Ranking Florida’s top 5 roller coasters

Is it fast, filled with epic twists and turns, sport an epic storyline, all while still taking you on a smooth ride that doesn’t make you want to puke? If so, it likely made Florida’s Fourth Estate’s top roller coaster list. Hosts Matt Austin and Ginger Gadsden invited In the Loop: Theme Park Scoops producer Landon McReynolds on the show to break down the best of the best. “If he’s off for two seconds he’s at the theme parks,” Austin said of McReynolds. Of course, he has ridden each of the top 5. Counting down to one, the top five are: 5. Mako (Seaworld Orlando) McReynolds said Mako at SeaWorld claims to be “Orlando’s tallest and fastest.” It goes up to 73 miles per hour but because it has a metal track. “It’s very smooth,” McReynolds said. He also calls it “a must-do,” even though when he took his parents his mom sat this one out and his Dad agreed she was safer on the ground. 4. Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind (Epcot) McReynolds said this ride is “one of the longest enclosed coasters in the world” and that “it’s so big it could actually take up an entire football field.” He added it’s mostly in the dark. “So you can’t see where you’re going,” McReynolds said. Pair that up with your chair moving you towards displays on the wall and he said this could increase the “vomit factor” for some people. 3. Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure (Orlando’s Islands of Adventure) Gadsden said this is the only one of the top five coasters she has ridden. She said she was “so terrified to get on this thing.” She quickly realized it was “fast as all get out,” but also “smooth.” Despite waiting for two hours to get on she says “we had so much fun.” Austin said the good thing about Hagrid’s is that the height requirement is 48 inches, so parents looking for a thrill can take their kids on too. 2. Iron Gwazi (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay) “This one reaches up to 76 miles per hour and it flips you around like nobody’s business,” McReynolds said. He said he was screaming on this ride and describes it as “very intense” 1.