 One of the things I really appreciate when a coaster can pull it off is a great ending to bookend the ride experience. Just like listening to an album with a final track that encompasses the overall listening experience and ties the work together nicely, a great coaster finale can really help to determine the overall satisfaction you'll get out of a certain ride. Great sequencing can help to separate a great ride from a truly world-class experience, and in this video I'm going to go through my favorite finales of the 98 coasters I've currently ridden. So if a coaster with a phenomenal ending is not featured here, most likely I have not ridden it, just like usual. These coasters are not ranked just in alphabetical order. Without further ado, here are my personal favorite roller coaster finales. Lightning Rod at Dollywood is an absolute powerhouse from start to finish. It's probably the best-paced coaster I've ridden. In fact, it just gets more insane right until you hit the final breaks. The finale of Lightning Rod effectively begins with the quad down as you're flying down the mountain, down four small dips getting great airtime, then you fly over a small bunny hop with a great headchopper, and then up into a very steeply banked turnaround where you get a nice pop of airtime once again before finally hitting the breaks. Magnum XL 200 at Cedar Point, the world's first hyper coaster. Now the finale on Magnum XL 200 has some really painful airtime. In my opinion, it's painful in the greatest way possible. The ejector airtime on Magnum's finale is just absolutely brutal. The airtime just gets stronger and stronger the closer you get to the final breaks. As you get ejected out of your seat on each triangular bunny hop, the wacky profiling on these bunny hills really makes for the strong airtime that Magnum is known for. And I still consider this ride to be one of the best that I've ridden. The whole ride is great, but the big return run with all of those bunny hops is what really makes this ride. Next is another coaster at Cedar Point, and this is Maverick. Maverick has relentless pacing from start to finish, a few moments of great airtime, and this awesome twisted layout ends with a really strong ejector filled bunny hop before you fly into the final breaks. There's also a stankle dive thrown in there which is just super whippy, and this is another ride where the pacing is just relentless so you're flying all the way until you hit those final breaks. Mystery Mine at Dollywood has a really fantastic ending. It's actually the best part of the ride by far. A lot of the ride is very dark ride oriented, and then you go outside and you have a few small dips, some turns, small bunny hop, but then you go up the second lift, and then you go down this great 95 degree beyond vertical drop, and then you fly up into two inversions, ending the ride. This finale is just so intense and whippy. By far the most intense part of the ride, and it's certainly a great surprise if it's something that you're not expecting. Phantom's Revenge at Kennywood is another ride that ends with a bang. It has some really great bunny hops that absolutely eject you out of your seat. This Chance Hypercoaster has a pretty short layout, but on the positive side, the pacing of this ride is great. You fly through those last few hills, and this has some of the most insane ejector air that I've experienced, as it absolutely just throws you out of your seat and then throws you back down. It's almost painful, but it's great. Phantom's Revenge is one of the best coasters out there, and the ending is certainly one of the biggest parts in that equation. Raven at Holiday World is a really interesting ride. Built in 1995, this is what put Holiday World on the map. The ending is just absolutely insane, as you go down a pretty big drop in the middle of the ride, and then you just fly through the woods. You go through a couple turns, pretty low to the ground, you're flying past the trees. The setting really, really helps this ride in maintaining its feeling of speed throughout. And what I love about Raven is how it's just relentless and just gets more wild the farther along you get into the ride. And for that reason, I love the ending of the Raven. I just love flying through the woods, hitting the final brakes with so much speed. It's just a really insane experience. And one that unfortunately gets really overlooked these days. Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point. There's not much to say about this one. That hasn't been said. Steel Vengeance has more airtime than any other coaster on the planet. I call the ending of this ride the airtime assault. You go through the third lap, and then you hit six tiny bunny hops in a row, and you're just flying. It seems like you don't even slow down at all, and you're just flying over these small hills. You get absolutely thrown out of your seat. Sometimes the lap bar will come down and staple you right at the end here, so do be aware of that. Otherwise, this ending is absolute bliss for anybody that's a fan of airtime. The Beast at Kings Island is a true icon in the roller coaster industry. It's known the world over for its very long layout. The longest wooden coaster in the world, as a matter of fact. Many people would say it is the best part of the ride, is that huge helix at the end. You fly through a tunnel as you traverse this helix. But as you go into the helix, you go down this very shallow drop, just gradually picking up speed, and then it just hits you. You get flung to the left, and you're just absolutely hauling throughout this huge helix. It's very intense. If you're not a fan of wooden coasters, you might not enjoy this. It's fairly rough, very wild, very out of control feeling, and I absolutely love it. The Beast has a truly fantastic ending. Even if you're not a big fan of the Beast, I think a lot of people can appreciate its finale. The last coaster I have on my list here is the Voyage at Holiday World. The Voyage does a remarkable job at keeping its speed throughout the course. It's over 6,400 feet in length. The second longest wooden coaster in the world, actually. And you're just flying throughout the whole thing. Voyage does not have a second lift hill like the Beast does, so it carries all of its momentum on gravity. So it's really impressive. This is a very brilliantly designed ride, where in the first half you're basically going up this 100 foot tall hill, but you don't realize it because of the way the ride is designed into the terrain. But then on the way back, you're basically going down this 100 foot hill. And so you're gaining speed the whole way. And it's just absolutely incredible. Gravity Group did an amazing job with this ride. So thankful that we have a ride like this. Because something like this will probably never be built again. It's just absolutely insane. It takes a lot of hard work to really maintain this. Holiday World does an excellent job doing that. The whole return run on the voyage, really, is what I'm considering for this, is just absolutely tremendous. This is something that every enthusiast should definitely try to experience at some point. Be sure to let me know your favorite coaster finales that you've experienced and tell me why. Thanks a lot for watching this video, and be sure to like if you enjoyed it as it really helps my channel out. If you want to give some extra support to my channel, be sure to check out my Teespring store, linked in the description, where if you order anything from now through October 17th, 2020, you can receive free shipping with the promo code CDRF2. Once again, thank you so much. This is CoasterDaddy. Bye.