Tumbili roller coaster opens at Kings Dominion

"Tumbili, which is Swahili for 'agony'...”

hambone said:

"Tumbili, which is Swahili for 'sucks'...”

Fixed that for you.

Rode one of these at Six Flags Fiesta Texas.

They look really neat, but they are not really worth it if they have a long wait.

However, I don't mind a park putting one of these in to add a ride and to fill some space!

Maybe it’s because I’ve never waited for one of these things (having ridden 4) but I don’t have a problem woth them. Sometimes they’re kind of boring, but more often than that, they’re pretty decent. I mean they’re not Green Lantern.

I don’t know if these are considered a budget coaster, but if I was putting one in I’d make it twice as tall and 3 times more active.
I haven’t ridden one. I think I’m gonna do a Hampton Roads visit late summer so I reckon I’ll get a try.
Speaking of Green Lantern, and maybe we’ve mentioned it before, the plans to relocate it to LaRonde were cancelled. I’m not sure why.

Isn't this a smaller version of the ride? If you think of it as a replacement for the Crypt, I would call it an upgrade.

The theming they added to the Scrambler is pretty sweet. Ive always liked the setting for that.

RCMAC said:

the plans to relocate it to LaRonde were cancelled. I’m not sure why.

Maybe Canada has injury lawyers now?(Kidding, they do, but tort reform has kept the injury lawyer racket at bay)

I think the real question is...

Is it really a roller coaster?

:D

RCMAC said:

I don’t know if these are considered a budget coaster, but if I was putting one in I’d make it twice as tall and 3 times more active.

The full versions that Six has bought are total puker's to me. Once and done. I have to imagine that the general public has a similar response, and the appearance of long lines on these is more a function of capacity. It will be interesting if the nausea factor has been dialed down with a shorter ride.

I was at the park yesterday, and I hate to bring up an old meme, but the capacity sux. It runs two cars (loading one and running one), as opposed to the larger models that run 4 (loading two a time). I timed the dispatches and came up with 360pph theoretical max capacity. Bad.

These rides, and those Premier Skyrockets, are the Vekoma Boomerangs of this generation. Cheap, off the shelf, take very little space, but also painful and nauseating.

The real selling point though is the gimmick. "They go forwards *and* backwards!" Or in the S+S case, do some stupid spinny, barfy thing.

I've ridden one of each and cringe at the throught of having to Cre-Ho any more that I come across.

I actually liked Phobia Phear at Lake Compounce - certainly better than their Boomerang and *way* better than my first and last experience with a Free Spin (Joker at Great Adventure). Capacity is a different question, but Compounce doesn't particularly have capacity concerns, from what I can tell.

Tommytheduck said:

The real selling point though is the gimmick. "They go forwards *and* backwards!"

You just took me back to the first ad I heard for Sidewinder at Hershey, before I knew it was a lousy* boomerang. "It goes upside down SIX TIMES!"

*It's actually the best, smoothest boomerang I've ridden.

I'll ride any of the Skyrockets once also. Like the Free Spins, the capacity isn't great, but the ride experience is definitely net positive for me.

PhantomTails said:

and I hate to bring up an old meme, but the capacity sux.

I hate that this is considered a CoasterBuzz meme and not a genuine concern or complaint. Wait times and capacity are important to people.

The new ride looks like a real stinker.

But to end this post on a positive note, I love the retheme of their bobsled ride. That ride deserves all the attention it can get.

Tommytheduck said:

These rides, and those Premier Skyrockets, are the Vekoma Boomerangs of this generation. Cheap, off the shelf, take very little space, but also painful and nauseating.

For what it's worth, I thought GaleForce was one of the best coasters I rode last year.

Small footprint doesn't necessarily mean boring.

No, not at all. I didn't include GaleForce, or Sandy, because I haven't ridden them. I didn't include Eurofighters either, although they definitely fit the "small, off the shelf" category.

I just specifically dislike the Skyrocket 2 and Freespin rides and think that they are overused, provide bad rides, and are more about the spectacle than the ride itself. I'm not happy about it, of course I'd like to enjoy every coaster I ride, but here we are.

But that's just, like, uh, you know, my opinion, man.

I don't mind the Sky Rocket II rides, but do find it odd that a ride that lends itself to being at smaller parks (such as Compounce) ended up being built at many of the largest theme parks at the US. This seems to be a shift away from building marquee, high-capacity coasters in favor of building cheap rides just for the sake of having something new. At the very least, if you're going to put a Sky Rocket II in your park that receives 4 million visitors a year, put in the extra money to add a table for two train operation!

Meanwhile Six Flags adds a Larson Loop to nearly every park in the chain.