I’ve never been a fan of roller coasters.
When I was quite young, my exposure to these things was pretty modest. The Iowa State Fair and the annual National Cattle Congress in Waterloo both featured rides set up by traveling midway companies, and the roller coasters were, as these things go, pretty tame. Then, when I was about fourteen, I had a chance to go to Six Flags in St. Louis with my second cousin, and they had a serious coaster there; I don’t remember what it was called, but as I recall, even at that robust age it left me a little green.
Now Six Flags in Chicago is introducing a new roller coaster, the “Wrath of Rakshasa,” and it’s apparently a world-beater.
The new ride features a “heart-stopping 171-foot drop at a record-breaking beyond-vertical 96 degrees,” according to its website. It is referred to as the “steepest, most inverted dive coaster in the world.”
“Six Flags…
