The great challenge at Great Adventure is to keep the fun level up while keeping stomach content down. Not always an easy task when riding some of America’s fastest, tallest, or longest roller coasters.
With our “flash pass” we zoomed straight to the head of every line, saving 90% of the usual waiting time (or so they advertise to make you buy the pass which costs three times the value of the park entry ticket). More, we could go two rides back to back. Truly a stress test to my stomach!
We started off with the Superman ride. After being seated and strapped in the seat is tilted parallel to the floor (or rather the tracks since the “floor concept” is a rather vague one in a roller coaster). All you need to do is hold your fist out straight and you’ll fly like Superman!
The Green Lantern was next. Interesting since it’s a stand-up ride. It takes 2.5 minutes to travel the 154 feet (47m) tall green structure “including a 121-foot-tall loop, a 103-foot dive loop, a 72-foot inclined loop and twisted double corkscrews” at 63 miles (100km) an hour. My lesson learned: I can’t take too many loops!
With 128 mph (206km/h!), Kingda Ka used to be the fastest ride in the world before taken over by Ring Racer in Germany. The almost vertical track stands 456 feet (140m) high! Acceleration, up, down, back to start in 54 seconds! The ride is so fast that neither stomach nor brain realized they were upside down. All I could utter was: “What was that”?!
Different from the cushioned high tech rides are El Torro and Rolling Thunder, booth wooden roller coasters. The rides are rattly and shaky but awesome. Just like their structure!
After 21 rides on 11 different roller coasters and almost no food intake within our 10 hours of restless thrill-seeking I called it a day. I wonder if I’ll go to bed with “coaster legs” tonight.
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