personally i fink it shoudl be zoladic man instead of wickerman but whatever aton towers killeed zodiacs twin brother so i have no respect for that place
What did Alton Towers do to you? Also, the amount of spelling mistakes you made in one sentence was so staggering that I’m not even going to bother correcting it.
Ruben: “Vekoma slc’s are so innovative for their time” B&M: “Am I a joke or you ??” Btw I do agree with most of this video and even tho 2 of the three slc’s I’ve ridden were rough, they weren’t to bad.
not the hyperia slander ;( ngl i have a rlly high roughness tolerance so Grand national, Infusion, Saw etc isnt that rough yes theres a shake also i got no rattle on hyperia
No both the SLC and Boomerang provide a decent ride experience. It's not going to be the smoothest ride ever. Keep your head back. The original SLC trains have padding and that really helps. SLC contains a series of unique inversions and a pacing that is great. Visually they are an eye catching coaster. Millennium was likely done with CAD, that is why so smooth. I am curious about the new boomerangs in China(the ones put up like 2010s). Are they smoother? maybe the cobra roll was smoothed out a little with CAD.
I do think some enthusiasts are kind of like those craft-beer fans who only want to drink the hoppiest IPAs. They've got one sensation they've decided is the good one and they disparage all the other dimensions of experience. But... I think I really didn't *fully* get the appeal of ejector air until I rode Superman: The Ride and Wicked Cyclone at Six Flags New England, both of which use it in extraordinary ways. Shambhala is a wonderful example of floater air, for the most part (there's one ejector moment right after the turnaround). Enthusiasts seem to value ejector over floater because they want the more intense experience, but B&M know that the general public love floater air, so they pile it on. Something I've been trying to figure out is the perception of roughness--there are coasters enthusiasts say are rough that feel perfectly smooth to me, and coasters they think are tolerable that I think beat you up to an unacceptable degree. I think it's that the kind of roughness I can't really stand is extreme jackhammering, like you get on a wooden coaster that's years overdue for a retrack. I can take some janky transitions because that was what I grew up with, riding the old Arrows at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Also, I'm tall enough that I don't usually bang my head on over-the-shoulder inversions, except in some extreme cases.
Vekoma was a go-to coaster manufacturer for Disney for the whole period between "old Vekoma" and "new Vekoma", and did a lot of good work for them. I'm old and can't take a lot of physical abuse, so I avoid all those SLCs and such that are reputed to be super rough. But I have ridden the Boomerang at Lake Compounce (Zoomerang). It's not that rough, and I think the thing that's underrated about Boomerangs is that they are pretty intense rides. I actually grayed out a little on the vertical loop. Enthusiasts are jaded about them because they're everywhere and they all have the same layout, but there was a reason for that--they were a way for even a smaller park to put a lot of thrills into a small space. It's an important niche filled earlier by Arrow corkscrews and Arrow or Schwarzkopf shuttle loops, and later by the small Eurofighters and the Premier Sky Rocket II. Vekoma did all right for the time.
The only one I'd fight you on is infusion as a rode it a few weeks ago and it felt like I went a round with mike tyson I was hit in the face that much and my back was tenderized easily second worst coaster in the uk
ive done 2 SLC and it just where you sit that determines the pain ive done 1 boomernag and never again ive also done millennium and it is sooo good, decently smooth and really fun layout also i agree with 90% of this video
Yes, infusion is so innovative for its time, you know, a time when over 30 SLCs with the exact same layout we’re built. In all seriousness though, I think you like old vekomas because they don’t have airtime
It is a great model, however the infinity coaster literally does what the eurofighter does but better. All the pros of the eurofighter apply to the infinity, with the added bonus of better capacity and smoothness
