The Hulk
This is one mean, green, twisting machine. If you won't be heading out for at least another week, pick up America's Greatest Rollercoaster Thrills to experience Hulk from the seated perspective on your home VCR to know what I mean.
You start off, innocently enough, in Dr. Bruce Banner's laboratory. Unlike the traditional chainlift coasters, once you board your green and maroon train you will enter the scientist's slingshot gamma ray booster. We're talking no time for clickety. No time for Clack. No sooner are you there, replicating the green with envy doctor's good works that the lab security begins bellowing out "Warning! Warning!" Okay, don't say you weren't warned. In two seconds you will go from zero to 40 miles per hour in one of the most exhilarating moments in ride design history, catapulted into a fierce track that will feature seven unique inversions along the way.
The track's launch is unique in that it is not the traditional linear induction motor catapult. Hulk is powered by the wheels on the track itself which power up with a great deal of voltage. The demands are so intense that the ride had to install its own power plant generators so it wouldn't suck the juice out of the rest of the park -- or Orlando for that matter -- every time a Hulk coaster went into orbit.
From submerged mist tunnels to a neat little brake run towards the latter half of the ride that leads to a surprisingly violent dip followed by a seemingly impossible twist this coaster will steal your heart -- and pound on it.
And if you see a green-faced passenger once you return to the station, don't worry, it's not the Hulk -- maybe he or she is just feeling a little queasy at the moment. (You must be 54 inches tall to ride)
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