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Le Scoot Log Flume

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Area
  
New France

Opening date
  
1975 (1975)

Manufacturer
  
Arrow Development

Opened
  
1975

Status
  
Operating

Type
  
Log flume

Model
  
thumbnail

Phone
  
+1 800-343-7946

Address
  
100 Busch Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA

Similar
  
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Le scoot log flume on ride front seat hd pov busch gardens williamsburg


Le Scoot is a log flume ride at Busch Gardens Williamsburg located in the New France area. It is themed after mountains and a saw mill.

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Ride Experience

Once seated in the "logs", riders are taken up a conveyor belt lift hill. Part of the hill loops underneath of another part of the ride. At the top, the log takes a small drop and takes a sharp turn. Unlike most log flumes, Le Scoot stays high in the air, held by large poles. When passing by treetops, the chute the ride is in expands (although rails keep the log on-track) to give the illusion the log is in a pond. A small conveyor belt then brings the log up a few feet to avoid log collisions, and takes a steep, tall drop. Next, due to the backfiring currents of the previous drop, rapids form. After passing more rails, the log takes a small turn and near a sawmill narrowly dodged by the nearby Alpengeist roller coaster. A safety recording is played in the sawmill, warning riders to "remain seated". Once in the sawmill, another small conveyor belt takes the logs up a few feet to, again, avoid collisions. The log then takes its largest, most notable plunge over a large pool of water. A last, small hill drains excess water from the ride's chute and takes the logs on a sharp turn extremely close to Alpengeist's track. A pendulum is used on high-business days to separate logs into to different waiting lines, and brings riders back to the boarding cabin.

References

Le Scoot Log Flume Wikipedia