Rides that show potential to be insane but fall short?
- Thread starter Snoo
- Start date
Youngster Joey
Strata Poster
Mach Tower. End of thread.
madhjsp
Giga Poster
I305 & Skyrush are the big ones for me as well, for the aforementioned reasons. To a lesser degree, I'd say Great Bear also fits the bill. It does something a little different by putting a little helix after the climb but before the drop, then puts together a nice (albeit fairly vanilla) sequence of inversions, then after the zero-G roll... it just heads back to the station and throws in a random wing-over for the hell of it. How disappointing. Not that it would have necessarily been great if B&M had cared at all about doing something interesting with the second half of the coaster, but I doubt it would find itself ranked dead last of all the B&M inverts I've ridden (which is only 10, but still).
caffeine_demon
Strata Poster
Mean streak at CP - just looks sexeh, but delivers a ride like being trampled by a herd of rhinos!
Bottom_Feeder_13
Hyper Poster
Millennium Force, brilliant first drop and the first overbank is amazing for how wrong it feels to be so high up and tilted so far over and then it does a bunch of forceless stuff which is okay but not what it could have been.
FaceYourNemesis
Hyper Poster
I'll say Th13teen actually. It was exciting when it first opened, but Intamin or Alton have trim-braked the crap out of it, and now it's dull as dishwater.
Such a shame.
Such a shame.
Youngster Joey
Strata Poster
Ethan said:
From the Skyrush thread
"It's a shame too.. the epicness of the ride was just overshadowed TOO much by the pain in my thighs.
In my opinion, you shouldn't have to figure out ways to ride something to make it better. I guess thats why I didn't rank it up there like the rest of the guys on the trip."
Nic
Strata Poster
S:TE at SFMM was a massive let down. It's got all the ingredients for an awesome ride, but was just turdio. I'll be interested to see if going backwards improves it at all.
Hurakan Condor. Looks like it should be awesome, but just... isn't.
iSpeed was also a big one for me. It should have been a great ride, but those Intamin restraints on any launcher with actual corners are just evil <////3 Utterly vile.
Hurakan Condor. Looks like it should be awesome, but just... isn't.
iSpeed was also a big one for me. It should have been a great ride, but those Intamin restraints on any launcher with actual corners are just evil <////3 Utterly vile.
Nic said:
Superman and ToT are sooo much better with the backwards launch. Like, incomparably better.
I might say Wooden Coaster (/Mountain Flyer/Roller Coaster) at Knight Valley for this. Every photo of it makes it look like an incredibly awesome coaster, but it lacks the intensity that a lot of the other GCIs have, and the ride ops stapling you into the seat makes it lose any chance of having some airtime. It's still a very good ride, but disappointing that it wasn't better.