Intimidator 305 - King's Dominion 2010

[Oscar]

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[Oscar]

Intimidator 305


The Intimidator Thunders Into Virginia April 2010!
The tallest and fastest gravity driven roller coaster on the East Coast screams along 5,100 feet of steel track at 92 MPH! At a whopping 305 feet tall, Intimidator will be the BIGGEST and BADDEST steel roller coaster in the Mid-Atlantic and on the East Coast!

Featured in the Guinness World Records, the Giga-Coaster belongs to the family of ultra high coasters with a first drop of 300 feet or more resulting in a train speed in excess of 90 MPH.

KEY STATISTICSTrack Length: 5,100 feet
Maximum Height: 305 feet
Lift Hill Angle: 45 degrees
Length of First Drop: 300 feet
Angle of First Drop: 85 degrees
Fastest Speed: Excess of 90 MPH
Ride Time: 3 minutes
Airtime Humps: 6 including S-curve transitions
High Speed Turns: 3 at ground level
Investment: $25 million

Scheduled Debut:
Date: April 2010


Physical Dimensions:
Track Length: 5,100 feet
Maximum Height: 305 feet
Lift Hill Angle: 45 degrees
Length of First Drop: 300 feet
Angle of First Drop: 85 degrees
Length of Other Drops: 150 feet
Airtime Humps: 6 including S-curve transitions
High Speed Turns: 3 at ground level


Time, Speed, Capacity:
Fastest Speed: Excess of 90 MPH
Ride Time: 3 minutes
Hourly Capacity:: 1,350 riders
Number of Trains: Two
Vehicles: Four passenger open design trains with overhead lap bars but no over-the-shoulder harnesses

Structure & Design:
Lift Hill Structure: 400 tons
Track: 1,000 tons
Supports: 1,000 tons
Foundations: 7,750 cu. yds concrete and 450 tons of reinforcing steel
Braking System: Fail-Safe Eddy Current Braking System
Acres Covered: 5 acres
Design and Construction: Design by Intamin AG of Wollerau Switzerland

Foundations by Whiting and Turner Contracting Company

Erection by Adena Corporation

Station Construction by Whiting and Turner Contracting Company


Investment:Investment:
$25 million


About The Designer

Intamin AG is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland. It is best known for creating thrill rides and roller coasters worldwide. The U.S. division of the company is located in Glen Burnie, Maryland, and is headed by Gary Palmer, MD and Arnold Bernsteiner.

Intamin is a major player in the amusement park attractions industry, supplying some 22 different styles of rides to a variety of parks.

Intamin is well known for being innovative and creative with their rides. They were some of the first to create a magnetic propulsion system (Linear induction motors/Linear Synchronous Motors) and remain one of only a handful of manufacturers continuing to use such technology on roller coasters. Intamin also created the first hydraulic launch system.

Intamin is known for their massive "Giga" (over 300 ft/91 m) coasters. Their designs currently occupy the top 2 spots of the Golden Ticket Awards.

Ride Info: http://www.intimidator305.com/public/ride/
Statistics: http://www.intimidator305.com/public/ri ... istics.cfm
Track Layout: http://www.intimidator305.com/public/ride/layout.cfm
Videos: http://www.intimidator305.com/public/do ... videos.cfm
More Pictures: http://www.intimidator305.com/public/latest/gallery/
Live Construction Webcam: http://www.intimidator305.com/public/do ... webcam.cfm

That sucks! WHY DO THEY NEED OVER OTSRs? This is a nightmare!

And some people thought Maverick was painful with those restraints. Looks pretty bad IMO...All the airtime that would have been will be killed by those restraints.

[gouldy]

No wonder the spine trusses on the lift hill were so huge, the're only two supports on a 300ft tall lift hill craziness. If you built that in NL, people would be like; wtf?

That REALLY sucks about the OTSRs, why on earth would this need them? booo!!

Not as tall as we were thinking it might be

AND, is the name really The Intimidator? That is bloody awful

[Coasterkidmwm]

I'd like to use this thread as an opportunity for A113 and all of the other emos to personally apologize to me for calling me "stupid" and "not looking at the evidence" for the lifthill that clearly was going to be 90 degrees and seems to be 45 degrees instead.


America needs OTSR's because of the fatties get ejected.

Originally posted by Oscar

Vehicles: Four passenger open design trains with overhead lap bars but no over-the-shoulder harnesses

Since Intamin's restraints have a bar that comes across your lap, and the OTSR attach to that, their just cutting off the OTSR. It wasnt solid in the first place, and it only held the riders in only if their shoulders came in contact with the straps, and that hardly ever happens unless the bar is very far from your lap.

[gouldy]

http://www.kdfansite.com/2010/

POV and videos of stuff on there

I also dont like how this coaster is spread out. There isn't any height after the first drop. Its all just low, spread out, speady transitions and 1 or 2 airtime hills. No terrain interation, since the track is kinda forced into a small area, its not like there is gonna be trees flying by or ponds down below. The layout is in full view for everyone to see. As gouldy said, horrible name also. Its probably gonna be a fun ride but it had so much more potential imo.

The track is so weird. It has 2 thick middle spines. I've never seen that before.

Looks like it'll be lacking airtime just as Millennium Force did, with a few of those Maverick S-turns thrown in...

...so disappointed in Intamin.

It's like Millennium Force except with Maverick's painful whips and one good airtime hill instead of 3.

EDIT: And that first turn is going to be boring and you'll probably black out and miss the rest of the ride.

And.....Grizzly/Dropzone/Volcano remain the best rides there.

It has its own website - http://www.intimidator305.com/. Probably worth checking out. I was there for the announcement this morning. It was held on International Street at the bandstand. They had access in front of the Eiffel Tower blocked off with 2 huge pieces of track that formed boundaries. It was funny watching people trying to get from one side of I-street to the other and asking what's going on - even though they were using the park's PA system to advise people of the announcement.

Train design fail... As well as name and theme fail.

Originally posted by gouldy

No wonder the spine trusses on the lift hill were so huge, the're only two supports on a 300ft tall lift hill craziness. If you built that in NL, people would be like; wtf?

That REALLY sucks about the OTSRs, why on earth would this need them? booo!!

Not as tall as we were thinking it might be

AND, is the name really The Intimidator? That is bloody awful

Intimidator was the nickname of a very famous NASCAR driver named Dale Earnhardt. The coasters 'theme' is racing. So it actually makes sense. Not to you UK folks though cause you guys know nothing about NASCAR.[^]

Nothing about anything...

Originally posted by devilsrule911

The track is so weird. It has 2 thick middle spines. I've never seen that before.

Albeit weird, its completely necessary. They didnt go with the tradition rail design because it would have snapped. When you have a ride with that many g-forces, coming from a 300+ foot drop, and having nothing but high-speed, low to the ground turns. you need strong track. When a train traves over the track, the rails push down and out. Thats why Intamin went with the straight triangle design and didnt put any cross-bars in the track. They put the second rail in there so the track wouldnt snap in places where it wasnt supported. They also doubled up on the connects between the second rail and the main rail in places where the supports are because thats where g's would be applied the most. Its mediocre that Intamin is building all these high-speed coaster and then making them all low to the ground with nothing to exhilarate you other than 3 pathetic air hills. They had to make a whole-new track design just because Intamin didnt want to play with the track. They should really look at some GG/CCI woodies and see where theyve gone wrong.

Originally posted by tiepilot35

It's like Millennium Force except with Maverick's painful whips and one good airtime hill instead of 3.

EDIT: And that first turn is going to be boring and you'll probably black out and miss the rest of the ride.

If it's so intense that you're blacking out, then how is it boring? And I'm pretty sure there are at least 3 airtime hills on this too.

Am I the only one that thinks that this coaster looks awesome? From the POV video, looks like 2 great air hills, one or two nice ejector pops, a first drop potentially better than MF, and three intense Maverick-style transitions. Plus, it's only the second giga-coaster in the world. I've been waiting for another one for 10 years now. IMO, this looks better than MF, and I might just have to plan a trip now...

[Kev]

I think some of you might be a bit too picky about things. This doesn't look all that bad. I would certainly ride it, and I would probably enjoy it too.

Originally posted by cjd

Plus, it's only the second giga-coaster in the world. I've been waiting for another one for 10 years now. IMO, this looks better than MF, and I might just have to plan a trip now...

http://rcdb.com/1173.htm

[gouldy]

Originally posted by Coasterkat


Intimidator was the nickname of a very famous NASCAR driver named Dale Earnhardt. The coasters 'theme' is racing. So it actually makes sense. Not to you UK folks though cause you guys know nothing about NASCAR.[^]

That's a slight misjudgement on your part, mate.

I am in fact quite a NASCAR fan and I am fully aware of Dale Earnhardt's nickname, his death and the safety improvements that NASCAR went through as a direct result of his accident.

Regardless of that, for a roller coaster "The Intimidator" is a God awful name, as is NASCAR a fairly poor theme, especially when it means that the front car on the train looks are ugly as that!!!

just think a little before you shoot your mouth off next time [;)]

It's actually the third Giga coaster. Don't forget Steel Dragon 2000 in Japan is a Giga, just not made by intamin.

I have to say, I'm quite disappointed with this. MF is way better. For that matter, even the Giga coaster I made in No Limits is better than this. Give us some airtime already! It at least seems to beat Steel Dragon 2000 though.

Originally posted by Kev

I think some of you might be a bit too picky about things. This doesn't look all that bad. I would certainly ride it, and I would probably enjoy it too.

I dont think anyone is saying it isn't going to be fun, I think that we were just expecting more and thought that there was more potential for the coaster... I think even you have to admit Intamin could have done better?