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Wildcat is one really great woodie. Only a select few are able to maintain speed and intensity throughout the entire course and this is definitly one of them. After about a 20 minute wait, if that, it was my turn to ride and I knew, when the coaster went through one or two small bunny hills before it even had reached the lift, that it was going to leave me breathless at the end. And it did. The first drop was excellent and very original. It is not often that you see nearly 90 degree drops on woodies yet, at Hersheypark, they have 2 (technically 3) woodies that do. Wildcats, though, was a little bit better than LRs. Sitting in the back, the train pulls you over the top and you dont even see the bottom of it until you are about halfway down. Without a doubt, Wildcat now has one of my favorite coaster drops. The rest of the course is ferocious and the speed does not let up. Nearly every turn is completely "over"-banked, which is very satifying and a unique quality to Wildcat. Also, no drop is the same length which makes for a totally unpredicable ride. And the roughness? Though it did have its moments (I think there might have been a very "uncomfortable" double up in there somewhere), the whole ride itself was not rough at all. Keep in mind that I sat in the back too. Im not sure why Wildcat has gotten such a bad reputation but...seriously...you have not experienced "rough" until youve been on Predator at SFDL, and this coaster was not nearly as bad. There are even a few small pockets of floater air on the hills (Hersheypark is completely "airtime-depprived" and when coasters do have it, you really cherish it). Wildcat just misses my Top 10 but if you want a relentless coaster, this one is for you!
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