The fact that these reviews are so in depth and not just what’s on the surface is pretty telling of your dedication and love for coasters. Kudos for another bangin’ review my guy.
This review slaps, love the engineering facts. It always amazes me how much speed it picks up after the midcourse, makes sense that its because it climbs a hill and is all downhill from there, you just dont realize it while youre on it
So, the Voyage was my favorite coaster from 2013 - 2016. After riding another 150 or so coasters, it dropped to a 3 way tie for 4th with The Legend and El Toro. But, when I attended HoliWood Nights, this year, Trimless Voyage EASILY was easily bump into first place. Trimmed Voyage was still lower UNTIL this past Saturday when, even during the day, The Voyage was as insane as it was during HoliWood Nights. The awesome thing is Holiday World was open until 10 and they are just west of time zone line which means they are dark at night. All I can say is that this is the best coaster out there, especially at night and EVER with trims on
There’s about an hour between them closing the park to regular guests and reopening for the ERT session, and during that time is when they clear out the park and actually turn off the trims. So yes, the trims are only off during the event itself not during the day.
As a Hoosier, I'm so glad this coaster is in my home state. I love The Voyage for pretty much all the reasons you've listed. Its so long, really smooth for a wooden coaster, and has different feel/elements at different points in the track. It is an amazing, amazing ride! And somehow second in the park to Thunderbird...
Same here. My parents would take use every summer. I remember when the raven was the only coaster there lol then the legend came out and it was awesome! But the voyage definitely raised the bar lol
Same! I used to go every year and now i'm trying to force friends to go who have never been. I miss this park so much. Even though it's been a few years i can still get around with no map. It's my favorite park for sure!
I agree! I just started working there as a Ride Maintenance Operator and the amount of work and safety for this ride is Insane! I don't get why people are scared of it?
I live in Indiana too! It's great we have Holiday World especially for the Voyage and Thunderbird, and the water park!! Also having the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in our state is a HUGE plus as well and makes racing fans from around the world wish they lived here :)
While tough to marathon, Voyage marathons are 2nd to none. It felt like a true accomplishment riding Voyage time and time again with as you said no rest besides the brake run.
These in-depth coaster reviews slap dawg. Not only do you go in depth on why/how *each* element works better than any other enthusiast, the sections on management and ops add so much to appreciating the ride as a whole. 10/10, ggwp
I have a friend who in high school worked at holiday world. He worked the voyage most seasons and he said it was one of if not the best rides he's ever ridden and had the pleasure of working. I can say the same on the ride part. It is such a fun ride.
I rode The Voyage for the first time about a month ago, and I must admit that this is one great ride! Outside of ElToro this is my favorite woodie. This thing hauls a$$!!!
May I use this, your off ride footage and your Steel Dragon 2000 footage in a video I'm making about the longest roller coasters ever built? I will give your channel full credit.
Damn, your reviews are the best and most informative reviews I have ever watched or read...and I'm not just talking about coasters. I REALLY appreciate the effort you put into these
You do an excellent job with your reviews. I didn't notice the video was over 19 minutes long when I started it, and was so captivated I didn't notice 19 minutes had gone by.
Thx for showcasing this amazing coaster, as well as Holiday World in general. , I LIVE in Indiana, and have yet to experience this incredible park! You've done a terrffic job showcasing what to look forward to- keep up the great content!
Drinking game! 1 sip every time he says "floater," "airtime," or "hill" (or any combination of the three, "floater airtime hill" = 1 sip...be safe) 1 shot every time he mentions El Toro Double shot every time he says "slaps"
That's probably one of the best reviews I've ever seen! Really good job, maybe a bit long but worth it. Your channel is really underrated and I would love seeing a top 10 or 25 coaster list from you.
Thanks for posting this video -- well done. Glad you talked about the night ride with trims off, unreal and something every coaster fan should experience. My first time was in the dark and the triple down seemed impossible (always love when coasters truly surprise me).
Amazing review! Voyage is just insane, so much work went into building this ride and still does when maintaining the Voyage but it looks like it is absolutely worth it, I’ll definitely have to go to Holiday World to ride Voyage!
Pointless tidbit: Voyage is the second longest wooden coaster on Earth, but is the longest with only one lift. Voyage holds this distinction by 1,058 feet of track. I have ridden a few steel coasters longer than Voyage, but they do not FEEL as long. And Beast.....well, two lifts.
Yeah. Beast is my favorite over voyage but not by much. They are both amazing. It's understandable why the Beast needs two lifts considering the insane helix tunnels it goes roaring through after the second lift
Thank you for this well researched documentary on The Voyage. The last time I rode it was in it's opening year. I remember it being pretty rough in the last car. I should get back there to ride it again. I expect it will be a very different experience! Of course this time I should ride it in more than one spot to get a more rounded picture of what this ride has to offer! I'm signed up for Hollywood Nights this year (2020). No one knows whether the event will take place with all the uncertainty this year. Health comes first of course but I do hope we can get through this crisis soon and get back to normal!
That is an awesome review. Anything about the Voyage gets the tears flowing. All the way from that the name and theming suggests ho-hum, and then you get arguably the best coaster on the planet. To that the coaster starts kind of ho hum and lulls you into a false "voyage" state, then takes you out back and beats you like a red headed step child, culminating in a run away train that is only picking up speed as it appr... passes the station! For years, the Beast was my favorite go to coaster, then about 10 years or so I went to Holiday World, and not even for the coasters, but because they claimed to have the biggest water coasters (they do). And I found the coaster love of my life...The perfect coaster. You don't even have a clue what you're in for, and then it happens! Thanks for respecting my favorite coaster!
Just wanted to say: your enthusiasm for Roller Coasters re-ignited my love for Coasters after being away from Magic Mountain for so long. Two years in fact! I even bought Roller Coaster Tycoon Deluxe and Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic. 😁 I really enjoy your content. El Toro is on my Roller Coaster Bucket list.
Thanks for the heads up about The Voyage's aggressiveness, and your appreciation that not everyone finds that characteristic desirable in a coaster. I found El Toro too intense and not fun, so I'll probably skip The Voyage. Give me a coaster like Knoebel's Phoenix and I'll be happy.
Voyage during Holiwood Nights... Most insane roller coaster experience in my life! Glad HW is my home park. Legend and Raven are also good at night, but Voyage is just a different animal
My last ride on The Voyage was my favorite and left me completely shell-shocked like no other coaster has ever done except maybe the back row on Steel Vengeance, we sat in the front row at night during Haliwood Nights and it was the best ride of my life
Awesome, loving review. You have me SOLD! I must ride this ASAP !!!! Probably the best coaster review I've seen I'll have to check out more of your vids. Great job!!!
The brake run going into the tunnels is actually a very important element for maintaining the the ride. And this is for the same reason that Holiday world maintains the ride so well. As you said, The Voyage is very intense. There are multiple points where the trains lift up off the track. A few years after the track originally opened, they found that that the train wheels were wearing down the weatherproofing under the wood. This would obviously lead to a shorter wood lifespan. After getting complaints of tracks roughness, they put two and two together. They started redoing sections of the track; slightly elongating hills/valleys to reduce the amount of impact the trains put underneath the track, as well as shortening lead-ins. This was to maintain the voyage's landscape footprint. Overall, this smoothed out the ride and gave it noticeably more airtime.
The mid-course brake is a blocking point, as the ride was designed to run three trains. With "1990's Cedar Point" operations it could probably do so comfortably. Unfortunately that isn't really the best place to *trim* the ride...the ride runs better when it's faster until that tall hill where it comes out of the 6th tunnel and crosses over the transfer switch. Peaking that hill at a slower speed would actually be a better way to do it. At least the new controller applies the brakes in a much more reasonable way than the old one did.
I just visited Holiday World for the first time last weekend, what a great, unique park! The Voyage is an incredible ride and has easily landed the #1 spot in my list of favorite wooden coasters! I have never had a woodie take my breath away let alone scare me as much as this coaster did. I got to ride it in both the front and back, hard to say which I liked better as they provided different rides. I think what's so impressive about this coaster is how much speed it maintains during the entire ride. You are still going so fast into that last turn that leads up to the brake run! What you said about maintenance is so true too, I found this coaster to be smoother than El Toro in many spots actually! They did a lot of track work to it on the return part of the ride this year, you can see all of the new wood from the ground and the station.
I always felt like the Hurler at Carowinds is satisfyingly long too. In fact, every time I rode it I find myself thinking 'wow this coaster is so much longer than it looks'
Some info on the trains and ride design. Will Koch was massively responsible for Voyage’s design. He walked the forest and plotted out what he wanted. Gravity group realized his dream. Will continued to make suggestions and tweaks even after the ride was announced and work had begun. If you know the ride well enough you and dig up the original images from its announcement and spot the differences. Giving kudos to gravity group feels like an oversight without mentioning the great Will Koch, may he Rest In Peace. The trains were shortened due to the Timberliner mess. Gravity group was testing prototypes of their trains to replace the PTCs on The Voyage for a couple of years. The park was so close to making it happen that they went and sold off 12 of their 21 PTC cars to Darien Lake which now run on Predator. When it was decided at the last minute that the timberliners were not going to perform as Holiday World wanted, they decided to keep the PTC trains. The problem was they had only 9 cars… the park borrowed a train from Raven which only had six cars. They took one car off the 7 car voyage train and ran one 6 car Voyage train and one six car Raven train. For this brief time period, some enthusiasts affectionately called the ride “Ravage” while the coaster sported a red Raven train and a blue voyage train. The park purchased 3 new PTC cars and ended up with two six car trains. To have all 7 cars on the ride again meant they had to buy 5 brand new cars. It was easier and cheaper to maintain the ride without the last car, and without a 3rd train. The boost in capacity was more a reference to the lack of a 3rd train. Running the ride with 3 never proved to be viable. There was always a second train stacked outside of the station. Piling up all three most of the time. This wasn’t helpful to operations in the least, so it was deemed unnecessary.
The Voyage was my first roller coaster when I was 6 years old. I loved it and now I'm a coaster enthusiast! The Voyage is very special to me and is also one of my favorite roller coasters ever.
I grew up in Indiana and I remember riding this soon after it opened, and I just remember the ride, especially the first hill, to be really uncomfortable. Lots of shaking, I think my neck was sore afterwards. To be fair I weighed probably 115 lbs so I think it tossed me around more than most people, but once I got past those first two hills I do remember it being a lot of fun. And, you’re right, I’d ridden The Beast multiple times before this and The Voyage did feel longer. I think maybe it’s the amount of airtime offered on the ride, making those moments of weightlessness seem to slow time down. Fantastic video btw, thank you for sharing!
Sold!!! Great review. I’ve gotta ride this thing now. My current favorite woody is a night ride on ghost rider at knotts. The way the track is lit up red is insane. But idk if I can argue with 100 seconds from drop to break run 😍😍😍.
Oh My I have experienced the thrill and terror of this seemingly never ending coaster, upon leaving the ride a little girl who had also just exited the ride was crying uncontrollably. She was expressing what I was feeling on the inside, WOW!
Oh boy! If I ever get the chance to ride a coaster again, this is the one for me. Not only the longest but everything that it delivers! & tunnels and built onto a mountain and fast. An enjoyable intense hard a** workout! Thank You!
I live about 40 mins from holiday world, The Voyage was my introduction to roller coasters. I remember as a kid being most afraid of the big drop, and seeing the Voyage started with 3 of them was the most intimidating thing.
Ryan if you read this you should go to a water park called Alabama splash adventure they have 2 coasters there (1 of them is a wacky worm) the other one is a woodie called rampage this thing is a beast trust me you have to ride it
One of my favorite memories of holiday world was eating lunch by the ravens turn over the lake. Watching the track bow outward over the lake as the train rolled through it . Finished lunch and got in line for the raven .
totally agree with this review and your comments on el toro too as it was majorly intense...but on the voyage, for the first time in my coaster riding life, i had to go sit down on a bench and catch my breath when i got off the voyage. i was so wiped out, i felt like i had just run a marathon.
It is currently my favorite roller coaster experience because the ride is so unique. I have ridden coasters that l would consider more "fun", but nothing else with the same blend of fun, length, aggressiveness. As you describe, when you finish you are exhausted, but in a good way. It is like the difference between a nice drinkable bourbon that you would enjoy as a daily drinker and a complex aged smokey scotch.
This ride slaps hard. Back in 2018,me and my cousin marathoned it like a bunch. I don't remerhow much but we marathoned it. I didn't get or feel sick once. It was amazing
Nice video! By the way, the reason that The Voyage has shortened trains is because they sold the seven car trains to Darien Lake to be used on Predator, and Holiday World was planning on using timberliner trains, but they proved to be a maintenance nightmare, so they used the trains from Raven to use on Voyage, and bought new trains for Raven. Though I’m not sure why they didn’t by another extra car.
Loved Holiday world as a kid. Free drink stations and sunscreen stations across the park. Plus plenty of trash cans everywhere making a stay not break the bank and also making it one of the cleanest parks I've ever visited.
I just rode this last week, it’s my absolutely favorite wooden coaster I’ve ridden so far. It was not as rough as the other 2 wooden coasters in the park. It was rough in a couple of spots but it was so much fun!
Holiday World is my home park and when i worked there i was a ride op for The Voyage, gives a real different perspective on it when you run a coaster. I've also made a point to ride it every year since it opened and its still fantastic
bro the voyage is so good, it was my first coaster, and still one of my favorites. its insane. not the tallest or fastest, but somehow still one of the most thrilling coasters you'll ever sit on
I've probably been on over 100 coasters, I went to HW this summer and I would have to say this is number 1. The only other ones in the top 10 from enthusiasts that I've ridden are Fury and Millenium Force. This was handsdown my favorite Rollercoaster, it has every element and the ride experience is phenomenal. It blew those other 2 out of the water, jmo. Dying to get on El Toro and Steel Vengeance, but these trips are expensive!
The fact that these reviews are so in depth and not just what’s on the surface is pretty telling of your dedication and love for coasters. Kudos for another bangin’ review my guy.
Please do top 50 or 100. Your coaster count is unique and I would like to see all of the different coasters you’ve ridden and how they rank
Change your stupid, poser profile pic and maybe he will. Tool.
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@@w1shudabe :/ true. angry people are usually just hurting. we here for you, Mikey!! keep pushin thru!
@@mikeyt3784 you can shut up
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This review slaps, love the engineering facts. It always amazes me how much speed it picks up after the midcourse, makes sense that its because it climbs a hill and is all downhill from there, you just dont realize it while youre on it
It's so weird seeing comments from you in the wild before you were so huge. Also to see you type "slaps" lol.
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Someone I rode next to on this said "How many Carbs did we just burn" When it ended
😂😂😂
So, the Voyage was my favorite coaster from 2013 - 2016. After riding another 150 or so coasters, it dropped to a 3 way tie for 4th with The Legend and El Toro. But, when I attended HoliWood Nights, this year, Trimless Voyage EASILY was easily bump into first place. Trimmed Voyage was still lower UNTIL this past Saturday when, even during the day, The Voyage was as insane as it was during HoliWood Nights. The awesome thing is Holiday World was open until 10 and they are just west of time zone line which means they are dark at night. All I can say is that this is the best coaster out there, especially at night and EVER with trims on
The legend freaked me out- heard a rumor that the back of the train comes off the track! I still love holiday world though, it’s my home park :)
Voyage on a regular day: 100 seconds
Voyage during HWN 2019: 93 seconds
SHEESH!!! That’s amazing
I’m really trying to go this year , are the trims off all day or only at night ? I’m really curious how the event works overall.
I am literally going on a voyage (from Los Angeles) to ride the Voyage sans trims -- with a mask. :)
There’s about an hour between them closing the park to regular guests and reopening for the ERT session, and during that time is when they clear out the park and actually turn off the trims. So yes, the trims are only off during the event itself not during the day.
Ryan Joseph see you in august !!!
why are your coaster reviews SO GOOD???!!! you go into so much DETAIL!!!!
As a Hoosier, I'm so glad this coaster is in my home state. I love The Voyage for pretty much all the reasons you've listed. Its so long, really smooth for a wooden coaster, and has different feel/elements at different points in the track. It is an amazing, amazing ride! And somehow second in the park to Thunderbird...
Same here. My parents would take use every summer. I remember when the raven was the only coaster there lol then the legend came out and it was awesome! But the voyage definitely raised the bar lol
Same! I used to go every year and now i'm trying to force friends to go who have never been. I miss this park so much. Even though it's been a few years i can still get around with no map. It's my favorite park for sure!
I agree! I just started working there as a Ride Maintenance Operator and the amount of work and safety for this ride is Insane! I don't get why people are scared of it?
I live in Indiana too! It's great we have Holiday World especially for the Voyage and Thunderbird, and the water park!! Also having the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in our state is a HUGE plus as well and makes racing fans from around the world wish they lived here :)
While tough to marathon, Voyage marathons are 2nd to none. It felt like a true accomplishment riding Voyage time and time again with as you said no rest besides the brake run.
Take a shot everytime he says "Slaps."
it slaps
Right lol
I'm drunk now
This bad boy can hold so much air time.
I was JUST about to comment that
My first ride was at night during hwn, I will never forget the feeling of that triple down in pitch black.
Just curious, I may have missed it. But, does this ride "slap?"
Bend over and I'll show u how it slaps
Yes
@@md_studio5797 It sure does! And I love so much.
Does the water park Slap too?
Do you wanna get slapped?
These in-depth coaster reviews slap dawg. Not only do you go in depth on why/how *each* element works better than any other enthusiast, the sections on management and ops add so much to appreciating the ride as a whole. 10/10, ggwp
thanks mang!!
I have a friend who in high school worked at holiday world. He worked the voyage most seasons and he said it was one of if not the best rides he's ever ridden and had the pleasure of working. I can say the same on the ride part. It is such a fun ride.
Your channel is finally taking off. I love it. Keep the content coming mang!
Eltororyan=best roller coaster enthusiast channel ever
I rode The Voyage for the first time about a month ago, and I must admit that this is one great ride! Outside of ElToro this is my favorite woodie. This thing hauls a$$!!!
May I use this, your off ride footage and your Steel Dragon 2000 footage in a video I'm making about the longest roller coasters ever built? I will give your channel full credit.
No, sorry.
Sorry peter, you cant give credit. Come back when youre a little, hmmm, richer.
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yea u can
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You should definitely do a top ten fav coasters
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Everything you just said
Is completely true.
Voyage Slaps
Damn, your reviews are the best and most informative reviews I have ever watched or read...and I'm not just talking about coasters. I REALLY appreciate the effort you put into these
You do an excellent job with your reviews. I didn't notice the video was over 19 minutes long when I started it, and was so captivated I didn't notice 19 minutes had gone by.
Please Ryan, make a top twenty, fifteen or 10 roller coasters. PLEASE😂
Thx for showcasing this amazing coaster, as well as Holiday World in general. , I LIVE in Indiana, and have yet to experience this incredible park! You've done a terrffic job showcasing what to look forward to- keep up the great content!
Drinking game!
1 sip every time he says "floater," "airtime," or "hill" (or any combination of the three, "floater airtime hill" = 1 sip...be safe)
1 shot every time he mentions El Toro
Double shot every time he says "slaps"
Love your in-depth reviews, man! You’ve quickly become one of my favorite coaster channels. Keep ‘em coming!
That's probably one of the best reviews I've ever seen! Really good job, maybe a bit long but worth it. Your channel is really underrated and I would love seeing a top 10 or 25 coaster list from you.
Don't listen to Max, lol -- love that the video was long. :-)
This video slaps. Slap that slap button, and remember to slap, slap, and slapscribe.
My number one roller coaster, intense, fun, good airtime, and good pacing!
Thanks for posting this video -- well done. Glad you talked about the night ride with trims off, unreal and something every coaster fan should experience. My first time was in the dark and the triple down seemed impossible (always love when coasters truly surprise me).
Amazing review! Voyage is just insane, so much work went into building this ride and still does when maintaining the Voyage but it looks like it is absolutely worth it, I’ll definitely have to go to Holiday World to ride Voyage!
Pointless tidbit: Voyage is the second longest wooden coaster on Earth, but is the longest with only one lift. Voyage holds this distinction by 1,058 feet of track. I have ridden a few steel coasters longer than Voyage, but they do not FEEL as long. And Beast.....well, two lifts.
Yeah. Beast is my favorite over voyage but not by much. They are both amazing. It's understandable why the Beast needs two lifts considering the insane helix tunnels it goes roaring through after the second lift
This roller coaster looks amazing. I am ready to drive to Holiday World just for it. And I LOVE their attention to maintenance as you pointed out.
2 eltoro rides = one voyage ride....the up keep tho is nuts...thumbs up to hoilday world... el Toro at 945pm is changing my life lately..
Thank you for this well researched documentary on The Voyage. The last time I rode it was in it's opening year. I remember it being pretty rough in the last car. I should get back there to ride it again. I expect it will be a very different experience! Of course this time I should ride it in more than one spot to get a more rounded picture of what this ride has to offer! I'm signed up for Hollywood Nights this year (2020). No one knows whether the event will take place with all the uncertainty this year. Health comes first of course but I do hope we can get through this crisis soon and get back to normal!
Hands-down my favorite roller coaster. Great video.
Great review and video! The Voyage is in my Top 5 currently. I think a top 25 roller coaster video would be great btw!
The Voyage was my #1 for many years until I rode Twisted Colossus and Steel Vengeance! This is still one of my favorites and a fantastic ride!
I would love to ride this, especially at night. Woodies are the best
I had no idea Voyage traveled up a hill like that. I’m a bad coaster nerd lol. Thanks again for a great review, Ryan!!! You’re the best🥳
That is an awesome review. Anything about the Voyage gets the tears flowing. All the way from that the name and theming suggests ho-hum, and then you get arguably the best coaster on the planet. To that the coaster starts kind of ho hum and lulls you into a false "voyage" state, then takes you out back and beats you like a red headed step child, culminating in a run away train that is only picking up speed as it appr... passes the station! For years, the Beast was my favorite go to coaster, then about 10 years or so I went to Holiday World, and not even for the coasters, but because they claimed to have the biggest water coasters (they do). And I found the coaster love of my life...The perfect coaster. You don't even have a clue what you're in for, and then it happens! Thanks for respecting my favorite coaster!
Just wanted to say: your enthusiasm for Roller Coasters re-ignited my love for Coasters after being away from Magic Mountain for so long. Two years in fact! I even bought Roller Coaster Tycoon Deluxe and Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic. 😁 I really enjoy your content. El Toro is on my Roller Coaster Bucket list.
I just rode Voyage a couple of days ago and accidentally got the last ride of the night.
Great review Ryan. Long ass ride deserves a long ass review. Keep sending it man 👊
Thanks for the heads up about The Voyage's aggressiveness, and your appreciation that not everyone finds that characteristic desirable in a coaster. I found El Toro too intense and not fun, so I'll probably skip The Voyage. Give me a coaster like Knoebel's Phoenix and I'll be happy.
Voyage during Holiwood Nights... Most insane roller coaster experience in my life! Glad HW is my home park. Legend and Raven are also good at night, but Voyage is just a different animal
Most in depth and informational coaster breakdowns I have seen period. WELL DONE RYAN!!!!
your videos are way too good!
Seems like B Meh failed to delete this video😂😂
THANK THE LORD!
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Mathew’s Coaster Vids he’s a coaster idiot who has terrible opinions
My last ride on The Voyage was my favorite and left me completely shell-shocked like no other coaster has ever done except maybe the back row on Steel Vengeance, we sat in the front row at night during Haliwood Nights and it was the best ride of my life
Awesome, loving review. You have me SOLD! I must ride this ASAP !!!! Probably the best coaster review I've seen I'll have to check out more of your vids. Great job!!!
This video slaps. Please make a top 25/top 50 😁
The brake run going into the tunnels is actually a very important element for maintaining the the ride. And this is for the same reason that Holiday world maintains the ride so well.
As you said, The Voyage is very intense. There are multiple points where the trains lift up off the track. A few years after the track originally opened, they found that that the train wheels were wearing down the weatherproofing under the wood. This would obviously lead to a shorter wood lifespan. After getting complaints of tracks roughness, they put two and two together. They started redoing sections of the track; slightly elongating hills/valleys to reduce the amount of impact the trains put underneath the track, as well as shortening lead-ins. This was to maintain the voyage's landscape footprint. Overall, this smoothed out the ride and gave it noticeably more airtime.
The mid-course brake is a blocking point, as the ride was designed to run three trains. With "1990's Cedar Point" operations it could probably do so comfortably. Unfortunately that isn't really the best place to *trim* the ride...the ride runs better when it's faster until that tall hill where it comes out of the 6th tunnel and crosses over the transfer switch. Peaking that hill at a slower speed would actually be a better way to do it. At least the new controller applies the brakes in a much more reasonable way than the old one did.
I just visited Holiday World for the first time last weekend, what a great, unique park! The Voyage is an incredible ride and has easily landed the #1 spot in my list of favorite wooden coasters! I have never had a woodie take my breath away let alone scare me as much as this coaster did. I got to ride it in both the front and back, hard to say which I liked better as they provided different rides. I think what's so impressive about this coaster is how much speed it maintains during the entire ride. You are still going so fast into that last turn that leads up to the brake run! What you said about maintenance is so true too, I found this coaster to be smoother than El Toro in many spots actually! They did a lot of track work to it on the return part of the ride this year, you can see all of the new wood from the ground and the station.
I always felt like the Hurler at Carowinds is satisfyingly long too. In fact, every time I rode it I find myself thinking 'wow this coaster is so much longer than it looks'
Some info on the trains and ride design.
Will Koch was massively responsible for Voyage’s design. He walked the forest and plotted out what he wanted. Gravity group realized his dream. Will continued to make suggestions and tweaks even after the ride was announced and work had begun. If you know the ride well enough you and dig up the original images from its announcement and spot the differences. Giving kudos to gravity group feels like an oversight without mentioning the great Will Koch, may he Rest In Peace.
The trains were shortened due to the Timberliner mess. Gravity group was testing prototypes of their trains to replace the PTCs on The Voyage for a couple of years. The park was so close to making it happen that they went and sold off 12 of their 21 PTC cars to Darien Lake which now run on Predator.
When it was decided at the last minute that the timberliners were not going to perform as Holiday World wanted, they decided to keep the PTC trains. The problem was they had only 9 cars… the park borrowed a train from Raven which only had six cars. They took one car off the 7 car voyage train and ran one 6 car Voyage train and one six car Raven train.
For this brief time period, some enthusiasts affectionately called the ride “Ravage” while the coaster sported a red Raven train and a blue voyage train.
The park purchased 3 new PTC cars and ended up with two six car trains. To have all 7 cars on the ride again meant they had to buy 5 brand new cars. It was easier and cheaper to maintain the ride without the last car, and without a 3rd train.
The boost in capacity was more a reference to the lack of a 3rd train. Running the ride with 3 never proved to be viable. There was always a second train stacked outside of the station. Piling up all three most of the time. This wasn’t helpful to operations in the least, so it was deemed unnecessary.
I love your ride reviews! Best around, thank you!
My entire love life in one sentence: "Begging for one quality that seems to be lacking - length."
I like your descriptions very entertaining and you’re correct the middle part of that ride is the best ever
Please do a top 10 or 20 coasters Ryan. I don’t know if I’ll ever get to Holiday world, but I hope I do. This ride sounds awesome!
Hopefully you do! It's a really awesome park!
The Voyage was my first roller coaster when I was 6 years old. I loved it and now I'm a coaster enthusiast! The Voyage is very special to me and is also one of my favorite roller coasters ever.
Have you ridden Ghost Rider at KBF? Personally that’s my favorite woody, would like to know your opinion too!
I have!! I think it is fantastic!
ElToroRyan that was my 100th roller coaster credit!
That coaster at night is THE BOMB!!!
I grew up in Indiana and I remember riding this soon after it opened, and I just remember the ride, especially the first hill, to be really uncomfortable. Lots of shaking, I think my neck was sore afterwards. To be fair I weighed probably 115 lbs so I think it tossed me around more than most people, but once I got past those first two hills I do remember it being a lot of fun. And, you’re right, I’d ridden The Beast multiple times before this and The Voyage did feel longer. I think maybe it’s the amount of airtime offered on the ride, making those moments of weightlessness seem to slow time down. Fantastic video btw, thank you for sharing!
Sold!!! Great review. I’ve gotta ride this thing now. My current favorite woody is a night ride on ghost rider at knotts. The way the track is lit up red is insane. But idk if I can argue with 100 seconds from drop to break run 😍😍😍.
This was the first roller coast I ever rode and I will be spoiled by it forever. Thank you for doing it justice
Im glad that B-meh didnt delete the video lmaoo. Nice review man!
Oh My I have experienced the thrill and terror of this seemingly never ending coaster, upon leaving the ride a little girl who had also just exited the ride was crying uncontrollably. She was expressing what I was feeling on the inside, WOW!
Oh boy! If I ever get the chance to ride a coaster again, this is the one for me. Not only the longest but everything that it delivers! & tunnels and built onto a mountain and fast. An enjoyable intense hard a** workout! Thank You!
I live about 40 mins from holiday world, The Voyage was my introduction to roller coasters. I remember as a kid being most afraid of the big drop, and seeing the Voyage started with 3 of them was the most intimidating thing.
Ryan if you read this you should go to a water park called Alabama splash adventure they have 2 coasters there (1 of them is a wacky worm) the other one is a woodie called rampage this thing is a beast trust me you have to ride it
Brady P dude that coaster slaps man
I hope to get there soon! Rampage looks real good!
One of my favorite memories of holiday world was eating lunch by the ravens turn over the lake. Watching the track bow outward over the lake as the train rolled through it . Finished lunch and got in line for the raven .
I have got to ride this. I rode the boardwalk bullet in Kemah and it was awesome.
I have always dreamed of riding this coaster...and yer awesome vid just sent me over. WOW! TY!
totally agree with this review and your comments on el toro too as it was majorly intense...but on the voyage, for the first time in my coaster riding life, i had to go sit down on a bench and catch my breath when i got off the voyage. i was so wiped out, i felt like i had just run a marathon.
The Voyage is my absolute favorite ride! You nailed the review
I love hearing reviews on rides I’ve been on the voyage was my first wooden and by the third ride my head was in pain
Ryan hasn't made a top 50 but he is still gonna send it one day
It is currently my favorite roller coaster experience because the ride is so unique. I have ridden coasters that l would consider more "fun", but nothing else with the same blend of fun, length, aggressiveness. As you describe, when you finish you are exhausted, but in a good way. It is like the difference between a nice drinkable bourbon that you would enjoy as a daily drinker and a complex aged smokey scotch.
Great review Ryan, loved how you synced the clips with your narration.
This ride slaps hard. Back in 2018,me and my cousin marathoned it like a bunch. I don't remerhow much but we marathoned it. I didn't get or feel sick once. It was amazing
Nice video! By the way, the reason that The Voyage has shortened trains is because they sold the seven car trains to Darien Lake to be used on Predator, and Holiday World was planning on using timberliner trains, but they proved to be a maintenance nightmare, so they used the trains from Raven to use on Voyage, and bought new trains for Raven. Though I’m not sure why they didn’t by another extra car.
Loved Holiday world as a kid. Free drink stations and sunscreen stations across the park. Plus plenty of trash cans everywhere making a stay not break the bank and also making it one of the cleanest parks I've ever visited.
I just rode this last week, it’s my absolutely favorite wooden coaster I’ve ridden so far. It was not as rough as the other 2 wooden coasters in the park. It was rough in a couple of spots but it was so much fun!
Amazing analysis, as always.
One of my favorite coasters. Love that you can only see the 1st hill and you can't see where it goes And in the dark its crazy. Highly recommended.
My daughter and I got this credit last year, and is near the top of both our all time favorite lists. It's killer
Holiday World is my home park and when i worked there i was a ride op for The Voyage, gives a real different perspective on it when you run a coaster. I've also made a point to ride it every year since it opened and its still fantastic
Its a frickin shame you only have 6k subs. With the quality of content you have, you should have hundreds of thousands more subs.
I’m just going to keep watching your videos until I run out. They’re so good
Yeah you need to do a ranking list. 😂
Great channel. Coasters are true mechanical marvels
bro the voyage is so good, it was my first coaster, and still one of my favorites. its insane. not the tallest or fastest, but somehow still one of the most thrilling coasters you'll ever sit on
you know what else is long?
skull mountain's train
you thought I would say something else didn't you silly
No not really why what did u have in mind?
What was i meant to think?
Melbourne Transport Productions there dick
I've probably been on over 100 coasters, I went to HW this summer and I would have to say this is number 1. The only other ones in the top 10 from enthusiasts that I've ridden are Fury and Millenium Force. This was handsdown my favorite Rollercoaster, it has every element and the ride experience is phenomenal. It blew those other 2 out of the water, jmo. Dying to get on El Toro and Steel Vengeance, but these trips are expensive!
The Voyage is my favorite wooden coaster!!!
Millennium Force is my all time favorite, for it's speed and length. I do like the Raptor and Top Thrill Dragster though.
This is awesome, I definitely need to get on this coaster 👍👍👍👍