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Post May 12th, 2008, 11:30 pm

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What coaster has a great ending sequence, or just has a simply unique ending?

My personal favorites are Renegade ( http://www.rcdb.com/ig3660.htm?picture=22 ) throws you around right nice; and Kumba, which dives into a tunnel and exits into a great helix.

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Post May 13th, 2008, 12:00 am
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The Voyage... best ending ever! Intense lateral air, crazy speed, an underground station flyby, and a tunnel under the entrance path. Cool stuff there. I'm also a huge fan of The Raven's ending, where it slows down only to fly down into a ravine and dodge trees with great speed up to the brakes.

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I've always thought Montu's trench-to-trench wingover was a really cool way to end the ride. For wood there's Cyclops's drop down in front of the station, in the back seat it give some of the most intense ejector air I've felt anywhere.
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Post May 13th, 2008, 12:45 am

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My personal favorite is the Beast's double helix finale. What other ending gets its own freakin' lift hill? Of course, my opinion here is skewed because it was the first woodie and large coaster I rode and nowadays it's trimmed and still beats you up a bit.

EDIT: Yeah, it's mostly this view that makes me giddy every time: http://www.rcdb.com/ig67.htm?picture=3

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Oh wait... that's best beginning, not ending [lol] xD

For best ending I'd say Troy... On After the fly through it feels that your only going faster and faster by the second. It's crazy.
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Post May 13th, 2008, 8:01 pm

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Maverick. Those stengal dives really got me + that little hill with surprisingly intense air!

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Post May 13th, 2008, 8:29 pm

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Actually, out of all I've been on, I would have to agree with Maverick also. It keeps you flyin' till the very last second.
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Post May 13th, 2008, 8:45 pm

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Hmm, I'd say Silver Bullet, and Riddlers Revenge.

Love that corkscrew ending on Riddlers.

Also, Deja Vu. Getting caught by that lift cable, and being slowly brought back down is awesome.
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Post May 13th, 2008, 9:23 pm

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well, i would really have to say expedition everest. that yeti is amazing. lol, but for the best, and most intense coaster endings, i would have to say top gun at pga. that water fly by/speed turn/crazyness is very fun. still, EE is my favorite ending.
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Post May 13th, 2008, 9:32 pm
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i like the way the helix on ghostrider beats the crap out of you, just in case..

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Post May 13th, 2008, 10:10 pm

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Originally posted by RRollergod

Expedition Everest... Yetis pwnzrs yo!


YEA!
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Post May 13th, 2008, 11:05 pm

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S:RoS. The ending is part of what makes this ride so incredibly good. It finishes with a tunnel, 2 amazing, quick air hills, and then a really fast turn and a slam into the brakes. It's crazy...

Post May 13th, 2008, 11:12 pm

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lol, relative to almost any other ride SROS' ending is amazing, but relative to that ride, it's about on par with the rest of the layout IMO. Not my favorite part, but it is good. I do remember liking the last low curve much more than expected though.

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Maverick and Raptor and Apollo's Chariot.
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Post May 13th, 2008, 11:49 pm

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DCS, I think those hills, along with the 3 other large ones are my favorite parts of the ride...but you do have a point, the entire ride is really good. I just like the straight up ejector air.

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It was cool the two days I went (and I was still completely blown away by the ride) so maybe that didn't help the ending hills, but I prefer forces as strong as those, but with more speed like you get over the 3rd camelback or the 2nd S hill. I think it's about as good an ending as you can do with that speed, minus the little trim, but that doesn't mean it's as exciting as many other parts of the ride to me.

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ya, ill go with maverick too..... [;)]
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Post May 14th, 2008, 1:04 am

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Gotta love that Ghostrider helix. I'd say the ending on an extended helix SLC might be pretty intense too.

Post May 14th, 2008, 3:08 pm

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Legend has one of my favorites. The underbanked helix into the 'four corners' is amazing. Some of the best laterals I've ever felt. Voyage also has a cool ending, but I like the turnaround more. Cornball Express has a great ending with the under banked helix into the drop and hill, both of which have stand up airtime depending on where you sit. The last one is Grizzly at PKD's finale. While it isn't anything unique, it's just crazy as hell at night.

For steel I like SROS's for the same reason Jake mentioned, Apollo's last drop into the ravine in the back seat, Raptor's crazy helix, and Chang's....thing which was really fun.

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