I have to say, the original black with gray rails looked awesome. The yellow made it look similar to Nitro. Occasionally I’ll overhear someone at the park say something like “this ride (Nitro) has loops! I’m not going on that!”

speaking of dirty and dingy..I hated that they repainted all the batman rides bright yellow and blue in some parks..should have kept the faded blacks and greys..thats what gotham city is!

I guess hobo piss would also be a likely smell in an access tunnel. Back in the day they actually had what amounted to trash in that fenced in area to the left of the queue switchback. It’s been cleaned up, probably because it looked too real.