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Thunderhead ®

Thunderhead is een GCI-houten twister in Timber Canyon met Millennium Flyer-treinen en een station fly-through.

Thunderhead voelt bewust wild en houtachtig: de baan slingert tussen twee heuvels, gebruikt snelle overgangen en laat de trein halverwege door het station razen. De GCI-layout maakt van de relatief compacte hoogte vooral een rit vol tempo en richtingwissels.

Normal 20 min
Average 18 min
Highest measurement 90 min Measured at 27-07 11:43
Type Ride
Category Roller coaster
Photos
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Coaster profile

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Classification

RCDB #2451
RCDB status Operating since April 3, 2004
Classification Roller Coaster
Track type Wood
Design Sit Down
Scale Extreme
Layout Twister
Categories Roller Coaster, Wood, Sit Down, Extreme, Twister
Restraints Seat belt, Lap bar
Vertical Angle 60 degrees
Cost 7000000

Tracks

Length 3,230.0 ft (984.5 m)
Height 100.4 ft (30.6 m)
Drop 100.0 ft (30.5 m)
Speed 53.7 mph (86.4 km/h)
Inversions 0
Ride duration 2:30

Trains

Arrangement Millennium Flyer-treinen met 12 wagens per trein; rijders zitten 2 naast elkaar op 1 rij per wagen, samen 24 rijders per trein.
Cars per train 12
Rows per car 1
Riders per row 2
Riders per train 24

Location

Timber Canyon

Notes

RCDB noemt de station fly-through en Millennium Flyer-treinen; Dollywood noemt 22 versnellende snelle bochten en een 100 ft drop.

Theming

Houten twister rond een oud zaagmolen- en houttransportthema in Thunderhead Gap.

Data

Wait statistics

Based on available measurements and historical wait-time data.

Now 25 min
Normal 20 min
Average 18 min
Highest measurement 90 min Measured at 27-07 11:43
Measurements 3746
Outage measurements 754
Avg. outage duration 33 min
Often busy 11:00 30 min average
Often quiet 18:00 5 min average
Reliability High 4705 measurements, 13 hour blocks
Distribution

Boxplots

Spread of wait times, outage duration, and the number of outages per day based on available historical data.

Wait times

3746 measurements

0 min 25 min 50 min 75 min 100 min
Min
5 min
Q1
5 min
Median
10 min
Q3
25 min
Max
90 min

Typical wait time: around 10 min.

It usually falls between 5 min and 25 min.

See more than 25 min? It is probably busier than usual — consider a quieter moment.

Less than 5 min? You are in luck: that does not happen often.

Outage duration

153 outages

0 min 100 min 200 min 300 min
Min
1 min
Q1
5 min
Median
15 min
Q3
41 min
Max
276 min

Outages usually last about 15 min.

Some are over quickly (sometimes within 5 min), others take longer (up to 41 min). That varies per outage.

Already longer than 41 min? The attraction may stay closed a while longer.

Outages per day

52 days

0 2 4 6
Min
1
Q1
2
Median
2
Q3
4
Max
6

On days with outages, we see an average of 2 per day.

That usually falls between 2 and 4.

On quiet days it was 1, on busy days up to 6.

Historical

Wait-time build-up

Today compared with historical wait times by hour.

Today Expected Historical
Horizontal axis hours, vertical axis queue minutes. 0 min 10 min 20 min 30 min 40 min 10:00 12:00 14:00 16:00 18:00 20:00 21:00