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Review the last roller coaster you rode

Keltenblitz (763) - Zinkenlifte Bad Durrnberg

A mountain coaster about an hours drive from Fantasiana. As its off season they had shortened opening hours, also the coaster can't operate in the rain.

It's the first single rail style mountain coaster I've done. Unlike most however you don't ride a coaster to the top you have to ride up a chair lift which takes about 15 minutes and allows for some amazing views. At the top there's a bar/cafe which was doing great business, suppose you could go up the chairlift (or even walk up) spend a few hours and then ride the coaster back down.

The coaster itself is about 7000 foot long, and on this model you feel more exposed than the usual wiegand models.

What it also allows for is a lot more insanity in the drops and turns. Personally on the wiegand models I'll go full gas all the way down but on this I was definitely breaking on the turns to avoid being yeeted off the toboggan. It's also got a limiter as well which was probably for the best.

Just an amazing experience really. Cost about €17 but that does include the chairlift to the top.
 
Wiener Looping (771) - Wiener Prater

Completing for me the current set of mack stryker/big Dipper coasters.

In a park which mainly consists of generic coasters the newest addition is really something special.

Low on themeing but high on thrill and showmanship. The lift hill takes you away from most of the layout and over the top of a ghost train. The near vertical drop is actually a double down as you drop vertically then pull out as you fly over the pathways and into the second part of the drop which is filled with smoke. Then you go into a banana roll and then a vertical loop and the rest of the thrilling layout which is short but packs a punch. More akin to Dynamite than Lost Gravity as it does a lot in a short time.

The Big Dipper trains are great for this layout, its a very smooth ride with a bit of bounce on the wing seats but nothing to worry about.

It's €8.50 a ride so sadly as much as I'd love to have lapped it 3 rides over the time I spent at Prater was enough.
 
The last new cred was a Wacky Worm in a car park, but the one before was:

#537 Antelope
Park: Gulliver's World
Model: ?

I'm not sure what the idea was but this has some of the most ridiculous profiling I've ever seen. It'd probably be more fun if it kept speed by not wasting energy moving in every direction except forward. Genuinely surprised it didn't stall on the high turns.
 
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