After another night of sleep fail, I managed to get down to King Island by 9:30 this morning to shoot a little video and ride Diamondback. The verdict is that it owns Apollo's Chariot, Nitro and especially Raging Bull in every way. It's intense in ways that you wouldn't expect a B&M to be. And I checked around and found that I was not the only person who felt it was hard to marathon the ride with the extreme negative/positive G cycle. It tosses you high with up to seven seconds out of the seat on a cold empty train, to about five seconds for normal operation, then slams your ass back down.
Every seat is different. The front is pretty amazing, and the back yanks you over the top like no other. The outside seats (aside from the front) are in my opinion the best visually, but slightly rougher in spots since they sit over the wheels (which is still pretty smooth). In fact, the ride has what no other B&M I've been on has: personality. The longer trains allow them to design in ways they couldn't before.
That's all I can get out of my head at the moment. I'll have more stuff posted in the morning, including the sexy slow motion splash video. For now, here's a little taste (be sure to click the "HD" button)...
I was the one right in front of you on your "holy shit" back seat ride. That was also my reaction the first time I rode in that seat, I wasn't expecting it to be so strong.