SkyRush!!

This is what I like to hear! Do you mind if I ask you how tall you are? If so, no worries, just curious as I am righttt at the height limit, and it might hurt my legs bc I'm so tall.

Either way, STOKED to hear you enjoyed it! I just want to taste that drop!

I am 5"11. The drop is great but after the drop is when the fun and intensity really kicks in!!! Get an end seat in the back and try to keep those arms up,lol.

Leviathan has been my most anticipated coaster of the 2012 class. After reading these contradicting reviews, Skyrush has moved up to #1 on my priority list. I can't wait to judge for myself.

Leviathan was a fast and fun coaster but can not match the intensity of an intamin machine.Skyrush is an airtime machine with lots of intensity!! Goliath at Laronde was even better than Leviathan.Don't get me wrong,Leviathan was a great coaster but just a bigger version of all the other B@M hyper coasters.

chitlins73 said:

I am 5"11. The drop is great but after the drop is when the fun and intensity really kicks in!!! Get an end seat in the back and try to keep those arms up,lol.

Are you a masochist??!! LOL! Do so at your own risk... You have all been forewarned NOT to put your hands in the air. The ejector time is not like Nitro or ET where you have this great floating feeling. It's more like "Sh#$! I'm falling out and going to die!"

But to each his own...

Jen

Why do I suspect this will be getting the trim brake treatment that I-305 did.

Eric_Gieszl said:

Why do I suspect this will be getting the trim brake treatment that I-305 did.

If by I-305 treatment you mean trim the ride horribly to get through the first year, make modifications in the off season, and re-open the ride in the second year sans said trims... then yeah, I can see that.

From what I hear, and I don't mean on fan sites, Hersheypark truly does not want to slow the ride down. I think restraint modifications are in the works, but I don't think you'll see a change this year. The change really needs to be significant enough that it will require the ride to be closed when they do it.

I've heard others say that Hershey would be able to make modifications during the season and it wouldn't take all that much effort, just slight changes to the lap restraint.

I'm not one of those who has to ride it the 1st year just for the sake of riding it before it's changed. I just want to ride an enjoyable/fun coaster.

I was thinking of going at the end of September, assuming that by then they might have tweaked at least 1 of the trains. BUT if I go this year, I can't next year. And will Knoebels open the Flying Turns this year? So if I wait until 2013, then I'd have an improved Skyrush & another new one.

But can only do 1 trip next year and was hoping to do a Cedar Point/Canada's Wonderland visit.

First world problems, I know. but I want easy decisions. LOL

Rode this 3 times now. This is as close to perfection as it gets. The first time was actually very disappointing. I can only compare it to my only time on Top Thrill Dragster. The power, intensity and speed was so overwhelming that the ride didn't even register. Both rides left me in a daze. You need to be mentally prepared for what is about to happen on Sky Rush and slow things down in your mind. When that happens, Sky Rush is roller coaster Nirvana.

How were the "switches"? A lot of the new Intamin rides...I305 and especially Maverick, and kind of at the very end of Stormrunner...do these snappy "switches" from left to right...they tend to give the neck a good tweak if you're not ready for them.

I watched a POV video of SkyRush and the transitions didn't seem that severe, but those videos never do it justice. Just wondering if it would give someone with a sore neck any issues.

glad you enjoyed it! I certainly did I plan on making another trip in late August and try to ride it at night and see if the restraint system changed