Led Zeppelin - The Ride

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Led Zeppelin: The Ride

Location Hard Rock Park
Type Steel
Status Open
Opened May 9, 2008
Manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard
Lift/launch system Chain lift hill
Height 155 ft (47 m)
Drop 150 ft (46 m)
Length 3,738 ft (1,139 m)
Max speed 65 mph (105 km/h)
Inversions 6
Led Zeppelin: The Ride at RCDB
Pictures of Led Zeppelin: The Ride at RCDB

Led Zeppelin: The Ride is a steel roller coaster now open at Hard Rock Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The ride, manufactured by the Swiss company Bolliger & Mabillard, opened to the public on April 15, 2008 during Hard Rock Park's "Sound Check" soft opening. The ride officially opened with the park on May 9, 2008.[1]

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Led Zeppelin – The Ride features six inversions: two vertical loops, a cobra roll, a zero-g roll, another vertical loop and a corkscrew after the mid-course brake run.

As the train travels the course, riders are able to listen to Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" via built-in speakers. The front of the trains have been designed to resemble the shape of a zeppelin airship. The trains have eight cars, one row each and four seats across per row for a total of thirty-two seats per train.[2]

Once the train leaves the station, it goes up the chain lift on the 155-foot hill. The comes the 150 foot drop. It pulls out of the drop into the first of the coaster's vertical loop. Then the coaster pulls you in a cobra roll. Next it pulls you into a zero-g roll. After that there is the second vertical loop, followed by a large helix. Then there is the brake run, and another small helix brings it into a corkscrew. There is another small helix to finish the ride. .

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