Negative-G - Idlewild Park 2015

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Rollo Coaster was the fourth Herbert Schmeck designed coaster on our Pennsylvania trip. The first was The Comet at Hersheypark, Thunderhawk at Dorney Park was the second, The Phoenix at Knoebels was the third and then Rollo Coaster. With only ten of his designs still running we were not doing too bad. Looking at RCDB out of the coasters that he designed that are left the only one I have yet to ride is the Yankee Cannonball at Canobie Lake Park in New Hampshire to have been on them all. I might have to plan a trip up there sometime.

With just nine hundred feet of track and a rather diminutive drop like this one it is easy to write off Rollo Coaster as a boring kids ride.

When you throw in a hilly terrain that the coaster hugs, a forest full of trees very close to the track whizzing by and a designer that loved to fill his coasters with airtime in my opinion you have a hit coaster on your hands.

Oh, another fun thing that Rollo Coaster has, well it doesn't have are any restraints. No lap bar, no seat belt, no over the shoulder harness, it has no restraints of any sort other than gravity holding you mostly down in the seat. Of course with no restraint the airtime on Rollo Coaster is not extreme because there is nothing to hold you in. With a little bit of floater air and nothing holding you in it certainly throws your mind for a trip.

Now Rollo Coaster is not the only wooden coaster that goes out through the woods, hugs the terrain, spirals down the hill side when it is time to turn around and then give hill after hill as it speeds back to the station.