Most Temperamental Coasters

[Luca B]

Some coasters can change a lot over time, however there are some coasters which you could ride one week, and the next week the experience will be completely different. For you what are these coasters?
For me Hyperion is definitely up there, the first day I rode it, it was quite slow and very rattily, however the next day it was much smoother and was running a lot faster.
Also Nemesis Inferno definitely stands out mainly due to the rapid change in its speed every year. Each year it seems to be running much faster than the last and it also warms up a lot throughout the day which is odd for a B&M.

 

[Snoo]

Some coasters can change a lot over time, however there are some coasters which you could ride one week, and the next week the experience will be completely different. For you what are these coasters?
For me Hyperion is definitely up there, the first day I rode it, it was quite slow and very rattily, however the next day it was much smoother and was running a lot faster.
Also Nemesis Inferno definitely stands out mainly due to the rapid change in its speed every year. Each year it seems to be running much faster than the last and it also warms up a lot throughout the day which is odd for a B&M.

To be honest, neither of that is crazy. Weather can play an enormous role as well as how long the ride has been running into how well the ride runs. I've ridden a ride first thing in the morning and bored out of my mind and rode it later in the day and was blown away. Tis be the nature of things.

That is also pretty common knowledge, moreso for woodies but for almost all coasters tbh.

 

[FistedColossus]

Icon has taken this to a whole new level.

Rides like a Wacky Worm in the morning and then late afternoon it tries to launch you into the sea over that top hat.

 

[streetmagix]

Taron: in the morning Raik is honestly more intense. Once it's warmed up it tries to murder you with those twisted airtime hills and hours of airtime on those hills.

 

[jayjay]

I always had this problem with Nemesis. If it's running well, a front row ride is blisteringly fun and I believe the hype. On a bad day, it's meh at best.

 

[Pear]

Lightning Rod

 

[Matt N]

Icon has taken this to a whole new level.

Rides like a Wacky Worm in the morning and then late afternoon it tries to launch you into the sea over that top hat.

I never found this, but might it help that I saved my first ride until 2pm?

 

[CanobieFan]

Lightning Rod

Yuuppp....

Dragster in the first few years, Ka in the first few years.... I feel like the other Accelerator coasters are rather reliable.... but maybe Xcelerator

 

[TPC]

Inferno goes from meh to wow that's intense from day to night

 

[Hyde]

The amount of Lightning Rod spite you have unleashed in this thread. Absolutely the most temper-mental, as Dollywood still has yet to get a reliable handle even 2 years later. At least KK and TTD are reliably down due to weather.

 

[MestnyiGeroi]

I always think of Nitro when I think of this topic. Every time I ride it, it’s like a different coaster.

Also, Leviathan is so much more intense at the end of the day/at night than in the morning or during the day.

 

[VikingsAf]

Taron: in the morning Raik is honestly more intense. Once it's warmed up it tries to murder you with those twisted airtime hills and hours of airtime on those hills.

I agree. That's why I only ride it durning nightly ERT

 

[Coaster Hipster]

Mayan at Energylandia does it for me. I got some surprisingly fun rides on it (enjoying the good layout and forces), while other times it beat me up almost like a regular SLC. I call it the 'bipolar SLC', so weird how unconsistent it is

 

[Coaster]

Icon, it absolutely crawls round first thing in the morning to the point where it feels like it's going to stall.

 

[SaiyanHajime]

I used to feel this way about Saw, but I don't ride it often enough now to know. It's been **** the one time I've ridden it every year for... years. Anything with lots of trains/cars probably has a higher risk of varying massively in quality, I'd have thought. I know for sure that coasters I'm familiar with and ride often distinctly vary between trains. One of Vampire's runs significantly faster than the other, or at least has been of recent, but it's also a heck of a lot jankier. I think this is whats happening most of the time when coasters vary so drastically between rides - it's not so much the weather or how long it's been running that day (though these things do logically make a difference, especially a coaster being worn in, warm and damp... That's what she said.) it's usually just that you rode a different train.

I'd say the spinning coasters by default win this? At the Texan Six Flags parks, I rode the spinner at Fiesta first and it span waaaaaaay too much for me. I was ready to nope out of riding the other one at Over Texas and miss the cred because the idea of riding it again made me really sad. We left it until last at Over Texas so at least it wouldn't ruin my day. It barely span at all. Same people in the car. Weird.

 

[Jared]

^ One of the trains on Vampire is running a faster wheel compound to compensate for the winter running its doing this year. It’s open for Twilight Nights and the Christmas event.

 

[Edward M]

I rode the spinner at Fiesta first and it span waaaaaaay too much for me

Odd, I rode that one and it barely spun at all. Those Gerst spinners are pretty hit or miss in my experience.

 

[Andrea]

Some coasters can change a lot over time, however there are some coasters which you could ride one week, and the next week the experience will be completely different. For you what are these coasters?
For me Hyperion is definitely up there, the first day I rode it, it was quite slow and very rattily, however the next day it was much smoother and was running a lot faster.
Also Nemesis Inferno definitely stands out mainly due to the rapid change in its speed every year. Each year it seems to be running much faster than the last and it also warms up a lot throughout the day which is odd for a B&M.

The last couple of years before six flags ky kingdom was closed down the wooden coaster thunder run was always closed. I live in ky so i had always ridden it. Its reopened now but its concerning bc no maintenance had been done to it in all that time. Also six flags st louis mr freeze ride was closed on 2 separate occasions. Holiday world the legend was closed for 2 days straight. Oh and the mr freeze is also known for its rollbacks as well.

Well holiday world is like an hour away, Haha i actually worked there when i was a teenager. When I turned 18 they finally built the raven but until then its was basically a whole lot of walking for carnival rides. I get free tickets every summer and i didn't even waste my time this year but i did the year before. At that time, when there's only 4 coasters and the second best one is closed. It more just made me mad. Yeah I just went to their website and they did some major updates to the legend. I will say Holiday world is the cleanest, most on it theme park ive been too.

Please try to keep things to one post. Thank you. -GWAS

 

[iac17]

lightning run

 

[Edward M]

Hi, just wondering, what are pictures of Legend and Thunder Run doing here? Are they temperamental?