Favorite "night time" coaster?

Call me crazy, but count me in on enjoying the now-defunct Drachen Fire as one of my favorite night rides. With its isolated setting in the back of the park, night rides were pretty dark.... and the strip lighting on the sides of the trains just looked incredibly cool. When staring at the ride from a distance, it was a very neat sight to see the red lights snaking through the inversions.

Other favorite night rides include Batman Knight Flight at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure (again for the darkness factor), Magnum XL-200 at Cedar Point, and yet another ride that isn't high on anyone's favorite list, the High Roller atop the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas. The ride itself is pretty bad, but looking over 900 feet down on one of the most beautifully illuminated cities in the world is truly a sight to behold.

ray p.

My favorite used to be Magnum, which is still awesome especially by the lake, but Millie is definately up there now. It is so freaky not being able to see where the first hill ends and then flying through the woods (except for the high-protein bug snack you get while riding -- they hurt your face at that speed :)

I would love to ride the Beast at night. I may have to ride "Dragster" at night so I can't see how ridiculously high up I am and prevent a "cardiac incident".

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My friend is afraid of E.T. (Yes, the little alien)

My number one favorite coaster to ride at night is Boulderdash. I also enjoy SFNE's SROS at night. I think that the GE Comet is significantly better at night.

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106 coasters and counting.

Definatly Lakeside Cyclone

Wood: Shivering Timbers and Beast (although I have a feeling I'll be adding Raven and Legend after my SRM)

Steel: Magnum and MF

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I'd rather die living than live like I'm dead

The only S:RoS I've ridden is at SFA, and after a front-seat ride in the dark on that thing, my knees were weak....awesome piece of S..... (steel you gutter-minds)...;)

S:ROS@ SFDL is the very, very best at night you come back to the station looking like you've seen a ghost!

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Someone Who Hopes Their Homepark wakes up and smells the coffee!

I feel lucky to have had so many amazing night rides on Millennium Force. I've also had some perfect autumn night rides on Magnum during during Halloweekends with the trims off the pretzel.

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WildFire at SDC is the best at night. It is alot better without the lights too. Even with the lights you can really see the stars in the sky. At one time I rode WildFire without the lights on and in the fog. Becasue of the fog you couldn't see one end of the ride from the other it also distorted the lights from the train ride, so it made it real dark. The only time you can ride Wildfire at night is when SDC is open at nights in Nov and Dec. Maybe someday they be open nights durring the Summer and we can ride Wildfire then but for now SDC is only open nights in NOV and Dec.

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Chris Knight
I can't decide is it BGW or SDC/CC.
Coming to WOF in 2003: A New Dippin' Dots stall :-)

Riding the Beast during Fearfest this October IS the highlight of my riding experiences. That Saturday, we went right in & rode mucho times before a gank of folk found thier ways back there. A thing of sheer beauty.

Also, while not being all that dark, the Swamp Fox in Myrtle Beach really gets faster with every single run of the evening.

Grizzly, I could imagine, but while at PKD we become obsessed with being blated into the night with the mist hit off Volcano. It's wild being on the volcano on Volcano in the dark......

Wood: Legend
Steel: SROS @SFA

Honorable mentions to Beast, Grizzly, MF, & Nitro

How can nobody mention The Incredible Hulk? Demon and Raging Bull at SF:Great America are also great night time rides.

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Riding the Bull anywhere but the back is merely going for a walk.

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Woodies: Jack Rabbit, Thunderbolt, The Beast (I'm sure Raven and Legend will be added after my first SRM this year)

Steel: Phantom's Revenge all the way, especially with the fog machines on during Fright Nights.

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Joe Cernelli
Webmaster, Kennywood Boulevard
"Don't criticize what you can't understand."

Nasai said his favorite night time coaster was:

"M:TR...... although I do know that Ghostrider is most excellent as well."

The day rides on M:TR ain't bad, either ;)

Moosh

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Sig under construction!

....are you kidding me, I heard it was the *wooden WindJammer*, valleying in even the slightest of breezes...;)

Yeah...all that blowing does quite a job...

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Sig under construction!

Talk about gutter minds...

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Mamoosh said:

Yeah...all that blowing does quite a job...

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Really? I heard that no amount of blowing could help.

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'I feel it coming on again just like it did before. They feed your pride with boredom and they lead you on to war.' - The Soft Boys 'I Wanna Destroy You.'

Not when you're doing the blowing, chris...

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Sig under construction!

well my favorite night time rides are

wood- beast its such a awsome experience.. not being able to see anything in deep woods does it for me..

with metal I like MF its really cool with all the lighting effects and if you ride in front all u have to do is open your mouth... lol dinners served.

also Vortex is cool for the fact of that area of PKI is dark and the rides cool in darkness

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Beast Ride Op in 02, and soon to be in 03