Darren B
Giga Poster
Giga coasters, Mega coasters, Plug & Play's, Woodies & Mega-Lite's. All are designed to deliver speed, height and airtime. Some deliver better in certain areas than others, But all are generally well perceived within the community. Rank yours here...
Mine looks something like this;
1. Expedition GeForce - Simply the best coaster I've ever ridden. It has a fantastic first drop, offers amazing amounts of both floater and ejector airtime throughout and is in most cases very comfortable to ride.
2. Skyrush - Fantastic coaster. Incredible amounts of airtime where the coasters tries to throw you out (multiple times!) and has the best drop you'll ever find on an Intamin airtime machine. The only points that let this coaster down for me is the restrains which can be extremely painful if you don't sit correctly and the layout doesn't offer that much; ALL it does is just try and throw you out throughout the ride.
3. Collosos - Great ride throughout. Offers lovely floater over every hill and even offers some unexpected sideways airtime at the peak of the turnaround. I can't fault this coaster. Best ride is at the front.
4. Bizarro (SFNE) - Overrated on the first 2 rides I had. The restraints made every moment of airtime painful until I tried crossing my legs on rides 3&4. Then you see why it's been rated the best steel coaster in the world on so many occasions. Take away the pain and it offers glorious airtime throughout, the airtime into the tunnel dive is the best element of the ride for me.
5. Goliath (WW) - Fabulous little Mega coaster and the standout ride at a very mediocre park. It offers some great airtime over the first hill and the returning bunny hills and the Stengel dive adds a great touch to a very good ride. Wasn't a huge fan of the helices though.
6. Millennium Force - Massively overrated. First drop is incredible, as is the speed that it generates, but then it's all very mediocre. It offers little to no airtime and really is all about the speed. A good solid coaster but nowhere near world class.
7. El Toro - Another massively overrated coaster in my opinion. It has huge amounts of ejector airtime over the first 3 hills but then just meanders around to a huge anti-climax. Even the airtime it gives is very standard; It's just what I expected it to deliver in terms of ejector airtime, but, I was expecting it to mix it up with a good amount of floater airtime just as it's German big brother delivers in abundance. Really gutted that El Toro didn't reach the huge expectations I had for it.
8. American Eagle - It's an Intamin that was primarily designed to offer airtime so it's only fair that it should feature in this topic. I really enjoyed it and it offered a lot more airtime than I was expecting; some lovely floater throughout and one of the shocks of my trip to the states. Left side (Blue?) is slightly more comfortable that the right side.
Mine looks something like this;
1. Expedition GeForce - Simply the best coaster I've ever ridden. It has a fantastic first drop, offers amazing amounts of both floater and ejector airtime throughout and is in most cases very comfortable to ride.
2. Skyrush - Fantastic coaster. Incredible amounts of airtime where the coasters tries to throw you out (multiple times!) and has the best drop you'll ever find on an Intamin airtime machine. The only points that let this coaster down for me is the restrains which can be extremely painful if you don't sit correctly and the layout doesn't offer that much; ALL it does is just try and throw you out throughout the ride.
3. Collosos - Great ride throughout. Offers lovely floater over every hill and even offers some unexpected sideways airtime at the peak of the turnaround. I can't fault this coaster. Best ride is at the front.
4. Bizarro (SFNE) - Overrated on the first 2 rides I had. The restraints made every moment of airtime painful until I tried crossing my legs on rides 3&4. Then you see why it's been rated the best steel coaster in the world on so many occasions. Take away the pain and it offers glorious airtime throughout, the airtime into the tunnel dive is the best element of the ride for me.
5. Goliath (WW) - Fabulous little Mega coaster and the standout ride at a very mediocre park. It offers some great airtime over the first hill and the returning bunny hills and the Stengel dive adds a great touch to a very good ride. Wasn't a huge fan of the helices though.
6. Millennium Force - Massively overrated. First drop is incredible, as is the speed that it generates, but then it's all very mediocre. It offers little to no airtime and really is all about the speed. A good solid coaster but nowhere near world class.
7. El Toro - Another massively overrated coaster in my opinion. It has huge amounts of ejector airtime over the first 3 hills but then just meanders around to a huge anti-climax. Even the airtime it gives is very standard; It's just what I expected it to deliver in terms of ejector airtime, but, I was expecting it to mix it up with a good amount of floater airtime just as it's German big brother delivers in abundance. Really gutted that El Toro didn't reach the huge expectations I had for it.
8. American Eagle - It's an Intamin that was primarily designed to offer airtime so it's only fair that it should feature in this topic. I really enjoyed it and it offered a lot more airtime than I was expecting; some lovely floater throughout and one of the shocks of my trip to the states. Left side (Blue?) is slightly more comfortable that the right side.