Hold on Tight… and Get Ready to Scream!!!

By. Heidi Hoyle, Kailee Wineburner, Megan Benefield, Rachel Price, and Taylor Kennedy 

 There are some really amazing roller coasters located in Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida. They are really awesome and we think that this would be an excellent vacation spot. All these roller coasters are very neat in their own special way. We could tell that the makers of these roller coasters put a lot of time and energy into all of them. 
 

INCREDIBLE HULK

This roller coaster shoots passengers through the top of its green tunnel. It goes from 0- 40 mph in two seconds and then passengers are plunged into a barrel. After that passengers are sent into a huge loop. There is a 105-foot drop and many underground tunnels.
Our Views: We have never been on this roller coaster before, however,  we would love to ride on it some day.

Jurassic Park River Adventure
First just take a peaceful ride through Jurassic Park viewing different peaceful and calm dinosaurs. Then the boat gets knocked off course by a huge dinosaur. Then passengers will go through testing labs that have been taken over by ferocious dinosaurs. A T-Rex even takes it over and comes after you at the end. Then you go down an 85-foot drop into gushing pools of water. 

Our Views: We think this ride would be very scary and a rush. We also think that anyone who enjoys roller coasters would love this ride.

Dudley Dorights Ripsaw Falls
Ride Along with Dudley Doright through an abandoned saw mill while dodging saws and wild flames. The log goes through many small drops at first, the last drop however, is a 45-50 with flames falling all around passengers in the dark.

Our Views: Although we have not been on this ride either it looks really scary. We would definitely like to ride it some day. It sounds like a good ride for those roller coaster lovers.

Dueling Dragons
For the first time on this planet, two interloping, inverted steel roller coasters interact with each other. The red coaster is called The Fire Dragon and the blue one is theIce
Dragon. Passenger’s feet dangle in the wind throwing you around. The first incline goes 125 feet in the air after dropping 105 feet. Gravity sends this coaster through more than 150m of winding track.

Our Views: This ride sounds very cool. We think it would be an awesome ride. As we conclude this, we would like to say that we definitely want to go to Islands of Adventure.
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