May 12th, 2013 Mary Eloise H. Leake
in Life Entertainment Read Time: 1 min.
"Thar's silver in them thar hills!"
Outlaw Run shakes things up with the world's rst doublebarrel
roll (720 degrees) on a wooden coaster.Photo by Contributed
Photo/Times Free Press.
"Thar's silver in them thar hills!"
That's Silver Dollar City, just outside ofBranson, Mo. Perched
in a scenic area ofthe Ozarks, it's been lled with a passelof
whooping and hollering since March15.
Why?
The 1880s-era theme park ripped thewrappings o its new $10
million rollercoaster, Outlaw Run. Using cutting-edgetechnology,
Idaho's Rocky MountainConstruction designed and built thewooden
roller coaster with steel wheels.Outlaw Run packs such a wallop
that
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two posses - Coasterforce and theEuropean Coaster club, both
based inthe United Kingdom - are crossing thepond to hitch a
ride.
Those who ride the coaster encounterthe world's:
First and only double barrel roll (720degrees) on a woodie
(coaster fanatics'name for wooden coasters);
Steepest dive (81 degrees, 162 feet) on awood coaster (more than
16 stories);
Only trio of upsidedown twists on awoodie;
Second-fastest wood coaster, toppingout at 68 mph.
The scream machine follows the lay ofthe land on the edge of
Wilson's FamilyFarm at the park's border. Instead ofclean-cutting
the picturesquemountainous track area, trees were leftas close as
safety allowed to let ridersfeel as if they're being slung into
thetrees.
Outlaw Run starts o traveling slowly upthe 107-foot lift hill.
Jumpstarting its rstgut kick is nose-diving down the81-degree -
almost vertical - descent.Then it swoops into banked turns,double
downs, curves, wave turns,barrel rolls, which produce a total
ofnine episodes of "air time,"coaster-speak for negative G-forces
thatlift the rider from the seat.
Based on Concord stagecoaches ofbygone years, the four-person
carriagesdish out a steady ride on the fast2,937-foot custom RMC
Topper Track.Wooden coasters often get lambastedbecause their ride
can be herky-jerky,
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