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Like its Giant Dipper cousin down south in San Diego, this Giant Dipper is another Prior and Church wood coaster sitting alongside the beach. Although that one is great, this one is even better. You know you are in for a treat when the coaster pulls out of the station and immediately plunges into a drop in a pitch black tunnel. There are great views of the boardwalk, the beach, and the ocean as you go up the lift hill. In my opinion, the back is the absolute best place to sit on this coaster. The lap bars have to fit around everyone in the entire car, so most likely there will be some room between you and the lap bar, which amounts to fantastic airtime. I realized this the instant we crested the lift hill. I normally dont notice airtime so much on the first drop, because you ascend the lift hill too slowly to get that effect. However, here in the back of this coaster, I got launched out of my seat as the front of the train yanked the back over the top. It never let up from there. The Giant Dipper at Belmont Park in San Diego was more of a twister, with lots of lateral gs. This Giant Dipper is more of an out-and-back. There are still plenty of laterals on the turns, but what this coaster really wants to provide is negative gs, and as this coaster goes out and back, and out and back again, there are just an endless number of airtime-producing hills. Like I say, sit in the back, hold your hands up or just grab the lap bar loosely, and youre in for one amazing experience. Wonderful. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
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