Thursday, May 29, 2008

Manta is Official


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Sea World Florida has made their new coaster for 2009 official, and as expected it will be named Manta.

The ride will be 140 ft. tall and 3,359 ft. long (a couple hundred feet shorter than Tatsu), and hit speeds approaching 60 m.p.h. Sporting colors of cobalt, ultramarine blue, and dark purple, the B&M flying coaster will have 12 ft wide trains shaped like a Manta Ray, and it's fins will indeed dip into the water at one point.

The coaster will be centered in an ancient village paying honor to Rays in general through artifacts and decorations, the queue will pass viewing areas for a spectacular amount of different types of live rays. Sound like a pretty complete experience, and hopefully well themed on top of that.

Sounds like a great project for Sea World that combines the park's marine life message with the highly attractive thrill rides of today.


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