Verbolten — Attraction in Virginia

No coaster enthusiast should miss this! It is my belief that this coaster was designed by a complete psychopath LOL. It is "off the rails". First of all, you can't see hardly any of this coaster from anywhere in the park. It's buried in buildings or underground or something, I don't know, I got so disoriented in the first half I had no idea where I was. And then the drop. I'm not going to talk much about it because I don't want to spoil it, but it is an absolutely unnecessarily crazy thing to put in the middle of a coaster. Then you finally get outside and the coaster is somehow just as merciless as it was in the pitch black. It also has the distinction of being the most beautiful ride cars ever, styled like a 60s sports car. I think an argument could honestly be made that this is the best coaster at Busch Gardens, just because it's totally insane. I mean who wastes the first half of the coaster in the pitch black? It is insanely intense but you can't see a thing. And then of course the crazy train drop, and then the last half where the pylons are literally in the water! Plus the theming is bizarre with old TVs and a ticket station and stuff like that, I mean this is nuts beyond nuts! Ps a little Easter egg, there is a television in there that is a Muntz. This was made by Earl "madman" Muntz, who ended up actually building a...

This is my #1 roller coaster, I've been on taller and faster before, but something about this bad boy I really enjoyed. It is HEAVILY themed! Every single part of this ride is very detailed through the queue line, the station, the coaster trains, indoors part with tons of lighting effects. The awesome part about the trains is that they look like Volkswagon car and if you ride it at night, which I did the headlights are functional, they turn off once you're stopped at the wall in the building which simulates as the Black Forest which is forbidden hence the rides name it's a play on word to Verboten which stands for forbidden in German the word bolt comes from the storm sequence on the ride. There are 3 sequences you can get storm, wolf and spirit of the forest. While in line for this ride I learned some German. Welcome, attention, forbidden and goodbye. One of my favorite parts of the ride is the last drop and it swoops by the river. The other thing I love is the drop track, that part took me by surprise and it gave me one heck of an adrenaline rush. One of the most unique rides I've ever been on. Also, very smooth, I...

Verbolten toes the line between gimmick and theatre and wins on all accounts. The multi-launch coaster's 60mp pace, hauntingly stylized queue, and indoor Pandora's Box of surprises culminate in an experience that another reviewer cleverly identified as Lynchian. From the intentionally dusty and spidery queue, which is themed after an abandoned German travel agency and a (presumably missing) botanist's study, riders can only see that Verbolten's second-run plummet toward the Rhine is imminent. All terrors between the drop and the station are kept secret, concealed by the Black Forrest and an expertly disguised building that houses the dark portion of the ride. Even experience coaster heads may be taken aback by their first experience on Verbolten. The ride's drops are small enough to entice tentative and beginning coaster riders, but the launch speeds and hidden helix may be too much for some patrons. Verbolten's experience is long enough and satisfyingly wicked. The dark portion's three, different plot offerings...