neil009

^The one other place the back makes an appreciable difference is over that last sharp twist before the final airtime hill. It's downhill so the train has picked up more speed by the time you get to it and you get better whipping action.

It may get better as the season progresses. I couldn't even tell you what was the roughest part, everything between the first drop and the breaks was just seriously rattly. Again, center seats are much better, but it's still worth it to me to sit in the wings for the extra "flinging" action around the turns. So that should tell you it's still perfectly ride-able. I love listening to some of the reactions of people coming off of it... "That didn't feel safe to me AT ALL." "Those seats are really poorly designed." "It was horrible! You're only held in by your thighs!" "Never again... never again..." I love it, especially the ones who look all offended like the ride called them ugly or something.

(Forgot to mention, the revamped Hershey android app is amazing, best amusement park app I've used.)

Had a great time at opening weekend yesterday. Almost everything was either a walk-on or station wait both early in the day and in the evening. Got 8 laps on Skyrush, running one train all day, it's much rougher in the wing seats than last year, doesn't matter which row. One of the roughest steel coasters I've been on. Still not nearly as bad in the center seats, and still an amazing coaster. Fahrenheit was also rough and bumpy especially exiting the cobra roll. Comet had a couple extremely brutal moments early on. In contrast, I had one of the best rides on Wildcat that I've had in a long time. Everything else ran like always. Terrible ops on Great Bear and a couple other places, to be expected though. Not much to say about the new stuff, Cocoa Cruisers looks nice, like it's always been there. First time eating crab fries... they were pretty awful. Also, 8.29 for one serving (!), it's a huge serving though and you won't want to finish them anyway. Maybe they just dumped too much of the seasoning on.

The difference is that Skyrush and El Toro hit their maximum of 80 degrees in probably 60-70 vertical feet or so, whereas I305 probably takes closer to 120-130 feet to hit its max (which isn't much steeper). It's still a hell of a crest, and I'm not knocking it in the least, but it definitely doesn't have the insane whip that the other two have - especially when you're sitting in the back car of Toro. Now that's a drop. According to Wikipedia, Skyrush hits 85° as well. RCDB seems to agree. It's just as steep as I305.