For wooden coasters I would have to say Shivering Timbers at Michigan's Adventure for both air and lateral G's. It's an air time machine!
For Air on a steel Coaster. I would still give that to Magnum at Cedar Point.
For really nasty laterals. Probably Mean Streak at CP for wood. Is there also a crap list? because that would be another way to describe it.
For fastest lateral G's. I would have to say the Beast at Kings Island.
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For intense ejector air, my picks are actually both wood: El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure and Phoenix at Knoebels. I personally prefer the back right seat on Toro, and 1-2 on Phoenix. If they actually fix Skyrush's restraints (new at Hershey), both the laterals AND the airtime are sick.
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I personally prefer the back right seat on Toro,
Good thing we haven't met up there. There'd be a fight. :)
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On 3 separate trips I've probably ridden twice in front and 7 or 8 times in back. Didn't get anywhere near the air I get on any of the S:RoSes, Skyrush, NTG, or even the so-called over engineered B&M's like AC, Diamond Back, Goliath oG or Nitro. I'm not saying it's a bad ride. Far from it. It's in my top 10 steel, , but not for its airtime.
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MF and I-305 are more like the Gios, IMO. While there is some airtime in the layouts, it is not the *point* of those rides, it's a pleasant addition.
Amazing to me that THIS many years later, nothing comes close to the extreme airtime of those original RoS rides....except maybe Toro. When I think about what the SFNE Supes did on my first (ERT) rides, it still makes me shake my head. Not surprising so many "hardcore" enthusiasts begged off - those forces were WAY unprecedented.
and, as a bonus, no laterals... ;~)
Seriously though, what rides have a lot of lateral forces - not many. Makes wooden coasters hard to maintain. The one good jolt on KG's Twister was removed. Herc was (thankfully) removed years ago. WG Cyclone's lateral jolts were (probably?) unintentional.
MF has very long, floater airtime on the drop and the two big hills. Not to speak for Andy or anyone else, but I think a lot of people think of airtime as more of the sudden forceful kind.
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Jeff, yes, I think you're right. On my visits to Great Adventure, I always think, "they gotta get more rides with crazy airtime like El Toro", but then I ride Nitro and realize just how graceful and floating and LENGTHY the airtime is on that ride. While I love that short quick ejector air, there is something to be said (and not forgotten) about flying over a hill and having your butt out of the seat the whole way down the other side.
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Probably any B&M hyper has a good amount of floater air and not too many laterals like Apollo's Chariot. For insane airtime, I'd say (in order from most to least) El Toro, Shivering Timbers, and the Voyage. I haven't ridden Skyrush, but if you're making a list, I would go ahead and put that on there. For laterals, I'd say Millenium has the longest (ones where your body is tilted for like a whole 10 seconds) and Intimidator 305 has the quickest. I haven't ridden a ton of coasters with insane laterals though. A good mix would be El Toro. It has amazing laterals and insane stand-up air too.
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