Indiana Beach announces Steel Hawg roller coaster

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

Fun, flips, and gravity defying excitement are just the beginning of what's in store for guests when they visit Indiana Beach Amusement Resort in 2008. Indiana's largest and most popular amusement resort and vacation playground announced the first major steel coaster to be constructed in the state: Steel Hawg. The new family coaster will be Indiana Beach's sixth roller coaster and its first to take riders upside-down.

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So is this the El Loco model with the outside facing curves or a screamin squirrel model? Either one of those would be a nice addition to a park here in the states. :)

Pay attention, Batwing. The El Loco could be considered the "second generation" of the Screaming Scquirrel, a ride S&S no longer makes (and what IB is getting next year).

Let's hope that model on the S&S website is a poor indication of the actual transitions and elements; it looks almost like a return to the old practices of Arrow Dynamics. Baby Drachen Fire, perhaps?

I rode Sequia Adventure and thought it was horrible. The anthi-thesis of a rollercoaster. The "drops" are slow and most of the ride is spent hanging in your restraints.
The only point I see in this ride is to use it as a dark-ride.

The one they built at Divo Ostrov in Russia has two drops that look more like the drop on El Loco (can´t find the photo). Those drops must be braked heavily as well as they are followed by a small, unbanked curve.

Damn! I heard about the coaster but I had NO idea it was THAT! Sweetness!

-Tina

My local paper did a nice front page story today. Good illustrations of El Loco.

http://www.pharostribune.com/local/local_story_334224139.html

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