Silver star over Shambhala! Now that is interesting... may I ask why?
Wasn't that long ago, so easier to dig out what I said at the time:
It was alright.
Maybe it’s just not my thing, but can’t see why it’s held in such high regard.
The lift slows to a crawl at the top making for an underwhelming first drop.
The big hills are all rather underwhelming, providing a feeling of ‘just a little more, just a little more… nope’.
The speed hill was probably the highlight, but it’s trimmed, so that’s also the lowlight. Ugh. Very noticeable towards the back.
It’s good solid fun, that B&M slogan, but didn’t find it to be anything special at all. Shamebhala.
From memory, but a long time before, Silver Star had significant and fun airtime and a bit of character - the way it violently kicked itself out of the mid course particularly stands out in my mind.
It was a bit underwhelming in the front so it loses marks for consistency, but inconsistently great trumps consistently mediocre.
So there's some external factors here:
Had very high expectations for Shamb - even before I was big into the hobby, it was a big name and something I wanted to do, I'd even had dreams about it - not many I can say that about! Just took me years to get around to it.
A lot of people give it huge praise - #1s, top 3 in Europe, best B&M ever...
They were ridden several years and several hundred creds apart. Personal experiences and judgments may have changed. I often doubt myself these days, but I'm usually right.