Raging Bull

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Raging Bull

Six Flags Great America Location Gurnee, Illinois, USA Coordinates 42.365462°N 87.937104°W / 42.365462; -87.937104 Section Southwest Territory Status Operating since May 1, 1999 Cost $25,000,000 Rider height 54 inch minimum Replaced Rolling Thunder
Statistics
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

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 in October 1998. Construction of Raging Bull started in November of that year. Raging Bull opened on May 1, 1999.

During the 2008 off-season, the sign for the coaster was replaced and the ride was repainted.

On June 15, 2016, Six Flags announced that virtual reality would be put on the ride.

Design

Elements
202 foot tall chain lift hill with a 208 foot drop Tunnel 155 foot tall horseshoe 141 foot tall hill 128 foot tall hill Horseshoe Block brake Hill Helix

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. Unlike other Bolliger & Mabillard coasters, the coaster has a "Hyper-Twister" layout instead of the "Out and Back" layout hyper coasters usually star. The layout was different so that the ride could fit in a relatively small plot of land. 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.

Images

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  The tunnel
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  The current entrance sign
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  Raging Bull's safety sign
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  The queue line
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  The extended queue area
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  The Flash Pass entrance and chicken exit
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  The horseshoe
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  The helix
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  The first hill

External links

The category Raging Bull contains additional media.

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  Raging Bull on the Roller Coaster DataBase.

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