Leviathan coming to Canada's Wonderland

This morning, Canada's Wonderland announced Leviathan, their 16th roller coaster for 2012. The ride will be the first giga coaster in Canada at 306 feet, and the first giga coaster to be manufactured by Bolliger and Mabillard. Like its Intamin sisters in Ohio and Virginia, it will reach a top speed of around 92 miles per hour, with a drop angle of approximately 80 degrees. It will additionally feature several large camelback hills and high speed twists and turns. With a track length of 5,486 feet and a cost of $28M, it will be bigger than even Behemoth, a B&M hyper coaster that just opened in 2008.

More videos, photos, and statistics can be found at leviathan.canadaswonderland.com.

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HodgePodge: Week of August 7, 2011

Canada's Wonderland

Photo from CWMania.com

CWMania has a photo album up with lots of pictures on the 2012 construction. Even though no official announcement has been made yet, lots of blue B&M track is on site. A hyper is probably out of the question since they just added Behemoth. I'm personally hoping for an invert or even a flyer, but maybe with the recent trend of wing-riders, we'll see another one of those. An official announcement will be made on August 18 around noon, and we'll be watching!

Darien Lake
Screamscape reports that Darien Lake is having more problems with Ride of Steel, although this one isn't nearly as bad as the last incident. The chain lift on the ride broke yesterday, leaving the train stuck about halfway up. Everybody was evacuated safely.

Photo from Screamscape.com

Dollywood
Dollywood has launched a new teaser site to hype up their new coaster. According to the site, the announcement is only 23 days away!


Europa Park
Coasterfriends has another Mythos update from Europa Park, where lots of lumber is now on site. Footers are being poured for what looks to be a turnaround, and some sort of tunnel has been formed.

Photo from Coasterfriends.de

Knotts Berry Farm

Photo from Westcoaster.net

Westcoaster has another great update from Knotts, where work has continued on Haunt, renovations are being made to Sky Cabin, and Windseeker is testing. The area around Windseeker looks to be mostly finished, but the ride has been testing with a new damper system to try to prevent excess forward-backward movement. Check it all out here.


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