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Now these hills might not look that intense.  In fact they look really gentle and easy when you freeze the frame at 1/200th of a second.  When you are speeding at seventy-five miles an hour this is not an easy hill as when the track pulls the train down upwards inertia will keep your body going up that is until you hit the restraints and are pulled down with the train.



Violent aggressive intensity aside Skyrush is not your ordinary everyday hypercoaster.



First off it is prototype as this design is Intamin's version of a Wing Coaster.



For those of you who don't know a "Wing Coaster" is a steel coaster where all or at least some of the seats sit outside of the track giving the rider on Skyrush's outside seat a very exposed feeling with nothing above you and nothing below.  Putting the rider outside of the train is another dose of psychology making a great coaster.



The second and most important thing that differentiates Skyrush from every other Hyper Coaster (a steel coaster with no loops that is between 200 and 299 feet tall) is that Skyrush really seems like it is actively trying to kill you...

...in a good way.



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