Negative-G - Six Flags Great America 2019

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The Viper Roller Coaster at Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois

Viper really takes the insanity of the Coney Island Cyclone, removes some of the violence and with the ride built by the maintenance department of Six Flags Great America who obviously tweaked the design to make maintaining it easy you have a coaster that has never given me a bad ride in the last twenty-four years. I have doubts you will see this Cyclone-clone get turned into a steel coaster or demolished anytime soon as it is the best of the bunch.

The Raging Bull Roller Coaster at Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois

There are a few coasters that Bond and I prefer to lap on at Six Flags Great America and Raging Bull is one of them.

Raging Bull's first turnaround is dwarfed by Maxx Force.

While I don't have the patience; especially with Viper, Whizzer and Raging Bull calling me to ride over and over, I bet someone is going to get this shot with trains on all three coasters in the frame.

I have never fully understood why in the coaster enthusiast world why Raging Bull is held in higher regard.

My guess is that Raging Bull is not the normal out and back layout of most hyper coasters (over 200 feet tall with no inversions) with a straightaway full of airtime hills before turning around and heading back with hill after hill.