The
Incredible Hulk Coaster is a steel roller coaster located in
Islands of
Adventure
in Orlando
, Florida
, USA
. It
is named for the popular comic book superhero character, the
Hulk. Voted the #1 roller coaster by
Discovery Channel viewers in 1999,
the
roller coaster is unique because
it features a
launch lift hill as opposed to conventional chain lifts.
This means the train accelerates to 40 mph (18 m/s) in a short time
(approximately two seconds) before speeding through several
inversions. When the Incredible Hulk opened, it featured the
world's tallest
cobra roll (110
feet).
The Incredible Hulk is the only launched roller coaster produced by
Bolliger & Mabillard.
As a company, it is opposed to launched coasters because of
perceived reliability problems, so it subcontracted the launch
mechanism to another company.
The Incredible Hulk was featured at the beginning of the 1999 film
House on Haunted
Hill under the pseudonym "Terror Incognita".
Summary
Queue
Volunteers enter the lab of
Bruce Banner with many
televisions showing the story of the Hulk. Bruce is now trying to
find a way to reverse the effects, which the guests are about to
take part in. While walking through the lab they encounter items
including the generator, the Gamma core and the towers of power.
Volunteers are also able to watch the coaster through large holes
in the walls as well as listen to the coaster as it does a number
of passes.
Ride
Exterior of the ride.
Hulk Coaster riders.
At the lift hill, owen enters the Project Gamma tube and hear Bruce
Banner expressing his dismay at yet another malfunction. He
stammers: "Everything looks good....I think...I think this time
it's going to work". A malfunction of the machine takes place by a
quote saying,"Warning: Coolant Level Dropping." Bruce screams:
"No....No! No!!!!!! Let Me out of here!" After that sentence riders
are shot out within 2 seconds at 110 feet and are sent through a
zero-g roll, down a drop and through a cobra roll. Riders complete
a vertical loop, then enter a tunnel full of mist. At this point of
the ride, the train's speed has reached approximately 65 mph. The
train encircles the gamma tube pulling 4Gs and is sent into the
back area via corkscrew. After another vertical loop which wraps
around the brake run and two over-banked turns, the coaster is
slowed down by the brake run before being sent down another hill to
a corkscrew and turn-around. Riders then travel sideways through an
onride camera zone and then to the ride's final brakes after a
helix.
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