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Blast Off
Drop Tower at Wild Adventures, Valdosta, Georgia. Opened 1999.
- Height
- n/a
- Drop
- n/a
- Top speed
- 35 mph
- Length
- n/a
- Inversions
- n/a
- Ride time
- n/a
- Designer
- S&S Worldwide
Blast Off is a drop tower at Wild Adventures in Valdosta, Georgia. It is an S&S Double Shot, an air-powered tower ride that both launches riders upward and pulls them down, and Wikipedia lists it as opening at the park in 1999.
Riders are shot up the tower and back down within one to two seconds, at speeds up to 35 mph. The park says the ascent produces about 3.5 g and the downward thrust about 1 g, and a ride cycle lasts about 40 seconds.
The ride has run under earlier names, including Double Shot, Blazer Blast Off and Firecracker. Riders must be at least 48 inches tall.
Sources
- wildadventures.com/explore-the-park/rides/blast-off (Park ride page: double action space tower, air-powered, up and down in 1 to 2 seconds, up to 35 mph, about +3.5 g up and 1 g down, 40 seconds; minimum height 48 inches.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Adventures (Wikipedia ride table: Blast Off, S&S - Sansei Technologies Double Shot, 1999; formerly Double Shot, Blazer Blast Off and Firecracker.)
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