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[2024] Voltron Nevera | Mack Stryker Coaster

John_P said:
It was the Golden Ticket awards last night and Voltron won best new coaster. Quite an impressive feat given how much of a US bias it usually has. Guess even they couldn't award it to a generic coaster or something that operated for a week.

They also reclaimed the best park award, and got an award for rebuilding the Austria section.
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Well deserved 👏👏👏 Voltron is something special and the only new coaster would rival Voltron is Hyperia.

I'd have thought Top Thrill 2 may have got it (or the best reimagined coaster award) if didn't have it's extended closure.
 
It was Kennywood hosting this year, and off the top of my head, the biggest American coaster that opened this year aside from Top Thrill 2 was probably Iron Menace at Dorney Park.

It is good to hear that a European ride has won Best New Rollercoaster; I didn’t expect that to happen based on previous years!

Best New Attraction Installation, however, went to Fire in the Hole at Silver Dollar City (which I’d totally forgotten was built this year until I read the awards list…).
 
Voltron is clearly the best coaster to have opened this year, so it was a well deserved winner in that category. May not have been the case is Zamperla hadn't messed up TT2 mind!
 
hogofwar said:
Is is still the general understanding that 2 of the trains don't have proper suspensions/bracing yet?
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Well 2 out of 9 of my rides on Tuesday and Wednesday were riding worse than a certain 2013 Gerstlauer infinity coaster that people like to call 'rough'.

For me I still actually enjoyed the rougher rides I had on it and it didn't put me off and it's ranked #4 for me and I could have put it above Taron at #3 but couldn't justify that as you'll never have a 'bad' ride on Taron.

But it is a bad look to have a new for 2024 cutting edge Mack rides coaster opening at their own park running like that as people with lower tolerance to rough rides might come off after their first ride thinking what an unpleasant experience.
 
A bolt today fell from Voltron
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Is there any way of telling which trains are the rough ones? With the continuously moving trains, would there be time to hold back for the next one and let others go in front? My son doesn’t like rough rides. He isn’t 1.4m yet so this would be a huge jump in intensity for him so don’t want him to have a bad first experience!

I’ll suggest he does Blue Fire first.
 
LF22 said:
Is there any way of telling which trains are the rough ones? With the continuously moving trains, would there be time to hold back for the next one and let others go in front?
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I've no idea if there are still rough trains at all, but no, there's definitely zero choice as to what train you get.

Think of the loading sequence much like that at Arthur - you're batched and boarded in groups of four, row by row, with actually very little attention made to what constitutes one train or the next. If you try and ask to go somewhere different to where chance has dictated you should end up, it won't go down well :p
 
I haven’t ridden it, but if this is a concern, I maybe wouldn’t start your son on Voltron. Perhaps Blue Fire and Wodan would be better starting points (I would have suggested Silver Star as well, but that’s out if he isn’t 1.4m yet), and if he likes those, you could then try Voltron.

I can imagine that asking if you can wait for the next train on the basis of enthusiast hearsay about which ones are supposedly rougher would get very short shrift from the platform staff. Particularly in a park like Europa, and on a ride operated the way Voltron is that requires quick turnarounds.
 
To be fair, I'll echo what Matt N says - Voltron is intense. I'm definitely getting old (😭😭😭), but that aside, it's the first coaster I've ridden in a long time where I come off feeling beat. Need a brief rest, a ride on something tame before moving on to the next coaster.

So yeh, roughness aside, I would definitely start your son on pretty much any other coaster (not Mir) and build up to Voltron.
 
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