- July 22nd, 2019, 8:14 pm
#107618
On Saturday I went to Carowinds with the youth group at my church. We got there around 11:45 and left around 9:30 so we had a full day at the park. And guess what? The park wasn't overcrowded!
This may have been due to the heat advisory, though.
Most of the group started their day with Fury, but I decided to start with Intimidator with a few friends. Intimidator was as good as I remembered and the trims were not a problem at all. There was definitely loads of airtime on every single hill and is definitely a great fit for the park. Next, we went to Fury. Here we met up with some friends and I ended up on row 5. I was nervous, despite marathoning Fury labor day weekend 2017 and fell in love with the coaster and it immediately topping my list of the 40 coasters I've ridden (I know, super low. I only get about 5 or 6 new creds every year). The first drop was as scary and air-time filled as I remember. The whole ride was amazing and I don't think any coaster in the next few years will be able to top it! Next, we went to county fair to ride Electro-spin, which is still a fun ride and is definitely a must-do. Copperhead Strike was definitely much more fun and is my #4 ride in the park after the big 3 of course. It's definitely a great ride to improve the coaster collection at Carowinds since we had a nice top 3 but there was no depth to the coaster line up. Afterburn was fantastic as always, even though this time the much-needed mist was not on.
The only negative parts of the day were waiting an hour and 15 minutes for Nighthawk, which was actually more fun than I remember. The only parts that were not so fun were staring at the sun up the lift hill and then the 2 corkscrews at the end. The loop was great and what I've always considered the best part of the ride. The 2 corkscrews were just painful though. It would be a much better ride if they had new trains and increased the operation cycle because God they were slow! I even joked and told my friends "They would not tolerate this slowness at Fury".
The only other negatives were getting strapped into Windseeker and not get to ride, just to see new riders 5 minutes later while in line for Copperhead (as you can see I was pretty salty because this would've been my first time riding it). Then when riding Fury that night, the line was pretty long and one of the chaperones who wasn't able to get in line with the rest of us tried to catch up with us later in the line. The ride op in between the two sections of the switchbacks told him he couldn't skip, and our chap had an attitude and started an argument with the op. Our chap just gave up and left the line. When we got in the station to ride, that same up walked up the stairs just to make sure our chap wasn't riding with us. He took his $9 an hour too seriously. 
Despite the altercation between the ride op and our chaperone, us ending the night with Fury was the best way to end such a great day at Carowinds. It felt like it was running even faster at night than earlier in the afternoon! (I noticed in Afterburn one of the ops said that Fury runs 95 to 98mph.) All in all, it was a great day to be at Carowinds and I enjoyed just about everything we did. I really want to go back during Scarowinds with some friends and will definitely share that experience with y'all too.




Most of the group started their day with Fury, but I decided to start with Intimidator with a few friends. Intimidator was as good as I remembered and the trims were not a problem at all. There was definitely loads of airtime on every single hill and is definitely a great fit for the park. Next, we went to Fury. Here we met up with some friends and I ended up on row 5. I was nervous, despite marathoning Fury labor day weekend 2017 and fell in love with the coaster and it immediately topping my list of the 40 coasters I've ridden (I know, super low. I only get about 5 or 6 new creds every year). The first drop was as scary and air-time filled as I remember. The whole ride was amazing and I don't think any coaster in the next few years will be able to top it! Next, we went to county fair to ride Electro-spin, which is still a fun ride and is definitely a must-do. Copperhead Strike was definitely much more fun and is my #4 ride in the park after the big 3 of course. It's definitely a great ride to improve the coaster collection at Carowinds since we had a nice top 3 but there was no depth to the coaster line up. Afterburn was fantastic as always, even though this time the much-needed mist was not on.
The only negative parts of the day were waiting an hour and 15 minutes for Nighthawk, which was actually more fun than I remember. The only parts that were not so fun were staring at the sun up the lift hill and then the 2 corkscrews at the end. The loop was great and what I've always considered the best part of the ride. The 2 corkscrews were just painful though. It would be a much better ride if they had new trains and increased the operation cycle because God they were slow! I even joked and told my friends "They would not tolerate this slowness at Fury".


Despite the altercation between the ride op and our chaperone, us ending the night with Fury was the best way to end such a great day at Carowinds. It felt like it was running even faster at night than earlier in the afternoon! (I noticed in Afterburn one of the ops said that Fury runs 95 to 98mph.) All in all, it was a great day to be at Carowinds and I enjoyed just about everything we did. I really want to go back during Scarowinds with some friends and will definitely share that experience with y'all too.