 Welcome back. In this video, I'm going to rank all of the launch coasters I've ridden to date from least favorite to most favorite. So if you're wondering why something isn't included on this list, I have not ridden it yet. As usual with these, this is a list of my personal rankings. Please note that these are not my rankings of the launches themselves, rather a ranking taking into account the whole ride experience. My personal least favorite launch coaster I've been on is Fire Chaser Express, which is a family tire launch Gerstlauer coaster, a Gerstlauer shuttle coaster actually, at Dollywood and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Of course, being a family coaster, this is pretty mild, although it's thrilling enough to really please the entire family and to have a really good time on it. It actually is by far one of the best family coasters I've been on, no doubt. And it's a very fun ride, but the launch itself doesn't really have much of a kick to it. It's just a simple tire launch to get the ride started. So that just comes in at the number 10 spot because of that. At number 9 is another family coaster that is actually surprisingly forceful. This is the Backlot Stunt Coasters. I've been on the ones at Kings Island and Kings Dominion. These opened during the Paramount days and these are really fun rides that initial launch into that Helix is surprisingly forceful and you actually gray out a little bit on that. That really took me by surprise the first time I rode one of these back in 2007. These are just really good family coasters, honestly. And that launch really has a kick to it. Number 8 is a ride that I actually like quite a bit. This is Wicked Twister at Cedar Point. This is an intimate impulse coaster that opened in 2002. Has an LIM launch. It launches you forwards and backwards, of course, with two huge twisting vertical spikes that stand 215 feet in the air. And I love sitting in the very back row on Wicked Twister. That way, when you go up the backwards spike, you just feel yourself twisting all the way up and you're just staring 215 feet down to the beach. And it's just a crazy experience. This is one of the coasters that still kind of intimidates me to this day. The anxiety of waiting for the launch and then feeling yourself propelled all the way up 215 feet in the air, staring down at the ground. It's just a very exhilarating experience. And I personally love Wicked Twister. It's a very fun ride. At number 7, we have the Flight of Fear Premier LIM Launch Coasters, which opened in 1996 at both Kings Dominion and Kings Island. I have not ridden the Kings Dominion one as it was closed when I visited the park, but these are both the same ride. They are those spaghetti bowl launch coasters that you'll find at parks like Six Flags America and Six Flags Fiesta Texas just outdoors. The Flight of Fear coasters are indoors, completely dark, and they have some theming in the queue line. It's actually pretty cool. And these are actually really good supporting coasters for their parks, in my opinion. These are intense rides. They have inversions, lots of twists and turns. You just have no idea where you're going to go next. They're honestly pretty cool rides. Very good supporting coaster, not perfect by any means, but they were very revolutionary when they came onto the scene. And they definitely paved the way for a lot of the launch coasters we have now. Number six is a coaster that I feels a bit underrated. This is Skyrocket at Kennewood, an LSM Launch Premier rides Skyrocket coaster. This has a launch of 50 miles per hour at the beginning, and it launches you almost straight up into a top hat. It's just really fun, has some great airtime moments, a really comfortable ride. And this is one that is super thrilling, but it's also not too intense to where some younger people might not want to try this out as one of their first launch coasters. It's definitely kind of sort of a middle ground coaster. It's very thrilling though, and definitely an awesome ride. Number five is one that a lot of people are probably going to say should be a lot higher on this list. But that's why this is a personal ranking. This is Top Thrill Dragster, the very intense hydraulic launch coaster that opened at Cedar Point in 2003. Second tallest coaster in the world, one of the fastest as well. This is the only hydraulic launch coaster that I've been on. And there is nothing quite like that launch. I mean, the launch itself is by far the best launch I've experienced. But as a whole ride experience, Top Thrill Dragster is extremely short, and it packs in a lot into that 17 second ride. But it is very short. So it is only my fifth favorite launch coaster. But none of the coasters on this list are bad by any means. From here, going forward, all of these rides are some of my personal favorite coasters. Number four is a new for 2019 coaster. This is Copperhead Strike, a mock multi launch coaster. This has two LSM launches. The second one is a booster to get you a little bit more speed to get through the cut back top hat type element. This ride has lots of hang time. The launches are fun. They're nothing crazy. It's more of a family oriented thrill coaster. It's definitely not a family coaster per se, but it does have some good kick to it. It has some amazing air time moments. It is a little bit whippy in some spots. And I absolutely adore Copperhead Strike. I love this ride. And I hope we see more of these mock multi launches come to the Cedar Fair Parks and just more come to America in general. These are really good rides. And it definitely makes me excited to get the time traveler eventually at Silver Dollar City. Number three is a Wayne Coaster at Holiday World, which is called Thunderbird. This opened in 2015. And this has an LSM launch. This is actually one of only two BNM coasters ever built currently to feature a launch. This has an LSM launch at the beginning of the ride. And this is by far the best Wayne Coaster I've been on. From what I hear, it's actually the best Wayne Coaster in the world, which I can definitely see that launch really gives it a good kick at the beginning. This ride's super fun, really smooth, has that awesome near miss element. It interacts with the voyage a little bit and goes out into the woods, has some really nice theming around it to Thunderbird is one of my favorite coasters. This is just a really good ride. Also take a look at my icon picture. Number two is one of my top 10 coasters that I've ridden. This is a really good really intense ride. This is Maverick at Cedar Point and Intamin multi launch Blitz Coaster. The first Blitz Coaster actually opened in 2007. It has an LSM lift hill to get you to the top very quickly. But then of course midway through the ride, you have a 70 mile per hour launch out of a tunnel. That launch is just crazy. It just whips you to the left and then you go up that hill over the water. This whole ride is just really intense. But the intensity really gets turned up when you hit that launch. I mean, it is just absolutely insane. That second launch is amazing on its own. But the whole ride overall is just full of amazing ejector airtime, really, really powerful. Lots of other intense moments really whippy transitions. And I love that intensity. I just I love Maverick and I believe all of the praise it gets. It's definitely worthy of that. Finally, coming to the number one spot, my personal favorite launch coaster that I've ridden is Lightning Rod. This of course is the only launched wooden coaster in the world. It has an LSM launch lift hill that gets you up to about 40 miles an hour. And this ride is probably the one that is least focused on the launch out of all these coasters on this list. That launch really at the beginning, it's really nice and it has it's actually fairly forceful too as you're going uphill. But the ride definitely isn't all about that launch. But the launch certainly helps the ride for sure. This is one of the most intense coasters I've ridden has tons of amazing ejector airtime as you would expect from RMC. It's a very smooth ride, really wild out of control. And there's really not much else I can say about Lightning Rod. You can go check out my Lightning Rod review along with reviews of many of the other coasters on this list. And by the way, if there is a coaster on this list that I haven't reviewed yet that you would like to see me review, let me know if you'd like to see that lightning rod definitely deserves the number one spot in my opinion. One of my all time favorite rides. Remember, these are all my personal opinions. 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