Well everybody, it’s that time again, time for another award winning (but not really so don’t get any ideas) RCTview!
The ride I am choosing to review today is one of my personal favorites in a decent amount of time, the name: Collosus (although it should be spelled Colossus) Fire Dragon created by Weshowns. The name is of course, taken from the famous Shwarzkopf looping coaster at Lagoon, an amusement park in Utah, but the similarities stop there.
At first glance, you see a beautiful red Arrow coaster snaking through a tropical forest located on an island, creating a highly photogenic ride that’s easy on the eyes. At second glance, you can tell where the inspiration for the ride came from as it has the unique drop the likes of which were only found on the late Drachen Fire coaster at Busch Gardens Europe.
On to the in depth review! Coming off the lift hill, you go down a miniature steep drop that throws you, with decent speed too, into the dive loop which kicks the ride into gear. Following the dive loop plunge you are slammed into a very well paced vertical loop keeping you on your toes. After the loop, you make a quick ascent which if made in real life, would fling you out of your seat at the top in full force! Now it’s on to the 270 degree spiraling drop which keeps you off balance and wondering what the heck this crazy ride will do next. To keep up the ride’s blazing pace and pure insanity, Weshowns hits you with an airtime hill. I must say that airtime and inversions is a really good combination and he was very smart to take that from the Drachen Fire book (well and his own creativity). The ride is finally starting to hit its resolution as it throws you into one of its 2 corkscrews and snakes around the mysterious tropical terrain. The snaking is the part where you really get the feeling that while the end may still be near, this ride is still in control and you are subject to its will (alright that sounded pretty nerdy). Up and down a u-turn hill, and you go through the 2nd corkscrew and the ride’s last inversion. After a quick little twist the ride hits the breaks and your bout with Collosus Fire Dragon is over.
Now you may be wondering why I picked a decently small Arrow to review, and the answer to your question would be, ’simplicity.’ This ride is not a really flashy, “oh look at my pretend originality and Vegas editing skills” kind of ride. No, it lets its genius layout and great supporting do the talking for itself, the nice scenery was just a compliment to this stand out ride. It stuck to realism, but gave me element combinations that I had never seen before. Because of that, it earns nothing less than high approval from me.
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcztSSWnMig&feature=channel_page
Thread Link: http://rctlounge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3487
Nice song choice too by the way!
