Posted on 02/10/2019 11:21:27 AM PST by ETL
Sharp Productions
Published on Jun 3, 2012
"Front Rider’s Perspective on Apollo’s Chariot (Bolliger & Mabillard: Mega Coaster) at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA."
Length: 4882’
Height: 170’
Drop: 210’
Inversions: 0
Speed: 73 mph
Max Vertical Angle: 65 Degrees
G-Force: 4.1
Elements: 170’ tall Lift Hill with a 210’ drop, Hill with a 131’ drop, Hill with a 144’ drop, Hill with a 102’ drop, Hill with a 48’ drop, Hill with a 87’ drop, Hill with a 38’ drop. Hill with a 16’ drop, Hill with a 49’ drop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKT8wIgZ7xo
I loved roller coasters as a child. Now all I can think of is having it run off the rails.
If you want to take a ride on this one, I suggest viewing in full screen.
It’s in HD and so feels like you’re really there.
Only you can, for whatever reason, stop and get off any time you want. Wish I had this option on the last amusement park ride I went on!
:)
Apollo’s Chariot Busch Gardens Williamsburg (video: roller coaster ride from front seat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKT8wIgZ7xo
I’m a coward. :)
It looks like fun and I wish I had the stomach for it. It wouldn’t be so fun however when everyone is covered in puke and there’s a dead body with an exploded heart.
I liked it...from a computer screen!
LOL! I’m with you.
I’m not sure I could even handle that!
Great ride...rode it a few times last year when there was no line, with my daughters. It’s cousin, “Nitro” in Six Flags Great Adventure NJ, is more intense though
“Twelve o’clock noon. An ordinary scene, an ordinary city. Lunchtime for thousands of ordinary people. To most of them, this hour will be a rest, a pleasant break in a day’s routine. To most, but not all. To Edward Hall, time is an enemy, and the hour to come is a matter of life and death.”
Plot:
Edward Hall (Conte), a man with a severe heart condition, believes that if he falls asleep, he’ll die. On the other hand, keeping himself awake will put too much of a strain on his heart. He believes this due to his constantly overactive imagination.
He believes that his imagination is severely out of control, to the point where he’d be able to see and feel something that was not there.
Due to this, his heart condition is especially dangerous. He seeks out the aid of psychiatrist Dr. Elliott Rathmann and explains that he has been dreaming in chapters, as if in a movie serial.
In his dreams, Maya, a carnival dancer, lures him first into a funhouse and later onto a roller coaster in an attempt to scare him to death.
Realizing that Rathmann cannot help him, Hall starts to leave, but stops when he sees that Rathmann’s receptionist looks exactly like Maya. Terrified, he runs back into Rathmann’s office and jumps out of the window.
In reality, the doctor calls his receptionist, who does in fact look exactly like Maya, into his office, where Hall lies on the couch, his eyes closed.
Rathmann tells the receptionist that Hall came in, lay down, immediately fell asleep, and then a few moments later let out a scream and died. “Well, I guess there are worse ways to go,” the doctor says philosophically. “At least he died peacefully...”
Closing narration: (Rod Serling)
“They say a dream takes only a second or so, and yet in that second a man can live a lifetime. He can suffer and die, and who’s to say which is the greater reality: the one we know or the one in dreams, between heaven, the sky, the earth - in the Twilight Zone.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchance_to_Dream_(The_Twilight_Zone)
Apollo’s Chariot is a GREAT ride; I’ve been on it numerous times.
On Apollo Chariot’s first week (late 1990s, I believe), Fabio, who was riding in the front row, was hit in the face by a Canada goose descending to a nearby pond. Busch Gardens moves the pond and there have been no further such incidents.
Space Shuttle astronauts experienced a maximum of 3G, at least during a normal launch. Re-entry G forces were less than that.
Of course, the 3G loading was felt for eight minutes without interruption, but still.
Ping
Don’t forget to watch it on full screen!
It’s in HD.
Used to play roller coaster tycoon and build some wild coasters. The one thing missing was on ride camera views.
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