The Walking Dead - The Ride
| The Walking Dead - The Ride | |
|---|---|
Entrance and building |
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| Data | |
| Location |
Thorpe Park ( Chertsey , Surrey , UK ) |
| Type | Steel - seated |
| model | Enigma |
| category | Dark roller coaster |
| Drive type | Friction wheel lift |
| Manufacturer | Vekoma |
| opening | 1996 |
| length | 400 m |
| height | 13 m |
| Dimensions | 40 × 60 m² |
| Max. speed | 45 km / h |
| Travel time | 2:00 min |
| capacity | 1000 people per hour |
| Trains | 5 trains, 5 cars / train, 1 row of seats / car, 2 seats / row of seats |
| Inversions | 0 |
| Theming | the Walking Dead |
The Walking Dead - The Ride in Thorpe Park ( Chertsey , Surrey , UK ) is a steel roller coaster model Enigma by the manufacturer Vekoma , which was opened in 1996 as X: \ No Way Out . She held this name up to and including 2012. From 2013 to 2017 it drove under the name X , until it was finally renamed to the current name in 2018.
The train was advertised as the first backward-moving roller coaster in the dark and was themed according to the idea of being stuck in a computer virus . For this purpose, it was housed in the Lost City theme area in a pyramid-shaped corrugated iron building. Originally it also had a lot of theming, but most of that has been removed over the years. After the powered coaster Flying Fish , it was the park's first “classic” roller coaster when it opened in 1996.
The Walking Dead - The Ride has five trains with five cars each. Two people (in a row) can be seated in each carriage. The train has separate stations for getting on and off. After boarding the train, a friction wheel lift transports it to a height of around 13 meters. On the following 400-meter route, the train stops three times for about 15 seconds each, which is supposed to be part of the story told. Despite the relatively short distance, the train takes two minutes for the entire journey. Theoretically 1000 people can ride the roller coaster per hour.
Among roller coaster fans, the track is rather unpopular due to its poor driving characteristics and the only moderately perceptible theming and is regularly in one of the last places in the annual votes on the best steel coaster polls.
literature
- Chris Hühnlein: The black yoke ; Ralph Latotzki: Indoor Coaster In: park + ride No. 59, association magazine of the Freundeskreis Kirmes und Freizeitparks e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results of the Steel Coaster Poll from 1999-2005 (engl.)
- ↑ park + ride ( Memento from January 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 12.3 " N , 0 ° 30 ′ 47.8" W.