SWSA PTR, with JTA tour (6-1)

Howdy ya'll! Last Friday I was invited to SeaWorld on behalf of Coasterdom to tour the new Journey to Atlantis. The full review is too lengthy to post here, but can be found at

http://www.coasterdom.com/2007/06/07/jo ... is-review/

All I did at SeaWorld was ride their 3 excellent coasters- Great White, Steel Eel, and JTA. Also, I couldn't pass up a walk through the penguin encounter and touching dolphins, it was too tempting.

Anyways, crowds were very minimal, as the longest wait of the day was about 15 minutes for JTA later in the day. Great White was runnign 2 trains with absolutly NO stacking, so the only lines in the station were for the front and second rows all day long. I marathoned in the back, but after 5 rides I started to get a little dazed by the extreme forces. GW was running really fast, and I started to get serious tunnel vision on the valley between the first loop and 0g-roll. Steel Eel was only running 1 train today, so the wait was just that. Sometimes it was walk on, but for most of the day there was 1 train of passengers waiting at the station. The ride had solid floater air in the front and middle seats, but the back is where it was at. Almost every hill was filled with ejector air, and at every valley you slammed back into the padless Morgan trains. Good fun, eh?

I'll let the photos tell the rest of the story. To view all 70 JTA photos, please visit this link

http://www.coasterdom.com/gallery/index ... o+Atlantis

I like that first picture of Steel Eel, I only wish Seaworld FL had a hyper and an invert :[ As for Atlantis, it would be better with the little bunny hill after the drop like the other Mack ones. Sounds like you had fun.

Yeah, I think the bunny hill would add a lot to the ride, but it's still alotta fun when you're actually on the ride.

Originally posted by CoAsTeRkRazY

I only wish Seaworld FL had a hyper

Technically, It isn't a hyper. It's only like 156 feet tall.

It's 150, but it's still a "hyper" coaster style, focusing on airtime hills. It does quite that when you ride in the back!

mmm steel eel, definatly looks like one of the better Morgans.