 We have now officially seen the first test run of Candemonium, Hershey Park's new for 2020 Bolliger and Mabillard hypercoaster. Previously, this has been compared quite a bit to the last B&M hypercoaster that opened in the United States, which is Mako at SeaWorld Orlando, and they've been compared for very good a reason. And that got me to think, after I watched the testing footage for Candemonium, how it's actually gonna run when it opens. Because looking at the testing footage, this thing hauls. I mean, it just flies through the course. It just goes over the speed hill like crazy. There's that really cool outer bank turn, and it just snaps through that. The turnaround, I mean, it just powers through that turnaround. Basically, with this testing footage, the very first test run, this thing is just flying through the course at an unbelievable pace. But we know B&Ms, they always have those pesky trim breaks and everything, and of course everybody complains about those. They can be very annoying, you know, they can deaden some of the speed. They can make the pacing not that great. They kill some of the potential airtime that you can get. And here's the thing. Mako is widely considered to be one of the best hypercoasters out there. A lot of people consider Mako to be the best B&M hypercoaster in the United States, actually. It seems to be the overwhelming majority that believe that, or at least one of the very best. Candemonium has a very similar layout to Mako. And really quickly, I'm going to go over some of the stats comparing them. The stats don't give you the whole picture, but it does kind of give you a good idea of really how similar they actually are. Candemonium is 4,636 feet long, while Mako features a track length of 4,760 feet. So Mako is only 144 feet longer. Not much of a difference in length. Candemonium is 210 feet tall, while Mako is 200 feet tall and has a 200 foot drop. I don't see a specific drop statistic for Candemonium. I'm just going to assume it's 210 feet. It looks like it goes down that whole length, so we'll say it has a 210 foot drop. Candemonium's top speed is 76 miles per hour, while Mako's top speed is 73 miles per hour, so only a 3 mile per hour difference. So in looking at these stats, you can see a 3 mile per hour speed difference, a 10 foot difference in drop height, and only 144 feet of difference in track length. So statistic wise, these coasters are definitely right on par with each other. They also do both feature, it is worth noting, the classic B&M hypercoaster trains. It's not the staggered seating, it's the 4 cross, and they're both 7 car trains. I know there was some confusion when Candemonium was first announced because the animated renderings did show a 6 car train in those original animations, but it is a 7 car train as a matter of fact. So they both do have classic 7 car trains with 4 cross seating. Looking at the layouts, there's quite a few similarities as well. They both go down the drop, have an airtime hill right after that, they go through a hammerhead turn around, and they both feature a very fast speed hill around the middle of the ride as well. Some of the differences to note are Mako has more of an L shape layout because of where it sits. Candemonium basically just comes straight out and straight back. And also Candemonium does have that little twisted outer banked airtime hill there. It goes up into a helix and then it twists you into the opposite direction before banking you the other way. They do both feature kind of twister like endings, but Mako's is a little different. Candemonium it goes around that Kisses fountain, which doesn't appear to be complete yet in the test run video, but it will go around a fountain and then it goes up into a banked airtime hill and then up into the final brakes. Where Mako actually has a mid-course brake run, which Candemonium does not have. That's another notable difference. So after Mako's mid-course brake run, it goes up into one or two more airtime hills and then it goes into a small twisted section over the water. It kind of twists you around, skims the water, and then basically just rises up into the brakes. Candemonium it doesn't have a mid-course, but after the first part of the ride where it takes you out and then comes back and then it goes through that outer banked airtime hill, it has a regular airtime hill and then it goes through a low to the ground fast paced helix around that fountain and then it goes into a twisted airtime hill and then rises up into the brakes. Here's the point I'm trying to make here. I think that potentially Candemonium could be better than Mako. To me Mako actually looks to have a better, more well paced layout and I do believe the fact that Candemonium does not have a mid-course brake run is actually a huge advantage, but the real reason I'm making this video is as I mentioned in the test run footage, we see that Candemonium is flying through the course. Everybody's saying, oh wow, this is going to be absolutely phenomenal, which I agree. I think it's going to be a phenomenal ride, but I don't think the speed that we're seeing it fly at in the test run is going to be what it actually runs like when it opens. I actually looked at a video of Mako during its very first test run as well. Mako also flew like really hauled throughout its course on that very first test run and I know it's weird. Everybody's like, oh my gosh, it's flying in this test run. Just imagine how it's going to run when there's people on it and it's hot outside and you know, this and that. And it is kind of weird that it flies so fast during its initial test run. The thing is with Mako, like I said, it has a mid-course. The mid-course was not on during that test run that I watched. The trims were all off. There was no mid-course brake run, so it really did just haul through that layout. Candemonium is hauling through the layout as well on its very first test run, but I do believe there are probably going to be one or two trim breaks throughout the ride to slow it down a little bit. I don't think we're going to see it hauling like this. Now hopefully the pacing is better with Candemonium as a whole. I do think that Candemonium very well could have better pacing because it doesn't have that mid-course. Like I said, I think that's going to be a huge advantage that Candemonium is going to have over Mako. Even though Mako looks amazing, it just kind of dies after that mid-course. I mean, watching a POV after that mid-course, it just kind of dies off and it really sort of just crawls through the rest of the layout, especially that turn over the water. I was watching the test footage of Mako's initial test run. Even during that section, it was going really fast. But nowadays, looking at videos of how it runs and watching the POV, it really just kind of crawls over that section like it looks all right. It's unique, but it just doesn't have great pacing, it seems like. And I do hope that Candemonium will have great pacing all the way until the final breaks, and I'm pretty confident that it will because of the lack of the mid-course once again. But I also believe that what we see in the testing footage is not exactly a good representation of how the ride is actually going to run. Now, I would love to be proven wrong, so whenever Candemonium opens up, I'll be very curious to see how it runs compared to the testing footage, whether it's actually going to fly through the course like it does right now at such a rapid pace. In its test run, Candemonium held its speed so well throughout the entire ride. It basically looked like it just slammed into the brakes. I mean, it was still flying through that final helix and that final airtime hill. I'm really stoked for Candemonium, to be honest. I was supposed to be riding it in June. I don't even know if I'm going to be able to get to it at all this year now, but in any case, I'm really stoked to get to Hershey Park eventually and check out Candemonium. Diamondback at Kings Island, as a lot of you may know, is one of my personal favorite rides. I love Diamondback. I really can't get enough of that ride. Diamondback does also have a mid-course like Mako does. Diamondback also does have the staggered seating train, so I think that is a disadvantage for it in terms of pacing. I think that kills the pacing a little bit along with the mid-course. And even though I love Diamondback, the part after the mid-course brake run, it doesn't have the same oomph that the first half of the ride does. So in comparing all these hypers and their testing footage and just seeing how they run, I think there's actually a good chance that Candemonium could potentially take the title of the best B&M hyper when it opens, or at least take Mako spot. I know a lot of people consider Mako to be the best B&M hyper out there. Personally, I've only been on two so far, Intimidator at Carowinds and Diamondback at Kings Island. I love Diamondback. I was pretty underwhelmed by Intimidator because of all the trim brakes. But in any case, what do you guys think about this? Just take a look at the initial test run for both Mako and Candemonium, and just look at the differences. I did want to compare these two rides because they're both newer B&M hypers with very similar layouts. They both have the classic four-across seven-car trains, so they do have a lot of similarities. That's why I compared those rides, but it's just really interesting to me. What do you guys think? Do you think that Candemonium is really going to hold up compared to how it is running in the test footage? I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed when they go into it. They have these high expectations because of what they see in the test footage. Like, oh my gosh, just imagine how it's going to run when it finally opens. But like I said, I don't feel like that's a really good representation of it. Maybe you have different thoughts. Maybe I'm missing something here. Maybe Candemonium doesn't have trims. I'm pretty sure it's going to have trims in at least one spot. I'm pretty sure I saw that at some point. But what do you think? Do you think that Candemonium could potentially be the best B&M hyper in the United States at least? Do you think it could take Mako's spot? Let me know all that, and I'll see you guys next time. Make sure to like, subscribe, like my Facebook page, CoasterDaddy. Follow me at CoasterDaddyFish on Instagram, and I'll see you guys next time. This is CoasterDaddy. Bye.