Re: Loefet and co. goes south, It's all about Credz!!
Part 20 - Raptor!!
So finally Gardaland, I had really looked forward to this visit, my no. 1 park that I really wanted to visit on this trip. I had high hopes that it would be pretty similar to Alton, but it turned out more of a mix of Thorpe (theme) and Heide Park (rides)
, so I was a bit bummed out, but I still had a great day there!!
New for this year, Yeti Coaster
Time for Gardaland
YAY, Gardaland!!
First a quick sprint to the Vekoma DEATH
First up was Mammut
OMFG, how can a ride get this bad after just a few years. Yeah I know of the Vekomas at Rainbow Crapland, but still... I don't really like any of the Vekoma Mine Trains I have ridden, sure the one at TDL is pretty good, but that's mostly to the theming, interaction, atmosphere around the ride, oh and the fact that it's in Japan
, none of the other ones have created anything close to be something I would love to re-ride (yes I don't even like the Michel Jackson one either...). Still cred...
Next up Blue Tornado
First time of one of these extended ones, thankfully the extended bit was the good bit, or else it would just have been pure crap...
Looks great though
With a Tornado hanging around
These rides looks awesome, even if they ride like ****
Since we were in the area, we couldn't resist Fuga da Atlantide
I really love this ride, great theming, great atmosphere, well a really nice ride in all. And you don't really get wet on it either, we got front row and just got mildly moist down the drops. Didn't really bother me much though since it was freakishly hot that day. I'm not sure if I would count it as a coaster though, since then you should really count any other super-splash ride that is similar, but since it's on
http://www.coaster-count.com then I guess I do...
Since we had deposited our bags in a locker and were mildly moist we opted to get the rapids out of the way as well.
Not as wet as you think
Rapids which are called something, got to ride with some Italian pussies, all Italian guys are real mamma's boys
Epic theming
More theming
Now to get to the other end of the park
Past the flying Island
4D theatre
Ramses
Getting close
There we are
Sequoia Adventure is an OK ride, I have no trouble with hang time or the restraints, so I though that it was pretty funky. The operation of the ride on the other hand was utter crap, to me it seems like someone have been hit by falling objects or something on the ride, since they only had one car on the ride at all times, the rest were sitting in the station area all 5 of them
they might just as well run it with 2 cars then and still got the same capacity
This quickly became the wettest ride in the park, mainly because we got there a bit later than I had hoped since we did the water rides before, so we had to stand there and roast in the blistering sun and the sweat just poured...
Now I know that we shouldn't have bothered at that point but have waited until later in the afternoon when the whole ride were in the shade and the queue were just as long, but there is no changing that now...
Pretty great setting though
2 trains at the same time
Awful operation
Just hanging around
Over the edge
Next up was the Brucomela of DEATH
Why Death?? Well you spend so much time on the lift-hills that you nearly die of old age
Then it was time for some brand new Vekoma trains
The ride was still crap , but no head-banging
Best ride in the park!!
Some other 4D attraction
RAPTOR TIME!!
The highlight on the day were the brand new B&M Wing rider, sweet!! Since the queue were an incredible short 20 minutes when we got here we decided to whore it for a bit, on the 4 rides we did at this point the queue just got shorter by each go
pure WIN, and since people in this park are so useless in getting to the gates, we managed to ride all 4 corners of the ride to see if they differed that much. Well they don't really, the main thing is between left and right side of the train, since then you have the choice between more negative/positive vertical force during the twists. Didn't either feel any of the vibrations people talked about on this kind of ride either, I have been on other B&M with more vibrations than this had, (it may get worse in the future though...). One thing that I though odd was that they had decided to stop the train on the final brake-run instead of in the block just outside the station. For capacity's sake it would be a lot better to have it outside the station, since then you wouldn't waste 10-15 seconds between each train as they do now...
The ride itself is really good, but a bit tame for me that loves the older powerful rides like Pyrenees, Nemesis and Monster, but it still offers a pretty good ride seeing to the whole concept. I really can't wait to ride one of the bigger versions in the future. The whole theme of Raptor works really great and the whole area looks really polished.
I love the look of the twists with these wide trains
Looks so epic
Up the lift-hill
Shame about the sound of the trim
These foot choppers work really great in the front
My brother didn't know about these so he got a nice surprise
Not to mention getting a bit wet
Sideways
Twisting a bit
Awwww
We did the drop tower, walk on
Still a rubbish ride
Even though the ride looks nice
Same thing with this one
More Atlantide
Scary guy
Our boat got splashed pretty good at this point
Dolphins
Poseidon himself
Om nom nom
The timing was off again
I want one on my lawn
Completely missed this one, while riding
Didn't really get wet on it either
Even though some got splashed a bit here
Lake Garda from the Flying Island
Mammut
Tree with massive orange balls
Blue Tornado
Raptor
Still awesome to look at
They are really photogenic
Still rubbish though
We visited the tree with the orange balls afterwards
From the top you got some great views of Raptor
Hmmm, wonder if it was possible to get planning permission for one of these
Almost signature shot
Signature shot without a train
While we were waiting for it to get dark, we did Corsair, and loved it, so much that we did it twice great ride!!
YAY night rides on Raptor!!
Love the purple stripes from the cars
Swoosh
WANT
Lovely castle somewhere
Eagle ride
Time to leave
I really think that I prefer Mirabilandia to this park, it's a shame since much of the things here looks great but aren't, where as in Mirabilandia everything rides great as well. So slightly disappointed, but still got some great rides on Raptor which is well worth it
Next up, Austria and original X-car...
New Credz so far, 53