The second corkscrews the cars around the track while going up a hill.
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The first holds the cars upside down while going through a full loop, making a blur of sky, mountain, and steel track as you spin. Once you’ve been sufficiently catapulted, it’s onto three inversions: a dive loop, a zero-G roll, and the vertical loop. Seated backward, it feels a little like takeoff on one of those old lounge-seating Southwest Airlines planes. From a dead stop, you’re thrust to 47 mph in three seconds, which if you’re facing forward feels sticking your head out a sunroof on the freeway. Catch your breath, make some small talk with the car behind you as you face each other, then get ready to have your face peeled back. Depending on which way you’re facing, you might watch the ground hurtling towards you, you might watch the loading area speed off into the distance, or you might have a nice panoramic view of the Ozarks.įrom there it’s straight into a full roll and a sharp curve before coming to a complete stop. Once they’re loaded two gates open, and as the cars begin to spin one by one, they’re dropped 10 stories straight to the bottom. The cars have two seats facing forward, and two facing back, with four cars in a train.
The waiting area is themed to look like his workshop, from which a couple flights of stairs lead up to the ride’s loading area. Time Traveler tells the story of an 1880s clockmaker and his daughter, who decide to dabble into time travel. To give you an idea of why the spinning makes the Time Traveler such a different kind of ride, let’s walk through the full two-minute experience, which is literally different every time. It uses this height to create two of the more stomach-dropping features on the ride: First, a 10-story, 90-degree drop right out of the starting gate, then later a vertical loop at the very top of the ride, the highest vertical loop on any spinning coaster. But imagine it like jackknifing straight off a cliff in Negril vs doing a backflip off the high dive, and you understand how the spinning makes the distance seem longer. That’s still about one-fifth the height of Kingda Ka and 140 feet shorter than Magic Mountain Goliath. It’s also the tallest spinning coaster in the world at 95 feet. But think about spinning out your car while going the speed limit on a highway versus accelerating up over 120 on a drag strip, and you’ll get why Time Traveler is a special kind of rush. Compared to the 128 mph speeds on Kingda Ka, the world’s fastest coaster, it sounds manageable. That control is important when cars are moving forward at 50 mph, the fastest of any spinning coaster. Time Traveler’s spin in controlled via a magnetic brake, which ensures smooth, controlled rotations. Nor is it like the Mouse Trap rides at your local county fair, where the car just twirls around however it likes. It’s not like the Disney teacups, where people control the spin themselves and stay flat. What exactly is a spinning roller coaster? And why's this one so great?Ī spinning roller coaster is pretty much like other steel-track coasters, except instead of the cars facing forward the entire time, they spin 360-degrees. So it reasoned to fly from Africa to middle America to check out the greatest spinning roller coaster ever created. The $26 million attraction from German thrill ride magnates Mack Rides is like nothing anyone’s ridden before, a tall spinning coaster that sends you careening around the Ozarks at Interstate speeds, with flips. Or more to the point, she didn’t quite appreciate how groundbreaking Silver Dollar City’s newest coaster was. “Have fun with that.”Ĭlearly she didn’t get it. “Sounds like flying across an ocean to puke up my lunch,” she said as she helped herself to some couscous. Goes from like zero-to-45 in three seconds.” It starts with this 10-story drop, then it goes into a dive loop, a vertical loop, a zero-G roll. “It’s the tallest, fastest, steepest spinning coaster in the world!” I told her like an overly excited fifth-grader. But I knew that Branson, Missouri was the place to be on Tuesday, for the opening of the Time Traveler roller coaster. She was choosing to explore the desert with her four days in between. Paddy’s Day in Dublin the following weekend.
We had nearly the same schedule in early March a week in Africa followed by St. ride a roller coaster?” a travel writer friend asked me over a Saturday night plate of kebabs in Morocco. “So, you’re going all the way back to Missouri to.
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