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
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.