Scream Insider | Maverick (HD Off-Ride 2014) - Cedar Point @screaminsider | Uploaded September 2014 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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View HD off ride 2014 footage of Maverick, Cedar Point's Intamin blitz coaster. Opened in 2007, Maverick was the first of the Intamin LSM Blitz coasters that featured short 3 or 4 car trains in a launch coaster with quick turns, drops, and transitions. This design is especially popular with coaster enthusiasts and it ranked 6th on the Mitch Hawker 2013 Steel Roller Coaster Poll. Maverick starts off with a 105 ascent on a LSM launched lift with speeds around 15 mph. The first drop is 95 degrees, five degrees beyond vertical, and is one of the steepest drops in North America. Then, Maverick goes into a high speed turn with two quick "snappy" s-curve transitions. An airtime hill follows these series of turns. After the airtime hill is the horseshoe roll, a coaster element that features a right turn, right corkscrew, left turn, left corkscrew, and a right turn. Next, the coaster slows down to a crawl and then speeds up with the second launch, this one bringing the train up to speeds of 70 mph. A high speed left turn occurs after the 70mph launch which leads up to the second highest hill of the coaster that features trims to slow the 70mph speed down to a more suitable speed for the rest of the layout. A spiral drop downwards occurs afterwards, which passes by a few water bombs that leads into a lull point in the ride. This low point formerly was a very "snappy" heartline roll (barrel roll). Due to the extremity of this element, it was removed for a low-intensity s-turn. After this lull point, Maverick continues on to two consecutive overbank turns that are some of the most intense parts of the ride. After the overbanks is a small airtime hill that follows into the final brake run of the ride. This entire layout composes of 4450 feet of adrenaline-filled intensity. Maverick is in the Frontiertown themed area of Cedar Point. Maverick sits on the former location of White Water Landing and the original Shoot the Rapids.

Filmed August 20th and 22nd, 2014.

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