After that twist, the train goes through a small section of straight track once again, then drops to a non inverting loop, but the loop isn't what impressed me, it was the drop into the loop that did. Your body separates from the seat, and it seems like the only thing stopping you from falling is the comfort collars. By then, the ride crawls through a small straight section before going through an inline twist, which in my opinion, is the best moment of hangtime I've ever experienced. You go up the track facing forwards, go down backwards, and then the ride gets intense, as you go high up the track facing forwards, drop down, experiencing floater airtime, and gather enough momentum to go to the top of the coaster. Once the ops check the restraints, you are launched forwards and go up a bit, then come down again. Once the wait is over, you proceed to sit down on the train, put on the comfy lap bars, and the maligned comfort collars, which in my opinion, aren't that big of a deal.
To ride this ride, riders enter an unthemed queue with generally short lines, but long wait times because of the slow operations. Maybe it's not the greatest ride ever, but the thrills it managed to fit in such a small layout are pretty unbelievable to me. In my opinion, this ride is one of the best coasters ever created. 150 foot tall ride with huge inversions and launches. This is when they added Electric Eel, a Skyrocket II clone, a huge step up from the family rides they had been adding the last 10 years. Then, enter Blackfish, and with all the protesters that surrounded the park every day, Seaworld was forced to change their image from a zoo to a thrill park. The park's future looked to stay that way for a while, maybe Seaworld would've added one or two rides every 5 years, but the park was always gonna be more of a marine park. it was the birthplace of the original Shamu, it was the first park to remove their orca shows, heck, it was the first park in the Seaworld chain. This park has always focused more on conservation efforts and animal shows. Seaworld San Diego is obviously the least roller coaster oriented park in the Seaworld chain.
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