I enjoyed watching  and episode about #Xtremewaterparks today. They even had a coaster enthusiast named Gavin wearing a X-Ray Vav t-shirt while he rode the ride with a treacherous lift hill - Iron Rattler. Gavin is the name of the main character in my book "Xtreme Ride Wish: An Untwinnable Day."

Anyway, the ride had a 170 foot drop at 70 mph, along with a barrel roll. Gavin described it as "faster than gravity." "I feel like I went to the moon," he stated when the ride was over.

One girl, in describing the descent said, "I felt like I was facing the ground."

In the same episode, they featured Taiwan's Gravity Max, which is the world's first and only tilt coaster. It has a 114 foot lift hill, after which the track separates (becomes open-ended) from the lift hill and tilts toward a 13 story drop.  "You can see for miles,"said one rider, before they dropped. When the locks release, people free-falls and then blast into an underground tunnel. After that the ride moves up a vertical climb and then does a double helix.

Apparently you can see the entire park and all of its rides when you are at the top of the lift hill. Adrenalin junkies, apparently love this ride.

Then they featured the hypercoaster named Mamba, which is on the 235 acre Worlds of Fun Theme Park in Kansas City. This ride, named after a fearsome and fast highly poisonous snake, had a 205' drop straight down at 75 mph. (manager is Brandon Stanley).

Crystal James and her daughter (Arianna) love roller coasters, and Arianna rode the Mamba with her mom. They were in the front car, something the daughter had never experienced.

In Madrid, Spain there is the Parque Warner Madrid. With the pulse-racing collection of rides. Superman is a floorless coaster that some college students, described as coaster enthusiasts, prepare to ride together.
"There's no turning back," stated one girl.

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