Today furie & I hit up SFNE and got to ride Bizarro. We only got two rides, but for the wife, the kid & I it was enough to know that the coaster was better before the "upgrade". furie likes Bizarro, but probably not as much as he would have liked SRoS.
The new cars are a definite improvement, but that's about it. I love the new cars, in fact everything about them is better. The seats are more comfortable & can accommodate much larger riders, which means faster dispatching. They also have a sleeker profile & there's also no more ankle braces - Yay!
Nothing has changed with the ride itself, as the track & layout is exactly the same and the trains flies around at the same speed with the same air-time & Gs, but all the new effects & audio feel just tacked on.
I'll be posting some photos & a POV ASAP for all to see, but they have a huge Bizarro billboard sized graphic surrounding the tunnel at the bottom of the first drop. Some might like it, but you can't really see the tunnel entrance anymore. I always like cresting the lift hill and seeing that tiny tunnel entrance & thinking "will the train even fit through there?"
Then after the huge banked turn the train would swing around to line up with the next to air-time hills, which you would see coming at you at an incredibly fast pace. Now they have some fake buildings blocking the view of those hills & at the bottom of the second one they have 5 off-kilter pentagons (Superman shield) spraying a thick cloud of mist. Whereas the mist filled tunnels at the bottom of the first drop & towards the end of the ride feel & look organic, the shields just look tacky & feel out-of-place. They, along with the buildings, break up the flow that existed before & block the view of the station fly-by.
Finally there's the on-board audio. Unlike X2, where the audio goes well with the flow & elements, here the audio is just random without any rhyme or reason. There are no prolonged music segments (like X2), with much more yakking (jumping from a news bulletin, to Krypton something or another, to the Riddler? It's just 'mish-mash' to quote the wife.
Don't get me wrong, it's still a good (if not great coaster) just not as good as it was prior to the new incarnation. I just find all the new stuff to be quite distracting from the ride itself. The fire effects are the only thing that I didn't mind as they're well placed & don't interfere with the ride itself.
We'll be hitting up SFGAdv in a couple of days & I can't wait to see how Medusa's affected. I'll post my opinion here on Wednesday (hopefully).
If anyone else has ridden either Bizarro coaster, please let me know what you think? Better, worse or indifferent & why?
The new cars are a definite improvement, but that's about it. I love the new cars, in fact everything about them is better. The seats are more comfortable & can accommodate much larger riders, which means faster dispatching. They also have a sleeker profile & there's also no more ankle braces - Yay!
Nothing has changed with the ride itself, as the track & layout is exactly the same and the trains flies around at the same speed with the same air-time & Gs, but all the new effects & audio feel just tacked on.
I'll be posting some photos & a POV ASAP for all to see, but they have a huge Bizarro billboard sized graphic surrounding the tunnel at the bottom of the first drop. Some might like it, but you can't really see the tunnel entrance anymore. I always like cresting the lift hill and seeing that tiny tunnel entrance & thinking "will the train even fit through there?"
Then after the huge banked turn the train would swing around to line up with the next to air-time hills, which you would see coming at you at an incredibly fast pace. Now they have some fake buildings blocking the view of those hills & at the bottom of the second one they have 5 off-kilter pentagons (Superman shield) spraying a thick cloud of mist. Whereas the mist filled tunnels at the bottom of the first drop & towards the end of the ride feel & look organic, the shields just look tacky & feel out-of-place. They, along with the buildings, break up the flow that existed before & block the view of the station fly-by.
Finally there's the on-board audio. Unlike X2, where the audio goes well with the flow & elements, here the audio is just random without any rhyme or reason. There are no prolonged music segments (like X2), with much more yakking (jumping from a news bulletin, to Krypton something or another, to the Riddler? It's just 'mish-mash' to quote the wife.
Don't get me wrong, it's still a good (if not great coaster) just not as good as it was prior to the new incarnation. I just find all the new stuff to be quite distracting from the ride itself. The fire effects are the only thing that I didn't mind as they're well placed & don't interfere with the ride itself.
We'll be hitting up SFGAdv in a couple of days & I can't wait to see how Medusa's affected. I'll post my opinion here on Wednesday (hopefully).
If anyone else has ridden either Bizarro coaster, please let me know what you think? Better, worse or indifferent & why?
