Maverick

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Maverick

Cedar Point
Location	Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Coordinates	41°29′07″N 82°41′33″W / 41.485253°N 82.692535°W / 41.485253; -82.692535
Section	Frontier Town
Status	Operating since May 26, 2007
Cost	$21,000,000 USD
Rider height	Minimum: 52 inch Maximum: 78 inch
Replaced	White Water Landing

Statistics

Manufacturer

Intamin

Product

LSM Launch Coaster

Designer / calculations

Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH

Type

Steel - Launched

Riders per train

12

Hourly capacity

1200

Propulsion

LSM lift hill and LSM launch (rolling)

Height

105 feet

Drop

100 feet

Top speed

70 mph

Length

4450 feet

Inversions

2

Drop angle

95°

Duration

2:30

Maverick is an Intamin launched roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, USA. Opened in 2007, it was manufactured by Intamin and was the 500th roller coaster designed by German engineer Werner Stengel. The ride is the first LSM Launch Coaster produced by the company. Maverick includes a "beyond vertical" 95° drop and the world's first twisted horseshoe roll - two 360 degree barrel rolls separated by a 180-degree turn.

History

White Water Landing, a log flume ride at Cedar Point, was retired on October 30, 2005 to make way for the park's new-for-2007 roller coaster.^[1] Cedar Point had the name Maverick filed for a trademark, heightening speculation for another roller coaster. During the 2006 season, supports for the new ride began to arrive at Cedar Point and the park gave up hiding their new roller coaster. More details were revealed on September 7, 2006, including the name.^[2]

On May 8, 2007, Cedar Point announced that the ride's planned opening on May 12 would be delayed until June as three sections of track had to be replaced.^[3] This was due to higher-than-expected stresses on the track and trains and included the replacement of a heartline roll with an s-curve. Maverick officially opened on May 26 following completion of the work.^[4]

The trains' hard restraints were replaced with ones with a softer, vest-like design in 2015.^[5]

In 2018, the tunnel halfway through the ride was refurbished.^[6]

Pieces of rail cut from the removed heartline roll were sold at the park in October 2024. The park sold 290 pieces at $299 and an additional 100 pieces, with Intamin employee Sandor Kernacs' signature, at $349.^[7]

Design

Ride experience

Two trains are loaded and dispatched simultaneously. One train is launched while the other sits at the bottom of the lift hill. Once the first train has reached the tunnel, the second train is launched. The ride starts out with a 105 foot tall LSM lift hill at 20 degrees. At the top of the lift hill, the train drops 100 feet at a 95-degree angle. The train reaches a speed of 57 mph then goes through a series of banked turns. First, the train turns to the right. Then it turns to the left through a canyon then another turn to the right. It then goes over a 74 foot airtime hill followed by a turn to the right into the twisted horseshoe roll which features two mirrored 360-degree corkscrew rolls, back-to-back, with a 180-degree banked curve between the two inversions. The train then makes a turn to the right into the tunnel where it is launched 400 feet at 70 mph under the station. The tunnel features special effects such as blue LED strips. At the end of the tunnel, it goes up a hill with trim brakes going up it, followed by a high-banked curve. The train then goes through a turn to the right into a canyon with an S-curve where the original heartline roll was located. Water cannons shoot off as the train enters the canyon. The train then passes under the lift hill through an over banked turn at 92 degrees. It then turns to the right into another over-banked turn followed by an airtime hill. The train then turns to the right into the final brake run.

Elements
105 foot tall LSM lift hill with a 100 foot drop at 95° 74 foot tall hill Twisted horseshoe roll 400 foot long tunnel LSM launch (rolling) from 0-70 mph in 3.0 seconds Over-banked curve Over-banked curve Hill