Magnum XL-200 Reviews

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Let's see, they bombarded you with facts here. 205 ft tall. 194 ft drop. 72 mph. 2:47 sec from station to brake run. Line ranged from 25 mins to 45 mins, although at 9:30 the wait appeared to hit a hour from the back. Rode the back everytime. A bit of TPM with the lap bars...but I was able to keep them from crushing me most of the time. What is with the seatbelts? When I rode this the first year it opened...they didn't have them. Oh well...I loosened it to the max anyways. Really fun...especially at night. Highly recommended.

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If speed is what you need, this is it.

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New tracers on the lift hill. These are traditional flashing tracers, instead of the high-tech strobes from prior years. Let's take a survey: Do you prefer the old strobe tracers, or the new traditional ones? I'm not sure myself.

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I've seen the pictures [in "RollerCoaster!" magazine]. I've read the opinions. And now I've ridden it, close to 25 times over two days. It's funny; during the first ride I thought I was disappointed. I remember thinking "this drop isn't as long as I thought it would be". However, each ride after the first made the coaster seem better and better, and after about the fourth ride I was completely sold: Magnum is amazing! The two drops! The amazing float time on the hill before the turnaround! The turnaround itself!

The only weak point of the coaster in my mind is the abruptness of the "air time" on the bunnyhops back to the station. After only a few rides my thighs were killing me from being slammed into the lap bar. Come to think about it; the lap bars rachet down too easily, and the attendants were adamant about pushing them down. This coaster is a winner!

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Now, this is more like it! Thanks to a post from Dave Althoff, we headed for the third seat once we got into the station. (45 minute wait at 4PM, but looked like over 60 mins at 9PM). The big drops were good (and fast!), the high speed tunnnels were very disorienting to a first-time rider, and the hills heading back to the station gave massive pressed-against-the-lap-bar-for-an- eternity airtime.

Except for the long line and the damage we sustained on Mean Streak, we would have kept going back. Instead, we chose to keep repeating Gemini.

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Yahoo! The drop is still huge, the speed is fast. Still love the first seat best (for the view). Seems they've changed the tunnels in the last couple years...hardly any strobes, no fog. Did this really change or was it just today? There also seemed to be a little more airtime on the speed bumps coming back than usual, regardless of seat. One curious note -- the Magnum went down for about 20 minutes (running empty trains only) and I was on the last train before they started sending them out empty. I never did find out what the problem was, but we went through the pretzel turn V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y...didnt they have a problem with this when Magnum was first built? Last note: I think the loading platform is a zoo. Cant tell which line is which, or how many lines there are. Less people in the platform wont cause longer waits, you know!

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Only long line in the park (untill Mean Streak got long later on). Because fo the line I only got 3 rides. Front of second car (after dark), and two middles. Still a great ride, After dark I didn't hear the breaks going into the the pretzel but Since the people behind me kept gramming us and screaming I might have missed them. Did seem substantially faster on the loop and second half after dark.