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Restraint types: Captain Coaster. History, incidents and awards: Wikipedia. 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, coastercritic.com, read and scored by AirtimeFever.
Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Sean MacEntee from Monaghan, Ireland (CC BY 2.0), Miguel Hermoso Cuesta (CC BY-SA 3.0), PublicDomainPictures (CC0), ZooFari (talk) (CC BY-SA 3.0), Clément Bardot (CC BY-SA 4.0), Alexander Plushev (CC BY 2.0), Supercarwaar (CC BY-SA 4.0), Simeon87 (CC BY-SA 3.0), Antoine Taveneaux (CC BY-SA 3.0), Kris Ziel (CC BY 3.0). Video thumbnails remain the property of their channels and link back to them.
What riders love, by theme (themes in the order riders pick them most on Captain Coaster): Marcelo Milk, rider review on Captain Coaster: “This would have been an okay ride, IF IT…”; Jonah S., rider review on Captain Coaster: “It is a must ride at night: you can…”; Caleb Vines, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The views you get of the Vegas strip (especially…”; Evangelion Martini, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Ride at night; the lit up Vegas strip really…”; Holden M., rider review on Captain Coaster: “I expected the worst coming in to this ride,…”; Zach Payne, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I rode it once at night expecting a terrible…”; Josh Miller, rider review on Captain Coaster: “However, it was surprisingly smooth and enjoyable!”; Diego Pineda Pacheco, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I was expecting something pretty bad, so I was…”; Max S., rider review on Captain Coaster: “The first drop was pretty nice but the follow-up…”; Marko Tsang, rider review on Captain Coaster: “You do get some good floater airtime on the…”; Mike, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Rode in row 8 in all of my 3…”; Brendan Keller, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The first drop is decent but the second one…”; David Braun, rider review on Captain Coaster: “There is one inversion, which I absolutely loved: the…”.
The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: Sammy Does Vlogs's back row POV, The Big Apple Coaster - Las Vegas New York New York Hotel & Casino (Back Row P.O.V. 2022) (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.