Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom announced a new roller coaster for 2024: Iron Menace! Here's what you'll experience when the ride opens next spring.
For the theme, the creators of the roller coaster took inspiration from the Lehigh Valley's steel industry history."We took a lot of our leads, our inspiration, from the ruins in Bethlehem," said Dorney Park Public Relations Manager Ryan Eldredge. "It's going to look and feel more like a steel mill.
Iron Menace will be the park's eighth roller coaster, the first new coaster since Hydra opened in 2005, and the largest since Steel Force opened in 1997.Park visitors are promised a heart-pounding, high-speed experience: "Riders of Iron Menace will start their exhilarating journey in the remains of an old steel mill and then climb 160 feet where they'll hang over the beyond-vertical first drop before diving into the first of four mind-bending inversions.
"With nearly 2,200 feet of steel track, this awe-inspiring roller coaster will feature a unique 'hold and dive' element, where riders will find themselves hanging on the edge of their seats, breathlessly awaiting the heart-pounding 95-degree, 152-foot drop. "With speeds up to 64 miles per hour, Iron Menace will boast the first-ever tilted loop on a dive coaster. After the initial, beastly drop, the train will pull up sharply and flip 180 degrees in an Immelmann inversion. A zero g-roll will dish out a 360-degree inversion in wild weightlessness, while the tilted loop and a 360-degree corkscrew spin will leave riders wondering which way is up," Dorney Park's announcement reads.
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