TheCoasterCruiser
Giga Poster
Heide Park opened their 9th roller coaster for the public this morning and I was there to witness the glory...
To be clear, this only covers the new B&M Wing Coaster and not the entire park.
- Los gehts!
After having closely followed the construction of this, certain excitement had been building up to this day.
At about 10 in the morning we entered the park and walked straight to the star of the day, an idea that most other park guests seemed to have.
We joined the queue, which was rather well themed, infact the whole area is nicely done and landscaped, but it's still graced with a good old cattlepen.
We waited in line for almost two hours before we made it inside the station and were finally dispathed into B&M's latest Wing Coaster design...
Exitting the rather steep lift-hill we immediately hit the first drop, not bad, over the airtime hill, (which included airtime) under a bulding and up into an immelmann. That first part is great, intense and fun! - But that's about it. The rest of the ride is forgettable and disappointing and I wish I could tell you why exactly, but it just kinda 'dies' after those first couple of elements. It's my first B&M Wing Coaster and I was aware that these had a tendency to be a little less smooth than the usual coasters from the Swiss company, but this was worse than expected as well. Add to that the awful pacing of these models and you have Heide Park's newest roller coaster.
We did ride it later in the day, but it maintained my disappointing opinion. - It's annoyingly photogenic though.
Apart from a bad start, we had a good day at the park, especially thanks to Colossos, Desert Race and Krake!
Filmed a POV of our first ride were I seem more excited about it than necessary. That and a couple of pictures can be enjoyed here:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qQrTCgyS9M[/youtube]
To be clear, this only covers the new B&M Wing Coaster and not the entire park.
- Los gehts!
After having closely followed the construction of this, certain excitement had been building up to this day.
At about 10 in the morning we entered the park and walked straight to the star of the day, an idea that most other park guests seemed to have.
We joined the queue, which was rather well themed, infact the whole area is nicely done and landscaped, but it's still graced with a good old cattlepen.
We waited in line for almost two hours before we made it inside the station and were finally dispathed into B&M's latest Wing Coaster design...
Exitting the rather steep lift-hill we immediately hit the first drop, not bad, over the airtime hill, (which included airtime) under a bulding and up into an immelmann. That first part is great, intense and fun! - But that's about it. The rest of the ride is forgettable and disappointing and I wish I could tell you why exactly, but it just kinda 'dies' after those first couple of elements. It's my first B&M Wing Coaster and I was aware that these had a tendency to be a little less smooth than the usual coasters from the Swiss company, but this was worse than expected as well. Add to that the awful pacing of these models and you have Heide Park's newest roller coaster.
We did ride it later in the day, but it maintained my disappointing opinion. - It's annoyingly photogenic though.
Apart from a bad start, we had a good day at the park, especially thanks to Colossos, Desert Race and Krake!
Filmed a POV of our first ride were I seem more excited about it than necessary. That and a couple of pictures can be enjoyed here:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qQrTCgyS9M[/youtube]
