Another fantastic ride at BGW. We waited about 40 minutes for the front seat, just because I had heard the front was the best seat you could get on this ride. Alpengeist is simply an amazing inverted coaster. Every element on this ride is huge! Call me a size queen, but Alpengeist takes every element, every inversion, with amazing force, speed and height. I loved having the immelman come first as opposed to the now standard vertical loop. And the Cobra Roll, my God!!! From the front seat you absolutely could not tell where it was and when it was coming. And from the backseat, WHOA!!! The only problem with the cobra roll in the back is that it whips your head around a bit. This is one of the reasons why the rating dropped a bit. Its extremely intense - much tighter than the cobra roll on Raptor, and higher, too. You simply cannot see it coming! I loved the *flip-you-this-way* heartline followed immediately by the *flip-you-that-way* flatline spin. I got (I think we *all* got) amazing airtime on the heartline on Saturday night. The only thing that keeps this from being a top ten coaster is the head banging in cars further back. Ive said this before, but expect this to jump in and out of my top 10. I cant sum uf how I feel about this ride. This is in my top 10 steel coaster list though. 
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