• Doyle Rudolph

    Inversions Launch Intensité Inconfort

    Spaghetti bowls are much less fun in the dark, when you can't brace for the next snappy transitions.

  • Doyle Rudolph

    Théma Fun Fluidité

    A fun, decently thrilling family mine ride with excellent theming.

  • Doyle Rudolph

    Launch Intensité Hangtime Harnais Inconfort

    Surprisingly intense, a shocking amount of hangtime on the twist, and then a wild ride through snappy vertical transitions make for an insane, if not exactly the most comfortable, ride.

  • Doyle Rudolph

    Inversions Hangtime Harnais Temps mort

    My first trip to Kings Island was the weekend of the announcement that this relic of my defunct home park would close at the end of the season. I'm thrilled that I made the trip, but not because of Firehawk itself. The loop offered incredible hangtime, but the rest of the course meandered around while my chest was crushed by the bulky vest restraints. I'm thankful to this coaster for getting me to Kings Island, but I'm not wearing the nostalgia goggles about this one - especially with the plot being used for a giga coaster next season.

  • Doyle Rudolph

    Launch Intensité Temps mort

    Somewhere in the no-man's-land between a quality family ride and an intense launched coaster sits Backlot Stunt Coaster. A sharp banked transition leads into a tight and forceful helix that makes no bones about this ride not being fir the faint of heart, but then it seems to die into a tame experience. The ride can't seem to make up its mind on what it wants to be, and it suffers on both ends of the spectrum.

  • Doyle Rudolph

    Intensité Fluidité

    It doesn't hold a candle to its RMC-converted cousin in Charlotte, but the retracked section is butter smooth and the trademark CCI forces make it a pretty intense ride.

  • Doyle Rudolph

    Situation Fun

    A fun, picturesque family mine train.

  • Doyle Rudolph

    Fun Intensité Fluidité

    Invertigo was smooth, forceful, and fun.

  • Doyle Rudolph

    Inversions Baffes Temps mort

    Much better as a floorless than a stand-up, but it's really not an exciting ride. The corkscrew off of the brake run is one of the worst, most painful transitions I've felt on a B&M coaster.

  • Doyle Rudolph

    Airtimes Fun

    Fun enough, though it felt like a knockoff of Racer at Kings Island without the recent trackwork. It wasn't exactly rough, but several of the transitions felt like the train hit a pothole.