Roller Coaster Reviews

October 2, 2012 8 Comments

Tennessee Tornado at Dollywood | Roller Coaster Reviews

I don’t think Dollywood’s Tennesee Tornado is very well-known even in some enthusiast circles. Maybe it’s because it has a

Top 3 Thursdays

July 7, 2011 22 Comments

Top 3 All-Time Favorite Roller Coaster Rides

Reader DC suggested I write the antithesis of Top 3 Worst Roller Coaster Experiences, my all-time favorite roller coaster rides.

Coasterology

May 9, 2011 11 Comments

Featured Photo #17 – A Picture Worth a Thousand Headaches

  When I took Busch’s Roller Coaster Tour, I got an up-close view of the cause of so many painful

Featured Photos

March 27, 2011 11 Comments

Featured Photo #12 – Arrow’s Looping Masterpiece Is Still a Thing of Beauty

Over thirty years since it was built, the Loch Ness Monster at Busch Gardens has to be one of the

Featured Photos

February 26, 2011 11 Comments

Featured Photo #8 – Time to Get Geeky

Deep within the bowels of the Loch Ness Monter’s lair I was able to snap this photo of one of the

Top 3 Thursdays

July 9, 2010 28 Comments

Top 3 Arrow Design Failures

For this week’s Top 3 Thursday, Aric Davis takes a look at Arrow’s three biggest design failures. Prepare for an

Roller Coaster Reviews

February 5, 2010 30 Comments

Demon @ Six Flags Great America | Coaster Reviews

A few years ago I ventured out to Chicago for a Six Flags Great America-Wisconsin Dells trip. The main attraction

Roller Coaster News

January 12, 2010 21 Comments

Best Steel Roller Coasters of 2009

Mitch Hawker has released the results of his annual Internet Coaster Poll. I’ll cover the wooden roller coaster results in

Defunct Roller Coasters

November 14, 2009 25 Comments

Arrow’s 700-Foot-Tall Fish-Hook Roller Coaster

Arrow’s 700-Foot-Tall Fish-Hook Roller Coaster I was recently contacted by a television production company doing research on roller coasters. They

Best Of

November 12, 2009 52 Comments

The End of the Record Breaking Roller Coaster Era

Have We Seen the Last of the True Record Breaking Roller Coasters? The recent announcement that Ferrari Experience’s F1 Coaster