Review: Mine-Cart Madness at Epic Universe a little rough

This seems to be a recurring theme for any ride where the seats are further away from the track (suspended coasters excluded). The Arrow 4D is apparently really bad, wing coasters on the outside seats are sometimes a little rough, and now this. This seems like a solvable problem. In this case, is it some kind of suspension system? I mean, even the big gondolas, including Disney's Skyliner, are mounted on springs.

I suppose they could always close it for a year to make some adjustments and alsonadd a tilt coaster called NBA Jam's Curse or something similar to Super Nintendo World in 2026.

That said, I know a few people who have gone and the only negative I have heard so far about Mine Cart Madness is that it has very low hourly capacity for an Orlando attraction.

This is my Dragster theory of why they had such issues with those trains, coupled with lack of dampening and there ya go.

Jeff:

The Arrow 4D is apparently really bad, wing coasters on the outside seats are sometimes a little rough, and now this.

I did not find x2 rough in any way, maybe I got lucky?

Roughness fades with memory I suppose, but thinking back on rides, I recall Gwazi excessively jackhammering and being overall unpleasant, which is a shame because much earlier on in life it was a fantastic ride. Renegade at Valleyfair, absolutely horrid ride, which must have been a year before refurb or something because I've heard a ton of positives.

I have certainly rode some old Arrows with ****tier than normal transitions.

Modern roughness I truly believe is spoiled enthusiasts. I saw someone recently griping about Fahrenheit at Hershey for being rough, and while Fahrenheit does vibrate a bit through some of the elements, it is not even remotely rough.

Is Mine Cart Madness rough? Couldn't tell you, I haven't been on it, but in overall ride roughness I doubt it is very rough.

You may have been lucky.

I rode X about 20 years ago and thought it was one of the greatest things I've ever done. Totally unlike anything else.

I went on again 2 or 3 years ago and honestly thought that I was going to have some sort of injury or concussion when I got off. It was that bad.

TheMillenniumRider:

Roughness fades with memory I suppose

The brain hemorrhaging pain I experienced on Son of Beast 25 years ago is still fresh in (whatever's left of) my memory.

So I’m going to break trend again, SoB wasn’t that horribly rough, but to be fair, I rode front row specifically because everyone said it was so bad.

I took a lap, it was a thing, and I checked the box off on my credit.

I rode SOB every visit to KI, also front row. The first drop was incredible; the helix was tolerable if you lifted your butt off the seat a bit. I was in the minority though, as there was never a line for this thing after the first few years.

Oddly enough, I rode front row as well. Most painful ride of my life. That loop was bliss, though; too bad it was the only reprieve I had throughout the entire course. And then there were the deafening anti-rollbacks. I feel like the lift hill broke the sound barrier so that your bleeding ears distracted you from the brain damage you would endure for the rest of the ride, but the opposite was true; the lift was just a warm-up for the remaining few thousand feet of torturous jackhammering.

Jackhammering is the right word for what SoB did to my spine. It very quickly slammed my butt into and out of the seat at the bottom of each drop. The loop was like well-oiled glass.

I rode it twice. Once a week after it opened, I swore never again. But then some of my fellow CoasterBuzz peeps encouraged me to ride again after they replaced the trains with lighter ones, and the loop was removed. It wasn't as bad, but wasn't worth riding again. I'm happy I rode it that time, because it closed a week later.

Mine Cart Madness looks like fun. I like the Donkey Kong games. It can't be THAT uncomfortable, right? Not compared to SoB.

I got bruises the size of grapefruits on both my thighs when I rode it with the original trains, it was the darn 45 degree angle floor that they put in. The loop was cool and the only smooth part.

With the new trains it still was rough as heck but my legs were more free so I didn’t get the bruises as much. The ride was just boring then though cause the loop was gone. Banshee is so much better.

Sounds like here at coasterbuzz we like it rough. Or maybe we have underlying bdsm tendencies.

Took the words right out of my mouth, TMR.

It's a bummer to hear that a new coaster is rough. Hopefully they can fix it.

I have the same thoughts for Iron Menace as well but have lost hope for InvadR. Slightly concerned about B&M going forward. Will be interesting to see how Rapterra runs.

Side note, for me SOB (I used to visit KI yearly) early on (1st ride was in 01) and I thought it was very rough but rideable. Over the next couple of years I felt that it got a bit better. But towards the end it wasn't rideable, felt my worst rides were post loop.

SOB was second only to Drachen Fire on the list of “who the eff autrhorized this for the general public”.

Invadr? seriously? i must have done 45 laps during Christmas town this past year and other than one obvious/significant flaw on the left hand turn leading to first drop, i had no complaints whatsoever.

X2 still delivers a consistent pile driver effect on m back on the inversion after the raven turn. Just an ungodly rough moment

CreditWh0re:

SOB was second only to Drachen Fire on the list of “who the eff authorized this for the general public”.

Ugh...... Drachen Fire, take me, abuse me, I wish I could have ridden you.

Drachen Fire was a Dragon Wagon compared to SoB.

I'm extremely nervous about the supposed giga dive coaster at SFOT considering how much B&M screwed up the dive half the size at Dorney. A friend told me that Dr. Diabolical is running pretty bumpy at Fiesta Texas as well. I'm not sure what is going wrong in B&M land but they need to get their act together.

How did B&M "screw up" Dorney's dive coaster?

Everyone is on about this supposed rattle with all the new rides for some reason.