Alpengeist

Alpengeist
Alpengeist's Immelmann
Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Park section	Germany's Frozen Alps
Coordinates	37°13′58″N 76°38′51″W / 37.2328°N 76.6476°W / 37.2328; -76.6476Coordinates: 37°13′58″N 76°38′51″W / 37.2328°N 76.6476°W / 37.2328; -76.6476
Status	Operating
Opening date	March 22, 1997
Cost	$20,000,000 USD
General statistics
Type	Steel – Inverted
Manufacturer	Bolliger & Mabillard
Designer	Werner Stengel
Model	Inverted Coaster
Track layout	Terrain
Lift/launch system	Chain lift hill
Height	195 ft (59 m)
Drop	170 ft (52 m)
Length	3,828 ft (1,167 m)
Speed	67 mph (108 km/h)
Inversions	6
Duration	3:10
Max vertical angle	79°
Capacity	1820 riders per hour
G-force	3.7
Height restriction	54 in (137 cm)
Trains	3 trains with 8 cars. Riders are arranged 4 across in a single row for a total of 32 riders per train.
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Alpengeist is a steel roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Alpengeist has an Alpine mountain region theme. The name "Alpengeist" is German for "Ghost of the Alps" or "Alps Spirit" and the ride is themed to a runaway ski lift. Since it opened in 1997, Alpengeist has been the world's tallest complete circuit inverted coaster.^[1][2]

Ride experience

Upon exiting the station, the floor drops beneath the riders feet and the train climbs the 195-foot-tall chain lift^[3] after hearing the send-off recording "Thank you and enjoy your avalanche of adventure on Alpengeist!" The track drops to the right down a 170-foot drop, going past The Land of The Dragons, with the train hitting 67 miles per hour.^[3] Following the drop, the track passes through an Immelmann loop, followed by a 106-foot vertical loop. The track then races through a wooden tunnel, which until recent years, had cameras for an on-ride photo (it has since been removed due to the two inside seats not being clear in the photos), before passing through a cobra roll over the Rhine River, adjacent to the Loch Ness Monster's final brake run. Out of the cobra roll, the track crosses over the entrance to the cobra roll, passes by Griffon, then hits the midcourse brake run. Off the midcourse brakes, the track crosses over the exit from the Immelmann loop, then goes down a drop and through a zero-g roll alongside the Le Scoot log flume. After a short section of straight track close to ground level, the track goes through a corkscrew, followed by a clockwise helix, before making a left hand turn to the final brake run.

Ride elements

• Immelmann loop
• 106-foot vertical loop
• Cobra roll
• Zero-g roll
• Corkscrew (commonly known as a flat spin or wing over)
• Helix

Awards

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  Alpengeist's loop

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  Alpengeist's cobra roll

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  Alpengeist's zero-g roll

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alpengeist.

• Alpengeist at the Roller Coaster DataBase