I haven't seen your review of Hyperion(if you have done one) so I'll ask here.
As good as the ride is, and yes it's very good, likely a top 20 or 30 ride for me. I found the shuffle/roughness from the floater hill onwards to really detract from the experience. To the extent that I spent more time thinking about the roughness than the rest of the awesome layout.
Now this is likely a train issue as when I first visited I had a few amazing rides which could have wormed it into the top 10, but more than likely high in my top 20, but then they removed a train and all subsequent rides had this shuffle.
Clearly you had some amazing rides but what makes you think it's better than a few incredible ride experiences such as Taron, Helix and Zadra?
I haven’t written a review yet. But here’s the thing, I’ve been at Energylandia for 4 days now, (with good company I might add) and for the first 2 days, the weather was lovely, the park was busy, and I was really struggling to decide which of the 2 big rides in the park I preffered. Hyperion was fast, full of ejector, and buttery smooth, to the point of me actually questioning the sanity of those who I’d seen say it was a bit shakey.
At the end of the second day, I finally settled on Hyperion. That was the evening I posted here, and in the Zadra thread.
Now here’s the crazy thing, the next day the weather turned, it was colder and windier, the park was quieter, and they were not sending the one train in operation as quickly as the previous days. After my first ride on Hyperion, I came off and said straight away to
@pvnks did that feel rough to you. Because it seemed a world apart from my previous 2 days full of rides on it.
I don’t know if it was the weather, which was my immediate suspicion, or just that we had been lucky to have a ‘good’ train on the first 2 days, and now they were only running the ‘bad’ train. I don’t know what it was to be honest, but to me it felt much more shakey. I repeatedly said to Pvnks, that it was so much rougher.
Long story short, now after a further 2 days riding, I’m really torn between which of the 2 I prefer. It’s such a close call between Hyperion and Zadra that even after 4 days, I can’t really call it. But one thing’s for sure, they sure are lucky to have both of these rides in their park over there, and to think this park is only going to get much more in the very near future is just mind blowing.
As for preffering both over Taron and Helix, that’s an easy choice. Helix somewhat dissapointed me, I mean it was great, excellent in fact, but I just did not enjoy it nearly as much asI enjoyed Taron. It seems to lack force sometimes, and there are too many things about it that, to be honest, just piss me off. The long queue line, the escalators, the slow launch, the seat belts on restraints, the reride policy (yes I know this is common, but I’m comparing it to Taron, on which I’ve been allowed to sit on the same train, for an hour at a time, several times.)
So Taron beats Helix for me, and Hyperion, well, Hyperion just does some of my favourite elements of Taron, to an absoloutely insane level, and I’d take that drop in the back row over a second launch on Taron any day.
Edited to add: I forgot to say, after 2 more days of riding Zadra, I’d now put that above Taron too, it really is incredible, ‘that turnaround’ and ‘that hill’ that really annoyed me the first few rides have been really delivering more how I expected them to the last 2 days too. So it’s just Zadra and Hyperion I’m torn with... I’m so useless, 4 days and I still can’t decide ?
