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Restraint types: Captain Coaster. History, incidents and awards: Wikipedia. Height requirement: California's Great America. 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, read and scored by AirtimeFever.
Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: DestinationFearFan (CC BY-SA 4.0), daveynin (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): Aiden BK, rider review on Captain Coaster: “It's a twisted airtime hill that absolutely LAUNCHES you…”; Rumham, rider review on Captain Coaster: “You then get tossed through a dive loop and…”; NorCal Coaster Media, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The greatest combination of ejector and lateral forces I…”; Ceiba Mesa, rider review on Captain Coaster: “You get so much airtime that if you marathon…”; Eli Lassiter Michael, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Starting from the pre-drop, you already gain a surprising…”; Sarah Smith, rider review on Captain Coaster: “For basically the whole duration of that 90 degree…”; Aiden Davenport, rider review on Captain Coaster: “In the back, you just get launched and dragged…”; Duke Howard, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The first drop is terrifying and kicks the ride…”; Evangelion Martini, rider review on Captain Coaster: “As soon as you go down that first drop…”; HockeyNinja, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Saying that RailBlazer is intense from start to finish…”; Coaster Nut, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I LOVE how this whips you around with non-stop…”; Marshall Bradley, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Still, if you can take it, you can't help…”.
The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: coastercrutchfield's back row POV, RailBlazer Back Row (HD POV) California's Great America (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.