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Restraint types: Captain Coaster. History, incidents and awards: Wikipedia. Height requirement: Kings Island. Specifications and status: Coasterpedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Also read: Captain Coaster (converted to feet and mph). Rider sentiment and performance scores: rider reviews on Captain Coaster, kicentral.com, coastercritic.com, limitlesspark.com, themeparkjames.co.uk, read and scored by AirtimeFever.
Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Jeremy Thompson (CC BY 2.0), Oldiesmann (CC BY-SA 3.0). Video thumbnails remain the property of their channels and link back to them.
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Quote at the top of the page: TombRaiderFTW, kicentral.com.
What riders love, by theme (themes in the order riders pick them most on Captain Coaster): Zach Payne, rider review on Captain Coaster: “My favorite part of the ride is the floaty…”; MapleFlakes, rider review on Captain Coaster: “In the front row it feels like you are…”; Inverted Thrills, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Plus that final inline twist delivers some of the…”; Isaiah White, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The highlight is definitely the loop over the chainlift…”; Landan Vance, rider review on Captain Coaster: “A steady surge of crushing forces follows you throughout…”; Cooper Zimmerman, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The drop absolutely flings you sideways and every inversion…”; Carter Eckhart, rider review on Captain Coaster: “All of the inversions are very intense, with that…”; Sean Reardon, rider review on Captain Coaster: “It was my last ride of the day at…”; Mike Davis, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Perhaps the most majestic of all the B&M inverts.…”; I'm NotHere, rider review on Captain Coaster: “As such, there are no dead spots here, and…”; Jack Jack J., rider review on Captain Coaster: “The layout is definitely the best of all the…”; Em McMahon, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Maybe riding in the front saved me a headache,…”; SaberVizion, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The scream at the top of the lift hill…”.
The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: coastercrutchfield's back row POV, Banshee Back Row (HD POV) Kings Island (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.