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Restraint types: Captain Coaster. History, incidents and awards: Wikipedia. Height requirement: Carowinds. 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, youtube.com, coastercritic.com, read and scored by AirtimeFever.
Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Jeremy Thompson from Los Angeles, California (CC BY 2.0). Video thumbnails remain the property of their channels and link back to them.
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What riders love, by theme (themes in the order riders pick them most on Captain Coaster): MapleFlakes, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Just a good, fun family ride.”; Jack Jack J., rider review on Captain Coaster: “There are plenty of great near misses, especially at…”; coaster land, rider review on Captain Coaster: “i really like carolina goldrusher, it is a good…”; nobody important, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I think that this was the first coaster I…”; Sam Dickson, rider review on Captain Coaster: “A decently fun Arrow mine train in an honestly…”; Miles Hawkins, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The helices on this mine train go through some…”; Carter Eckhart, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Not too much forces but there is some fun…”; Caiden Brauchler, rider review on Captain Coaster: “But once you hit the second lift the ride…”; Aric The Kakapo, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Its got two stupidly intense helices and a great…”; Wyatt Flynn, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The final helix is crazy it will aburbtly throw…”; nobody important, rider review on Captain Coaster: “It was still pretty intense, taking advantage of the…”.
The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: ThemeParkMark's back row POV, Carolina Goldrusher - Carowinds - Back Row (4K HD POV) - March 2024 (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.