Tac Talks Coasters - Post 97: #73
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Opened: 1978
Manufacturer: Arrow Dynamics
Height: 125 ft (38.1 m)
Speed: 60 mph (96.6 kph)
Length: 3,935 ft (1,199.4 m)
My most recent ride: 2022
Time for yet another racing coaster, though this one is of the hybrid variety as opposed to the wooden ones we covered earlier this week haha.
Gemini is the highest ranked racing coaster on my list (note: racing coaster, not dueling coaster haha, that's for later) and it really is just a lot of fun. Like a lot of the other racing coasters I've covered from Kennywood, Kings Island, Carowinds and Kings Dominion, the real fun of the ride comes from jockeying for position and talking smack with the other train lol. That's especially fun if you have friends on the opposite side that you can direct your ire at lmao.
The layout of Gemini is nothing to shout at really, just a huge figure eight with two laps, a lot of hills and a helix on each side at the end. But when it comes to a racing coaster like this, sometimes the simpler layouts are what works the best, since it gives the two trains a lot of opportunities to pass and catch up to each other.
For a ride this old, and having been built by Arrow, Gemini actually tracks relatively smoothly. Part of what helps with that is the straightforward and uncomplicated layout lacking in janky transitions, but even then, I've always been pleasantly surprised as to how smoothly Gemini runs. It has a few up and down bumps here and there, but nothing egregious by any means. Another fun aspect of the ride is the headchoppers it has at the bottoms of some of its drops, especially the first drop. Diving under the structure so suddenly offers some really cool moments as you go through the course. Gemini is a really long ride too, so you definitely feel you got an experience that was worth the wait for.
Gemini doesn't have much of a theme, if any really, but the station has a bit of a 70s sorta space age look too it, and the name is absolutely perfect for this ride. With Gemini of course meaning the twins, it's hard to come up with a more perfect name for a racing coaster like this hehe.
Thanks for checking out today's coaster post! Keep an eye out for tomorrow's coaster!
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