Today, Carowinds announced Intimidator, their largest investment in the parks 37 year history. The $23 million dollar B&M Hyper Coaster will be the break almost every record in the southeast as the tallest at 232 feet, fastest at 75-80 mph, and longest at 5,316 feet. This is Cedar Fair’s second roller coaster this year to have the “Intimidator” name and be themed to legendary NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt.
The ride features a fairly normal B&M hyper layout, but many of those typical elements have been slightly modified. For example. both the 2nd drop and the “hammerhead” turnaround both feature twisted s-bend drops. B&M has also introduced an element that hasn’t been seen on past B&M Hyper Coasters called a “diving spiral,” similar to a scaled down version of Son of Beast’s first helix.
Full Stats:
Height: 232 feet tall
Drop Height: 211 feet
Speed: 75-78 mph
Length: 5,316 feet long
Drop angle: 74 degrees
Ride Time: 3:33 minutes
Capacity: 1,600 riders per hour
Size: 10 acres
On-ride Animaton:
Renderings:
See more renderings and concept art here.
Intimidator will debut at Carowinds in the Spring of 2010!
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6 Responses
Egypt2112 Aug 26th, 2009, 5:46 pm
This looks like a really good hyper! Although not the tallest, and not really earth shattering records…that layout seems nice. But it does go a tiny bit slow at the last part.
Awsomedude137 Aug 26th, 2009, 9:38 pm
even though its shorter i feel more intimidated by intimidator than intimidator 305
Ice101 Aug 26th, 2009, 10:01 pm
Intimidator has a much better design then 305. Carowinds got a budget and made the best coaster they could out of it giving it an incredible and fairly unique coaster. Kings Dominion got the budget, and spent most of it just so they could call the ride a Giga, and not for the actual quality of the ride.
Egypt2112 Aug 26th, 2009, 11:50 pm
Now Ice, you don’t know if they really did that. I305 has the same about of hills as MF and MF has overbank turns. How come I305 needs over bank turns? Its kind of like saying Raging Bull shouldn’t be a hyper because it only has 2 hills…
This coaster I actually think is fairly unique.But both parks didn’t want a hyper, and KD wanted to get something bigger then usual…Remember Intamin designs what you want, and they designed them a very compact turn coaster. They did not have a lot of land to add 120ft hills from its 4 acre area.
Carowind’s coaster had a long land area and that coaster takes up 10 acres. And I am sure B&M would not give Carowinds much choice on the layout because a lot of hypers are the same
out and back.
Atem Aug 27th, 2009, 12:34 am
While I was underwhelmed by i305, I think that in the end, the force of that one will win out, this is a cookie cutter b&m that was slightly modified (not that there’s anything wrong with that). But it was literally exactly what I expected.
Doug Aug 27th, 2009, 4:45 pm
Although it may not have the height of 305, it will sure be a lot more smoother. I can tell from the videos, and riding an Intamin before that has quick turns, that 305 will not be that smooth.
This version of a B&M Hyper looks great. They’ve kept the popular and most beloved elements, but they’ve also taken some and twisted them to be more unique.
It will be interesting to see which one people prefer!
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