Like I mentioned last week, next up is the wooden rollercoaster called El Toro, which is Spanish for bull. El Toro opened in 2006 being the park’s newest rollercoaster, and it isn’t a traditional wooden rollercoaster at all. Instead of a chain lift, a cable lift is used to pull the train up the first hill allowing it to be pulled much faster and at a steeper angle. The ride doesn’t rattle and shake like traditional wooden rollercoasters, but is modernly smooth like most steel rollercoasters. Despite of its smoothness, El Toro is no dull ride. Instead its one of the world’s fastest, tallest and steepest wooden rollercoasters. It climbs up to 181 feet, plummets down 176 feet in a 76 degree sometimes reaching a max speed of up to 75 miles per hour.
El Toro is also known for extreme air-time, where the rides feel weightless due to negative g-forces, and for its several headchoppers present when it swerves around itself and Rolling Thunder. Due to the extreme air-time, El Toro has a much stricter policy regarding lap restraints and thus the waist size of passengers. Luckily a test seat is located near, where "guests of exceptional size" or nowadays more politically correctly "guests of unique body shapes" (I lost my poker face big time while reading that :D) can test whether they meet the requirements. All things considered I think El Toro is going to be one of my favorites, even though it doesn’t have any inversions. The truth might be just like the guy on the embedded video says: It’s almost even better than… sexual intercourse! (With a one-armed leprechaun :D) I can hardly wait =)!
El Toro is also known for extreme air-time, where the rides feel weightless due to negative g-forces, and for its several headchoppers present when it swerves around itself and Rolling Thunder. Due to the extreme air-time, El Toro has a much stricter policy regarding lap restraints and thus the waist size of passengers. Luckily a test seat is located near, where "guests of exceptional size" or nowadays more politically correctly "guests of unique body shapes" (I lost my poker face big time while reading that :D) can test whether they meet the requirements. All things considered I think El Toro is going to be one of my favorites, even though it doesn’t have any inversions. The truth might be just like the guy on the embedded video says: It’s almost even better than… sexual intercourse! (With a one-armed leprechaun :D) I can hardly wait =)!
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