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Coaster Poll Round 1 Group 3
- Thread starter Martin
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DiogoJ42
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- The Metropolitan Line
Start Trek is an insult to the brand. Hyperion looks bland as smeg on a POV to me. Stealth is fun, but nothing special.
.... I bum all things Anton, so one vote for 'Banan, the other to the funky looking woody I've never heard of until just now.
.... I bum all things Anton, so one vote for 'Banan, the other to the funky looking woody I've never heard of until just now.
John
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Steel Vengeance
Difficult group for me to pick from, as I've only been on half of them: Hyperion, Lisebergbanan and Stealth. I really like 'banan, but I don't think it's quite good enough to progress from this group.
Based on the GCIs I've done, I'm confident Thunderbird is an excellent ride. To be honest I find it very difficult to separate them all in my rankings, though there are one or two that stand out for good or bad reasons I expect this one to be somewhere in the middle. Not quite good enough to go through.
I'm going to group the Macks together - I've been on neither but done Alpina Blitz and Icon, Helix and Blue Fire so have a pretty good idea of how the various types stack up. Helix is of course phenomenal and Blue Fire excellent as a package but purely as a coaster has too many dead spots (final roll is the highlight). Alpina Blitz is the Mack take on a mega lite, and does an excellent job so would be my pick of the two in this group.
Having ruled out the others, my votes therefore go to:
Stealth, which is one of the best Intamin launches out there (behind TTD but ahead of KK). Having been on Xcellerator for the first time this year I'm no longer so sure it would benefit from being longer either.
Finally Hyperion, maybe not quite as phenomenal a ride as Intamin are capable of delivering from this ride system (it's no Skyrush), but still easily one of the very top coasters in Europe and easily the best coaster in this group.
Based on the GCIs I've done, I'm confident Thunderbird is an excellent ride. To be honest I find it very difficult to separate them all in my rankings, though there are one or two that stand out for good or bad reasons I expect this one to be somewhere in the middle. Not quite good enough to go through.
I'm going to group the Macks together - I've been on neither but done Alpina Blitz and Icon, Helix and Blue Fire so have a pretty good idea of how the various types stack up. Helix is of course phenomenal and Blue Fire excellent as a package but purely as a coaster has too many dead spots (final roll is the highlight). Alpina Blitz is the Mack take on a mega lite, and does an excellent job so would be my pick of the two in this group.
Having ruled out the others, my votes therefore go to:
Stealth, which is one of the best Intamin launches out there (behind TTD but ahead of KK). Having been on Xcellerator for the first time this year I'm no longer so sure it would benefit from being longer either.
Finally Hyperion, maybe not quite as phenomenal a ride as Intamin are capable of delivering from this ride system (it's no Skyrush), but still easily one of the very top coasters in Europe and easily the best coaster in this group.
RicketyCricket
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Taron
Hyperion and Lisebergbanen. Although I'm yet to ride either.
The former was much needed in Europe, the yanks seem to get all the beastly airtime coasters.
Lisebergbanen gets old school bonus points and it looks to use the terrain very well in a tight space, and always has positive reviews.
The former was much needed in Europe, the yanks seem to get all the beastly airtime coasters.
Lisebergbanen gets old school bonus points and it looks to use the terrain very well in a tight space, and always has positive reviews.
Cheese
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Helix, Liseberg
Lisebergbanan might not actually be the best coaster here, but it's a great ride and absolutely charming to boot, so it gets my first vote. My other vote goes to The Storm. Before you point out that it was inevitable with me being a massive fan of the Mack Megacoaster, I hadn't previously thought it looked much good, but on watching a POV of Alpina Blitz again a lot of those less pointy hills look similar to AB's middle section.
For the others, I still think the Vekoma layout would have been more interesting than what Energylandia went with for Hyperion, Operation Enterprise looks pretty uninspiring, Thunderbird is probably pretty good (like most GCIs other than Wicker Man seem to be!) but not the best of its breed, and Stealth always puts a smile on my face, but it is what it is.
For the others, I still think the Vekoma layout would have been more interesting than what Energylandia went with for Hyperion, Operation Enterprise looks pretty uninspiring, Thunderbird is probably pretty good (like most GCIs other than Wicker Man seem to be!) but not the best of its breed, and Stealth always puts a smile on my face, but it is what it is.