T-Express | Intamin Terrain Woodie for Everland
One ticket to Seoul please. T-Express is the name of a new roller coaster opening in Everland in South Korea. It's an Intamin pre-fabricated wooden coaster in the same vein as the critically acclaimed El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure and Balder at Liseberg (Sweden). Intamin has created a new generation of wooden coasters that are as smooth as steel coasters. I can personally vouch for El Toro as it's 3rd on my Top Coasters list.
Aside from the silky smooth ride it should give, T-Express is built on a hill and makes use of the park's terrain. Terrain coasters (like Boulder Dash) are another favorite of mine. Also, at 5,838 feet long it'll be the 6th longest wooden coaster in the world. It looks massive and the station and neighboring builds (not pictured) look great. T Express is the name of Korea's largest cellular company. That's kind of a weird way to name a coaster, but there are worse names out there.
Check out these T Express construction photos. It looks amazing. The closest I'll probably ever get is one of Robb Alvey's Coaster Expedition DVDs, but it's better than nothing I guess. Image courtesy of AttractionR2 Blog.
What do you think of T-Express? Leave a comment below.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
T Express @ Everland, South Korea
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2 comments:
OMG, Best roller coaster Ive ever been on. I've always loved the wooden ones since i was a kid. Ive been on roller coasters all over the world, and i've never really shouted going down the drops...This time on the T express I found myself cursing loudly unintentionally, I was that surprised! I was really impressed with the smoothness of the entire ride. I also like the workers in the beginning, they were always motivated polite and enthusiastic. I always like to sit in the back on the wooden ones u u get pulled and whipped down n around the track...its funny cuz i made my gf(korean) go on it with me, and she was scared from the beginning. Right before we took off he said to her in Korean, yea, this is the scariest seat on the ride... She was like omg, omg Ericccccc... She loved it as well! I wish they put the camera on the first drop cuz i would have loved to seen my face! Also, the Eagles Fortress the yellow metal one is awesome too!! My eyes never watered so much as they did in Everland!
Thanks for the T Express review. It sounds awesome. Gotta love those Intamin prefab woodies. El Toro here in the U.S. has a similarly smooth ride.
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