We have to admit that when we first walked under the brake run and into the ride area itself the sheer scale of the height the top hat occupies had us shaking at the knees a little (and let’s be clear here, we don’t intimidate easily by any stretch of the imagination), however like all first time riders we knew that in order to conquer our fears we would have to cast all doubt and inhibitions aside in order to claim this ride cred for ourselves and see what all the fuss was about.
What we can say is that after bravely taking our seat and looking down the long stretch of launch track in front of us we truly started to question our actions and kept asking ourselves “what the hell are we doing?”
Before we had time to answer that question however we were off and it’s fair to say that no amount of watching Stealth off ride will do the sheer velocity of the launch you experience any kind of justice at all!
In the brief time it took to rocket down the ‘speedway’ we barely had time to savour the true ferocity the acceleration provided before we were flying upwards towards the peak (and in our personal opinion the true highlight) of the ride!
This is when you truly realise just how high up you really are! The views from the top of the top hat were simply breath taking (or maybe that was just the after effects of the launch? we just don’t know! haha!).
It is indeed a mere matter of seconds however before you are plummeting back down towards to the ground again and at this point we realised just how forceless the descent actually is?
What you do however get is some absolutely fantastic floater airtime at the top of the top hat and the further back you are seated on the train, the more intense the airtime is.
Once reaching the bottom of the drop you glide over the small airtime hill after the drop and finally glide into the brake run with a very satisfying whirring sound!
It’s definitely fair to say that after riding Stealth for the first time there was in our opinion only one word which could accurately describe just how the whole experience had made us feel, and that word was of course “AGAIN!”.
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