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Shockwave (occasionally stylized as ShockWave or Shock Wave) was a roller coaster manufactured by Arrow Dynamics at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois.Standing 170 feet (52 m) tall and reaching speeds of 65 miles per hour (105 km/h), it opened in 1988 as the world's tallest and fastest looping roller coaster with a record-breaking seven inversions: three vertical loops, a boomerang ...
The ride would be a looping coaster manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf. It would require 437,000 lb (198,000 kg) of steel and 4,800,000 lb (2,200,000 kg) of concrete to build. [1] Shock Wave opened to the public on April 22, 1978. At the time of its opening, it was the tallest roller coaster in the world.
It was originally an Intamin Stand-Up roller coaster from 1994-2023 initially called The 7up Shockwave and then just The Shockwave, and was also the only stand-up roller coaster with a Zero Gravity Roll ever made. Shockwave was retired as a Stand-up coaster on 5 November 2023 to have a new sit down train manufactured by Art Engineering for the ...
Shockwave was a stand-up roller coaster located at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. Opened in 1986, it was the third stand-up roller coaster installation built and designed by Japanese company TOGO. Following closures of the previous two, it became the oldest of its kind still in operation.
The ride was the tallest Larson Loop in the world. It replaced King Chaos, a top spin ride which closed at the end of the 2017 season. While Six Flags claims this attraction to be a roller coaster, it fails to meet the definition as it does not use gravity at any point in the ride to 'coast’.
BOLT debuted Carnival’s Mardi Gras ship, in 2021 and was billed as the first roller coaster at sea, but the ride is only one of many activities onboard Jubilee: Lone Star Tailgate: ...
1988 saw the first of the new coasters, with the addition of the massive roller coaster Shockwave, an Arrow Dynamics mega-looper, opening in Orleans Place section of the park on June 3. Shockwave was the world's tallest roller coaster at the time it opened and was surpassed the following year by Cedar Point's Magnum XL-200.
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