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The Great White

Wildwood, Italy

The Great White

The Great White is a sit-down wooden/steel roller coaster made and built by Custom Coasters International. It first opened on June 10, 1996 with 2 trains from the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. The original trains were replaced by GCI Millennium Flyer trains for the 2025 season. Riders are arranged

2 across in 12 rows for a total of 24 riders per train. The ride starts by dropping into a tunnel beneath the boardwalk. After exiting the tunnel, the ride climbs up the 110-foot lift hill before dropping 100 feet at a 50-degree-angle, reaching a maximum speed of 50 mph (80 km/h). The ride then goes off the boardwalk and towards the beach, entering an elevated 225° swooping turn over the beach. The track then dives down into a turning drop, rising up to a flat 225° turn around. Another diving and swooping turn brings the train parallel to the first turn, and thence parallel to the lift hill. A series of three short airtime hills provide strong pops of ejector airtime, before rising up into a double-up into another flat turn around. The train makes one final turning drop and 90° before entering the brake run perpendicular to the lift hill and station. This ride was built over the beach because...

Listen to the audio guide for The Great White Free on WIP — starts by itself when you arrive, even with the screen off

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