"Are you ready to Roller Coaster?"

[coasterdude5]

Today my parents got the new Life magazine in the paper and I read the rollercoaster section. It mostly talked about Blue Flash and this years new attractions. These are the ones they featured

 

Kingda Ka

The world's tallest and fastest, period. Rockets from a dead stop to 128mph in 3.5 seconds, then shoots to a 456 ft. crest. Super-rider Steve Gzesh calls it a "one of the most exhillerating thrills around".

 

Sheikra

This "dive" coaster plunges riders 200 vertical ft. twists them through an inverted loop, then drops them another 138 feet into an underground tunnel. The finale? Riders shoot through a wall of water.

 

Hydra: The Revenge

You don't really ride Hydra, you dangle from it-through narrow canyons around zero G corkscrews into a sepintine "cobra roll". Paul Ruben, editor of Park World, raves, "The best of floorless coasters."

 

Powderkeg

They promise this ride is "family friendly", but you and the kids will still be pushing almost 4 G's, tilting through banked turns and rattling through three massive hills on this ride through the Ozarks.

 

Hades

this wooden-tracked rookie features a 140ft. drop and coasterdom's longest below-surface tunnel. Says Gzesh: "Some of the most extreme banking I've ever seen on a woodie."

 

To me this seemed like a Travel Channel show in a book. Anybody else seen it?

[PhishyBrewer]

Thanks! I'll have to pick that up.

[CoasterFanatic]

Paul Ruben, editor of Park World, raves, "The best of floorless coasters."

 

New coasters .... same crappy articles.

[vertgforces]

Sheikra

This "dive" coaster plunges riders 200 vertical ft. twists them through an inverted loop, then drops them another 138 feet into an underground tunnel. The finale? Riders shoot through a wall of water.

 

LOL rider shoot through a wall of water?!