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Oscar's Wacky Taxi
Wood Family at Sesame Place Philadelphia, Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Opened 2018.
- Height
- 43 ft
- Drop
- 39 ft
- Top speed
- 34 mph
- Length
- 1,205 ft
- Inversions
- 0
- Ride time
- n/a
- Designer
- Gravitykraft Corporation
Oscar's Wacky Taxi is a family wooden roller coaster at Sesame Place Philadelphia in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. It is themed to Oscar the Grouch, and its yellow train is styled after a taxi. The park calls it its first wooden roller coaster; it has wooden track on a steel structure.
History
The coaster opened in 2018 as the park's second roller coaster, twenty years after Vapor Trail. It was designed by The Gravity Group and built by Gravitykraft Corporation.
RCDB lists the track at 1,205 feet long, with a height of 43 feet, a 39-foot drop and a top speed of 34 mph. A chain lift raises the train, and the layout includes a tunnel, banked turns of up to 50 degrees and 12 moments of airtime, with no inversions. Two trains of six two-seat cars run on the track. Riders must be at least 40 inches tall, and those between 40 and 46 inches must ride with a supervising companion.
Sources
- sesameplace.com/philadelphia/rides/oscars-wacky-taxi (Park page: Oscar's Wacky Taxi Coaster, Oscar the Grouch theme, taxi-inspired train; 'first ever family-friendly wooden roller coaster'; wooden-steel hybrid; 40-inch minimum, 40 to 46 inches with a supervising companion.)
- rcdb.com/15486.htm (RCDB: operating since 2018-05-26; wood sit-down family hybrid; make Gravitykraft Corporation; designer The Gravity Group; length 1,205 ft; height 43 ft; drop 39 ft; speed 34 mph; 0 inversions; 50-degree bank; 12 airtime points; chain lift and tunnel; 2 trains of 6 cars, 12 riders each.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Place_Philadelphia (Oscar's Wacky Taxi: The Gravity Group, 2018, family wooden coaster near the front gate.)
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