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RSS FeedsWorld`s largest, fastest and tallest dive coaster coming to Canada`s Wonderland
(The Star Travel)

 
 

15 august 2018 17:10:04

 
World`s largest, fastest and tallest dive coaster coming to Canada`s Wonderland
(The Star Travel)
 


The world’s largest, fastest and tallest dive coaster — plummeting riders at 130 kilometres an hour down 75 metres (245 feet) into an underwater tunnel — is coming to Canada’s Wonderland.The Yukon Striker is under construction now and set to be ready when the theme park opens for its 2019 season.Dive coasters are known for their 90-degree vertical drop and floorless, stadium-style seating. At its peak, the Yukon Striker will hold riders in place for three seconds with a “perfect view” of the lake and the Toronto skyline before the drop, said Dave Phillips, vice-president of marketing.Riders will then plunge into an underwater, 200-foot-long tunnel. “You come blasting out of the other end of that into an inversion,” said Peter Switzer, director of maintenance and construction at the park.The course continues with three more twisty inversions and a second, smaller drop. The 1,105-metre-long ride lasts three minutes and 25 seconds.Switzer said construction of the Yukon Striker’s foundation and tunnel began in January 2018, adding that, from planning to opening day, building a roller-coaster of this magnitude takes about two years.“Because we’re building it within an existing, operating theme park, we have to be careful with the park operating schedule,” Switzer said. “We have to plan some of that work to happen when the park is closed. If we were building a brand new park, then the construction length would be a little bit shorter.”Switzer said the roller-coaster’s track and the columns are made in Ohio and are taken by transport truck in pieces — with some up to 18 metres (60 feet) long — to Vaughan. At the park, the pieces are assembled, “much like a steel building would go together with nuts and bolts,” Switzer said.The roller-coaster — the park’s 17th — will join six other attractions to make up the newly themed Frontier Canada sec ...


 
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