Kenny's Forest Flyer is a
suspended family roller coaster at
Dreamworld on the
Gold Coast,
Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
, Australia.
History
''Kenny's Forest Flyer'' opened on 26 December 2002 as ''Rugrats Runaway Reptar''. It was part of the new
Nickelodeon Central themed area.
The roller coaster was the third of its type in the world and the first in the
Southern Hemisphere.
Towards the middle of 2011, Nickelodeon Central started to be rethemed into Kid's World. The change saw Rugrats Runaway Reptar renamed and rethemed into Sky Rocket.
The ride remains to be Dreamworld's only children's roller coaster.
In 2012, the Kid's World area was rethemed to become
DreamWorks Experience
DreamWorks Experience was a themed land at the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It contained attractions themed to DreamWorks Animation films. Prior, the land was formerly themed to Nickelodeon properties.
His ...
. The ride was renamed ''Escape from Madagascar'' to fit the Madagascar Madness subsection it is located in.
In November 2022, it was announced that DreamWorks Experience would be rethemed as
Kenny and Belinda's Dreamland, with all DreamWorks theming to be removed.
''Escape from Madagascar'' was temporarily named the ''Escape Coaster'' until it closed for refurbishment on 24 April 2023. It reopened in late August 2023 under its new name - ''Kenny's Forest Flyer''.
Ride
The ride has one
train
A train (from Old French , from Latin">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles th ...
, which has 10 cars with 2 seats on each car catering 650 riders per hour. The safety system consists of over-the-shoulder restraints that lock into place and then a belt-type connector that attaches the seat base to the over-the-shoulder restraints. Riders are taken up by a wheeled lift hill, and go through a tight helix, followed by a series of small turns and drops. Upon approaching the station, the ride is slowed by a magnetic
brake run
A brake run on a roller coaster is any section of track that utilizes some form of brakes to slow or stop a roller coaster train. There are various types of braking methods employed on roller coasters, including friction brakes, skid brakes, a ...
. Each ride cycle takes 1.5 minutes.
References
External links
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Roller coasters introduced in 2002
Roller coasters in Australia
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2002 establishments in Australia