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Vekoma SLC's - Europe Only

CoasterNostalgie

CoasterNostalgie

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Hello! I am so extremely curious about the subject of Vekoma SLC's and I would love to hear anything you know about the models in Europe. I've only found rankings about American SLC's but now I want to collect some information about the European ones! I want to know how they feel - individually and compared to other ones. Tell me anything you have from experience or from what you know about European Vekoma SLC's.

The ones I am mostly curious about are Toxic Garden, Jaguar, Titánide, Vampire and Condor. But I will be super interested about any other ones you've tried!
Plus - if I've already ridden the Blue Tornado at Gardaland and found it traumatizing do you have any idea how the others compare to it?

It might sound crazy but I sometimes have a dream of building one of those coasters in my home city. I have only ridden one and I purely hated it but there is something that makes me very intrigued, this huge curiousity about those models. They are such and old vibe and so nostalgic.
 
They are horrible, pure torture, and should be torn down. They are all bottom tier with a few exceptions:
Mayan and Jaguar have the best restraints and are therefore a tiny bit less bad.
Condor is bottom of the bottom tier, even with new trains.
 
I’ve only done Infusion at Blackpool Pleasure Beach of the standard 689m models, but that is truly the bottom of the barrel and deserves every ounce of criticism it gets; it really is vile, and so, so rough!

I’ve also done Kumali at Flamingo Land, however. Kumali is a Shenlin model, and that was genuinely not bad at all; it’s a bit rough in places, but nothing terrible, and it actually has a relatively good layout with some fun bits! It’s not an absolute favourite of mine, but it’s not that rough at all and is certainly a fine, if not mind blowing, ride!
 
There is definitely some variation in quality between them. I haven't found them all to be dreadful, but most are at least a bit unpleasant.

I genuinely like Kumali. I think it rides well and has a nice layout (albeit short) with good inversions. Of the standard SLCs in Europe, I enjoy Roller Coaster Mayan the most, due to a mixture of relatively decent tracking and vest restraints.

Regarding the ones you asked about, I haven't ridden Jaguar or Titánide so I can't comment on them. I rode Toxic Garden back in 2012 when it was Limit, and I found it to be awful even by normal SLC standards. Worse than Condor, but that too was pretty bad. I haven't done Condor since it received the vest restraints, but I'm not sure I'll ever bother re-riding it with how much else there is to do at Walibi Holland. Vampire is the fairly normal level of SLC unpleasantness in my experience; not too bad if you hold your head to one side, but hardly much fun.

I personally thought Blue Tornado was fine but I'm aware that does not align with the consensus take at all; I think it's generally considered one of the worst SLCs.
 
I rode Toxic Garden at Heide a couple weeks ago and thought it was just fine. As a rollercoaster experience discounting any theming elements, I enjoyed it more than anything at Hansa Park the next day. But I did ride the front seat every time and I've not ridden a single other SLC anywhere else.
 
I've only done Infusion and Mayan, and honestly very different rides lol. Infusion is utter torture and everything wrong with Vekoma. Restraints that give you whiplash, heavy hard padding, and awkward transitions. Mayan is not butter smooth but feels a lot more refined. The restraints are good and the roughness is only a small fraction of Infusion.
 
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