Now this was a BLAST! I think I said one time I'd like to get catapulted of a carrier deck in an F-14, that was probably about as close as I'll come. The entire coaster is inside a building, set up to look like a government military installation. As you get into the staging area, it's like Hangar 18 where the Gov supposedly has the crashed flying saucer. There's a huge flying saucer looking like it's being tested and researched. Lots of TV monitors, terminals, toxic waste containers, smoke, strobe lights and lasers. The TVs are showing a video of the agency investigating the saucer, something goes wrong, the machine activates and takes off through a black hole or something with the civilians who were on a tour of the facilities. The vid lasted about 15 minutes, I saw it about 4 times before I make it into the saucer itself. You go into it, and the staging area for the coaster is to the side. It's like a command center, high glass enclosed booth with people up there running the launch.
Launch is the right word. The cars are just sitting there, you hear a building woooosh, and then it's gone. I never did figgure out what they used to launch. It's supposed to accelerate at 4 G's, 0-60 in about 4 seconds. Quite a few people saw how fast it launched and just walked out. NOT ME! I was going to get something out of this after 3 hours if it killed me! I sat in the car and a restraint comes down over your shoulders and across your chest, then a padded rig something like a bicycle helmit goes down over your head. You're locked in from the waist up, only can move your head a little side to side and your arms are free. When it blasts off it's a rush, you're moving, FAST! You're pointed up slightly, go through a hole in the wall, level out, then go in a nearly vertical climb, you haven't had time to slow down any and it feels like you're pulling more G's in the climb than when it first started. Of course everything was happening so fast it might have still been accelerating during the climb.
It's almost dark inside the building but you can see it looks like a mass of spaghetti, with the track and support beams just winding and twisting everywhere. You go upside down, twisted and turned every which way. Then you're up at the top, slowing down and go into a vertical dive, as it's pulling out at the bottom it rolls over completely before entering the stopping area where you stagger off. They make a video of you during the launch and try to sell it to you but I didn't have time to check myself out. I was about 2 hours late meeting the rest of the family and was afraid I was going to have to walk back to the campground. I did make it in time though.