Wow! I did not expect that. I've hear bad things about it but no. This ride is so fun and one of my favorite ones in Portaventura. I didn't ride all o...
Wow! I did not expect that. I've hear bad things about it but no. This ride is so fun and one of my favorite ones in Portaventura. I didn't ride all of the rides there but this one and Shambhala were the most enjoyable. I remembered one side was better but I mistakenly thought it was the blue one. Nope, it was the red but anyway. I rode blue and I was amazed by the feeling of speed you get. It feels extremely quick and dynamic and I loved that, I loved the action of this rollercoaster. It is so fun and it could feel intense even after riding Shambhala. Soo good. I loved the wooden coaster. If I had time I would definitely repeat. The racing aspect was fun. There is rattle of course but nothing too harsh even though my friend thought it was worse. But I loved how dynamic it was. I definitely did not expect that at all. I had low expectations and I didn't think it would do something for me but I definitely felt it. It is not high but it's not a tame rollercoaster it is an extreme one. Well not the most extreme but it got me a strong feeling. Don't underestimate it, you might actually be surprised! Don't miss the ride! It is worth it during a Portaventura trip.
Raptor is a great rollercoaster. The theming is really good such as the path in the jungle to reach it. It looks very beautiful on the otside and I lo...
Raptor is a great rollercoaster. The theming is really good such as the path in the jungle to reach it. It looks very beautiful on the otside and I love how it does one of it's cult inversions over the station. It is something that makes it memorable. The station where the trains are loaded is also with very good theming. There is some music in the Raptor area that is not part of the soundtrack and I think that it is not on youtube, you can hear it in real life only. The coaster is an amazing demonstration of the B&M Wing Coaster model. I just love when it starts. Even though the restraints are indeed claustrophobic. Each time I go on the coaster I feel horrible in them. But they feel the worst while still in the station. During the ride I don't feel them at all and it feels super comfortable. I can let go and feel as if I am flying and the sky is hugging me. The feeling of hanging upside down when riding Raptor is just amazing. The only con is that filming on ride is not allowed in Gardaland which for me doesn't make sense at all and disappoints a lot. The station how I said looks extremely badass and cool and the sound of the air and the feeling you get when the ride starts and the train starts moving is one of the best feelings ever. The first drop is scary but after that it just all comes into place even if you are scared you will feel great. I had one ride on the right side though and on the outer seat and unfortunately it feel way too intense. So it can feel too intense depending on the seat you get. I mostly rode on the left side and I didn't have a problem with it. I love the station, I love the dark theming, the jungle, the music, the beauty of the ride, the sound and the feeling of hanging upside down like that. I would love to try other wing coasters too! But Raptor is a masterpiece. Oblivion and Raptor are so good for a marathon you could never get enough of those great rides. Gardaland is so good because of them!
Oblivion is an amazing ride! It is one of my favorite rollercoasters ever. I've been on it a total of 8 times. Once on my first visit in 2018, four ti...
Oblivion is an amazing ride! It is one of my favorite rollercoasters ever. I've been on it a total of 8 times. Once on my first visit in 2018, four times in 2023 and two times in 2024. It is the rollercoaster that started my love for amusement parks and it is a masterpiece! It also got my friends into rollercoasters too. Oblivion looks extremely high and scary in real life. Videos and photos fail to replicate it. The drop looks absolutely astonishing both upclose and from a distance. I still have the memory of looking at it in 2018 from the other side of the park, high up in the sky with the vertical drop which looked so unreal to me. It is one of my childhood memories. I remember people looking at it from a distance and saying: "impossible! I would NEVER ride that" with fear. It is a rollercoaster that can intimidate you without even riding it. From a distance and just with its height, the sound it makes when it passes you by. You have to see it in real life to know what I am talking about. I remember back then when you used to enter Oblivion through the training center with all the space effects and then reach the stairs and climb. My first time I thought I would not survive the scariness of this rollercoaster. I sound like a GP true but it is good to have ones like me too on this website. It was a great experience to enter the tunnels with the sounds and the lights and then reach the stairs and it is so beautiful and looks as if you are so high in the sky already. Then you reach the station and the "Point of no return" written on the wall. You hear the oblivion theme song and then you go and you enter the actual station. You sit on the seats you are completely frightened. Then they put the over the shoulder restraints and you hear this "air" sound as well as the music which is exciting but also stressful. Then the ground platform retracts and disappears. You hear in Italian "Tre, due, uno. Lancio" and the ride starts. I always LOVE the sound when the ride starts or even the sound the rollercoaster makes offride. It is extremely special and powerful. This "swoosh" of air. Then the ride starts. The ascending is very slow and it is either the scariest time of your life or it could be super relaxing. If it's your first time on Oblivion you will be completely terrified. But if you've done it a lot of times and you love the time, the slow going up will feel so good and relaxing. You will feel the seat leaning back and you will look at the sky and feel the sun on your face. As if you are lying on the beach and slowly going up. It is sooo good. Then you will have the amazing drop. It looks scary because as it's vertical you cannot really see the rails. You don't see the track it's like a cliff and you can't keep following it with your eyes. This is the scariest element. Then it inclines and stops for a few seconds and then you have the AMAZING drop. You feel so good. You drop underground and you don't see anything for a second and the moment you see again you are upside down in the inversion. At that point during two rides I blacked out a little. Then the rest of the ride feels good too but it's short. I love Oblivion. It has merchandise too and a great soundtrack, especially the main theme and "Be Dust". When you are there in real life there is some other music for a lot of rides which is exclusive to the area and is not part of the official soundtrack so I couldn't find it anywhere on youtube. It is also the same for the Raptor area. But yeah Oblivion is so good in terms of intensity, theming, excitement. It feels great, picturesque of course even though no photo could replicate it to show the feeling the height and how intimidating it really is. I hope to find more coasters to love as much as Oblivion. The feeling I get when I look at it in real life or when I'm sitting in the seats and the platform moves out and the ride starts with this sound you hear on rollercoasters... I even got to ride it in rain one time which was also an unique experience. I love Oblivion.
I enjoyed this one and'll be on the side of "sad to see it go" near the end of the year. Was it an elite coaster? Not by any means, I would put at l...
I enjoyed this one and'll be on the side of "sad to see it go" near the end of the year. Was it an elite coaster? Not by any means, I would put at least three different coasters from Islands of Adventure easily over this. But the gimmick of having your radio station while the ride progressed is so cool. The music intro timed perfectly with the first drop so I"'m not sure how often that happens. The duration of the ride feels fairly long compared to most coasters. It has solid forces and doesn't induce pain like some other reviews have stated. I think the big con is pacing issues. I'm okay with brake runs occurring during coaster runs but this seemed to have an excessive amount of them. None of the runs completely killed the momentum but having to start and slow down constantly was a bit of an annoyance. Hope they replace it with something awesome but I will miss it for sure and I'm sad my entire 2nd day got rained out on this one specifically (only one run my entire trip). 3.5/5 stars
