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Restraint types: Captain Coaster. History, incidents and awards: Wikipedia. Specifications and status: Coasterpedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. From the park and maker: Busch Gardens Williamsburg guide. Also read: Captain Coaster (converted to feet and mph). Rider sentiment and performance scores: rider reviews on Captain Coaster, read and scored by AirtimeFever.
Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Jeremy Thompson (CC BY 2.0), Canobie Coaster (CC BY 3.0), Alex234 (CC0). 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): Gavin Kerrigan, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Also, the best part of the ride is getting…”; Joseph D., rider review on Captain Coaster: “I was literally tossed by Pantheon into the air…”; Keystone Coasters, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The airtime hill on the swing launch going backwards…”; Austin Adler, rider review on Captain Coaster: “That bunny hill on the backwards launch has the…”; CoasterKing, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Then the swing launch which cranks things up to…”; Ben Lilly, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The multi-pass launch is one the most insane sequences…”; Anthony Ricciuti, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I was worried I was gonna puke my brains…”; Liam Dodds, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The inversion after the first launch gives you intense…”; Kw6sTheater, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The zero-g stall provides graceful, sustained hangtime high above…”; Matt McIrvin, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I was a bit surprised afterwards to realize that…”; seth w., rider review on Captain Coaster: “The zero g stall feels like it last forever.”; Max S., rider review on Captain Coaster: “The awesome hangtime moment in the vertical reverse spike…”.
The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: Brantley Roams's back row POV, [4K] Pantheon Back Row POV - Busch Gardens Williamsburg (No Talking) (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.