In spring of
2017 a new wooden roller coaster will be invading Busch Gardens in Williamsburg
Virginia. America’s most beautiful park is adding yet another thrill ride to
the delight of thrill seekers. The park already has thrill rides in most of the
“villages”. Scotland has Lockness Monster, France has The Griffon, Oktoberfest
has both Mach Tower and Verbolten and Fiesta Italy has Apollo's Chariot and
Tempesto. (the latter opened Spring 2015). This coaster will be added into the New France section of the park,
which currently has mostly shops, the log flume Le Scoot and a stop on the railroad. You
also can enjoy some delicious smoked food, visit the Golden Eagle, mine for
gems and for the little ones, ride Le Catapult.
Vikings are Invading New France.
The theme of
this ride is going to be of a Viking story. Talk was going on for a short while with
park goers being able to vote and “decide the ride” as far as the name. The masses
spoke and the decision is to name the coaster InvadR. This is a family coaster
in the sense the height requirement is planned to be 46 inches. However Larry
Giles VP of Engineering stated “This is no kiddie ride, there will be an
exciting drop of 74 feet and nine airtime hills”. This will make the hills
similar as to what you experience on Apollos chariot, but not at the same
speed. The planed speed for InvadR is 48 MPH, where Apollo’s Chariot hits over
70MPH. InvadR merges
both the stability of a steel coaster and feel of a wooden coaster since the
tracks will be wood and is manufactured by Great Coasters International of
Sunbury PA.
Some fun
aspects of InvadR are going to be its theming of over 2100 feet of wooded terrain
through an underground tunnel (what!). The
location is near Le Scoot and the railroad but none of these neighboring attractions will need to be
closed during the construction, which makes park goers very happy. We will be sure to capture some pictures when we visit later this month for the Food & Wine Festival.
Fans Will Have More Choices to Vote.
Dan Dipiazzo, vice president of marketing stated there
will be more options to vote about in the future for the creation of InvadR. “Our fans are so loyal and passionate about
this park, and we want to make them co-creators in this exciting new project,”
Dipiazzo said. “We still have a lot of details to finalize for this
attraction, and our guests will get to weigh in and be a part of the
development.
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