Another chapter was added to the roller coaster history books last week with the debut of Twister III: Storm Chaser at Denver's Elitch Gardens.
unveiled Twister III: Storm Chaser last Friday, June 30, which still has the thrill ride's classic features — like its ninety-foot drop and hundred-foot, pitch-black tunnel — but with some freshly made repairs and a major refurbishment.
Despite its makeover, Twister III is still the only roller coaster running in Colorado that gives passengers a hint of the past. The Cyclone opened almost sixty years after the first roller coaster in the U.S. — the Switchback Railway — opened at Coney Island in 1884. That was just a few years before Elitch Gardens debuted on 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street.
The Wild Chipmunk was forty feet tall — half the height of the Cyclone — and only allowed two people to ride at a time. It traveled 20 mph compared with the 50-55 mph top speed of the Cyclone. However, the coaster barely had a foot of straight track on it, instead taking countless turns and dropping suddenly on angled tracks for a much wilder and more entertaining ride than the Cyclone's broad curves could offer.
The Sidewinder had a short 500-foot track, and instead of turns, it shot riders up a five-story vertical loop before swinging them backward at 45 miles per hour — breaking the mold of past Colorado roller coasters and hinting at the kind of thrill-seeker's paradise that Elitch Gardens would become. The steel tracks of the Mind Eraser started humming in 1997. With legs dangling and the track overhead, the Mind Eraser swung riders around in nonstop loops and dropped them ninety feet at top speeds of 55 miles per hour. In 1999, the Boomerang opened and is still the tallest roller coaster in Colorado. Like the Sidewinder, it rocketed riders back and forth at nearly 50 mph, but it added a 125-foot drop and spun riders upside down six times.
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