Grizzly
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I'm excited - I think it's a relatively underrated ride experience, really love the forces around the lower turnaround bend.
I hope that the airtime hill right after the slow turnaround stays the same because that is one of the best airtime moments ever on a coaster.
Grizzly is cool because it feels like the ride is actively trying to kill you. I think it's great, but my friends disagree.
Grizzly at night is a prime example of the most fun you can have on a coaster, period.
considering what re-tracking did to the drop on Racer, I am no overwhelmed by confidence in this venture.
Totally disagree. Racer rides smoother than I’ve felt it in my lifetime thanks to Gravity Group’s work. I miss the steepness of the old first drop, but that steepness was tearing the ride apart and contributing to its roughness. I’ll take a slightly shallower drop in order to preserve the long-term longevity of the ride’s smoothness any day of the week.
This is great news! An elevated Grizzly experience will be really nice for KD. Two different times last season I saw riders get off bleeding from the roughness.
Bring on smoother night rides!
Bring on smoother night rides!
The blood is important.
Without the blood, the D̵͖̙̻̀̓é̸̗ͅe̸̫͆͜p̵͔̫̔ K̵͚̥͎̆͋̔ị̴͈̀n̵̞͔͑ģ̶̨͉͛—who lies asleep in his Dominion of pestilence—can no longer be sated.
All I will say is this: If Grizzly no longer draws the required sacrifice, do not go to Kings Dominion on a full moon. The blood will find its way to Ḩ̵̬̜͇̪̖̙̔́́̈́̽̀̂i̶̫͛̏͗͊̌́̚m̶̨̨͖͈͓̄̉͋.
It always does.
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This changes my single visit to the park with my daughter to later in the summer now. I want her to experience this.
Grizzly...night ride...can’t beat it. Please don’t ruin my baby...
They ruined Racer, they will ruin Grizzly. I suppose we should be happy they are not removing her.
They saved Racer from destroying itself constantly.
There’s not much appetite within Cedar Fair right now for attractions with high maintenance costs—especially when they have relatively low ridership.
Definitely be thankful that it still exists. I’ll take a less exciting drop on a still operating coaster over a coaster going the way of the dinosaurs any day.
There’s not much appetite within Cedar Fair right now for attractions with high maintenance costs—especially when they have relatively low ridership.
Definitely be thankful that it still exists. I’ll take a less exciting drop on a still operating coaster over a coaster going the way of the dinosaurs any day.
Of course, if they were to remove this one it'd open a crap-load of space... Not that I want them to remove Grizzly
They'd also likely lose what is left of the trees in that area that isolate Grizzly from the rest of the park.
Hopefully they won't mess with the drop as it is mostly or entirely not a problem. The ride took on a vertical oscillation or I call it a "pogo" starting late Oct. 2018 which, in particular, took the front row from buttah-smooth to one of the worst rows. I can't remember where all of the worst spots were, but know some were later in the ride, namely the second "out" section after the tunnel. This is the problem; it may only get partially fixed due to the amount of track involved.
The drop was fine imo. The single roughest spot was after the tunnel when the track began straightening out. Sometimes the train would feel like it hit something and threw you straight laterally to the right HARD.