#bolliger and mabillard

[ahsokajedi]

oblivion, alton towers (19.03.22)

[ravesandrollercoasters]

[mrs-trophy-wife]

[altnee0945]

Alton Towers - Lord of Darkness

This is my drawing of Lord of Darkness (LoD) from Alton towers, you can find him on the Oblivion queue line videos. This is an older drawing that you can find on my Deviantart profile (Altnee).

[flojector]

Silent Night

[smoothoperationz]

Banshee @ King's Island, May 2023

[daaytonaa]

KUMBA

[tacomanarrows]

Also gonna post some of the photography I've done! As you can see, roller coasters are one of my favorite things to photograph, but I also like things like weather and abandoned industry as well. I'm a huge coaster fan tho, currently ridden 160 different coasters with no plans of slowing down!

[blitzcoaster]

Kumba - Busch Gardens Tampa [November 7, 2022]

The money shot

[teilzeitourist]

Eine Kurve, die einem den Gürtel aufschließt.

ENDLICH kann ich mein Geheimnis der Effizienz lüften!

Hier in der Kurve die Hand schon in den Schoß legen und im dunkeln, nach Stillstand, den Verschluss öffnen.

Ihr kommt schneller raus und die RideOps sparen einen Handgriff.

[radoncanyoncryptid]

when exactly did "smooth" become a desirable attribute in a roller coaster? I genuinely do not get it man

[ahsokajedi]

shambhala, portaventura park (29.08.22)

[ravesandrollercoasters]

[quietgalcoasterss]

A Particularly Funny Ride on Nitro

I've been on Nitro a grand total of two times thus far (and unfortunately what you see above is the only photo I have of it as of right now). But even amidst everything I've been on, from Pantheon to Twisted Timbers, this thing is still such a grand slam. It's something I always put my hands up on, from start to finish. But during my second ride on Nitro this past summer, in which I went by myself, I was sitting in the same row as these 2 guys. I sat in the center-left, while they occupied the center and far-right seats. Initially I didn't pay much attention to them, but as the ops prepared to send us out of the station, their convos caught my attention. One of them said to the other as the ops checked our restraints "Bro this does NOT feel safe." Now just to make it clear, rollercoasters, especially modern ones, are arguably safer than airplanes. And Nitro was manufactured by Bolliger and Mabillard (B&M) , who are known in the industry and public for their efficiency, safety and fail-safes. But hey, for 2 scared guys, a big coaster is a big coaster, and I can't change that.

Our train pulled out of the station and began to climb the chain lift. I was growing more and more excited as I do, but those 2 were not exactly having the best time. Both of them were going "ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit" throughout the climb, and although I was keeping my eyes on the road, I'm sure they were trying not to look down and only make their panic worse. I'll link a POV of Nitro below, so you can get an idea as to how big its lift hill is:

So yeah, pretty long climb. We finally crested the hill, I raised my arms, and they started screaming. They weren't high-pitched screams or anything, more so a constant "OHMYGODOHSHITOHFUCKOHSHITOHMYGODOHMYGODOHFUCK-". Plus, I'm fairly certain they were deciding what was better throughout the ride: holding onto the restraints for dear life, or flailing their arms in an attempt to fly away from the coaster. Now, I'm the kinda girl who laughs on a coaster, with the occasional woo! thrown in. And it's hard to say when the shift occured, perhaps on the hammerhead turn back to the park, but my laughter eventually turned from "oh my god this is so fun" to "oh my god these boys are going apeshit." I wasn't looking at them or anything, but every so often I would see a hand flailing around to my right. And it wasn't like their screams were being muffled by anything; eeeeeeeeveryone in the train could hear them.

Once we hit the final brake run, I was still laughing hysterically. I looked to my right, and they looked like they'd seen a ghost. They were limp in their seats and almost hyperventilating. I tried to calm down as much as I could, and asked them if they were okay. Their response?

"Blgrhub" I think they were okay.

They quickly vanished after I left the station, and I unsurprisingly never saw them again. But wherever those 2 are now, I hope they're still okay. Maybe they're back at Great Adventure right now for Holiday in the Park and are once again riding Nitro; it's one of the few coasters they still operate at this time of year \o/

[altnee0945]

Alton Towers - Lord of Light headcanon

here is my Lord of Light headcanon/info card, its ok if you dont agree with it :)

[smoothoperationz]

Raging Bull @ six flags great america, last weekend of the season 2022