Banshee (roller coaster)

Banshee ( " Banshee " ) in the U.S. theme park Kings Iceland (Kings Mills, Ohio ) is an is under construction steel roller coaster from the model inverted coaster manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, which is scheduled to open in April 2014. The 1257 m long and 24 million dollar range reaches a height of 51 m, from which the trains are accelerated to a maximum speed of 109 km / h and has along with five other inversions on a roller coasters unique Pretzel Knot.

History

Banshee is built on the former territory of the Son of Beast wooden roller coaster and go- kart track. After several incidents during the years 2006 and 2009, was announced in July 2012 that Son of Beast would be demolished for the future expansion of the park. However, it has not yet been announced at this time, which would replace the car. After the completed demolition work, construction began for Banshee on April 22, 2013. On April 24, 2013, the name Banshee was registered as a brand name for Kings Iceland.

Kings Iceland began the new attraction from the first day of the season to compete in 2013. Therefore, a fence was erected, which should attract the attention of visitors with a mysterious inscription, but still did not provide accurate information. During the summer, new signs were erected near the site again and again. On 10 June, the park began its social media campaign by a photo of the construction site with the inscription " Field of Dreams" has been uploaded. The advertising campaign was continued with the installation of five scarecrows and several Twitter posts with information about the new attraction. A view to promote the beginning of July sound recordings were played of screaming people near the construction site. Two weeks later, owls were placed in nearby trees as decoration. On July 31, 2013 was officially announced that the plans for the new attraction on August 8, would be presented by 22 clock. A limited number of tickets including a construction site tour and a reserved seat on a pew during the presentation was sold to the public. The proceeds were donated to breast cancer research. On August 1, some construction plans have been published without the permission of the park.

On August 8, 2013 Kings Iceland finally announced on said press conference Banshee, the longest inverted coaster in the world at. With construction costs of 24 million U.S. dollars, this is the largest investment in the entire park history. Banshee will be the second of Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster and the 14th overall in Kings Iceland by Diamondback.

In mid-August came the first rail parts in a park, so the first piece of track was built on August 27. The schedule provides that the construction in March 2014 is to be ended, so that from then on can take place until the opening in April test drives.

Ride

After the train has left the station, it passes through a left turn, ends up in the lift hill. At a height of 51 meters arrived, the train reaches the 46 meter high landscaped in a right exit. This is followed by a dive loop and a loop around the lift hill around. The train then passes through a zero- g roll, a Pretzel Knot and a second loop. Before the train pulls into the final brakes, the car gets even more into a Heartline Roll and a left- inclined helix.

Because of the slope, on which the web is built, Banshee is in contrast to most roller coasters do not reach the top speed of 109 km / h after the first turn but only on half of the distance traveled by.

Technology

Rail

The railway line made ​​of steel is 1257 meters long and the lift hill is about 51 meters high. The rails are violet and the blue columns. The rails are manufactured by Clermont Steel Fabricators, the producer of B & M, in Batavia (Ohio ).

Banshee will have three identical, made ​​of steel and fiberglass trains with 8 cars each. Each car consists of a row of four seats, so that a train has a capacity of 32 people and about 1650 people can be transported per hour in the plant. Each individual seat has a novel flexible shoulder strap as a retention system, as they are also used to Wing Coastern the same manufacturer.

Theming

The highlighting of the web is similar to a female mythological spirits of the same name. In addition to the actual railway also a place is built with appropriate theming to complete the picture of the web.

Records

Banshee will be coaster in the world with a length of 1257 meters, the opening of the longest inverted. In addition, the track will contain two new elements. The first loop, through the leads inside the lift hill through is unique for an inverted coaster. There are only two other persons, also manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard tracks that hold this special position of the loop: The Sitting Coaster Kumba at Busch Gardens and the Stand-Up Coaster Riddler 's Revenge at Six Flags Magic Mountain.

A unique feature of a roller coaster is the Pretzel Knot element. This consists of a Batwing, in which cross the entrance and exit. Although there were with Moonsault Scramble from 1983 before a train with Pretzel Knot, but this was closed in 2000 due to the arising in the drive-through g - forces.