Park section Dragon Island Opening date May 12, 1990 Type Steel Height 27 m Track length 799 m Height restriction 1.07 m | Status Operating Cost $2.1 million Manufacturer Hopkins Rides Max speed 88 km/h Opened 12 May 1990 Duration 2 minutes | |
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Similar Tornado, The Monster, Outlaw, Hoosier Hurricane, Apocalypse | ||
The Dragon is an O.D. Hopkins steel roller coaster located at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa, near Des Moines.
The Dragon made its debut on May 12, 1990, during Adventureland's sixteenth full season. It cost an estimated $2.1 million to build The Dragon. It was Adventureland's only coaster which loops completely upside down until the "Monster" opened on June 4, 2016.
Layout
The train traverses a few bunny hops and a 90-degree right turn as it coasts from the station to the lift. Cresting the lift, it makes a small dip, a roughly 90-degree turn to the right, and drop down and into the two back-to-back loops. Following the loops is a right turn into a figure eight segment and then some curves back to the station.
References
Dragon (Adventureland) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA