originally posted on 5/31/2019
Announcements of roller coasters planned for 2020 continue to trickle out. Martin & Vleminckx (M&V) has recently revealed Leviathan. Not to be confused with a gigantic steel beast of the same name in Canada, this Leviathan is a wooden creation. To be built by M&V, the woodie is being designed by The Gravity Group and will feature two Timberliner trains from its partner company GravityKraft. The sea monster’s home? Sea World in Queensland, Australia.
Some stats are known at this point: a height of 105 feet, a length of 3,280 feet and a top speed nearing 50 mph. While The Gravity Group has incorporated inversions on wooden coasters in recent years, this creation will be more traditional. If renderings are any indication, the layout appears to be quite the tangled twister.
Photo: Courtesy Sea World. View full-sized image.
If reports are accurate, the last car will be facing backward.
“It is a very compact coaster with 20 crossovers,” Chuck Bingham of M&V told ACE. “There is very little straight track other than the lift and brakes. It has something for most demographics.”
Leviathan will be part of a new section of Sea World called The New Atlantis, opening this December, including three major new attractions being rolled out over the months, with Leviathan being the last, slated to open in December 2020.
Although a wooden wild mouse and scenic railway continue to operate in Australia, with the closure of Bush Beast and Sydney Wonderland in 2004, Leviathan will end a 16-year gap between the operation of a traditional modern coaster.
The park has operated since 1958. Leviathan will be the third coaster the park has added in a span of six years.
— Tim Baldwin
ACE News Editor
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