This is likely to always going to be amoung my top 5 coasters. It was my #1 favorite coaster since it opened till just this year. Why is it so unmentioned on the forums here? (I think I still rate it #2 or #3 ... can't decide.)
Sit in the front seat, and on a good day, the acceleration and G's into the loop are incredible. The air backwards and speed through through the station are pretty good too.
I rode MR the first year it opened and I was only 11 at the time. It was the longest wait in the hottest weather. It was worth it!
I took my two oldest kids on it 4 years ago ( my youngest was to short). It was their first "real" coaster. That acceleration and inversion, and backwards was to much for them to handle. I could NOT get them, despite enourmous amounts of dictatorship, they ran out the que line backwards, past others, to avoid being "hit in the gut" by this "evil machine" again.
To this date, no other coaster has affected any of my kids with the same extreme sensations that ole Montezooma's Revenge has. Even my youngest was more afraid to reride Monte then he was a year later to ride Goliath.
So, I guess, it can't be just me that finds this ride at least a bit extreme.
Given a choice between SFMM STE and KBF MR, I have to take the latter every time. Even my kids found S:TE boring (might have something to do with riding in the car at speeds up to 105mph, 5mph faster then S:TE)?
Are there any comparable shuttles still in service in the USA?
Do any of the current LIM lauch coasters compare in rate of acceleration?
I did find that Greased Lightning at PGA was more weaker in comparison. Too bad they don't make shuttles like Monte anymore.
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Just so you know some background - the story my grandmother tells of her roller coaster past, is that she and my grandfather would go down to Long Beach to ride the roller coaster after eating canned peaches all week to save their money - so she's not ignorant about what she was looking at.
Anyway, she finally said she wanted to ride it, and after asking the attendants if there was any reason why she couldn't ride, and they couldn't find any, we walked up and got on.
The faces of the other rides were pretty funny as she got in, and a kid behind us said "Mom, that lady is gonna die". Which my grandmother didn't hear, but I was cracking up over.
Anyway, she loved the ride, when it was over - but she did say to me back in the station, "They kind of gyp you on that one, the way it's over so fast".
I was glad she rode it, and I could tell she was excited to be able to do it as well, and whenever I go on Montezooma's Revenge, that's the story I remember it for - as well as it being a really good coaster.
There is the most incredible feeling in the back seat, coming out of the loop backwards.
its like you are floating backwards through the loop...
I love that feeling!
By the way, for a coaster of its age, Monte is discussed pretty often on Coasterbuzz.
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Knotts Halloween Haunt!!
29 years and still screaming.
My grandmother is also the one to take me on my first "big" coaster ride when I was really little - which was the Matterhorn at Disneyland. It was a big deal for me at the time!
So it all comes around to make sense that I am the one to take her on Montezooma's Revenge all those years later...
dont get me wrong SMTE is still an intense ride but you dont get the acceleration as fast as MR. stomach in your mouth type feeling on MR.
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gatorwoodie said:
bunchastuf, Great story. Schwarkopf shuttles are INTENSE! If at all possible, ride with your hands up the whole way, backwards too.
IF possible! Roflmao! On a good launch, in the front seat, it may in fact not be possible on the first ride to figure out how to keep your hands up. The launch throws your arms backwards, so you need to hold them forward, but the loop will hit you with some G's and if you haven't started holding your arms to the rear, the G's may pull hands down close to the lap bar!
*** This post was edited by gatorwoodie on 10/3/2001. ***
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