And that's where you're wrong.... brilliant ride. During the day it's probably my number 2 or 3, but at night it's a different beast, and for that reason it takes my number one spot overall. The airtime is great throughout the entire layout, the laterals are vicious, the roughness is just enough to make it more intense without detracting from the ride experience, the pacing is nearly perfect, and the terrain interaction puts it on another level. Just a purely fun ride worth every ounce of credit that it gets. Unfortunately it seems to be very underappreciated with certain communities, but I strongly stand by my opinion that it is in the top tier of roller coasters worldwide.
To be honest, I can see where he's coming from. I did ride the coaster a few years back but that was before the retracking of the element that made the ride the best in the world at the time. Taking that away can change things.
). But the ride has not aged well, which is not a good thing when bigger and better things come along.
I mean.. getting tired of something shouldn't diminish how good it is. I've ridden MF some 500+ times and I still think its a great ride. The ride not BEING good or getting worse should make it fall.
I haven't ridden it yet, but this is why I might not place Boulder Dash as high. (Just trying to keep the convo alive
) If a coaster gives better rides at a different time of the day, then it doesn't make the cut as a "Best Ever" coaster. Rides for me like Expedition GeForce and Lightning Rod will perform like they always do no matter when I ride. I want to have a guaranteed good ride.
I was not referring to the CF community as it is very well liked on here, however it seems that with the younger crowd on Instagram there appears to be very little respect for such a classic!That being said, I totally disagree with your latter statement. Boulder Dash was universally loved around CoasterForce from 2007 until RMC started to dominate around 2013. A lot of members would have it in their Top 10 or #1 in some cases (I still claim to be the first CFer to have it at #1..
I haven't done Boulder Dash at night, I imagine it is much more exciting than daytime, but that's not really fair to assume it's "not very good" during the daytime. It's still a quality ride no matter what, even if it's no longer one of the best imo.
Huh? I got back on Boulder Dash on Saturday and it only further solidified it as my number one. Most of my rides have come in 2016-2018, but I did ride it in 2013. 2013 was before I had experienced very many roller coasters, so my memory of it has faded a lot, but my rides in 2018 have definitely shown that if anything, Boulder Dash has improved over the past three years. Also, really going to need to disagree with you about the reprofiled section. The revised hill going into the double up gives basically three seconds of flojector airtime. It is also hitting the brakes A LOT harder than previous years, so I take that as another sign of it running a bit faster (although the brake run may have been edited after the crash). The entire return trip though is giving one of the most relentless sections of airtime that I have ever experienced.
The new section is still quite good and has the airtime that you'd expect, but I preferred the quick intensity of the original three pops. It was a great finale to the ride. And aesthetically, the new wood sticks out like a sore thumb and messes up the consistent color/shade of wood.
