 I'm back from riding Velosa Coaster, and I just have to say that ride is, in my opinion, the best roller coaster in the world. And I do not make that statement lightly. I've had the opportunity to ride some of the best roller coasters in the United States of America. Okay, my top five is filled with the likes of Fury 325, of Maverick, of Steel Vengeance, El Toro. I mean, the fact that Velosa Coaster tops each of those rides, I'm beside myself right now. The storyline and the build-up and the anticipation coming into the attraction, the brilliance of the queue line and having the first part of the queue line actually weave underneath the second half of the coaster, where you in full view can see the top hat and the screaming riders coming down the top hat and have the ride of their life. To the operations, I mean, the operations were pretty much incredible. Speaking to one of the staff members, they looked to have a train out every 50 seconds. But this coaster is just immaculate. The first half was incredibly surprising. I knew the second half would be great, but the first half was incredibly surprising. The first half of this roller coaster is world class, in my opinion. The moments of airtime on that first half were downright surprising. Coming out of the launch and into the second Imelman, coming out of that Imelman, the airtime, especially in the front row, was incredible. In the back row coming off the top hat, the airtime was absolutely insane. And the Mosasaurus roll is what they're calling the heartline roll. That Mosasaurus roll was 100% stunning. The forces involved on that element are absolutely ridiculous. After riding that element, I completely understand why Intamin had to remove the heartline roll on Maverick. Because man, that heartline roll, that Mosasaurus roll was balls to the wall insane. You literally feel like you are going to be ejected out of your seat and into the lake that is central to Islands of Adventure. I mean, it is insane. And then coming out of that, the two pops of airtime coming into the brake run are absolutely insane. This entire ride, you literally feel like you are going to be thrown out of your seat. The collection of ejector airtime on this roller coaster is better than any roller coaster that I've been on and that includes steel vengeance. And the positive Gs on certain elements of the ride from the pullout of the top hat to the pullout of the second inversion in the first section of the ride, absolutely incredible. The launches, while not as forceful as some, those launches were still fairly forceful and incredibly thrilling. I especially enjoyed the second launch coming into that going about 40 miles per hour and leaving the tunnel going 70 miles per hour. An incredible experience. When you when everything comes together, you have this incredibly well themed attraction. Every element of the coaster was incredibly well thought out. The pacing is immaculate. This is a true masterpiece of a ride. Universal creative Islands of Adventure and Intamin absolutely knocked this ride out of the park. And real quick, can I give the train design a shout? Those restraints are perfect, incredibly comfortable and they hold you in enough to hold you in but you're still incredibly free. Now it's time to rank Velocicoster. So I rank coasters based on eight categories and when it's all said and done I'll take my score from each of those categories out of ten and I'll get a final average and this is how I score the coasters. So let's go to first impressions. So on a first impression basis, this coaster is absolutely incredible. The build up that takes place when you see other riders on the coaster screaming by, it's like nothing else. Some of the best roller coasters in the world do not give the rider the experience and the benefit of being able to see other riders screaming by. So that is beautiful. If I could give a coaster higher than a ten for first impression and the experience leading up to getting on the ride, I would certainly do it. For this ride I'm giving it a ten out of ten. The next category that I look at is smoothness. Now this ride is incredibly smooth, brand new, built by Intamin, well profiled. My only nitpick is there did seem to be in parts of the ride a very slight vibration. Now I think, I'm not 100% sure, but I think this is because the wheels haven't been perfectly broken in yet and sometimes different wheel materials can impact the vibration that is experienced on the ride and I believe that as the coaster continues to run and as the wheels continue to be broken in on the ride, I believe the ride will only get smoother. This is by far the smoothest Intamin that I've been on. To let that speak for itself, it's much smoother than I-305. It's much smoother than Maverick and it's incredible. So I'm giving Velocicoster a 9.5 out of 10 on smoothness, intensity. This coaster is absolutely intense. It's absolutely extreme, but it's not quite Intimidator 305 extreme and that actually might be a good thing. Just to add on that Mosasaurus roll, absolutely balls to the wall insanity. But for intensity, I'm going to give it a 9.7 out of 10 on intensity as far as pacing. This ride is immaculate and again that's my favorite word for the review immaculate but this ride is absolutely immaculate when it comes to pacing. Not to mention that those two launches do so much to add to the pacing of this roller coaster. Needless to say, I'm going to give pacing a 10 out of 10. Airtime. The airtime moments on this ride are incredible. This ride in my opinion and maybe only second to Steel Vengeance, this ride has one of the best collections of airtime that I've ever experienced on a roller coaster. The one thing that I wish this coaster had that it doesn't is it doesn't quite have a moment of sustained flowjector to ejector airtime similar to the airtime hill on Maverick which is amazing. That's just nitpicking. And for that I'm going to give the airtime a 9.9 out of 10. For creativity, this ride is absolutely phenomenal. What an experience. For the creativity of the element, each of these elements were so beautifully done. These elements are unlike any other coaster that I've had the opportunity to ride. I'm giving this ride a perfect 10 out of 10 for creativity. As far as design, the overall ride design, this ride was so well designed. Even the timing and the operations, I mean they're cranking out vehicles. One thing I love about this coaster over Steel Vengeance is the operations for Steel Vengeance can be slow at times, but this ride they try to get a vehicle out every 48 seconds. And I really appreciate the fact that they want to get as many guests through the line as possible. That shows that the park values the time of their guests and really wants their guests to experience this ride for themselves. And that's why I'm giving the design a 10 out of 10. Last but not least, effectiveness. This ride is incredible. I define effectiveness as that feeling that you get when you come into the brake run and you wonder what in the world just happened. And this ride does not disappoint. I mean coming out of the Mosasaurus and into the next two successive airtime moments and then into the brake run, I could not stop laughing hysterically. And this wasn't just the first ride. Each and every successive ride on this ride did not disappoint. This ride gets a perfect 10 out of 10 on effectiveness. So when taking all of the scores and averaging them together, Velocicoster gets a 9.89 out of 10. And that is amazing because it slightly edges out my previous number one roller coaster in the world, Steel Vengeance, which had a 9.85. Goodbye Steel Vengeance. Hello Velocicoster. You are my new number one. This has been Dustin with Amusement Insiders. Thanks for watching and see ya.