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The Italian Job
WHERE: Paramount's Kings Island, Kings Island, Ohio
BRAGGING RIGHTS: The Italian Job, modeled after a chase scene in the movie "The Italian Job," reaches 53.3 feet and hits 40 mph flying in and out of enclosed surroundings. Sitting in mini Mini Coopers, riders pound down stairs into a subway scene, swerve to avoid head-on collisions and crash through a mock billboard.
THE EXPERT'S OPINION: "You're launched to full speed [40 mph] within about four seconds. You're spiraling through bank turns as you circle upward in the simulated parking garage . . . so the G-forces are hitting you through the seat of your pants. It's non-stop fun."
INFO: 800-288-0808, http:/
PowderKeg
WHERE: Silver Dollar City, Branson, Mo.
BRAGGING RIGHTS: The PowderKeg send s its riders from 0 to 53 mph in 2.8 seconds using compressed-air technology -- not the usual mechanical or hydraulic systems. It's 110 feet high, and riders whip around banked turns and soar among tree tops.
THE EXPERT'S OPINION: "One of the smoothest steel coasters I've ever been on. . . . After you leave the loading platform, you roll out onto a track. You stop. And then the track moves sideways, about 20 feet up an incline. . . . It's one you can ride over and over again."
INFO : 800-831-4386, http:/
