Welcome to four-year amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world-class.

I'm Ryan Bergara.

I'm Barry Marin.

And for this episode's featured attraction, we blast off and hang on for dear life to discuss Accelerator and Knottesbury Farm in Winni Park, California.

And joining us in the Fast Lane is America's Coaster Network from YouTube as well as Instagram. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. And as always, please like and subscribe to keep us alive. If you're watching the video version over on YouTube.com slash at FYA pod, or if you're listening to the audio version, subscribe and rate the podcast five stars. and consider supporting us on our fourth wall,

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way to, is you, is you, I don't know how you could turn around for the video of yours. Can you just, let's see, let's just see if this works. Can you, can you, can you see, see my backside too? Does that actually work? I actually see that. That think that works. That'll work. That looks good.

Yeah, that's some original accelerator merch,

which they don't really sell anymore.

We were just kind of lamenting about it. actually see that think that works that'll work yeah that's good that's that's some original accelerator

merch which they don't really sell anymore we were just kind of lamenting about that before we started

recording let's just go ahead and jump right into it when we have guests on the show we asked them to

give a list of rides that they'd like to cover in accelerator was on your list what what what

brought accelerator top of mind?

Accelerator was the very first coaster that I covered with ACN.

Which is, by the way, how long has ACN been around?

Because I became familiar with ACN via the YouTube channel.

But we were talking before that it predates that by quite a bit. Yeah.

The, the website started in 2001.

Yeah, I know.

It's amazing.

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