I literally just got back from riding this thing 20 times( Is Funtown always this dead on a Sunday??, if so I am going more often. Every ride was a walk on, including this one!), and I rank it atop all other woodies in NE except the awesome Boulder Dash. The first drop is excellent, with great airtime in the back, and the second and third drop are great as well, with a good headchopper effect on the latter. After a low airtime hill, you head back up for the most interesting drop..................a short 35 footer that seems to twist a bit to the left on the way down. Next you hit two small but fairly intense helices, followed by a short dip and rise up to the brake run.
For a park that is little more than a glorified fairground, this thing is a grand slam. The back seat is definitely the money seat, keeping your rear end off the seat all the way down, and you get some great laterals in the high turnaround before the second drop. Definitely worth checking out of you are up in this area, especially if the park is dead. In a busy day, however, be advised that there is only one train, so the wait could be unpleasant. They have the drop listed at 80 feet, but the lift is 100, and the drop travels to the ground, so it has to be more like 95....with the second being in the mid 60s. The rest of the ride hovers in the 35-40 foot range, tucked in a pine forest...giving the coaster a surprisingly woody setting considering it is located just off a busy highway and near the ocean. I liked it, and will defnitely hit it again before the season ends. How this great CCI coaster ended up here and not at Canobie Lake or SFNE is baffling.
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