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Iron Menace
Steel Dive Machine at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Opened 2024.
- Height
- 160 ft
- Drop
- 152 ft
- Top speed
- 64 mph
- Length
- 2,169 ft
- Inversions
- 4
- Ride time
- 1 min 30 s
- Designer
- Bolliger & Mabillard
Iron Menace is a dive coaster at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. It opened on May 10, 2024 in the park's Steel Yard area, on the site of the Stinger coaster, which was removed in 2018. The park marketed it as the first dive coaster in the Northeast.
History
The ride's name and its backstory, about a steel baron named Hiram S. McTavish, were announced on August 10, 2023.
Trains climb a 160-foot chain lift, then drop 152 feet at a 95-degree angle, steeper than vertical. The coaster reaches 64 mph and has four inversions: an Immelmann, a zero-g roll, an inclined loop and a corkscrew. The track is 2,169 feet long and a ride lasts about 90 seconds. Each train has three cars seating seven riders in a single row. The park lists a minimum rider height of 48 inches and a maximum of 78 inches.
Sources
- sixflags.com/dorneypark/attractions/iron-menace (Park page: dive coaster, about 160 feet, 95-degree drop, four inversions, up to 64 mph, introduced 2024, Bolliger & Mabillard, Hiram S. McTavish backstory, 48-inch minimum and 78-inch maximum)
- rcdb.com/21085.htm (RCDB: B&M Dive Coaster, 2,169 ft, 160 ft, 152-ft drop, 64 mph, 95 degrees, 4 inversions, 1:30; Immelmann, zero-G roll, inclined loop, corkscrew; 2 trains of 3 cars, 7 across)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Menace (Opened May 10, 2024 in the Steel Yard; replaced Stinger (removed 2018); name and backstory unveiled August 10, 2023; marketed as the first dive coaster in the Northeast)
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