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| + | == Outlaw Run tops hottest new attractions at U.S. theme parks == | ||
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| + | <html>I've visited many theme parks in the United States over the last few years as the theme park blogger for the Los Angeles Times' Travel website, but this summer's crop of rides already has me updating my bucket list. Here's a look at some of the biggest new roller coasters, dark rides, live shows, water slides and themed lands planned for this summer at theme parks across the country. | ||
| + | -Outlaw Run | ||
| + | Silver Dollar City, Mo. | ||
| + | If I could visit only one theme park this summer, I'd head to Silver Dollar City in Branson, Mo., to climb aboard the triple-inversion Outlaw Run hybrid (wood and steel) roller coaster,[http://www.daijingu.jp/keijiban/bbs/light.cgi?res=74482 Mobile Commerce Trends – a whole new and exciting], this year's most eagerly awaited new ride. | ||
| + | With a top speed of 68 mph and an 81-degree first drop, the $10-million Outlaw Run features a double barrel roll and a 153-degree over-banked turn with nine "airtime" hills. Attempts have been made in the past at constructing a looping wooden coaster, but the results have been mixed to poor. | ||
| + | Also, two aging wooden coasters - Iron Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Hades 360 at Wisconsin's Mt. Olympus - have been transformed into new rides with the addition of gravity-defying inversions. Expect the trend to continue with more parks adding inversions to their existing wooden coasters. | ||
| + | 399 Silver Dollar City Parkway, Branson, Mo.; (417) 336-7100, www.silverdollarcity.com | ||
| + | -Gatekeeper | ||
| + | Cedar Point, Ohio | ||
| + | Ride enthusiasts have consistently voted Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, the world's top theme park. It's added to its impressive arsenal of roller coasters with the Gatekeeper. | ||
| + | Billed as the tallest, fastest and longest "winged" coaster (no track above or below the rider) with the highest inversion of any coaster in the world, the $30-million ride flies over Cedar Point's front entrance as the new icon of the amusement park. | ||
| + | After climbing a 170-foot-tall lift hill, Gatekeeper rotates upside down before plummeting into a dive drop at speeds topping 65 mph. The coaster passes over the new Cedar Point entrance twice - first during a zero-gravity roll through a pair of keyhole towers and again during a 360-degree inline roll. | ||
| + | Similar winged coasters were added in 2012 at Tennessee's Dollywood (Wild Eagle) and Six Flags Great America outside Chicago (X-Flight). | ||
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| + | -Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin | ||
| + | SeaWorld Orlando, Fla. | ||
| + | SeaWorld's Antarctica is the marquee new attraction in the theme-park nirvana of central Florida. This dark ride transforms its 24-year-old Penguin Encounter habitat into a new winter-themed land with 55-foot-tall glaciers in the shape of nuzzling penguins. | ||
| + | Its centerpiece is a motion-simulator-based interactive ride offering varied adventures from a penguin's point of view. Visitors choose a mild or wild experience aboard a ride vehicle that spins, bumps and waddles. | ||
| + | Also in Florida, an alien robot invasion takes over Universal Studios Orlando in the form of the Transformers 3-D motion-simulator dark ride, and work continues on the Fantasyland expansion at Disney World's Magic Kingdom. | ||
| + | 7007 Sea World Drive, Orlando, Fla.; (888) 800-5447, www.seaworldparks.com/en/seaworld-orlando | ||
| + | -Fantasy Faire | ||
| + | Disneyland, Anaheim, Calif. | ||
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| + | An adjacent stage offers "Renaissance Vaudeville" versions of well-known Disney stories told by a comedic duo at a breakneck pace with frequent costume changes, running gags, madcap dancing and comical fight scenes. | ||
| + | Elsewhere in Southern California, Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park has added a trio of family rides to the theme park's Boardwalk section, and SeaWorld San Diego has opened a water park called Aquatica where visitors interact with marine animals as they zip down water slides. | ||
| + | 1313 S. Disneyland Drive, Anaheim; (714) 781-4636, http://disneyland.disney.go.com/ | ||
| + | -Full Throttle | ||
| + | Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, Calif. | ||
| + | The Full Throttle launch coaster will boast the world's tallest vertical loop (160 feet), with riders traversing the loop twice - once on the inside and again on the outside over a top-hat element. Reaching 70 mph, the ride will incorporate three launches, including a backward launch. | ||
| + | Expected to debut June 22, the Full Throttle will bring Magic Mountain's coaster count to 18, two more than Cedar Point and the most of any park in the world. | ||
| + | Other coasters debuting this summer in California include the Gold Striker at Great America in Santa Clara and the Undertow spinning coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. | ||
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| + | -RiverRush | ||
| + | Dollywood, Tenn. | ||
| + | The RiverRush water coaster at Dollywood's Splash Country water park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., carries riders in a four-person toboggan up a 237-foot-tall conveyor belt before plunging them down a 25-foot drop at a 45-degree angle. | ||
| + | With the help of magnetic propulsion, the water slide mimics the ups and downs of a traditional roller coaster as it zips over hills, through tunnels and around hairpin curves. | ||
| + | 2700 Dollywood Parks Blvd., Pigeon Forge, Tenn.; (865) 428-9488, www.dollywood.com | ||
| + | Brady MacDonald: brady.macdonald@latimes.com</html> | ||
