Negative-G - Worlds Of Fun - Zambezi Zinger Media Preview June 16, 2023

Worlds of Fun
Kansas City, Missouri
Zambezi Zinger Media Preview
June 16, 2023
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Zambezi Zinger is the first coaster to use Skyline Attractions and Great Coaster's new Infinity Flyer trains. These are a big upgrade over the Millennium Flyers that run on Prowler as the trains are lighter, are designed to reduce maintenance costs, and for designers and riders they can turn significantly tighter turns than their predecessor. Prowler's trains minimum turn radius was 18 feet where Zambezi Zinger's Infinity Flyers minimum turn radius is 8.95 feet. What's great about that is with tighter turn radius a designer can do more with a smaller plot of land.

The new for 2023 Zambezi Zinger roller coaster at The new for 2023 Zambezi Zinger roller coaster at Worlds of Fun, Kansas City, Missouri

The big difference that riders will first notice about these trains are the restraints are heavy hydraulic lap bars instead of the mechanical ones over on Prowler. The restraint was perfectly comfortable and despite hearing that the train wasn't as comfortable for larger riders 6'2" tall and 246 pound me fit on it just fine.

The new for 2023 Zambezi Zinger roller coaster at Worlds of Fun, Kansas City, Missouri

After a check of the lap bars and the ride area Zambezi Zinger's ride ambassadors gave the signal and you are sent out into the African wilds for your expedition.

This is one of the sections where the wooden track transitions to the all steel "Titan Track" that is used for and around Zambezi Zinger's lift hill.

The Zinger's spiral lift that pays homage to the original Schwarzkopf coaster was also one of the toughest engineering challenges for the designers. With a circular lift you can't use a lift chain. The way Anton Schwarzkopf made his spiral lifts work was with electrical motors. Anton built the motors into the trains and had power ran to the cars by a third rail on the lift. With no room to mount the motors in the Infinity Flyers, especially as reduced weight means reduced maintenance they had to get creative on how to use electrical motors to power the Zambezi Zinger to the top of the 74 foot tall lift hill.

Having wheels push the train up the spiral and needing them to be in constant contact with the train lead to a few engineering challenges that were eventually figured out.