Specific Type: Stand-Up Coaster
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The 1999 coaster year heated up in Austell, Georgia when Six Flags over Georgia completed the world's newest stand-up coaster - the Georgia Scorcher. The Scorcher comes from Bolliger and Mabillard as the company's second ride for the Georgia park, following a Batman: the Rideinstallation for 1997. Occupying a limited plot of land formerly home to a complex of water slides, Georgia Scorcher turns limitation into opportunity, with a compact layout featuring an array of twists, turns and crossovers, all packed into 3,000 feet of orange steel track. While originally slated to receive the name Jezebel, the coaster, located in SFoG's Georgia section, soon was officially dubbed its ultimate name Georgia Scorcher. The first riders put their feet to the fire on Georgia Scorcher on May 5th, 1999 with two train-flipping inversions and speeds reaching 54 miles per hour.
Thrill seekers load onto one of two red and purple trains in stand-up position, 'seats' adjusting to fit the height of each individual, then it's out of the station and around a slight curve to the lift. Riders are carried up above the treetops to a height of 110 feet [plus height], then level and warm up with a dip. The real scorching begins with a 10-story plunge, then riders are thrown for a loop - vertically - up and around the 70-foot inversion. A graceful climbing U-curve proceeds, with an S-curving swoop down and around 360-degrees back through the center of inversion number one. The Scorcher scorches up a steeply-banked hill curving into the ride's second and last inversion - a Corkscrew. Standing passengers flip head-over-heels through inversion two, then the train navigates back around the beginning of the lift in a banked Carousel Curve. The banking direction reverses again with a twist around to the right, then the track leads back up through a heavily-banked curve onto the brake-run, with a final U-turn back to the starting point. If you're looking for a stand-up experience unlike any other ride, put your feet to the fire on the Georgia Scorcher! Can you stand the heat? |
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