Incredible Hulk Coaster

Infobox Universal ride
name=Incredible Hulk Coaster

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caption=Incredible Hulk Coaster
park=Islands of Adventure
land=Marvel Super Hero Island
type=Steel
type2=Launched
type3=
status=Open
opened=May 28, 1999
manufacturer=Bolliger & Mabillard
designer=Werner Stengel
model=Sitting Coaster
track=
lift=Drive tire launched lift hill
height=110
drop=105
length=3700
speed=67
inversions=7
duration=2:15
angle=
capacity=1920
cost=
acceleration=0 − 40 mph in 2 seconds, producing 1.42 G's
gforce=4
height_requirement=54
rcdb_number=557 The Incredible Hulk Coaster is a steel roller coaster located in Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida, USA. It is named for the popular comic book superhero character, the Hulk. Voted the #1 roller coaster by Discovery Channel viewers in 1999,Fact|date=June 2008 the roller coaster is unique because it features a launch lift hill as opposed to conventional chain lifts. This means the train accelerates to 40 mph (18 m/s) in a short time (approximately two seconds) before speeding through several inversions. When the Incredible Hulk opened, it featured the world's tallest cobra roll.

The Incredible Hulk is the only launched roller coaster produced by Bolliger & Mabillard. As a company, it is opposed to launched coasters because of perceived reliability problems,Fact|date=June 2008 so it subcontracted the launch mechanism to another company.Fact|date=June 2008

The Incredible Hulk was featured at the beginning of the 1999 film "House on Haunted Hill" under the pseudonym "Terror Incognita".

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Queue

Volunteers enter the lab of Bruce Banner with many televisions showing the story of the Hulk. Bruce is now trying to find a way to reverse the effects, which the guests are about to take part in. While walking through the lab they encounter items including the generator, the Gamma core and the towers of power.

Ride

At the lift hill, riders enter the Project Gamma tube and hear Bruce Banner expressing his dismay at yet another malfunction. He stammers: "Everything looks good....I think...I think this time it's going to work". A malfunction of the machine takes place by a quote saying,"Warning: Coolant Levels Dropping." Bruce screams: "No....NO! NO!" After that sentence riders are shot out within 2 seconds at 40 mph and are sent through a zero-g roll, down a 105 foot drop and through a cobra roll. Riders complete a vertical loop, then enter a tunnel full of mist. At this point of the ride, the train's speed has reached approximately 60-67 mph. The train encircles the gamma tube and is sent into the back area via corkscrew. After another vertical loop and two over-banked turns, the coaster is slowed down by a brake run before being sent down another hill to a corkscrew and turn-around. Riders then travel sideways through a camera area and then to the ride's closing after a helix.

ee also

*Incidents at Universal parks
*Hulk (film)
*The Incredible Hulk (film)

External links

* [http://www.universalorlando.com/ioa_attr_hulk.html Universal Orlando Resort - Incredible Hulk Coaster]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlMeWfc2k4w On-Ride Footage of the Incredible Hulk Coaster]