So I finally get to review the aptly named Italian Job: TURD Coaster!!!  I will start off by saying that this ride is mediocre on a good day, and this is only if all the effects are working and the speakers decide to deliver quality sound without popping under the extreme volume! The ride begins on a good foot, however. The cars are pretty well themed on the outside and the music thats playing as the train rolls in is a very nice touch. Its when the ride begins is where the trouble starts. The initial launch is weak. In fact, the first time I rode the thing, I barely noticed we even began to launch until we already were at the helix! The helix itself delivers some decent gs, which I will give the ride props on, but the train loses so much speed by the crest of the helix that any precious airtime that could have been salvaged from that pitiful drop is just ruined. The car then flies through some tame hairpin turns and a mediocre overbank. Then comes the stair-scene, which is just pointless. After a low-to-ground turn, you are lifted upwards into a brake-run, where you sit and watch a fake-looking helicopter "shoot" at you with little blinking lightbulbs. The fire effects are cool, but unfortunately dont always work. The water effects are ok, but dont get you wet as some people claimed they would. The launch into the sewer portion of the ride is even weaker than the first, although the ride makes up for it with a pretty nifty pitch-black run until bursting into the sunlight again to finish off the ride. Overall, the ride is just so damn short that a lot is left to be desired. For what it is, it is a decent addition to the park, but the entire situation was handled so poorly by Kings Dominion that the ride could not make up for the parks shortcomings in ride-placement and terrible advertising. The ride is also hideous aesthetically. Not a single bush/tree/weed/blade of grass was planted on the entire site, and the end result is a fugly pile of gravel that is just an eye sore, IMO. In the end, Turd Coaster earned its nickname... 
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