Review: Time Traveler at Silver Dollar City Bobbie May 7, 2018 Roller Coaster Reviews, Steel Roller Coaster Reviews 5 Overview Advertised as “a revolutionary coaster ahead of our time,” Time Traveler at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO is indeed a groundbreaking/trailblazing phenomenon. The new coaster from Germany’s Mack R... Read More...
10Superior Review: Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point John May 4, 2018 Hybrid Roller Coaster Reviews, Roller Coaster Reviews, Steel Roller Coaster Reviews 15 It has been exciting watching the construction of Steel Vengeance as it transformed. From a lame-duck, once record-breaking wooden roller coaster, the former Mean Streak has come out of it's wooden an... Read More...
Review: Twisted Timbers at Kings Dominion Bobbie April 19, 2018 Hybrid Roller Coaster Reviews, Roller Coaster Reviews, Steel Roller Coaster Reviews 6 Overview Twisted Timbers at Kings Dominion in Doswell, VA is the reincarnation of The Hurler, a lumbering wooden coaster well past its prime. It’s the latest RMC (Rocky Mountain Construction) makeover to open... Read More...
Review: Hydra the Revenge at Dorney Park Eric March 5, 2018 Roller Coaster Reviews, Steel Roller Coaster Reviews 6 In May of 2016 I visited New York with my parents for the purposes of seeing the Yankees take on my Chicago White Sox in the Bronx. I insisted that on this visit, we make the 2-hour drive west to Allentown, Pen... Read More...
Review: Wicked at Lagoon Bobbie January 8, 2018 Roller Coaster Reviews, Steel Roller Coaster Reviews Overview Wicked is a Zierer LSM launched steel coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah. Opened in 2007, it operates with six trains consisting of two rows seating four across for a total capacity... Read More...
Review: Vortex at Carowinds Joel January 4, 2018 Roller Coaster Reviews, Steel Roller Coaster Reviews 1 Vortex represents an era of roller coaster history. The Bolliger & Mabillard-designed ride opened in 1992 back when the novelty of riding a roller coaster while standing was still relatively new. Today, the... Read More...
Review: sooperdooperLooper at Hersheypark Jon January 3, 2018 Roller Coaster Reviews, Steel Roller Coaster Reviews 3 Back in 1977, the first looping roller coaster on the East Coast was about to open at Hersheypark. However, it lacked one key ingredient: a name. Bruce McKinney, the park's General Manager at the time, had narr... Read More...
Review: Tempesto at Busch Gardens Williamsburg Bobbie January 2, 2018 Roller Coaster Reviews, Steel Roller Coaster Reviews Overview Tempesto at Busch Gardens Williamsburg is by no means unique. It’s the second installation of the Premier Rides Skyrocket II coaster. The same model operates at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom as Superm... Read More...
Review: Jet Star 2 at Lagoon Bobbie January 1, 2018 Roller Coaster Reviews, Steel Roller Coaster Reviews Jet Star 2 is a steel family coaster located at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah. One of two Schwarzkopf coasters in the park (the other is Colossus The Fire Dragon), it initially operated at the 1974... Read More...
Review: Carolina Goldrusher at Carowinds Joel December 31, 2017 Roller Coaster Reviews, Steel Roller Coaster Reviews 2 Located in the Carolina Boardwalk area, Carolina Goldrusher is a steel mine train roller coaster that debuted during the park's opening year in 1973. As you'd find on any mine train coaster, it features locomot... Read More...
