White Lightning
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White Lightning
Fun Spot America Orlando · US · Great Coasters International Wooden Coaster
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Fast facts
- White Lightning operates at Fun Spot America Orlando in Florida. greatcoasters.com
- Great Coasters International designed and built the ride as a wooden coaster on a steel support structure. amusementtoday.com
- The coaster opened in 2013 as Orlando’s first wooden roller coaster. fun-spot.com
- Its height is 21.2 metres, with a top speed of 71.3 kilometres per hour. greatcoasters.com
- White Lightning has no inversions and follows an L-shaped out-and-back layout. coasterpedia.net
- The ride carries approximately 800 passengers per hour. coasterpedia.net
- Construction cost three and a half million dollars. amusementtoday.com
The story of White Lightning
White Lightning arrived as the principal coaster of Fun Spot America’s 2013 expansion along Orlando’s International Drive. The park’s enlargement gave the former Fun Spot Action Park room for larger rides, and brought Orlando its first wooden roller coaster. fun-spot.com· parkworld-online.com· amusementtoday.com
Great Coasters International built the ride with wooden track upon a steel support structure, a first of its kind for the company. The arrangement was chosen to reduce maintenance while preserving the character of a wooden coaster, and the finished structure was given a neat, ordered appearance. amusementtoday.com· greatcoasters.com
The course was a new departure for its builder: a true out-and-back arrangement, with banked turns, changing elevations, a double-up and double-down, and a ninety-degree banked section at the far turnaround. Shorter six-car Millennium Flyer trains required the designers to revise their calculations for the ride. amusementtoday.com· greatcoasters.com
White Lightning opened to visitors on June 8, 2013, and remains in operation. In September 2020, a fifty-five-foot section of Titan Track was installed, marking the first use of that product on a roller coaster. amusementtoday.com· coasterpedia.net
Sources
- greatcoasters.com Preferred source
- amusementtoday.com Acceptable source
- fun-spot.com Acceptable source
- coasterpedia.net Preferred source
- parkworld-online.com Acceptable source