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There is not a huge window to shoot Goliath as it goes through the dive loop but after looking for a bit I found what I was looking for.



Now for the zero-g stall that is easy to photograph and show how completely messed up it is.



This section of track that is maybe a little over a hundred feet long completely makes Goliath for me.  It is just so wrong (in a good way) hanging there against your restraints some seventy feet or so off the ground with nothing beneath you but the ground.  This is the bit that will completely freak most people out while people like Bond and myself were all grins as we hung there with out arms outstretched towards Earth way below us.



You roll into the zero-g stall and here is where you roll out of it.



As Goliath has a 185 foot drop and the same track length of The Whizzer (both at 3,100 feet) it is no big surprise that you enter the brake run going quite a click.  Goliath was an amazing ride although I wasn't totally sure where to place it on my wooden coaster list.  It did not beat out Outlaw Run at Silver Dollar City but it is pretty high on my list of over 100 wooden coasters and 400 coasters total that I have been on.



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