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This ride defines a roller coaster and what a ride SHOULD BE!!! For its time, it was the single most viscious, wildest, and ground breaking coaster ever. Currently, it is the single most viscious (and still enjoyable), wildest, and ground breaking coaster ever. This ride takes what a wooden coaster CAN BE to the maximum, taking the simplisitic and pushing it further than ever. In my opinion, modern wooden coaster champs are still trying to live up to THE BEASTs style and power ... still using ideas from it and tricks it perfected. In fact, the only coasters that I feel compete with it are the steel coasters (which werent around when THE BEAST was built). I think that says it all ... everything about a coaster had to be rethought to even compete with THE BEAST and still, its new steel competitors just cant match the overall experience of the original.
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