Wildfire is a steel roller coaster located at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. The $ 14 million journey was built by Swiss firm Bolliger & amp; Mabillard and opened in 2001. Wildfire themed as a flying machine developed by the inventors of the Ozark of the 1880s.
Standing 120 feet (37 m) tall and featuring a top speed of 66 miles per hour (106 km/h), Wildfire is the fastest and second fastest rise in Silver Dollar City. Along the path of 3,073 feet (937 m), Wildfire displays five inversions including the Immelmann loop, vertical loop, cobra roll, and bottle opener.
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Histori
In July 2000, Silver Dollar City announced that they would add the Wildfire roller coaster to their park in 2001. At a cost of $ 14 million, the journey would be the most expensive attraction in the park's history. At the time of the announcement, construction had already taken place in an undeveloped piece of land on the outskirts of the park. All steering footholds are in place with some steel supporters that have been established. Construction is expected to be completed by early January of the following year, leaving three months for testing, landscaping and themes. On April 4, 2001, Wildfire was officially opened to the public.
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Characteristics
The 3.073-foot-long (937 m) Wildfire features five inversions including the Immelmann loop, vertical loop, cobra roll, and bottle opener. The existing field in the park (located in the Ozark Mountains) is used to allow a 120ft (37m) hill lift followed by a first drop of 155 feet (47m). Riders reach a top speed of 66 miles per hour (106 km/h) at 2 minutes, 16 seconds of travel. The track is produced by Clermont Steel Fabricators located in Batavia, Ohio. Wildfire operates with two trains (generally with one rail loading/unloading while the others run the course, each featuring eight cars.Each seat of the four rider cars is parallel to ratcheting over-the-shoulder restraint. This configuration allows travel to achieve the theoretical hourly capacity of 1,300 riders per hour.
Wildfire is located in the "Hugo's Hill Street" district of Silver Dollar City. It is themed around the story of an inventor of the 1880 Ozark named Dr. Horatio Harris. Harris has a goal to make flying-flying devices fly for flights across the Ozark Mountains. Wildfire is the fuel he develops for his glyphs. Queues and train station areas are modeled as Harris's laboratory and warehouse. The driver finally boarded his Wildfire-powered flight, a steel roller coaster. One year after the opening of the roller coaster, Silver Dollar City started selling the Wildfire Burger, hot and spicy hamburger, themed after the trip.
Drive experience
The train leaves the station, takes 180 degree turns to the right and up to the hill lift chain up to 120 feet (37 m). At the top, the train rotates 90 degrees to the left before negotiating the first drop of 155 feet (47 m). This is followed by the Immelmann loop, vertical loop and cobra roll, the last one that reverses the rider twice. Then the train to the curve turns into a corkscrew and twists 230 degrees into the last brake.
Reception
Rick Baker, vice president of Silver Dollar City for the development and design of the company, expects additional travel will increase season ticket sales by 9% to 250,000. In 2001, the park was visited by a total of 2.1 million people.
In the annual Golden Ticket Awards from Amusement Today, Wildfire is included in the top 50 steel roller coasters three times. In 2003, they debuted in position 40, before dropping to 46 in 2004 and 49 in 2005. Until 2012 has not returned to the list.
In the best Polling Best Roller Coaster in the world Mitch Hawker, Wildfire came in 47th place in 2001, before peaking at 45 in 2005. It hovered at about 60 before falling to 96 in 2012. The travel ratings in the poll are shown in the table below.
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References
External links
- Official website
- Wildfire in DataBase's Roller Coaster
- Media related to Wildfire (Silver Dollar City) on Wikimedia Commons
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