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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: Lagoon guide. Also read: Captain Coaster (converted to feet and mph). Rider sentiment and performance scores: rider reviews on Captain Coaster, incrediblecoasters.com, youtube.com, read and scored by AirtimeFever.
Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Jeremy Thompson (CC BY 2.0), Ntsimp (CC0), Talor Berthelson (CC BY-SA 4.0), Carpenter Paper Co., Salt Lake, Utah (Public domain), Ben P L (CC BY-SA 2.0), R.J. Hall (CC BY-SA 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): CoasterKiwi, rider review on Captain Coaster: “This ride is fun from start to finish!”; Izzy, rider review on Captain Coaster: “This was my first coaster, and since then I've…”; Hunter M., rider review on Captain Coaster: “We ride this at least once every time. It…”; CoasterHead, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The back row gives some nice pops of ejector…”; Nathan F, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Good enough layout with some decent airtime pops to…”; Josh Miller, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Decent pops of airtime here and there.”; Benjamin Andrews, rider review on Captain Coaster: “A couple spots of airtime and it’s very smooth…”; Coaster Nut, rider review on Captain Coaster: “For a wooden coaster that opened 100 years ago,…”; Arram, rider review on Captain Coaster: “When I rode at the start of the season,…”; CoasterHead, rider review on Captain Coaster: “It is far smoother than you would expect.”.
The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: Midway Mayhem's back row POV, Lagoon Amusement Park Roller Coaster Back Row 4K POV (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.