Specific Type: Iron Horse
|
On March 3rd, 1990 Six Flags Over Georgia started a storm with their Georgia Cyclone, a mirror image to the legendary Coney Island Cyclone in Brooklyn, NY. The ride entertained guests for decades, but in the summer of 2017 the park announced that it would close forever. While normally a rollercoaster closure is met with nostalgia, and sometimes pushback from fans, this trend has reversed. The reason is that mid season closures of wooden roller coasters have signaled not the finale, but the beginning of a second chapter. Shortly after the closure the park announced what many had already speculated, Rocky Mountain Construction would be converting Georgia Cyclone to a hybrid of wood and steel using their I-Box technology. The new ride is now known as Twisted Cyclone, and will offer a wilder and more dynamic ride for guest to enjoy. The new coaster has cool blue rails, and 1960’s corvette themed trains. The changes are not merely cosmetic the layout has been reimagined to create a whole new experience.
Guest board their classic sports car themed trains, and are dispatched out of the station with a slight dip to the left as the train ducks underneath the track crossing over above. The track bumps up and down over bunny hops as the track winds around to the left to line up with the lift hill. The train slowly climbs the 100 foot tall lift and then pours over the 75 degree drop reaching speeds of 50 MPH passing through a near miss with the structure. The train hugs the ground for a moment, but then leaps up into the first maneuver a reverse cobra roll. A curved element the begins with a full roll, then a banked turn and finally a curving dive loop. This unique element is an interesting reinterpretation of a traditional cobra roll. The train then flies skyward into an airtime hill tipped on its side leaving riders perpendicular to the ground. The track dives again hugging the ground heading to the edge of the layout and ascending and the banking hard around to the left. The train gusts back down and blows through the structure of the ride. The turbulent track twist into a zero-G roll while the wooden timbers swirl around before breaking back out into the open. Riders might feel like they are in the clear, but they are plunged back into the wooden structure and the track curves and banks around to the left. The track does a final serpentine maneuver before hitting the brake run. There is only one thing you can do when you are stuck in the storm…ride it out. |
|
|
|
©1998-2016 COASTER-net.com, All Rights Reserved.
