Ricochet
Steel Wild Mouse at Carowinds, Charlotte, North Carolina. Opened 2002.
- Height
- 46 ft
- Drop
- n/a
- Top speed
- 28 mph
- Length
- 1,214 ft
- Inversions
- 0
- Ride time
- 1 min 50 s
- Designer
- Mack Rides
Ricochet is a steel wild mouse roller coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. Built by Mack Rides, it opened on March 23, 2002, in the park's Carolina Boardwalk area.
Single cars seating four climb a chain lift, then run through flat, unbanked hairpin turns before a series of short drops. RCDB lists a height of about 46 feet, a top speed of 28 mph, about 1,214 feet of track and a ride time of about 1 minute and 50 seconds. The park requires riders to be 54 inches tall, or 44 inches with a supervising companion.
It is a smaller Mack model than the wild mouse Kings Dominion opened the same year under the name Ricochet, which that park now calls Apple Zapple.
Sources
- sixflags.com/carowinds/attractions/ricochet (Park page: wild mouse coaster with flat hairpin turns and drops; minimum height 54 inches, 44 inches accompanied.)
- rcdb.com/1478.htm (RCDB: operating since 2002; Mack Rides Wilde Maus (Compact Park); length 1,213.9 ft, height 45.9 ft, 28 mph, 0 inversions, duration 1:50; chain lift; 8 cars of 4 riders.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Carowinds) (Wikipedia: opened March 23, 2002; Mack Rides wild mouse; Carolina Boardwalk; 1,214 ft, 28 mph, 1:50.)
- rcdb.com/930.htm (RCDB: Kings Dominion's Apple Zapple, a larger Mack Wilde Maus (Large Park), was named Ricochet from 2002 to 2017.)
Numbers are from the ride's manufacturer and park where published; "n/a" means we have not confirmed that number yet. Spotted an error? Tell us.