Voyage - Holday World The main thing that's really impressive about Voyage is not only is it long, it gets wilder and wilder as the ride goes on. The first half is pretty good but then the second half the ride really grabs you by the balls and takes you for a ride. Voyage is filled with goodies like airtime and 90 degree banked turns. I haven't ridden it since 09 but I didn't find the ride terribly rough.
X2 - Magic Mountain This ride somehow manages to be more bizarre than it looks. First thing you are going up the lift with Metallica pumping in your ears, then you are facing one way, then facing another way, then going head over heels when your not even at an inversion, then there is fire sprayed at you. Basically your first ride on X2 you probably won't know what the hell is going but after the ride you'll realize you like it. Also the soundtrack makes the ride a lot better. The rotations are a bit choppy but other than that i've never found the ride rough.
The one thing that sucks about this ride is that instead of running 3 trains with 2 platforms, it runs 2 trains with 1 platform so the capacity is beyond awful. If you don't get on it first thing in the morning don't even try until your last ride of the night. Also the main queue doesn't provide any good views of the ride (though you get a good view of Viper), so it's a really boring line. I would normally recommend bringing a book, but you'll have to get a locker if you do.
ok, yeah, number 2 for me is El Toro at SFGAdv, you can look at woodlands descripiton of the ride for #2 to see what I think of it. To add to that, while it feels like Balder in a little lacking of soul, it is a truly great ride and feel more like a real ride than Balder. It's basically a steel coaster that happens to be made out of (laser cut) wood....
As for my #2 steel, which probably starts to break my top 20 overall would have to be Goliath at SFOG. It has surprisingly good speed for such a short ride in height, it's got airtime in spades, not a bad hill on it, and it even has a pretty respectable turnaround. Even with the short 4 across trains that I really don't like at all, it's a solid winner.
Favorite Wood Coasters: The Voyage, Ravine Flyer II, Thunderhead, Balder Favorite Steel: Voltron Nevera, Steel Vengeance, Expedition GeForce, Olympia Looping Parks visited: 232, Coasters Ridden: Steel: 894, Wood: 179, Total: 1073
My second favorite coaster I rode for the first time after my senior year in high school. Me and a few friends took a road trip to Cedar Point and we took in all the coasters for two glorious days. This was before I had hit very many coasters, so a trip to CP seemed like a Mecca and I was pretty damn excited for TTD, MF and Raptor. I didn't some of CPs other coasters to be so much fun though. I found myself loving Blue Streak, Gemini, and Magnum XL - 200, which turned out to be my second favorite coaster overall.
I know about 80% of the people who read this will let out a big sigh and realize that I'm in the camp that loves Magnum. My first ride was right up front which delivered some great views, speed and airtime galore. Inversions really don't do much for me, airtime is where its at, and Magnum has plenty of airtime to go around.
My second (and most other rides) were in the "ejector seat" (1:3) which is just a freaking party. The ride didn't get dull and believe me when I say I dragged my friends on multiple times over again.
My next trip to CP wouldn't be until four years later after I graduated college and worked at CP for about a month before transitioning to my current job. It was quite the experience to get off work and go marathon Magnum for the last hour of park operation on my way home. The thing just never gets boring. Those beautiful, triangle shaped bunny hills feel like a bronco is trying to buck you off its back. It's a wild ride where its not a bad thing if you hang on for dear life. It's a steel coaster that doesn't deliver the smoothest ride imaginable with reasonable floater airtime, it's a wild coaster that takes no prisoners. And I'm sad that I haven't ridden it for a year and a half now.
Top 5 wood-5-Goliath 4-Ravine Flyer II 3-Phoenix 2-Voyage 1-El Toro Top 5 Steel- 5-Velocicoaster 4- Maverick 3- Fury 325 2-Steel Vengeance 1-X2 Coaster Count: 444
I kind of failed at the tilt shift, but Skyscraper gave some great views for pictures.
To me, Magnum is the most timeless coaster I have ridden. The more I ride it, the more I like it. It is really impossible to get bored on the coaster because of the quirky turns and ejector hills. Riding this coaster trimless, at night with Soak City lights off (which happens every once in awhile when the closing Sups forget), AND drunk...OMFG <3...best nights of my life haha.
Going to be boring not working there. I'm going to miss riding Mean Streak with all the lights off for ride nights. It is seriously pitch black, like KI Beast style, and crazy if you get a trimless ride.
