The Furius Baco Hatred Thread

Hey everyone, my name is Kieron. Been here for a while but rarely post. However this coaster has been mulling in the back of my mind for some time and I wanted to share my experience as to why it ranks so lowly in my list and why I think Port Aventura should burn the ride to the ground.

Firstly the queue, now I can't really say I have quarms with the queue line as I didn't really have to queue in it, however for a park that is known for queue jumpers they really don't make it hard to queue jump. It's just a very elaborate cattle pen with really obscure and pointless theming. A queue line that was clearly designed in 10 minutes.

Secondly the station, not only do they not allow you to queue for front row and you have to get put where you're told the chances are you may get sent to the back row as was my first ride. Normally i'm more than thrilled to get back row but I now think being sent to the electric chair would be better than this. When you board you are lulled into a false sense of security with the standard Intamin restraints which on the surface are fairly okay. Despite the restraints snapping before (see video below) I still trusted them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_zC3D7XMOY#ws

The doors that are meant to open on dispatch are permanently open and I've been told haven't worked since the ride first opened. Confused guests are stumble onto and off the ride by crossing the track and not the train which is dangerous in itself. Then you are taken to watch a <censored> pre-show which involves a monkey and some kind of wine.

You're hurtled out of the station building with a fairly enjoyable launch before doing a figure of 8 with the most juddery awful feeling I've ever felt on the coaster. The juddering pushes the restraint harder onto your shoulders and causes instant pain. Followed by a dreadful inversion which puts yet more pressure on your shoulder. By this point I just want the ride to end as the OTSR in bearing into my now mis-aligned shoulder bones. Finally to finish you off as you come into the break run the train jerks and the riders are forced upwards in their seat for a final stab in the shoulder.

They should tear the thing down.

I actually can't wait to ride this next month to find out how bad it is. I remember being told many a time before riding Goudurix that it would be the most painful and uncomfortable experience on a coaster. It turned out it was nowhere near as bad as the 'hype' and a strangely enjoyed it! I have a feeling it won't quite be the same with Baco, but still, I'm sure it will be fun one way or another!

It is, without doubt, the worst coaster I have ever been on. Frankly, I look forward to Goudrix now. It cannot possibly be as painful as Baco.

I was at Thorpe today, and as we hit the break run on Saw, I turned to Kelpie and said "that felt like a B&M after riding Baco a couple of weeks ago." She then came up with the idea for her epic song thread.

I agree. Find a way to make steel burn, then burn it to the ground. Melt it down and turn it into baked bean cans. Blow it up with ten billion cherry bombs if you have to, just get rid of it!

Melt it down into nibs for pens, that's the only use I can think for it.

Baco is just awful. I've done it twice, and never again. I'd probably say it's worse for roughness than Magnus Colossus at Terra Mítica, and that was terrible!

I thought that I could not be more unlucky when I visited PortAventura for the first time (and only time so far) back in May 2007 to find that Furius Baco would not open until the day after we went home.

They were constantly testing it with sandbags, then they had the VIP day.....but not open to the public yet.

From what you lot are saying, turns out this was a blessing in disguise.

And don't get me started on Magnus Colossus, what a bonerattling borefest that ride is.

When it opened, it wasn't that bad. I went on in 2008 and 2010 and it got progressively worse - I am now debating whether to go on it when I go this summer.

My friends banned us from ever riding it again after our first ride. I'm going again this year and Baco will be ridden just to see if the memory cheats or whether it really was that bad

I was there the day it opened to the public, after waiting 3 hours in the boiling sunshine for this ride I actually chipped a tooth because it was so rough! I will never go on that ride again!

Can they really not get some new trains figured out for this? I really quite like it otherwise.

This ride is just damn terrible.

'Nuff said.

I'm surprised none of you have given it the nickname I did back in the summer of 2008: Furious Backache

Yo yo, I have nt bean 0n it but I am gonna say I hatez it 2 jump on da band wag0nz!

Lolololololololol furyas baco!!

I'm kl now?

I agree.

It's appalling and gave me a terrible headache!

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I rode this in 2007 (front row - I am sure there was a queue for it back then) but outside seat. My (then) boyfriend said it was a good ride but I found it absolutely horrible. It was the first ride we did in the park and I felt so ill we had to go back to the hotel for me to sleep it off!

I won't be riding this when I visit next month. Well, I probably will, but at the end of the day maybe.

I did think the vineyard was quite nice though...but very boring if you actually have to queue in it.
Some 2007 photos on my facebook here (if this works) https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.11622365369.52711.718490369&type=1&l=865d013dc2

I feel the need to quote some Roller Coaster Philosophy here:

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That was close to the review I wanted to write for this ride. After getting off my first ride in an outside row nearer the back of the train, the review I actually had to write looked something like this:

“Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow…”

Hopefully if you’ve read enough of this site you’ll know that I am not one to easily (if ever) cave into the whole “it’s too rough” line of criticism, especially when there are so many better ways to bash a coaster. ... Furius Baco is rough. To the degree that after the first curve you stop even trying to curse it out and simply want to curl up into the fetal position the way a Russian soldier curls up in the snow to accept their fate after 1000 days of bloody siege.

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Says it all really.

Just as a pedantic note, the restrain isn't broken in that video, only the shoulder strap which serves no purpose as a restraining device, only helps prevent people leaning forward before the launch. Exactly the same thing happened when I was working on Rita, and they had spares anyway. In Ritas COSWP, it states that the restraint type is a lap bar, this appears to be the same. Anyway, all of this is irrelevant, the ride sucks.

Maybe I just had a good day but I enjoyed it.

The ride certainly has problems, serious problems in the case of the specific type of roughness, but worst ride ever... hardly. I actually preferred it to Rita and it still ranks only just out of my top 20 rides (although bare in mind the list was made two years after I rode it).

After finally experiencing Baco for myself, I'm afraid I can't argue with any of the derogatory comments in this thread. It is undoubtedly the most vile, rough, uncomfortable and downright horrible coaster I've ever ridden. The juddering motion is incomprehensibly harsh for the entire duration, even on the straight sections where you wouldn't expect it. All this and I rode on the outside seat front row. I didn't return to the ride after trying it and, in the same vein as Rip Ride Rockit, don't intend to ever again in my life.

Unless I want to submit to masochism of course.

I liked it...

Honestly, if ridden in the front seat, it's an awesome coaster. I just wish they'd sort out the others.