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Dollywood
Roller Coaster
The entrance is spectacular at night, as is the ride, which is largely in complete darkness in the forest.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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The final bit of track before the station is a vertically lifting transfer track to the maintenance bay below the station.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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The train hits the magnetic brake run at high speed with plenty of excess energy to burn off.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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One last dip and a steeply banked helix brings you up to the final high point.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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The most intense moment comes in the quad down, where the track repeatedly dips and snakes on the way back down the hill.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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The ride is notoriously difficult to photograph, being hidden behind the ridge line in a valley, but riders can expect a ballistic layout of large drops, outward banked turns, twists, hills and more, all taken at a breathless pace.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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At the top of the launch are two airtime hills known as "Dolly's Humps".
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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The power supply cables to the LSMs (Linear synchronous motors)
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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The train launches very quickly up hill using an LSM system.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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Eventually you reach the top floor of the factory, where your hot rod is waiting.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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The fictional "Rev it Up" brand of oil is a recurrent theme throughout the queue.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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And you can't have a workshop/lab themed area without the blackboard of disorganised sketches. It just needs E=mc² in some random spot on there.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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Exhausts and engine blocks = theming.
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Punch in. Punch out.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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The welding shop.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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From the garage at the entrance, the queue winds up through various floors in a hot rod factory.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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The ride is centred around hot rod racing. Supposedly, hot rods came about as a way for moonshiners to outrun authorities.
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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The latest, and undoubtedly greatest ride at Dollywood is Lightning Rod, the worlds first launched wooden coaster,
by Gazza, 8 years ago
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