Darien Lake, 2 New Attractions for 2015!

[TTD03]

New York's Darien Lake has announced their 2015 capital plans, which include a new attraction for both their amusement and water park. The additions are being marketed as high-thrill rides, perfect for adventure seeking guests.

New in Splashtown, Darien Lake's water park, is Brain Drain - a pair of twisting high speed body slides.

Created by Proslide, the attraction starts 70 feet above the ground where riders enter a floor-dropping capsule. The two capsules will be released simultaneously, sending both riders through the 333 foot long slide.

Sliders will hit speeds of 38 feet per second as they descend, and the path will include a horizontal loop before the ten second ride ends in a splashdown.

The new slide tower will be built in an undeveloped area between the Swirl City slides and the Tornado.

The second new ride announced today is Rolling Thunder, the Larson Super Loop that we recently saw Darien Lake filing permission to build.

The new ride stands 70 feet tall and uses a 24 passenger train to loop riders upside down several times during the experience. The seats face each other so that passengers are able to see the fear in their fellow rider's faces as they loop.

The train that circles around the loop structure actually travels both forwards and backwards, so riders experience the inversions both ways. An added thrill takes place when the train momentarily stops at the very top of the loop, with riders totally upside down. The park notes that Rolling Thunder will provide at least six complete loops during the ride.

Rolling Thunder will be located in the center of Darien Lake, where the UFO ride previously was. The two new attractions represent a multi-million dollar investment of the park, who appears to also have their previous General Manager once more, who has come back from Elitch Gardens.
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[Paradox]

"Rolling Thunder"

Originality: OVAR 9000!

Is it being marketed as a coaster though?

[TTD03]

^ Doesn't seem like it to me!

[Paradox]

It's Six Flags so it will be a "coaster."

[Dirk_Ermen]

RCT3rox wrote:

Is it being marketed as a coaster though?

Doesn't look like it in the announcement though.

Paradox wrote:

It's Six Flags so it will be a "coaster."

It ain't six flags it use to be a six flags but not no nore

^ You're right because Superman: Ride Of Steel is now "Ride Of Steel".

I'm always right but love that there going for a drop pods waterslide

Hey, at least they are getting some decent additions this year. Most of the CNL parks are really neglected. Makes me wish Darien Lake and the other parks were Cedar Fair or Six Flags parks.

Six flags didn't care for the property that's why they sold it it use to be as bad a sfa

Darien Lake is better than most SF parks. Most of the crappy stuff they do like close rides with no replacements, run one train ops, and leave rides deteriorating is almost always because they're broke. Six Flags just does it to make a little extra cash.

It's not that they didn't care, they were sinking hard and had to cut costs. The smaller parks got the ax. Glad to hear that the Manger is back from Elitches. Thats a good sign they are still looking for larger expansions I think

[Coasterkidmwm]

This park is pretty landlocked right? That could be an issue as well.

Coasterkidmwm wrote:

This park is pretty landlocked right? That could be an issue as well.

I thought this is a park that's not landlock I believe it has so much space for new rides