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Yeah, but it still didn't take 45 minutes, although it certainly ate up the 10 minute Gold Pass headstart. This was weekdays 2004.

I don't recall loading being that slow, more just a case of with only 8 seats per train you'd think they'd really haul and they most definitely did not.
 
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That what I remember anyhow.....I only really remember riding it opening day and the weekend or two after. After that it seemed to always be down when we visited or we came later in the day and werent waiting in the extremely long line and we only were there on weekends. I do remeber getting a rollback once early on.....which took quite a while to reset.
 
I drove there a couple weeks of weekdays mainly to rope drop Hypersonic and ride it once most times. The thrill was entirely sufficient, including mental, without a wait. I can't imagine anyone finding it boring, or anything else that short even if it didn't do anything, which it most certainly did.

It was essentially replaced by Dominator, and if I had to make that decision I would in a heartbeat, but that's easier because I did get a fair number of rides on XLC and never would have waited through the usual ordeal again.

The only time I've considered that a ride was enhanced by a long wait was my first night ride on Alpengeist.
 
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Nicole said:
If you blinked, you could miss the entire ride. I have the same problem with Top Thrill and Kingda Ka.

They all look extreme and feel like nothing other than a stiff breeze.
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Ka's a vibrator machine also at the least!!!

Does anything impress you? Wow.
 
Rides like Hyper Sonic and Kinda Ka and TTD are certainly experiences.

But they aren't experiences, if you catch my drift. Like launching to that high a speed that fast is a thrill, and getting to that height is as well. But it's not a...how should I put this....the Top Hat is more a way to get your returned to the station as opposed to anything else. Even Storm Runner and Xcelorator can be viewed the same way. But Formula Rossa....that's an experience. It's got the launch with a full circuit of elements after that.

Like Beast is an experience. Volcano attempts to be that.

But XLC, KK, TTD are just an excuse for a record IMO.
 
Wow. So, yes. Lots of things impress me.

I am a B&M hyper fan girl. I love the stomach drop feeling I get from Nessie and used to get from Racer 75. I think Firechaser at Dolly is adorable. I miss Racer backwards.

I’m not sure why my expressing the opinion that coasters like Hyper Sonic are boring to me justifies that kind of dismissive attack.
 
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Nicole said:
Wow. So, yes. Lots of things impress me.

I am a B&M hyper fan girl. I love the stomach drop feeling I get from Nessie and used to get from Racer 75. I think Firechaser at Dolly is adorable. I miss Racer backwards.

I’m not sure why my expressing the opinion that coasters like Hyper Sonic are boring to me justifies that kind of dismissive attack.
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It was not intended as an attack. The claim was these rides "feel like nothing other than a stiff breeze" which is objectively and physically impossible. The airspeeds are that of a hurricane and the forces would require a tornado crossed with an earthquake. I understand that you probably just meant you are unimpressed with the experience, but it sounded to me like you're fighter pilot that routinely rides motorcycles at 150 MPH in crowded traffic when you're not climbing mountains with no equipment than a bag of rosin, and generally laugh at anyone that would exhibit the slightest fear during a theme park ride.

Thank you for the clarification. ;)
 
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It was not intended as an attack. The claim was these rides "feel like nothing other than a stiff breeze" which is objectively and physically impossible. The airspeeds are that of a hurricane and the forces would require a tornado crossed with an earthquake. I understand that you probably just meant you are unimpressed with the experience, but it sounded to me like you're fighter pilot that routinely rides motorcycles at 150 MPH in crowded traffic when you're not climbing mountains with no equipment than a bag of rosin, and generally laugh at anyone that would exhibit the slightest fear during a theme park ride.

Thank you for the clarification. ;)
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I said what meant. I make a point of being precise, when I express myself in writing. And I am not in the habit of making claims to appear cool or “unimpressed.”

I can have a different and yet equally valid experience from you.
 
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^^-- Well it wasn't a precise statement, it was an extreme exaggeration. While you did use the term "feel" and "stiff breeze" is not precise, it is still more or less description of objectively measurable physical quantities which contrasts sharply from the speeds and forces of these rides. It doesn't matter if you love or hate every second of it, it goes exactly the same speed. To claim otherwise sure seems like to me you were cool and unfazed. To simply say you were unimpressed or it's not your thing wouldn't have seemed like that at all, to me.
 
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I think I understand/understood what you meant. Probably. Obviously can't explain it. Was clever, even. Maybe. Not particularly useful to me, but then maybe, maybe that was also layered in there it wasn't supposed to be.
 
Anyways... Hypersonic!

There’s an old legend that the area around the coaster was closed off sometime one day around the 2004 season because part of a footer had pulled itself out of the ground. Anyone know if there’s any truth to this?
 
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