Krake (Heide Park Resort)
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| Manufacturer | Bolliger & Mabillard | ||||||||||||||
| Product | Dive Coaster (Custom) | ||||||||||||||
| Designer / calculations | John Wardley | ||||||||||||||
| Type | Steel - Floorless - Diving | ||||||||||||||
| Riders per train | 18 | ||||||||||||||
| Propulsion | Chain lift hill | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 41 metres | ||||||||||||||
| Top speed | 103 km/h | ||||||||||||||
| Length | 476 metres | ||||||||||||||
| Inversions | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Drop angle | 87° | ||||||||||||||
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Krake (German for Octopus) is a steel roller coaster located at Heide Park in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. Opened on 16 April 2011, it is a custom Dive Coaster installation from Bolliger & Mabillard.[1]
Design
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Trains
3 trains with 3 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged 6 across in a single row, for a total of 18 riders per train.
Ride Experience
After the chain lift hill, a turn to the left follows. Then a holding brake stops the train at the top of the drop for approximately 3 seconds, then drops the train down the drop. At the bottom of the drop, funnels scoop water from the artificial lake, spraying water several feet in the air. The train then goes into an immelmann. An airtime hill follows, then it leads back to the final brake run.
Theme
As the name implies, Krake is themed around a large Kraken that swallows the riders when they descend the vertical drop. A near miss element themed as a large octopus, featured in the advertising for the attraction, was added for the 2012 season.
References
- ↑ "Heide-Park adds Germany's first B&M dive coaster" (PDF). Amusement Today. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-10.
External links
- Krake on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
