Here is the information about the coaster. The coaster crowd is now saying this new coaster at Universal Studios will replace Cedar Point's top coaster for BEST in the United States. DH said it's too extreme for him and he does all the crazy - hang upside down - spin in loops coasters.
Oh yea - Sea World building something big right now too.
By Mark Albright, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Thursday, April 23, 2009
"It's the most sophisticated coaster we've ever created," said spokesman Tom Schroder. "So we want to be sure we get it right."
With attendance slumping through the spring, all Central Florida theme parks are pulling out discounts and counting on new attractions to draw more locals through a summer with fewer out-of-state vacationers.
The ride, with a top speed of 65 miles per hour, has 3,800 feet of track stretching from Universal's New York Street to the front gate and actually barrels through a hole in a building facade beyond it. The new pint-size, two-car, 12-passenger trains called X-cars are far more maneuverable than bigger coaster cousins and can flip, twist and turn in much less space.
The signature move is a non-inverted loop. That means the train runs around a 103-foot tall loop, starting on the inside of the curve, then twists 180 degrees on the way up and back down. The train soars over the top of the loop, so riders are never upside down, but are subjected to changes in centrifugal force.
The track also runs through a massive musical treble clef, flies over the ride queue at a 95-degree angle to the ground and does a spiraling negative-gravity roll that is designed to feel like a corkscrew without actually going upside down.
In a bit of one-upmanship with the Aerosmith soundtrack piped into cars at the Hollywood Rock 'n' Rollercoaster at Walt Disney World, Universal will offer riders a choice of 30 rock tunes for the experience. Each rider also will be offered a DVD recording of his or her personal experience on the ride set to music for a price not yet disclosed.
At SeaWorld, Manta is a steel coaster designed to look like a school of manta rays. Riders are suspended facedown in a prone position through multiple loops.
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that would be great, but not counting my chicken, ya know.
