Griffon
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| Manufacturer | Bolliger & Mabillard | ||||||||||
| Type | Steel - Floorless - Hyper | ||||||||||
| Riders per train | 30 | ||||||||||
| Hourly capacity | 1,400 | ||||||||||
Height205 feet
Top speed71 mph Length3108 feet Inversions2 Steepest drop90° Duration3:00 G-force4G
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Griffon is a steel roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Griffon is themed after a half-lion/half-eagle mythological creature called a Griffon, not the breed of dog with the same name.
It was built by Bolliger & Mabillard and was the tallest and fastest Dive Coaster until it was surpassed by Valravn at Cedar Point in 2016. It is also the first to have multiple inversions.
Design[edit | edit source]
Griffon has two vertical dives, two immelmanns and a splashdown.
Trains[edit | edit source]
3 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged 10 across in a single row for a total of 30 riders per train. A car from Griffon was on display at B&M's IAAPA 2007 booth.
| Roller coasters at Busch Gardens Williamsburg | |||||||||
| Present | Alpengeist • Apollo's Chariot • Griffon • Grover's Alpine Express • InvadR • Loch Ness Monster • Pantheon • Tempesto • Verbolten | ||||||||
| Former | Big Bad Wolf • Das Kätzchen • Die Wildkatze • Drachen Fire • Glissade • Wilde Maus | ||||||||