Iron Wolf Review

We're here at Six Flags Great America to ride Iron Wolf. You straddle the seat to a comfortable setting, pull down the OTSR, and then we're off! Around the turn we go and into the lifthill we climb. While it's not a very high climb, you still get a good view of the employee parking lot. Then we reach the top. We dip down the pre drop, and get yanked around the frst drop. We gain a good amount of speed for this drop. But before anything else can be said, we fly into a vertical loop. One moment, we're head over heels, the next thing, you know, you're back on the ground right side up. So far, it's been pretty good. But you can definetly tell that this was B&M's first coaster. Next, we rise into a sort of overbanked turn. After that banked, we immetietly bank to the oppisite direction and twist down another fairly decent sized drop. And let me just tell you this now. This ride will beat the living crap out of you. For me, Iron Wolf is sort of rough in a weird hypnotic way. It's like with proper bracing to avoid too much pain, the ride sort of has a weird rythym to it. And while I really like it, I can safely say that you will most likely loathe this ride for it's intense headbanging and roughness. Anyways, we then start to head into a big upward swooping helix. We rise up high, eventually, we're just turning. After threading the verical loop we were just in, we then head into some straight track. We then dip down a drop. During this drop, we get some nice sweet ejector air. We begin to turn to the right, but suddenly, we are thrown into a corkscrew to the left. This creates quite an experience. You then head into a big turnaround turn before dipping down. You then go through some twisty track before going through a big swooping turn. We then switch directions and go through another big turn and a big hill with it as well. You then rise up and get some more airtime. You then turn and head through some straight track until you hit the brake run. Now from my prospective, Iron Wolf is still a very fun stand up coaster that I'd recommend to you. However, most everyone will complain that this ride is horrible and rough as hell. And they're right. Iron Wolf is rough as hell. However, I found Iron Wolf to have rythym to it's roughness unlike Dragon and Wild Beast which just beat you senseless. So take my 7/10 rating with a grain of sand because I highly doubt you will agree with me. But damn it!! That's still how I feel about Iron Wolf and that's still the score I'll give it.

7/10

Location: Six Flags Great America

Opened: 1990

Built by: B&M

Last Ridden: August 13, 2010

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