Sea World Orlando annouces new coaster for 2009 Options

[RickM View Member Profile]

Sea World Orlando officialy annouced yesterday a new roller coaster named Manta will open in 2009. It will be a B&M flying roller coaster themed to manta rays.

[pnkfloyd12 View Member Profile]

I know the final ride may only barely resemble the concept art for it, but from the pics, it looks like it'll come really close to touching the water in a few places, possibly with some water effects to make it appear like you're skimming the water.

[ClockworkMyr View Member Profile]

Hopefully nobody loses their shoes to the sharks if it skims like that!

[wolfman View Member Profile]

It's a flying coaster. Not an inverted coaster. Besides, Busch Gardens (which owns Sea World,) already has a bit of experience with coasters "playing" in water.

Shei Kra: Click on the Video Link at the bottom of "Busch Gardens Goes Over The Edge"-> [b]Take a vurtual Ride on Shei Kra

And Busch Gardens Williamsburg: Griffon:Click on "Griffon Mix" (linked on the right after the jump.) for a cool video.

So, I imagine it was only a matter of time before the other parks of BG got something simular.

Lets just hope that the theming ON the coaster itself, doesn't look like crap.[/b]