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When Holiday Park, one of Germany's finest themed parks, asked Intamin AG to create them their first coaster since 1979's Super Wirbel corkscrew coaster, they went all out. Designing another true work of art, Intamin has created one of the few steel coasters to use terrain as a guide for a course, one of the only hyper-coasters at that. Take that, and mix it with an insanely-twisted first 82-degree drop, and you've got a winner. Expedition Ge-Force opened in mid-June 2001 with 4,256 feet of reddish-orange tubular track twisting through sweeping and tightly-formed maneuvers, reaching seventy-five miles per hour.
The experience begins out of the loading station with a small U-turn over to the lift. The lift hill quickly gains altitude and gets the train up to an acceptable hyper-coaster height of just over 203 feet in the sky. But then, the impossible happens. In a first-of-its-kind maneuver for a first-turn drop, the coaster makes a sharp right-hand dive down and twists to reach a spectacular 82-degree decent which brings riders within one story of the ground. Next, an airtime camel-back hill follows and leads into the forested terrain. The train navigates the twisted track with plenty of speed, carving down and around several smooth fan curves and living up to it's name - giving riders four-and-a-half g's of force. More banked turns send the train past the trees before hitting the final leg. The run back to the station consists of your typical non-looping coaster hops that leave riders traveling at a good clip of speed into the final brakes.
Expedition Ge-Force
Holiday Park
Last Update: August 11, 2012

When Holiday Park, one of Germany's finest themed parks, asked Intamin AG to create them their first coaster since 1979's Super Wirbel corkscrew coaster, they went all out. Designing another true work of art, Intamin has created one of the few steel coasters to use terrain as a guide for a course, one of the only hyper-coasters at that. Take that, and mix it with an insanely-twisted first 82-degree drop, and you've got a winner. Expedition Ge-Force opened in mid-June 2001 with 4,256 feet of reddish-orange tubular track twisting through sweeping and tightly-formed maneuvers, reaching seventy-five miles per hour.
The experience begins out of the loading station with a small U-turn over to the lift. The lift hill quickly gains altitude and gets the train up to an acceptable hyper-coaster height of just over 203 feet in the sky. But then, the impossible happens. In a first-of-its-kind maneuver for a first-turn drop, the coaster makes a sharp right-hand dive down and twists to reach a spectacular 82-degree decent which brings riders within one story of the ground. Next, an airtime camel-back hill follows and leads into the forested terrain. The train navigates the twisted track with plenty of speed, carving down and around several smooth fan curves and living up to it's name - giving riders four-and-a-half g's of force. More banked turns send the train past the trees before hitting the final leg. The run back to the station consists of your typical non-looping coaster hops that leave riders traveling at a good clip of speed into the final brakes.
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