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Park:   Busch Gardens - Europe (travel info)
Ride Type:   Steel Coaster
Status:   Operating since 3/22/1997
Category:   Inverted
Architect:   Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets, Inc.
Builder:   Bolliger & Mabillard (B & M)
Subcontractor:   Armada Hoffler Inc.
Cost:   $20,000,000
Length:   3828'
Height:   195'
Drop Height:   170'
Drop Angle:   55°
Max Speed:   67 mph
G Force:   3.7
Inversions:   6
Duration:   3:10
Capacity:   1820 pph
Arrangement:   Three 8-car trains that hold 32 riders/train.
Visits:   616
Rating:   This Ride's Rating Is: 4
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Ride Restrictions:
Minimum height restriction:   54 in.

Features:
Chronological Order of Major Elements:
[1] Immelmann Loop
[1] Vertical Loop (106' tall)
[2] Cobra Roll
[1] Zero-Gravity Roll
[1] Flat spin
[0] Ascending Helix


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Reviews
visionlandlover

Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 170

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Awesome ride. Alpengeist is truly one of the world's most intense, smoothest, and best invert.

3-24-04 15:09:13
greg

Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 20

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The rides intensity makes this a great ride. And at the very end of the ride before you get in the station, you can see a little field full of bunnies.

6-20-04 18:25:48
SFOG Freak

Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 2627

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The best B&M invert........without a doubt. The themeing is excelent, and so is the ride.

6-30-04 20:37:28
Metro West

Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 91

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Alpengeist was the FIRST inverted coaster I had ever been on....What a rush!

Awesome ride!

7-31-04 15:59:01
JDP

Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 55

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Didnt really do nothin for me but give me a headache.

8-12-04 1:47:21
BryanWood

Joined: May 2001
Posts: 4008

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This is an excellent ride, but falls just short of Talon in my book.

8-16-04 15:28:42
JF215

Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 29

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One of the greatest. my first inverted coaster. i love the whole "skiing trip gone wrong" theming too.

8-21-04 22:29:11
SFOG Freak

Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 2627

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^ Yeah, it is a really good theme. It fits very well with the inverted style coaster.

9-6-04 21:46:10
Emann

Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 1043

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Alpengeist is awsome! Especialy in the front and the back i loved it!



9-14-04 17:11:44
RLLrCoastrLover

Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 1058

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I love alpengeist. favorite vertical loop.

9-20-04 17:08:16
sfne stinks

Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 10940

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The ride is fun. but it has it down time. everything it does is so "big" that it seems to lag around.... this is best seen going up into the MCBR

2-7-05 23:43:29
slnewbus

Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 1652

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I don't care for this coaster.

2-10-05 20:14:04
BeaufordBuddy

Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 5

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No other park will be able to match Busch Garden's coaster theming and Alpengeist is no different. Traveling through the ravines and wood shacks is great. I love the cobra roll over the Rhine river (where the Alpengiest and Loch Ness Monster pass like ships in the night). The smoothest inverted coaster I have ever rode, without a doubt.

5-15-05 4:21:41
canobiefan

Joined: May 2005
Posts: 52

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Great ride. A little better thyan Montu at BGT. Great theming and the ride has great inversions. This coaster is also ver big and fast. I also love the twisting drop.

5-26-05 18:37:42
geoking66

Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 120

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Perfect coaster. My favorite inverted coaster and probably the best of all inverted ones. The midway brake run is a little harsh, but that's OK with me.

6-16-05 20:49:32
cannonballer

Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 1374

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Great invert, but am I the only one who experienced a couple of rough jerky places? I like top gun at carowinds better. Tg is smoother. Still love aplie though just the brake jerks and one of the inversions is very rough.

6-17-05 0:52:02
DisGardeVersal

Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 577

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Alpengeist is an awesome inverted coaster. I hate it that designers didn't just go ahead and make it 200 feet, given its 5 feet away from that. Awesome speed, inversions, and very smooth. except for that one, killer turn into the mid-course brakerun, it just slams you to the left of your seat, but, the ending erases the memory of it.

6-26-05 23:10:42
trombone

Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 40

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This was MY FIRST inverted coaster that I went on. This ride got me into liking roller coasters, and especially inverted ones.

In august of this year I am going to be going back to Busch Gardens Williamsburg just to ride this coaster.

6-28-05 4:06:02
blondathart

Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 35

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This ride is soooo awesome! it's very smooth and its so much fun!!!!! its my favorite looping roller coaster!

7-1-05 23:30:55
NITROS AIRTIME

Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 318

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I did like this very much, but it gave me a headache during one point. The sheer speed and height of it made it great. 9/10 for me

7-26-05 19:30:38
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