 When I visited Carowinds recently, I decided to start my day off by riding Nighthawk as it is located at the very front of the park. You walk straight through the entrance and then you come up on Nighthawk. Looks absolutely beautiful. Has a really nice blue and yellow paint job. It's over the water. It looks great. So I get in line and this is the longest line I waited in during the whole day and a half. I went to Carowinds and I believe it's mostly due to operations and I believe it's the restraint system that causes the line to be so long, not necessarily due to popularity. And also somebody threw up in one of the trains before me, so they had to clean that car off and run that around empty a couple times as well, so it ended up taking longer. But anyway, onto my experience with Nighthawk. I was actually really excited to try this ride. It's my first Vekoma Flying Dutchman. Obviously, this is a pretty rare model now. There's only one other one currently in operation and I was really disappointed that I never got the credit of X-Flight at Giago Lake and then I also missed the credit when it was Firehawk at Kings Island. But talking about Nighthawk specifically, I'm going to start off by breaking the ride down a little bit going through the POV. So you start laying down, so you go up this lift hill. You're facing up. It's really awkward. Staring at the Sun. Then you go down this dip and then it flips you around. This is the light to fly, so now you're in the flying position and you go down this first drop. It's pretty much, a lot of this rides over the water, so like I said, it looks really nice. Go around this overbank turn here. Another turn where you flip around and then you go through the vertical loop. Now this ride is really intense. I got to say, I was not expecting all these positive Gs. This is a really intense ride. You flip back around into the flying position here. It's easy to see what's coming when you're watching the POV, but when you're actually on the ride, it's a lot different. So you flip around there, you end the ride by going through these two corkscrew rolls here, and then you're back in the lying position as you sit on the brake run. Luckily they do have the brake run covered a bit, so if it's a scorching hot day, at least you're in the shade makes it a little bit more comfortable, especially with the operations on the ride. So what did I think of Nighthawk? This is absolutely one of the worst coasters I've ever ridden. I heard a lot of bad things about Nighthawk going into it, but I was still really looking forward to trying it out for myself and seeing how it was. I'd heard a lot of mixed things about Firehawk slash X-Flight, and from what I heard, that was a better ride than this is, but that being said, after riding Nighthawk, I'm really not that disappointed that I never got to ride Firehawk. This was just a really unbearable ride for me. One thing I got to note, like I said earlier, this is a really intense ride. I mean, those positive Gs are really strong with this one, and something I was absolutely not expecting, and in my opinion, this does not help the ride. Definitely can't say it's not force-less, but the restraints just not good. The lie to fly is just really awkward going up the lift till staring at the sky. It's not very comfortable. Pretty much from the moment we went down the first drop all the way till when I got off the ride, I was regretting it. This was definitely a one-and-done ride for me. I got one ride on it, and that was enough. Maybe I should have given it another chance, but given my ride experience, there was no way I was going to ride this again. Absolutely terrible. The pros, it's a really intense ride, so I guess that's a pro, but like I said, I don't really think it works to this ride's advantage, but if you do like really intense rides, maybe you'll enjoy this. It's a really nice looking coaster. It looks nice at the front of the park. Going over the water has a really nice color scheme, so there's that. Those are the only pros I can really think of. It is a very unique ride, and then the cons, just really uncomfortable. I found there are strengths to be really bad because sort of the, it was hurting my man areas, you know, so that it wasn't very comfortable. It was just not fun. It did feel like you were flying, I gotta say. It did feel like you were flying, but it was not enjoyable. I really look forward to trying some of the B&M flying coasters someday. Hopefully next year I'll be able to get on one of the Superman clones. Hopefully those B&M flying coasters are a lot better. I'm sure they have to be a lot better than these Vekoma flying Dutchmans. I mean, this was absolutely terrible. All the awful things I heard about this ride. I was hoping I'd be proven wrong. I was really thinking I would at least find this ride somewhat enjoyable. No, no, no, no, no. If you really want to get the credit, go ahead and ride it. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend. In my honest opinion, I believe that a score of three out of 10 is warranted for Nighthawk. I hate to give any coaster that low of a rating, but based on my one ride experience I had on this, that was enough and absolutely one of the worst coasters I've ever ridden to date. Obviously, I encourage everybody to form their own opinions and I like trying things for myself just like I tried this ride, even though I heard all the terrible things about it. I was still really excited about riding it, going into it, and I was looking forward to experiencing this ride. That being said, it was not for me. Let me know what you guys think about Nighthawk. Have you guys ridden Nighthawk? Has anybody ridden it as stealth when it was at California's Great America? It didn't last very long there, but it was there as stealth back when California's Great America was still a Paramount Park. And it was also formally called Borg Assimilator after it was moved to Karawins when Karawins was still a Paramount Park. Interesting history, but let me know what your thoughts in the comments below. Be sure to like this video, subscribe for more awesome content coming out in the near future. Got lots more reviews coming and be sure to like my page, Coaster Daddy on Facebook, and follow me at Coaster Daddy Official on Instagram. Thank you guys so much again for watching. This is Coaster Daddy. Bye.