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Current Name: Kingda Ka
Location: Six Flags Great Adventure

Type:

Steel Rocket
Status: Operating since 2005
Designer: Intamin
Features: Dual Station, Hydraulic Launch, Vertical

Height:

456 feet
Max Drop: 418 feet
Max Speed: 128 mph
Length: 3118 feet
Inversions: 0
Duration: 0.51

Trains:

4
Capacity: 1400 per hour

Comments:

128 mph in 3.5 seconds.




Current Name: Goliath
Location: Six Flags Magic Mountain

Type:

Steel Hyper
Status: Operating since 2000
Designer: Giovanola
Features: 1 Underground Tunnel, Themed

Height:

235 feet
Max Drop: 255 feet
Max Speed: 85 mph
Length: 4500 feet
Inversions: 0
Duration: 3.00

Trains:

3
Capacity: 1600 per hour

Comments:

Previously the world's longest drop on a coaster.


 




The American Plunge

notably replaced Jim Owens Float Trip, a boat ride around a man-made river with animatronics. The float trip included a tumbling outhouse, whirlpools and a dark cave. Some sections of the original ride's man-made river were reused for the log flume. A large portion of the ride’s channel are no longer used, however they still exist and are used as theme in Wildfire’s overflow queue-line.


Dragon Falls 

is a ride at the theme park Chessington World of Adventures in Chessington, London, England. It is located in the Mystic East area of the park. It is a water ride and features two drops, one that leads into the mouth of a dragon and another, taller one between two large 'stone' faces designed to resemble Angkor Wat. The ride's station is modelled after a pagoda and is decorated extensively inside. Although regarded as a 'log flume', the boats are not themed as logs (as in Loggers Leap at nearby Thorpe Park), but rather as nondescript wooden boats with inline seating. The ride starts off by traveling out of the loading station and down a peaceful stream, passing bridges and points where the water is rough. Then you travel up a lift hill and down the first drop, which is small, yet has quite a splashdown and into a dragon's mouth. The inside is un-themed, and after traveling along it, you come out into the open, round a lake and then climb up to the top of the lift hill, where you can see over the park. You then splashdown but before you get in to the station an elephant squirts you with water, getting you very wet. Then you travel back into the loading station.

Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls

Once the log is loaded it enters the first room where lights shine on forest animals playing instruments as the narrator announces the log entering a twentieth century melodrama. The log proceeds up the first of two lift hills as Dudley makes his first appearance, stating "I will save you Nell". Still climbing the lift hill, Snidely is seen riding a mine cart laughing maniacally having captured Nell. The log reaches the top of the hill and is now outdoors, the riders get a quick view of the park before taking a turn and entering Wontyabee Mine. After a short sequence riders exit the mine. The ride passes by Snidely tying Nell to train tracks, then passes by Horse and inspector Fenwick also tied to the tracks, then the riders enter a cave. Though Dudley is not seen in the cave. he can be heard saying, "Horse, it seems I've lost my train of thought" a giant train light goes on and the sound of the engine is heard (this is a parody of the famous scene in Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland). Once the light goes out, the log drops a medium size drop. Riders travel into an outdoor sawmill with Dudley stuck in a log. After a drop to ground level riders are shown humorous signs telling them to turn around. The log begins to climb the second lift hill, which the log crests and turns into Snidely's lair.