¿What exactly does a boomerang roller coaster feel like?

Hi, as the title says, I want to know what a Boomerang roller coaster feels like: from the drop, the cobra roll, the vertical loop and then the reverse part.

I'm afraid of heights and big falls.

The cobra roll and the vertical loop have me wondering, does it feel bad or good? Oh, and I've never been on a thrilling roller coaster before, I've only been on 13-15 meter roller coasters.

It can be shaky.

Thanks for replying! I agree with you, When I saw people go by on the cobra roll, their heads were shaking.

A person could easily poke fun at this question, but as you claim you are afraid of heights, I respect the question.

We are going to ride in the front seat of the train. You climb down into the seat, and pull the shoulder harness over your body. The ride begins slowly going up at lift hill behind you, backwards. You see the track in front of you, and the station gets further away as you climb higher. The back of the train that you can't see reaches the top, which means that you are not completely as high as you think you should be. Without warning, the train begins to fall, rolling down the hill you just climbed. The drop is not as huge, because you are riding in the front. The rest of the train in back of you is pushing you down. The entrance to the station, and the ground, gets closer as you go faster. Then you finally enter a straight, flat piece of track as you wizz through the station. You don't even have time to notice that the riders waiting in the station let out a gasp as they feel the wind of the passing train.

Leaving the station at high speed, you rise into the cobra roll. You see it in front of you. The cobra roll begins with the first half loop. The track simply bend upwards in front of you until you are completely upside down. Going upside down on a coaster is kind of strange, because your eyes tell you that gravity should make you fall out of your seat, but the ride is moving in such a way that you actually stick you your seat. After you are upside down, instead of continuing through a loop, you enter a half corkscrew element, which can be disorienting, especially since when you are finally upright, you are so high off of the ground. This half corkscrew kind of makes you head lean to one side, which can cause pain depending on the age and maintenance of that particular boomerang coaster.

Then you enter the second half corkscrew, which turns you upside down again. Same with the head tilting to one side. When you are fully upside down again, the track drops straight ahead into a second half loop, where the track bends upwards until you are upright again.

With no time to think, you enter a full vertical loop, in which the track goes upwards until you are fully upside down again and you continue straight until you are fully upright again. Again, your eyes make it seem like you should not remain in your seat, because you are upside down, but centripetal force keeps you in. It's like you are water in a bucket, and a giant person is swinging that bucket around over their head.

At the bottom of that loop, you are moving at an unnervingly fast speed. The train raises quickly upward into the lift hill in front of you, until all the energy is spent and the train slows down to allow the chain to carry it all the way to the top. You see that the lift hill is a dead end, and as you get closer to the dead end, you anticipate the backwards drop into the track you just traversed. At the top, without warning, the chain suddenly lets go, and you see the track that you just climbed as you fall down the hill backwards.

This time, you don't see what's coming. It feels the same, but you can't see what element is coming next- you only see where you've been. Your memory sometimes fails to predict which direction is coming next. It is very disorienting.

When you reach the station, at first, you zoom through it, backwards. You don't really know the back of the train already went through the station. You just realize when you are already inside, but then your train quickly leaves the station, only to slow down as it climbs the lift hill behind you, then the train enters the station with very little speed and comes to a stop.

The first boomerang I rode was at Hersheypark, probably about a hundred years ago. It wasn't so bad. I recall my legs shaking after the ride because it was so intense and exciting.

Boomerangs are infamous for being kind of painful, because of the headbanging. It depends on the rides age and, as mentioned earlier, how well maintained the ride is. But not all boomerangs are bad. I have found the one at Morey's Piers and Carowinds to be a good experience- fun, even.