Rising up like a great Egyptian obelisk, like a bold middle finger to gravity, the new Hypersonic XLC roller coaster is a pillar of human bravado. Ride the Hypersonic, a roller coaster that accelerates faster than any other on the planet, and you're destined to come away with a few epiphanies.
Nothing is ever big and bad enough.
The industry knows no ride will thrill as much the second time. Thus, there are coasters in which you stand up, bottomless coasters in which your feet hang free, coasters inverted so the train hangs, ski-lift style. The fastest coaster in the world now hits 100 mph. This month's flavor is air compression, and the Hypersonic is the first coaster to be powered by it. It blasts out of the starting gate, going from zero to 80 mph in less than two seconds.