VelociCoaster
— — a roller coaster that thinks it's a raptor.
Not only on a wall.
“A steel track threaded through the raptor paddock at Universal's Islands of Adventure, opened in June 2021. Two magnetic launches put riders at seventy miles an hour in seconds. The top hat tower clears 155 feet, the inversions stack four deep, and the queue runs through enclosures that work harder than most movies. Florida heat for the line, then the wind takes everything off the face.
VelociCoaster, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The Jurassic World VelociCoaster runs through the Jurassic Park section of Islands of Adventure, the second of Universal Orlando's two parks on Hollywood Boulevard, Florida. The ride opened on 10 June 2021 and was designed by the Swiss manufacturer Intamin, with theming by Universal Creative built around the raptor characters from the Jurassic World films. The track length is 4,700 feet (about 1,430 metres), making it the longest launched coaster in North America at opening, and the centrepiece attraction of a section originally built around the 1993 Jurassic Park novel.
The track does its work on the body. From a standing start the first launch reaches 50 miles an hour in two seconds; the second pushes to the full 70 across the lagoon. The top hat element climbs to 155 feet and rolls 80 degrees before the descent. Four inversions follow: a zero-gravity stall, a Mosasaurus roll over the water, and two more pretzels. Sustained positive g pulls the body into the seat at the second drop, then the train clears the lagoon turn into the station.
Access requires a paid park ticket to Islands of Adventure; the coaster also accepts the Universal Express upgrade and a single-rider line. Height minimum is 51 inches. Riders must use the on-platform lockers, no loose items, and the restraints are a single lap bar with no over-shoulder harness. The ride duration is roughly 1 minute 50 seconds. Wait times are steepest in summer afternoons; early morning and the hour before park close are the calmer windows. Lightning, common to Orlando summers, closes the ride until the system clears.