The Best Zero G Stall

[James F]

I'll admit, it's a specific question, but what's the best Zero-g Stall?

As there are becoming more and more common we have seen some variants over recent years.

 

[CookieCoasters]

I'm personally missing West Coaster Racers, Wonder Woman, and AlpenFury, but out of the rest: Voltron.

The ability to experience the element on wing seats makes it; particularly on the right wing. As well as the usual excellent airtime/hangtime combo, the laterals try to basically rip you in half.

Excluding Voltron wing seats, I'd probably give it to Batman: Gotham City Escape. Feels like it lasts forever, and you get whipped into and out of it fairly forcefully.

 

[Matt N]

I’ve done VelociCoaster, Iron Gwazi and Hyperia, and of those, I would have said the stall on Hyperia was the best. It’s just got such brilliant sustained hangtime, and the negative g-forces are surprisingly strong, particularly towards the front of the train!

I would also have said it was Hyperia that sold me on this inversion type. Before I rode it, I found stalls a bit overhyped.

From memory, VelociCoaster’s stall was good, but not really a standout moment of the ride, and Iron Gwazi’s was just a complete non-event.

 

[kristalic]

I have very strong feelings that every single RMC stall would be better as a straight hill without exception. In my experience, they're all like very very slight positives, so you just sort of end up sitting there and waiting while you just happen to be upside down. Give me upside down straight track or a regular hill, none of this "perfect zero g" nonsense, especially in such restrictive trains.

 

[uwurawrus]

My favourite stall is Steel Vengeance's, but I wouldn't tell you it's a good 'stall' because it doesn't really... stall. I appreciate the violent whip, laterals, yadda yadda yadda. In my opinion one of the best inversions in the world! But it's not a stall.

As for traditional stalls I think it's Voltron!
......Oh but GCE's is good too.

 

[davidm]

Zadra/Wildfire/Hyperia

Zadra just edges it I think as I recall getting an early morning (i.e. cold) ride on it and it went through it so slowly to be just delicious.

 

[Howie]

Wildfire for me, but honourable mentions to Zadra, ArieForce One, Goliath and Hyperia.

 

[Trax]

Haven't done all of them, but I'd go with Voltron. It has just the ride mix of hangtime and duration. Zadras is fun, but it doesn't have hangtime at all.

 

[Cruisin@325]

ArieForce by a long shot out of the 6 or so I've done. My response might change in two weeks, though; Pantheon's looks sick.

 

[emoo]

Batman : Gotham escape deserves a mention from being fantastic to ride and the visual of it in the air. Just this little bit of track over a path, with lots of empty airspace around.

Zadra is magical. It doesn't stop but I get the sense of time slowing down with a moment to look around while upsidedown without the discomfort of dangling like rides.

Wildfire is a wooden stall that's somehow done perfectly, and what a setting to check out inverted.

It's one of Hyperias big hits with enjoyable forces.

Usually these are top moments in a ride, would love to check out Aerial Force one because of it. Because they can be so good it's noticeable when they are not

Toutatis is one of my favourite coasters overall in Europe's but some of the individual bits, especially the stall are not elite by themselves.

 

[Nicky Borrill]

Of the ones I've done, Zadra hands down. Ben is right, it's the only one which actually feels like those scenes in the Matrix where time just seems to stop, bullet time I think it was called. No hang time whatsoever, pure zero gravity, as the element is supposed to deliver.

Worth noting I haven't done a couple of the notable ones, like Aireforce or Batman yet, so they may well be as good or better.

The ones I have done like Velocicoaster, Gwazi, Hyperia etc, don't really come close. And I can only assume those voting Voltron's stall haven't done any of the big stalls, as it's tiny and forgettable. It doesn't deliver a zero g / weightless feeling of a 'zero g stall' at all.

 

[The_bullgod]

I've only done Wildfire, Taiga, Zadra, Batman: Gotham City Escape and YoY
Wildfire and Zadra have the best zero-G stall and YoY the worst.

Toutatis, Hyperia and Voltron are on my to-do list

 

[Tomatron]

Out of the many I've done, Goliath is still my favourite. The others aren't bad, but Goliath's goes on for ages compared to some of the others.

 

[Hyde]

Let's see, of those listed, I've been on:

• Goliath
• Steel Curtain
• VC
• Iron Gwazi
• Pantheon
• ArieForce One
• Wildcat's Revenge
• SV (though to be honest, that is a quasi-stall, feels more like a step-down inversion with virtually no negative g)

I prefer zero-g stalls that are simple and stated on their delivery. Some feel hurried or squirreled in the middle of inversions and transitions (e.g., SV commentary above). Goliath was the first true stall to market, and remains my favorite - it's big, it's too-well-framed underneath the first drop, and just gives such simple and pure zero-g delivery.