GARDALAND
NEW RIDE 2011
Raptor, the new roller coaster of Gardaland
In 2011 Gardaland
present a great new attraction: Raptor, a roller coaster
designed and manufactured by B&M.
The
new roller coaster that Gardaland opens for season 2011
develops through a path of 770 meters, from the departure
underground, through forests and
devastated lands with passages extremely close to scenic
obstacles, 90 ° curves at high speed, a low altitudine flying over a
lake surface with water effects and three spins zero
gravity. The new roller coaster at Gardaland reaches the
maximum height of 30 meters and the real innovation is
represented by trains having seats hanging
in the air and placed sideways to the rails (see
figure).
The
novelty of Gardaland 2011 covers an area of 16,000 square
meters (Blue Tornado occupies 10,000 square meters)
previously occupied by the canoes route Tunga and the Ice
Palace, now renamed PalaRaptor.
Raptor was inaugurated on April 1, 2011, the first day of opening of
Gardaland for the new season 2011.
