Great White
Specific Type: Wooden
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Through the years, Morey’s Pier became more and more popular with guests to the New Jersey Shore. The park started adding roller coasters and started to have a pretty impressive line up of rides, but something was missing. The park lacked a good wooden coaster to make their line up complete. In 1995, the park decided to do something about that and contacted Custom Coasters International. CCI answered with a double-out-and-back layout with a steel structure. The management at Morey’s Pier loved the idea and construction started soon after. This ride wasn’t just gonna be some small wooden coaster. Great White has a height of 110 feet and a length of 3,300 feet of track. The coaster reaches speeds of 50-mph within its wood/steel course.
This great CCI creation starts like all other roller coasters in the world. Riders board the coaches sitting 2-abreast and secure the lap bars. Once the all clear signal is given, the train plunges out of the station and into a tunnel making a left-handed 180-degree turn. Once the trains are back in daylight, the chain engages and carries the car to the top of the 110-foot lift hill. The train reaches the top of the lift and then crests the top. Riders are left breathless as the train plunges down the first drop and then right up the second hill at nearly 50-mph. The train crests the second hill and immediately plummets downward in a downward left-hand curve. An upward curve waits after the downward curve to complete the first turnaround. The train races towards the first drop and veer off at the last second. The train races up the next hill and then banks to the right for the second turnaround. The track then plunges toward the beach and turns sharply to avoid hitting another piece of track. The track banks to the left and end up directly underneath the first turnaround. The track then dips up and down and the second turnaround is complete. The train heads back towards the station races through bunny hill after bunny hill. After the bunny hills, comes the surprise on this ride. At this point most coasters would come to an end, but the Great White doesn’t. The track turns until it’s heading back towards the bunny hills. The track banks left at the last minute and hits a final bunny hill to give riders a last taste of airtime. The track then turns 90-degrees and the train rolls into the brakes. |
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