FINALLY someone else who is not "afraid" to admit that they like the looper.
My wife and I were at Hershey on their opening weekend. While standing in line for the looper there was a light shower (no thunder or lightning though). When we were on the coaster, the light rain was continuing (later in the day when it was a heavier rain for about half an hour they shut all coasters down). I am not sure what it was... not sure if their off season maintenance did something to it, not sure if it was the wet tracks, not sure if it was cooler temperaturs, not sure if it was the phases of the moon, not sure what it was... but for what ever reason, the old looper was running faster than it had been in a long time... actually got thrown around quite a bit in the turn around after the loop. Even the trim breaks before the helix didn't really slow it down and it roared through the helix, giving the once customary (now very rare) sudden jolting stop at the end as it comes to a quick halt on the final break run.
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"I wasn't always this cynical, but then I started kindergarden..."