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SeaWorld Orlando | Mako | B&M Hyper Coaster

I was driving down Central Florida yesterday, a road that runs parallel to SeaWorld's property line. Mako is now very visible from outside of the park. In the Loop annoys me so I did not watch the video. But the photo used as a cover looks to be from International Drive. Another road that runs around their property line. I also guess the ride will be topped off sometime this weekend. Woo
 
I quit like the Penguin ride, well, it's good for SeaWorld, it's great to see that they're adding something of worth apart from Manta, it means you can spend more than an hour in the park now :lol:
 
It's just an absolute waste of that ride technology. It's soooo short, and just soooo pants.

The Penguin enclosure at the end is cool, but the ride could have been so much more. It's actually frustrating just how much of a missed opportunity it is.
 
Mako has been topped off!

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Looks pretty neat. Should be fun, you can't really go wrong with a B&M hyper and it gives a nice expansion to the ride list.
 
I love how this looks on the skyline, it reminds me so much of Khan and Shambhala, I love how it towers over Kraken, but doesn't dominate it, they both compliment each other very nicely.

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^It's a round support. It's just the light, and the fact that it's connected to the chain return wheel cover.

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I want this to be amazing, but I'm worries about it seeming comparatively pants post-Fury... I'm worries about everything seeming pants post-Fury. I worry about life not being worth living post-Fury.

I'm hoping Fury wasn't a fluke and that it demonstrates a change in B&M's style - a decision to make good airtime machines. But I doubt it.
 
But Fury is over 100ft taller, faster and vastly superior in every which way. So in that mentality of comparing everything to Fury, most new coasters are going to be ****?

Love this photo of the topping off of Mako.

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Also, just in case photos aren't enough and some of you weirdos want to play with yourself over footage ( ;) ), here's a video (it does have some great shots from the top of the track).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5-FmxlOoCA[/youtube]
 
Seen on Facebook that it does have a small straight section after the first drop, as per the promo video.
 
Joey said:
I want this to be amazing, but I'm worries about it seeming comparatively pants post-Fury... I'm worries about everything seeming pants post-Fury. I worry about life not being worth living post-Fury.

I'm hoping Fury wasn't a fluke and that it demonstrates a change in B&M's style - a decision to make good airtime machines. But I doubt it.
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That in part is my critique of Mako. While everyone is agreed that height doesn't matter... height does matter. At least, height matters with large hyper roller coasters.

Will this be a good B&M hyper roller coaster in it's own right? Absolutely, who doesn't like a 200 ft. steel coaster!? Will this be compared to taller, faster B&M hypers to the earth's end in a sheer numbers game? Absolutely as well - especially when trying to rationalize why one would need to get excited for Mako, when Fury, Leviathan, or other B&M hypers may be a closer drive.
 
Lofty said:
But Fury is over 100ft taller, faster and vastly superior in every which way. So in that mentality of comparing everything to Fury, most new coasters are going to be ****?
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Mmm, not really. I mean, before Fury, I didn't care for the other gigas really. I know Ben said he thought Leviathan and Fury were pretty similar and I dunno how standard that opinion is, but to me Leviathan was just another B&M mega - floaty and fun, but nothing special. Fury is special. The height isn't the important bit, it's the fact that it is dynamic and forceful and exciting from start to finish.

I'm not convinced that those things are easy to design, else we'd see more coasters like that.

Kraken is a coaster like that, come to think of it. Kraken is world class. Dynamic, forceful, exciting.

I mean, yeah, Mako won't be bad, because all B&Ms are pretty damn good in the grand scheme of things. But there's no reason it couldn't have been a Fury and that's how I'm gonna judge every B&M airtime machine from now on, because now I know what they're capable of... Is it a Fury? Y/N? No? Bye.
 
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I don't get it though - not all of the airtime machines are designed to be forceful, whereas Fury is though?

Also - Kraken, world class? Forceful? REALLY?


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Yeah, I don't agree with you at all Joey.

The standard B&M Hypers are all about large hills and floater, that's their MO. The Gigas, to me at least, are a different breed. Their layouts aren't the same as the Hypers, they seem to be more about speed than hill after hill. So why you would classify them as the same type of ride doesn't compute with me.

I feel exactly the same way about Intamin's offerings. The Hyper style (EGF, Skyrush to an extent, Goliath WH) are airtime machines, strong ejector. What do the Giga's offer? Speed and a good drop/first turn.

I wouldn't classify Millennium Force and EGF in the same bracket, why do the same with Behemoth and Fury?

If you prefer the Fury type ride to the Hyper type ride that's totally up to you, and most will agree, but dismissing a fun floaty Hyper just because it's a ride type you don't prefer seems like snobbery to me.

I'm also in the Kraken is most definitely not World Class camp.
 
I agree with Joey about Kraken. It's awesome.

However I don't think comparing Mako makes any sense to other Hypers. What you need to do is compare it to what else Orlando has to offer. They currently have nothing like this (unless I'm having a moment and I'm forgetting something?) and seeing as most Orlando visitors don't go to loads of other parks, this will really stand out and make quite the impression on guests.

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Tbf I remember it taking the inversions pretty quickly, the last two being surprising. Kraken does have fundamental problems, but the points I mentioned and the use of [strike]terrain[/strike] tunnels post mcbr are worthy of merit.

Mako is clearly the perfect choice for the park. I'm only slightly disappointed as a hard to please "enthusiast" that the Hyper coaster design hadn't moved forwards.
 
DelPiero said:
Yeah, I don't agree with you at all Joey.

The standard B&M Hypers are all about large hills and floater, that's their MO. The Gigas, to me at least, are a different breed. Their layouts aren't the same as the Hypers, they seem to be more about speed than hill after hill. So why you would classify them as the same type of ride doesn't compute with me.

I feel exactly the same way about Intamin's offerings. The Hyper style (EGF, Skyrush to an extent, Goliath WH) are airtime machines, strong ejector. What do the Giga's offer? Speed and a good drop/first turn.

I wouldn't classify Millennium Force and EGF in the same bracket, why do the same with Behemoth and Fury?

If you prefer the Fury type ride to the Hyper type ride that's totally up to you, and most will agree, but dismissing a fun floaty Hyper just because it's a ride type you don't prefer seems like snobbery to me.

I'm also in the Kraken is most definitely not World Class camp.
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Re: thinking of the hypers and gigas as different breeds, wow really?

That seems so alien to me... We don't class Nemesis and Alpengeist as different ride types based on height. And those are two VERY different experiences, way different than even... Silver Star vs Fury. And yeah, MF and EGF are the same thing to me, it's just one is average, the other is very good. :p

And, again, like I said in my last post... to me Leviathan was just another B&M hyper. Fury is SO different. So, so different. It blew me away after riding Leviathan a few weeks prior and thinking it was very good, better than Behemoth, but not MILES ahead like Fury is to all the others. Apollo was my prior favourite, because I believe it's landscaping and being at a good park helps it nose ahead of other contenders, like Goliath.

It's not even about preferring ejector or whatever else to floater - at least I'm pretty sure it's not. It's just that Fury is an incredible experience. It has floater, there's nothing wrong with floater, but where the other B&M airtime machines lack is they are repetitive, slow feeling, swooping things.

I mean, Peep's spot on when he says you've gotta look at this thing in situ in Florida and how important it is for where it is. He's right. But why not also have a world class and not just Florida class ride I don't get it?

It's been a long time since I've ridden Kraken and I've ridden a lot since, in fairness. But what I remember is a large B&M that's also very good. Very good in the same sense of being this varying thing that is exciting because of that. All the great coasters are so because are dynamic in some way - be that through forcefulness or relentlessness or pacing or whatever.
 
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