The ride:
You enter the standard issue X-car train that have all the fixes that have been added since the opening of G-Force (utter crap), so they are really nice. The launch is pretty uneventful, the talked about using forced perspective in the barrel to increase the sensation of speed on the launch, but on the first go the train don't really speed up until you are outside the station. So after some LSM tugging initially you get a smooth launch up the top-hat, then into the loop, both of which are perfectly fine. Then all hell breaks loose, the turnaround between the loop and the first in-line is insane, pulls nearly 4 g's all the way around (about 5 seconds), just a few slight dips where the small over-banks are. Then comes the first twist, Yes, you think less forces from here, but you be surprised, a quick flick over the top and then the next powerful turnaround into the ditch hits. Second in-line coming up, and it's incredibly fast, faster then the first, even faster than the Blue-Fire one. Final turn and into the station, just to be launched around a second go
. After the second time through the station you get slowed down on the launch track and then coast slowly backwards into the station.
It's a really great ride, but unfortunately it suffers from some bad vibrations that they hope they could fix it with some tweaking during this years soft opening. They will add the LED wheels that Maurer Söhne had shown at IAAPA a few weeks after the media day (so they might be on now). And then work hard to complete the ride until the grand opening next year.
