Rob Coasters
Hyper Poster
What coasters do you just have not much, if anything, to say about? Something so incredibly middle of the road, that even if it's massive or tiny, the most you can muster up about this ride is one or two sentences before thinking "is that it?".
It might've been a ride you completely forgot about, something you rode for the plus-one then just moved on without looking back, something where you find yourself repeating the exact same few sentences about.
It doesn't have to necessarily bad rides, just ones where you try to talk about them but just end up repeating yourself several times because it's really not all that special. You see how I'm repeating the same thing over the past few paragraphs in this post? Exactly that.
I'll get on with mine...
OzIris (Parc Astérix): Starting off with a shocker, I rode this seven times on my school trip and do not remember a second of it. I legitimately cannot talk about the ride because everything that happened on all of my cycles was nothing but a blur. "How was the first drop"? I don't know. "How was the dive loop?" I don't know. "How was the whole tunnels thing?" I have absolutely no idea. I've considered straight up not putting this into my rankings because I simply have no clue how it rode. I know I enjoyed it because I rode it seven times that day so it'll scrape my top ten. Then someone approaches me with "this ride is good enough to be your #1" and all I can say is 'I wish I knew how this rode'. Rode this before I became an enthusiast.
Big Dipper (Blackpool Pleasure Beach): Something slightly more understandable: This was another case of "I can't remember what it was like" and instantly when I got off I said to my brother, who skipped the ride, "alright what next?". I remember the turn around the top of the lift being a lot more intense than I thought it would be, but the rest is all a blur. I also remember the prelift more than the entire rest of the ride. Rode this before I became an enthusiast.
Scenic Railway (Dreamland): In 2017 this wouldn't have been on the list. A very fun-loving brakeman where the coaster was fantastically rerideable and even offered some airtime at several points on the ride. Then 2018 rolled along and it was terrible. Zero airtime, pretty sure the lap bar went down as far as it could go, and just in general felt much slower like the brakeman downgraded. And now it's just kind of there. I've seen both sides of the spectrum, and sadly my most recent impression is the worse one. Went from having a lot to say about the ride, to not. Rode this before I became an enthusiast.
So, what are yours?
It might've been a ride you completely forgot about, something you rode for the plus-one then just moved on without looking back, something where you find yourself repeating the exact same few sentences about.
It doesn't have to necessarily bad rides, just ones where you try to talk about them but just end up repeating yourself several times because it's really not all that special. You see how I'm repeating the same thing over the past few paragraphs in this post? Exactly that.
I'll get on with mine...
OzIris (Parc Astérix): Starting off with a shocker, I rode this seven times on my school trip and do not remember a second of it. I legitimately cannot talk about the ride because everything that happened on all of my cycles was nothing but a blur. "How was the first drop"? I don't know. "How was the dive loop?" I don't know. "How was the whole tunnels thing?" I have absolutely no idea. I've considered straight up not putting this into my rankings because I simply have no clue how it rode. I know I enjoyed it because I rode it seven times that day so it'll scrape my top ten. Then someone approaches me with "this ride is good enough to be your #1" and all I can say is 'I wish I knew how this rode'. Rode this before I became an enthusiast.
Big Dipper (Blackpool Pleasure Beach): Something slightly more understandable: This was another case of "I can't remember what it was like" and instantly when I got off I said to my brother, who skipped the ride, "alright what next?". I remember the turn around the top of the lift being a lot more intense than I thought it would be, but the rest is all a blur. I also remember the prelift more than the entire rest of the ride. Rode this before I became an enthusiast.
Scenic Railway (Dreamland): In 2017 this wouldn't have been on the list. A very fun-loving brakeman where the coaster was fantastically rerideable and even offered some airtime at several points on the ride. Then 2018 rolled along and it was terrible. Zero airtime, pretty sure the lap bar went down as far as it could go, and just in general felt much slower like the brakeman downgraded. And now it's just kind of there. I've seen both sides of the spectrum, and sadly my most recent impression is the worse one. Went from having a lot to say about the ride, to not. Rode this before I became an enthusiast.
So, what are yours?
