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Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
My personal favorite is at a park you don't typically associate with roller coasters, Sea World.

I give you, the Kraken.





For context, I've been to:

Six Flags Atlanta
Six Flags St. Louis
King's Dominion, Virginia
Silver Dollar City, Branson, MO
Universal Studios Orlando
DisneyWorld
Sea World
05-04-2015 08:28 PM
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
Big Bad Wolf, Annoconda, Loc Ness have been faves of mine but I have always had a soft spot for Space Mountain... the whole in the dark thing really sold it for me.
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
Where are Big Bad Wolf, Annoconda and Loch Ness?
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
(05-04-2015 08:56 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Where are Big Bad Wolf, Annoconda and Loch Ness?

Annoconda @ Kings Dominion

Others at Bush Gardens.
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
Love King's Dominion. No shows, no cartoon characters, just coasters. Lots of coasters.

IIRC the Volcano is there, also a very good one. I think I've ridden the Anaconda (now that you mention it) but I don't remember the Big Bad Wolf.
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
(05-04-2015 09:57 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Love King's Dominion. No shows, no cartoon characters, just coasters. Lots of coasters.

IIRC the Volcano is there, also a very good one. I think I've ridden the Anaconda (now that you mention it) but I don't remember the Big Bad Wolf.

Dips through some houses the comes out over the water and then goes back into some houses... BBW is pretty cool...


Umm KD has Hanna Barberra stuff...like Scooby Doo and what not...
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
I think my favorite is the Raptor at Cedar Point.
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(05-04-2015 10:41 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  Umm KD has Hanna Barberra stuff...like Scooby Doo and what not...

03-lol I barely noticed. I'd never seen that many coasters in one park.
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
(05-04-2015 10:41 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  
(05-04-2015 09:57 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Love King's Dominion. No shows, no cartoon characters, just coasters. Lots of coasters.

IIRC the Volcano is there, also a very good one. I think I've ridden the Anaconda (now that you mention it) but I don't remember the Big Bad Wolf.

Dips through some houses the comes out over the water and then goes back into some houses... BBW is pretty cool...


Umm KD has Hanna Barberra stuff...like Scooby Doo and what not...

KD was sold by Paramount years ago to Cedar Parks. Don't think they have the Nickelodeon zone or any of that any more.

As for Big Bad Wolf, the ride stalled while I was riding it back in high school. I was in the portion of the coaster that got stuck hanging over the water. It was awful.

But we got passes to skip lines the rest of the day and free passes for another day. So it was worth it. However, if that happened now, I don't think I would be as non-chalant about the whole thing.
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
I have a soft spot for Alpengeist at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. It will be always be one of my favorites.
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
(05-05-2015 08:02 PM)blah Wrote:  I think my favorite is the Raptor at Cedar Point.
You get one hell of a view too.
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
(05-04-2015 10:41 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  
(05-04-2015 09:57 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Love King's Dominion. No shows, no cartoon characters, just coasters. Lots of coasters.

IIRC the Volcano is there, also a very good one. I think I've ridden the Anaconda (now that you mention it) but I don't remember the Big Bad Wolf.

Dips through some houses the comes out over the water and then goes back into some houses... BBW is pretty cool...


Umm KD has Hanna Barberra stuff...like Scooby Doo and what not...

I know this is an old thread but Kings Dominion hasn't had Hanna Barbera (Scooby-Doo, Flintsones, etc) stuff in over two decades, that stuff went away when Paramount bought the park in the mid-Ninties, before the Volcano was even built - great coaster by the way. Taft Broadcasting (the original owner/builder of Kings Island, Kings Dominion, and Carowinds) owned the Hanna Barbera cartoons. Paramount had a Nickelodeon tie-in, and since CedarFair bought them 5-8 yrs ago it has been Snoopy/Peanuts. The Anaconda is a ricketty mess. Dominator is my favorite at KD, followed by Volcano.

Also, Big Bad Wolf was great but has been closed at least five years because it broke down all the time and since no one built that kind of coaster anymore, parts were hard to come by. Verbolten was built in its place and is good fun but not as much as BBW.

I know it's nowhere near the biggest, fastest, or scariest, but I've always loved Big Thunder Mountain at Disney.
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
Probably Intimidator 305 at Kings Dominion


They had issues with it when it fist opened where it would cause people to black out, as well as melt the wheels, so they modified it a few years ago

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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
As a kid growing up in Ohio annual summer visits to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie was a way of life. I always enjoyed the Gemini that may not be the tallest or fastest but the fact that it was a dual track wooden coaster gave it a unique racing feel. Wooden coasters also have that rugged, beat the hell out of you ride that I found exciting. Plus, there's nothing like the "click-clack" of the heavy chain pulling the cars up the first hill.


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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
Growing up in King's Island backyard we went there often as kids. My two favorite rides were the Beast and the Bat.



For a long time it was the worlds tallest, fastest, and longest wooden coaster.



Urban legend was that someone died on the bat which caused it to be shut down. Later got revamped as Top Gun and is now called the Bat again.
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
(07-09-2015 09:20 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  As a kid growing up in Ohio annual summer visits to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie was a way of life. I always enjoyed the Gemini that may not be the tallest or fastest but the fact that it was a dual track wooden coaster gave it a unique racing feel. Wooden coasters also have that rugged, beat the hell out of you ride that I found exciting. Plus, there's nothing like the "click-clack" of the heavy chain pulling the cars up the first hill.



Isn't the Gemini a tubular steel track surrounded by a wooden frame and supports? Very unique design for a coaster. The Beast at Kings Island is my favorite in Ohio.
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RE: Best roller coaster you've ever ridden
The Rattler, @Fiesta Texas, way back in the early 90's, before they slowed it down
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