Georgia Scorcher

Infobox roller coaster
name=Georgia Scorcher


caption=Georgia Scorcher 's vertical loop element.
location=Six Flags Over Georgia
section=
type=Steel
type2=Stand-up
type3=
status=Open
opened=May 8 1999
manufacturer=Bolliger & Mabillard
designer=Werner Stengel
model=Stand-up Coaster
track=
lift=Chain lift hill
height=107
drop=101
length=3000
speed=54
inversions=2
duration=1:24
angle=52
capacity=1300
cost=
acceleration=
gforce=4
restriction= 54
rcdb_number=556

"Georgia Scorcher" (or, often, simply "Scorcher") is a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. [ [http://www.sixflags.com/overGeorgia/rides/GeorgiaScorcher.aspx Attraction home page] ] The second design from Bolliger & Mabillard to be built at the park, "Georgia Scorcher" opened in May 1999 as the last new stand-up roller coaster to have been constructed anywhere on Earth. [ [http://www.rcdb.com/ir.htm?design=7&page=1&order=-6 RCDB list of stand-up roller coasters] ] "Georgia Scorcher" is 107 feet (33 m) tall and has a track length of 3000 feet (910 m) and a top speed of 54 mph (87 km/h). The attraction's tagline is "Put your feet to the fire."

Attraction history

"Georgia Scorcher" is the third attraction to occupy this location in the Georgia section of the park. It replaced the Ragin' Rivers "wet-dry" raft slide tower that was added for the 1991 season, which itself replaced one of the two Log Jamboree log flumes.

Unlike "Mantis", "Chang" and "Riddler's Revenge", which opened at Cedar Point in 1996, Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in 1997 and Six Flags Magic Mountain in 1998 respectively, "Georgia Scorcher" did not continue the trend of the world's tallest and fastest stand-up roller coasters. Its layout is more modest, in fitting with the long, narrow site selected for it.

Track layout

"Georgia Scorcher" departs the station and climbs its 107-foot lift hill. Upon reaching the top, the roller coaster dives to ground level and enters its 81-foot vertical loop. It then climbs to the right, circling back towards the station before diving sharply down to the left, entering a non-inverting inclined loop that threads through the center of the vertical loop. After exiting the element, the roller coaster then climbs a small hill and is twisted over on its right side, twisting back as it enters its second inversion, a corkscrew.

The roller coaster climbs up to the left, crossing over the start of the lift hill, before diving down and performing a 270-degree helix turn, crossing itself again as it rises one final time to enter the brake run, returning to the station via a U-turn to the left.

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