Raging Bull
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| Manufacturer | Bolliger & Mabillard | ||||||||||||
| Product | Hyper Coaster | ||||||||||||
| Designer / calculations | Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH | ||||||||||||
| Type | Steel - Hyper | ||||||||||||
| Riders per train | 36 | ||||||||||||
| Hourly capacity | 1,560 | ||||||||||||
| Propulsion | Chain lift hill | ||||||||||||
| Height | 202 feet | ||||||||||||
| Drop | 208 feet | ||||||||||||
| Top speed | 73 mph | ||||||||||||
| Length | 5057 feet | ||||||||||||
| Inversions | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Drop angle | 65° | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 2:30 | ||||||||||||
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Raging Bull is a steel hyper roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, USA. The ride opened on May 1, 1999 as the second Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster to exceed 200 feet. Like Viper, Raging Bull is located in Southwest Territory, a frontier-themed area.
History
Six Flags Great America announced the addition of Raging Bull on October 21, 1998. Construction of Raging Bull started in November of that year. Raging Bull opened on May 1, 1999.
On June 15, 2016, Six Flags announced that virtual reality would be put on the ride.[2]
Design
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Raging Bull is one of two Bolliger & Mabillard hyper roller coasters to feature a pre drop, with the other one being Apollo's Chariot at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. It is themed to a ferocious beast that terrorized residents of the old Southwest Territory until they fled the town.
Color scheme
Raging Bull has an orange track and maroon supports.
Trains
3 trains with 9 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged 4 across in a single row, for a total of 36 riders per train.
Incident
On May 3, 2003, the park's first day of the season, an 11-year-old girl died while choking on a taffy during the ride.[3]
Images
The tunnel
Raging Bull's safety sign
The queue line
The extended queue area
The Flash Pass entrance and chicken exit
The horseshoe
The helix
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References
- ↑ "Six Flags parks investment".
- ↑ "Six Flags Great America Announces New VR Experience on Raging Bull". http://www.themeparksandtravels.com/new-for-2016/six-flags-great-america-announces-new-vr-experience-on-raging-bull/.
- ↑ "Gary Girl dies after ride on coaster". https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-05-04-0305040219-story.html.
External links
- Raging Bull on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
