loved the ride system design and theming/storytelling throughout. It very impressive how Mack and Europa Park managed to make a ride so immersive and engaging that appeals to pretty much anyone.
Loved this coaster when I rode in 2019, also got a zen ride which is probably quite rare given the crowds Disneyland Paris gets. Very interesting laun...
Loved this coaster when I rode in 2019, also got a zen ride which is probably quite rare given the crowds Disneyland Paris gets. Very interesting launch and layout with fairly forceful inversions, solid indoor coaster.
A very long fun and fairly intense spinning coaster with a unique layout, the cars tend to spin quite fast more often than not so you're very likely t...
A very long fun and fairly intense spinning coaster with a unique layout, the cars tend to spin quite fast more often than not so you're very likely to get a great spin whenever you ride it. The only downside is how busy it gets.
Wild Intamin hypercoaster with a layout that keeps delivering strong surprises and thrills all the way up to the end, never flagging. It's like a play...
Wild Intamin hypercoaster with a layout that keeps delivering strong surprises and thrills all the way up to the end, never flagging. It's like a play with multiple acts. The first act is about airtime and size, with a giant drop into a tunnel leading to a huge camelback, then a turnaround into a series of ejector speed hills. The coaster then blows past the station into a twister section, with strong positive Gs as it goes around a pair of big fast helixes. Finally, it dips into a second tunnel, then pops out into a series of strong bunny hills cutting diagonally through the twister area into the short, abrupt brake run. The theming is Six Flags minimal, mostly consisting of some flats and cutouts in comic-book style, and speakers on the lift hill playing John Williams' iconic Superman theme.
Enthusiasts like to complain about the restraints on this ride to the point that I think it's currently over-hated. They are certainly less comfortable than the restraints on a B&M hyper, or a modern Intamin LSM coaster. However, I think they're not that bad and not really worse than RMC restraints. They certainly shouldn't scare you off the ride.
Yes, the supposed Roman mythical theming of this coaster is a bit sparse, and it ends too soon, but everything else about it is great. The lap restrai...
Yes, the supposed Roman mythical theming of this coaster is a bit sparse, and it ends too soon, but everything else about it is great. The lap restraint seemed actually incapable of stapling me so I had a lot of room to levitate from my seat during all of this ride's crazy outerbanked airtime hills and hangtimey inversions. The airtime hill in the middle of the swing launch gives you a bunch of bonus pops. I was a bit surprised afterwards to realize that it had only 2 inversions, but they are both memorable: a corkscrew right out of the station to show you it means business, and a long, long zero-g stall that is basically an airtime hill taken upside down. This is my current favorite ride in a park packed with great coasters. It gets less attention from enthusiasts in general than it probably should, because the COVID pandemic delayed it such that it was beaten to opening by Universal's similar but longer Velocicoaster. Europeans also like to compare it to the very similar Toutatis at Parc Astérix.
Griffon is my first B&M dive coaster and it surprised me-- objectively it doesn't have a lot of what modern coaster enthusiasts regard as the hallmark...
Griffon is my first B&M dive coaster and it surprised me-- objectively it doesn't have a lot of what modern coaster enthusiasts regard as the hallmarks of a good ride, but I still had to think hard about whether to rate Griffon or Pantheon best at the park. The theatrics of it are just so awe-inspiring: everything about it from the station on seems scaled to cyclopean beings rather than normal humans. The train is this freakish ten-across thing like flying stadium bleachers. The ride is simple: the centerpiece is a gigantic vertical drop, with a brake hold at the top, that resembles a drop tower more than a conventional coaster. I had a front-row ride that gave me a prime view into the abyss. Then there's a huge swooping Immelmann, then the ride does it all again (without a holding brake). There's a nice airtime hill, a "splashdown" that you can really only see off-ride, then you're done. What helps the theatrics is that instead of being off in the periphery like most of the coasters at Busch Gardens, this one's layout is all right in public view--it's the second most photographable and photogenic coaster there after Loch Ness Monster. More recent B&M dives seem to be trending toward Eurofighter/Infinity style layouts, but this one keeps it to the fundamentals, and it works better than you'd expect, just intimidating you with sheer scale.
Wildcat used to be, by all accounts, a painfully rough ride, but now it is smooth and has real airtime and is a wonderful starter coaster for someone ...
Wildcat used to be, by all accounts, a painfully rough ride, but now it is smooth and has real airtime and is a wonderful starter coaster for someone trying out big rides for the first time. (It convinced my daughter that she could love a major coaster.) This has a classic figure-8 layout with many bunny hills and headchopper moments and some odd lateral jinks.
Discount all reviews of Wildcat from before its extended closure in 2023, when Gravity Group worked their magic, replacing much of the track with their precut retrack and rebuilding large chunks of the structure. (In the 2024-25 offseason, they came back to finish the job, doing the last few hundred feet of the ride. So reviews from 2024 may mention that it gets rough at the end, but this is no longer the case.)
