Hyperion
Specific Type: Mega Coaster
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In 2018 Poland’s Energylandia park reached for the sky and brought us Hyperion. Hyperion was the name of a Greek God who was defeated by the Olympians, and was the father to Helios the Sun. This is a fitting name for such a tall ride where riders will be sent skywards. When it opened Hyperion was Europe's tallest and fastest mega coaster. The ride was built by Intamin AR, who aren’t strangers to smashing records, and features 4 four across seating, a tunnel and a splashdown.
Riders will board the ride and secure their lapbars before being dispatched from the station. The train climbs the 252.6 foot tall lift, and dives down the main drop. The drop rockets riders up to their top speed of 88.2 MPH at 84 degrees, and features a subterranean tunnel at the bottom allowing the coaster to drop to be larger than the lift at 262.4 feet. As the train burst back into daylight the track leads it back towards the sun in a breathtaking ejector airtime hill. The train drops all the way to the ground and then leaps skyward again sending riders out of their seats, before heading back down in a Stengel dive. The track twists riders around and drops them to the ground sending them back in the opposite direction. The train charges along the ground and flips sideways over an airtime hill where the track is perpendicular to the ground, and then a small bunny hop that is slightly tilted to the right. The train ascend again in a graceful floater airtime hill, skims the ground before going back up into an overbanked turn. The rest of the ride’s layout send the train racing across the ground features a bunny hop into a wide banked turn around, and a serpentine turn and twist. The track bounds over an airtime hill and into the finale a splash down pool. The train then jumps up into the brake run completing its 4,757.2 foot long circuit. |
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