Specific Type: Wooden
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Six Flags over Georgia decided that they wanted to bring guests a new and updated version of Brooklyn, New York's famous Coney Island Cyclone for the 1990 season. Houston, Texas' Six Flags AstroWorld had tried their hand at creating an updated version of the classic landmark with with Texas Cyclone of 1976, and the Georgia park would follow suit, bringing the thrills of the 1927 Coney Island ride to a new generation and new region of wood-tracked coaster enthusiasts. The theme park contracted the Dinn Corporation to build the ride, and plans called for a loose replica of the original Cyclone, only taller, longer, and faster, with new methods of design and construction to ensure a smoother and less brutal ride. Finally, the finished product was unveiled to Southeast park goers in March of 1990 as the Georgia Cyclone. The new cyclonic wooden ride rises ten feet above the original with its 95-foot lift hill, track length exceeding the father ride's by 330 feet with a twisted 2,970 feet of blue and white wooden track work as opposed to Coney Island Cyclone's 2,640. Georgia Cyclone received rave reviews after making its debut into the coaster world, becoming a favorite wooden coaster and a new classic.
Boarding one of Georgia Cyclone's twenty-four-rider, six-car trains, lap bars are pulled into place and then passengers dispatched from the station. The coaster rolls around a U-turn and crosses under wooden structure, making its way to the chain lift. Cyclone riders are taken up to a pinnacle of 95 feet from the Georgia soil, where the chain releases to send the train on its way. Passengers plunge eight stories down while curving to the left, crossing under another layer of track and pulling up into an elevated right-hand turnaround curve. The ride dives down again before pulling up in a camelback hill crossing underneath the lift hill structure. Thrill seekers are sent over the top of the hill and down with a 45-degree curve to the right, then the ride enters the third turnaround, curving around the first turn in a leftward 225-degree turn and then diving down parallel to the lift. After another camelback hump, the course leads the train under the first elevated turnaround in another U-curve, then back down again and heading towards the other end of the layout. The train plows over another hump and then under the other end's turnaround, gaining speed as it goes. After the turnaround, the ride dives back down and sends passengers hurtling over a surprise hop while dishing up airtime. Finally, another banked turnaround takes the ride out over the bottom of the first drop and into the final braking straightaway to end the ride on the Georgia Cyclone. |
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