Oakwood Theme Park - Ride Statistics

Ride Statistics

• Speed - Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter (Custom) roller coaster
  • Height (Total): 115 ft (36 m)
  • Height (Drop): 110 ft (35 m)
  • Drop Angle: 97 degrees
  • Speed: 60 mph (95 km/h)
  • Track length: 1970 ft (600 m)
  • Ride time: 90 s
  • Acceleration: −1.3 to +4.5 g (−13 to 44 m/s2)
  • Elements: 97-degree drop, −1.3g camelback hill, 110-degree overbanked turn, vertical loop, heartline roll, helix
  • Restraints: OTSR (Over-the-Shoulder Restraints)
  • Trains: 3 x 2-section roll-articulated trains (4 trains prior to 2008), 2 rows of 4 riders each
  • Capacity: 800 riders per hour
  • Opened: 13 April 2006

• Megafobia - CCI wooden roller coaster
  • Height (Total): 85 ft (26 m)
  • Height (Drop): 82 ft (25 m)
  • Drop Angle: 55 degrees
  • Speed: quotes vary from 46 mph to 55 mph; faster in wet weather
  • Track length: 2956 ft (901 m)
  • Ride time: 100 s
  • Acceleration (max): +2.75g (27 m/s2)
  • Trains: 2 x 6-car trains, Philadelphia Toboggan Co., 4 riders per car, total 24 riders per train
  • Restraints: Lap bar and lap belt. NB: A little known fact is that Lap belts were retro-fitted around 1997/ 1998 and were not installed at the time of Megafobia's initial opening in 1996.
  • Opened: 1996

• The Bounce - HUSS shot-and-drop tower
  • Height: 154 ft
  • Speed: 44 mph
  • Acceleration (max): +4g (39 m/s2)
  • Restraints: OTSR
  • Seats: 24
  • Opened: 1999

• Vertigo - skycoaster
  • Height: 164 ft (50 m)
  • Speed: 80 mph (128 km/h)
  • Acceleration: 3g (30 m/s2)
  • Opened: 1997
  • Due to low throughput, Vertigo is the only ride in Oakwood to charge an additional admission fee, which is on top of the entrance fee to the park. As of April 2012, the charge is £12 per person for 3 flyers, £18 per person for 2 flyers and £36 per person for a solo flight.

• Drenched (formerly Hydro) - Intamin River Plunge
  • Height (total): 121 ft
  • Height (drop): 118 ft
  • Wave Height: 45 ft
  • Ride Length: 581 ft
  • Speed: 55 mph (88 km/h)
  • Acceleration (max): 4g (40 m/s2)
  • Restraints: OTSR (retrofitted; formerly lap-bar)
  • Boats: 1
  • Opened: 2002

• Bobsleigh - toboggan ride
• Treetops Roller coaster - Zierer Tivoli (Large) family roller coaster
  • Height (total): 26 ft
  • Height (drop): 26 ft
  • Track length: 1181 ft
  • Speed: 22 mph (35 km/h)
  • Ride time: 60 s
  • Opened: 1989

• Spooky 3-D - ghost-train
• Brer Rabbit's Burrow
• Plane Crazy
• Pirate Ship
• Snake River Falls
• Waterfall
• Boating Lake
• Clown Coaster - children's roller coaster