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2 reviews – “Very Good”

Dollywood

Roller Coaster

The entrance is spectacular at night, as is the ride, which is largely in complete darkness in the forest.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

The final bit of track before the station is a vertically lifting transfer track to the maintenance bay below the station.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

The train hits the magnetic brake run at high speed with plenty of excess energy to burn off.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

One last dip and a steeply banked helix brings you up to the final high point.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

The most intense moment comes in the quad down, where the track repeatedly dips and snakes on the way back down the hill.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

The ride is notoriously difficult to photograph, being hidden behind the ridge line in a valley, but riders can expect a ballistic layout of large drops, outward banked turns, twists, hills and more, all taken at a breathless pace.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

At the top of the launch are two airtime hills known as "Dolly's Humps".

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

The power supply cables to the LSMs (Linear synchronous motors)

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

The train launches very quickly up hill using an LSM system.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

Eventually you reach the top floor of the factory, where your hot rod is waiting.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

The fictional "Rev it Up" brand of oil is a recurrent theme throughout the queue.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

And you can't have a workshop/lab themed area without the blackboard of disorganised sketches. It just needs E=mc² in some random spot on there.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

Exhausts and engine blocks = theming.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

Punch in. Punch out.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

The welding shop.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

From the garage at the entrance, the queue winds up through various floors in a hot rod factory.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

The ride is centred around hot rod racing. Supposedly, hot rods came about as a way for moonshiners to outrun authorities.

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

The latest, and undoubtedly greatest ride at Dollywood is Lightning Rod, the worlds first launched wooden coaster,

by Gazza, 8 years ago

Lightning Rod Dollywood

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