Many different types of clones have taken over amusement parks/fairs. In your opinon, which clones are the best or worst.

For me,

Best: Deja Vu (Vekoma's Giant Inverted Boomerang)
-The ride is very thrilling! The vertical spikes get me every time! The feeling of moving frontwards and backwards fast is amazing.

Worst: Superman Ultimate Flight clone (B&M Flyer)
-The ride is decent. All the ride has is the pretzel loop, which makes the ride decent. After the pretzel, the ride slows down and gets boring. Yes, the feeling of flying is awesome, but the ride is short and very low to the ground. That is my opinion.

Best: Steel venom @ Valley Fair. I love that hang on the reserse spire.

I don't really have a worst.

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Jim says; "The Potential energy of the system at the height of the lift hill is equal to the Kinetic energy at the bottom of the hill...."
Jim's friends say; "Just shut up and ride it would you."

Best - Superman: Ride of Steel, and Ride of Steel.

Worst - koma' rangs.

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o hai. i herd u liek mudkipz?

hmm...

BEST: BM:TR The very first inverted ride and second coaster of B&M is one of my favorite rides. Very compact, very intense, great pacing, great leg choppers.

WORST: don't really have one...

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^EL TORO^ RULES!!!

Best: Ochori and Raptor (I guess they're clones). Or, if you want to be more traditional, B:TR.

Worst: Vekoma SLC's.

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Kyle L - Thrillnetwork Speedzone Lead

Best clones out there would be Deja Vu and Batman: The Ride
Deja Vu: Although it is a Vekoma ride, it is quite an awesome one at that. The only downside to it is that it is SBNO way too often. If Vekoma can fix its reliability problems, it would make a great ride even better.

Batman: The Ride: Im sure a lot of people are asking me why this ride. Well the reason is because it still packs quite a punch for a ride that was designed 15 years ago. Not to mention it was the first 4 abreast inverter ever made too. Although the ride has been HIGHLY overused and it is no longer in my top 100 of coasters, the design itself is pretty flawless. People just get tired of seeing this ride in so many amusement parks and well I would have to agree.

Worst clones would have to be Superman: UF, SLC's and Boomerangs:
Superman:UF:Well this ride is just without variety at all. I mean after the pretzel loop, there is 1500 feet of wasted track with nothing done with it. Not to mention this ride will NEVER meet its advertised hourly capacity. Yes, mark my word on that.

SLC's: Well this should go without explanation. It is a hang and bang. The harnesses feel like death traps and it just is not a fun ride at all. IMO, I can't understand why amusement parks keep buying these things if they constantly receive horrible reviews

Boomerrangs: Well this is a sit and bang. I have to give SOME credit to Vekoma though. Their newly designed trains make this rough coaster well less rough.lol But it is a highly overused design, that just is not that good. That's the difference between this highly overused design and B:TR. B:TR is at least an enjoyable ride and respectable. For those that only go to their local amusement park and thats it, B:TR is a nice addition. I can't say the same about a boomerang.

Best: The batman clones - The layout is fantastic great forces and an overall fun ride.

Worst: Corkscrews - The corkscrew series both with or without loops. they are short, Rough, and over before you can enjoy hem.

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Michael C - Speedzone Editor