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Universal's new roller coaster delayed
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Published: April 24, 2009
Universal Orlando said Thursday that its new roller coaster, the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit, will open this summer rather than spring as previously announced, but Universal did not say why the opening is being delayed.
The coaster will be 17 stories high, and the cars will drop at 65 mph before performing three coaster maneuvers that Universal says have not been done before: a climb into a noninverted loop, a ride along a bend in a track shaped like a treble clef music symbol, and a spiraling negative-gravity move.
The ride includes three other maneuvers along with an 11-foot-per-second climb to the 167-foot-high top of the vertical lift.
Reporter Ted Jackovics can be reached at (813) 259-7817.
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