Lagoon opens its Primordial roller coaster

The videos I've seen look fun. I live next to the freeway that Lagoon is next to. I need to make that drive. It's only 750 miles. :) Though with current gas prices, flying is probably much cheaper. ;)

I love rockwork. I especially like looking at photos of historic coasters with a lot of faux rockwork.

janfrederick:

It's only 750 miles

If you combine it with a side trip to Knoebel’s it’ll totally be worth it.

And you can compare notes about how long their projects take.
I consider Lagoon to be one of the finest and most underrated amusement parks in the US. I visited back in August of ‘21 and they were working on this yet-unnamed ride then. And it wasn’t their first day, they seemed about halfway through. I had to recall that they took their sweet time with Wicked and Cannibal as well, so silly me to hope this ride might be open during my visit. But since Wicked and Cannibal turned out to be outstanding rides and arguably worth the wait, I was sure the park had even more greatness up their sleeves and what would come to be Primordial would top them all.
So, does it? As details were revealed and when POV came available at this week’s opening I felt a wave of disappointment. And I know, I know,… let’s only trust actual experience in forming our opinions, not reviews and POVs. But I’ve never had a bit of interest in the TrioTech rides that are out there already and I’ll be darned if this isn’t another one of them. I guess I prefer my coasters to be more coaster-like and less blaster dark ride. To be fair, the coaster part, conceived by the park itself, seems innovative in true Lagoon style. The POV I watched had the drop feature, which makes me wonder about the alternate slide feature and how that all works. I guess I just wish the ride was more ride and less game.
And seriously, the place is only 1700 miles away from being my home park so what do I really care, lol?
I’m looking forward to reading an honest review from one of our C’Buzzers.

Just looked up a POV of this based on your disappointment, because admittedly I didn't know anything about this ride at all. Looks like a hell of a lot of fun to me. I'm not that huge a fan of shooty rides, either, but I dig the fact that this is both, and it looks really well done.

The coaster in Canada's Wonderland's Wonder Mountain is very similar to this, but with a less exciting drop at the beginning. Perhaps that would be a shorter road trip for about the same ride experience. Looks like fun, but I'm with RCMAC. Shooter rides are fun, and coasters are fun, but I don't think there's enough coaster to make this worthy of being high on my bucket list. Lagoon, as a whole, looks worthy though.

I like how a sign just outside the boarding gates says "Some show elements may be undergoing fine-tuning".

After 8 years of development.

Those years were for the coarse tuning.

^ It's been a rough day, but this made me laugh more than it probably should have. Well played sir. :)

I assume you meant "course" tuning???

Fine versus coarse tuning. Not fine versus course tuning. Like fine versus coarse sandpaper.

It was coarse tuning of the course.

Like course tuning, as in the course that the train traverses.

Obviously the train needs training to learn the course. Thus course training.

But again, the play was on "fine" tuning. Coarse fits better in that context. Of course, course tuning would presumably be part of both fine turning and coarse tuning.

I have no words.

Slow news day.

What has happened to CoasterBuzz.

Are we talking 160 grit sand paper?

Sarchasm.

Man, this thread is a rough read.