I disagree. When you stay on-property at Disney or Universal, the cheese goes unseen. In fact, I think that's why the Magical Express busses take a rural route from the airport, so you don't have to see any of it.
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Here's a picture of the barrel rolls on the ride so you guys can drool on it off of twitter: http://t.co/60VZR8Cl
Chris Knight
Parks are finally starting to get that gimmicks and being the fastest, steepest, etc, doesn't make a good ride. Oh wait...
Steeper generally indicates more (or more extreme) airtime. I'm OK with parks chasing that one.
Inversions on a new-age woodie are an inevitable progression that happens to be easily marketable. Plus, lap-bar only barrel rolls are a wonderfully dynamic, airtime-filled maneuver (see also: blue fire).
The oppositely-banked air hill looks to have all the floater of a regular air hill, but with gobs of rotation for the purpose of disorientation and fluidity of transitions to the preceding/following elements. No complaints there either.
Sandwiched in between all that is a brutally high speed, ground hugging turn, a double-dip ravine dive, a double-up ravine exit.
I'll poo-poo gimmicks all day long, but I see care and consideration behind just about every inch of this layout. Call them gimmicks if you want, but heavy helpings of "-est" on promotional material is not a defacto indication of a lazy design or a bad ride.
Bill
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The heartline roll on Blue Fire was my least favorite part of that ride. The same with Dare Devil Dive.
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To each their own - I thought it was the best part. MACK must like it too, since they've included it on an otherwise inversion-free mega-lite style hypercoaster.
Bill
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I found them awkward and uncomfortable. Kinda like me. :-)
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I took it from Cedar Point's halloweekend brochure this year. It is advertising their new haunt, The Eden Muse Wax Museum.
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