Galveston Island Historic
Pleasure Pier
Galveston, Texas
May 26, 2016
Page Five
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Like its fellow Eurofighter coasters Iron Shark takes you slowly
up a vertical lift hill and then after a few peaceful seconds at the top
whips you straight down into a maelstrom of track.
The transition of from slow slowly climbing the lift to diving face
first down is over in a blink of an eye and is quite intense. Even
I had a hard time keeping my arms in the air. One of them always
would involuntarily fly down reaching for something to hold onto ride
after ride.
You are not down for long as Iron Shark shoots you back up into the
heavens.
You go up, up and over as this Immelmann is the first of four loops that
Iron Shark has in store for you.
Having a footprint of 214 feet long by 69 feet which could fit in your
typical home lot and having 1,246 feet of track length it is a little
hard figuring out the layout of this Gordian knot of a ride on your
first few rides.