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Typhoon Sea Coaster

Flume ride
Minimum height to ride: 42 inches

About Typhoon Sea Coaster

Beginning with a 30-foot incline, a rotating platform spins boats 150 degrees at the crest of the slope until the boats are facing backwards! Then they're dropped through a high-speed channel and travel backwards through a chute. Finally, they climb up 60 feet in the air and plummet to the bottom through the mouth of a skull. Built by Intamin in 1997, this ride features 2,220 feet of track.

This ride is now called "Skull Island," and the boats no longer travel backwards (even though a turntable is used to set the boats in the final drop). -- Last edited by Chuck Campbell

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3 votes, so far

A great adventure! You board your pirate boat and sail thru a pirate village and lost cove. You then ascend a hill that drops you and leads you into the MINE OF LOST BUCCANEARS. You then leave and take a relaxing cruise thru a lagoon. Then go up the highest hill and plunge down Skull Mountain! A great themed ride for the whole family! - Nick Crawford

Good theming, but you don't really get that wet until the end, and it's pretty long, with a couple slow lift hills. Oh, update for this year. Now, you get your feet (as in shoes and socks) soaked after the second drop after the first lift hill... - Eli Katzman


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