You love the ride and rank it super high but you criticise it more than you praise it

[Rob Coasters]

I find that whenever discussion of Hyperia at Thorpe Park pops up, I end up pulling myself into an extensive conversation about how underwhelming the whole thing is - the drop lacked the laterals I wanted, the outerbank was not the world-beating element everyone made it out to be, the stall I enjoy less and less, everything after that I actively dislike.

I rank Hyperia #16/396.

I endlessly criticise Hyperia's shortcomings more than I praise the things that it does well, despite having the ride ranked so comparatively high. With the way that I talk about it, you would think it should barely make my top 100, but nope, top 20. I guess that's a testament for how much 'good' it does, but I guess I just prefer to mention the negatives far more. I love the turn out of the station and the lift hill, those are in fact my favourite parts of the ride, and going up the immelmann is fantastic too. The outerbank is incredible in an end seat (very front/very back), just falls short when not there.

One of my friends feels similarly on Untamed at Walibi Holland where it's one of his highest-ranked coasters but brings up the things that bring the ride down (such as the restraints) comparatively more than what makes it so good.

My questions for you:
-What ride do you love and/or rank very highly, but you criticse it and highlight the ride's shortcomings more than you praise it? Why?
-Do you think you rank it too highly?

 

[jasone]

I am probably a little bit similar with Hyperia in all honesty. When I rode it, I ranked it as number 11, it’s now moved to number 12 as Voltron took my number 4 spot and moved everything down. Perhaps with Hyperia it’s because we’ve not had a coaster of that size built in the UK for a very long time, and probably won’t do for a long time in the future either. It meant there was a hell of a lot of hype around it, and stand out moments for some people are maybe not the stand out moments for myself… so you end up talking about those elements and why they perhaps didn’t hit for you the way you expected them too. However for me the outer bank did absolutely hit!

There’s another example of this that is actually in my top 10 ; Batman Gotham City escape, which is my number 7. I did really enjoy it, obviously as it’s in my top 10, but id already ridden Toutatis, which I place at number 5! Everyone I knew said BGCE was better than Toutatis, so I kind of went in expecting that, but for me I found it the other way around. I find the pacing of BGCE a bit odd, I don’t like how slow the stall is as hangtime is probably my least favourite sensation. Also, the top hat didn’t hit for me, I don’t like the holding brake at all really. However there are some incredible moments on BGCE, the airtime hill after the top hat, the dive loop, airtime pop into corkscrew. But I find myself mentioning the bits that didn’t work for me more, because these are the bits that seem to be celebrated by other enthusiasts (particularly the stall). Toutatis, even though it has the trim on the top hat, delivers in every single other element so much, that I completely forget about the trim. And to be honest, the two rides are intrinsically linked in my head now because I went into them comparing them in the first place, which means I just focus on the bits that underwhelmed me on BGCE forever more, which is stupid, because it’s still an absolutely phenomenal coaster!

I’m just a Toutatis fanboy!