T Express

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Wooden roller coaster in South Korea

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::summary Wooden roller coaster in South Korea ::

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imageT Express Everland Resort.jpg
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captionThe ride in June 2011
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sectionEuropean Adventure
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statusOperating
opened
manufacturerIntamin
designerIng.-Büro Stengel GmbH
modelWooden Coaster (Prefabricated Track)
trackTerrain / Twister
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height_m56.02
drop_m45.99
length_m1641
speed_km/h103.9
duration
angle77
trains3
carspertrain6
ridersperrow2
rowspercar3
capacity1,500
acceleration
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acceleration_mph
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| locationarticle = | section = European Adventure
| type = Wood
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| length_m = 1641 | speed_km/h = 103.9
| duration = | angle = 77
|trains=3 |carspertrain=6 |ridersperrow=2 |rowspercar=3 | capacity = 1,500 | cost = | acceleration = | acceleration_from = | acceleration_mph = | acceleration_km/h = | acceleration_in = | gforce = | rcdb_number = 3938 | coordinates =

T Express () is a wooden roller coaster at the Everland theme park in Yongin, South Korea. T Express opened on March 14, 2008, in the European Adventure section of the park, and is themed after a small town in the Alps. The coaster was constructed by Intamin, a Swiss manufacturing company, and designed by Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH, a German roller coaster design facility. In April 2024, parts of its track underwent a steel retracking.

Within its first six months of operation, it had over a million riders. The ride holds a number of past and current records. It is South Korea's first-ever wooden roller coaster and is also the longest and second-fastest of any roller coaster in the country. , it is tied (with Wildfire) for the world's tallest wooden roller coaster, and is also the longest, tallest, fastest, and steepest wooden coaster in Asia.

History

Everland conducted market research and decided to construct a wooden coaster. After developing the concept and plans for three years, and with a budget of 28 billion South Korean won, the park began construction on the ride around February 2007.

It was constructed by Intamin, a Swiss manufacturing company, and designed by Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH, a German roller coaster design company. Everland first announced the ride in a March 12, 2008 press release, which stated that the ride would help the park "compete with other theme parks such as Universal Studios". The ride opened on March 14, 2008. The roller coaster replaced a snow slope attraction that was previously in the area that T Express was in.

T Express was closed for around 5 months prior to a reopening in April 2024 to undergo a steel retracking dubbed "The Iron Rebirth" by Everland officials. About 380 meters of track, including the initial drop, were retracked using steel tracks.

Records

T Express is the first wooden roller coaster in South Korea. At time of opening, it was the tallest, fastest, and steepest roller coaster in the country, until it was superseded by Draken at Gyeongju World in 2018. However, it is still the longest and third fastest in the country.

In Asia, it is the third wooden roller coaster. , among wooden roller coasters in Asia, it is the longest, tallest, fastest, and steepest, and also has the largest drop. Among the world's wooden roller coasters, it is the tallest (tied with Wildfire in Sweden), third longest, and tenth fastest .

Characteristics

T Express is named after T World, the SK Telecom-owned Korean phone company that sponsored the ride's construction.

The ride is located in the European Adventure section of Everland, which is based on a European aesthetic. It is themed as a scenic railway in an Alpine village; the area around it was further decorated before the ride's opening. The ride closes its operations in the winter and reopens in the spring.

It is 56.02 m tall, and has 1641 m of prefabricated tracks that are made of nine layers of compressed and laminated Finnish fir wood. The total materials used to create the ride include 670 tons and 45,000 blocks of wood, as well as 50,000 bolts.

It has three trains made of steel and fiberglass. Each train can seat 36, as they each have six cars that have three rows of two seats. Per hour of operation, the ride seats 1,500 people. Riders experience airtime twelve times throughout the ride, with the largest drop being 45.99 m. The ride has a top speed of 103.9 km/h.

Ride experience

When the train leaves the station, it climbs up a 56.02 m lift hill using a cable lift system, then curves to the right. It then drops to the ground at a 77-degree angle. It then goes back up to a 46 m tall hill and then drops into an intense right-hand turn drop. It then transitions into a left-hand turn and then climbs into a 28 m mid-course brake run, and then drops again. It then goes into an airtime hill, turns right, then climbs a larger airtime hill. It then turns right, going into two back-to-back airtime hills. It then turns left, climbs an airtime hill, and then turns right. It then goes into 2 further back-to-back airtime hills, turns left, two more airtime hills, a slight left-hand turn, an airtime hill, a left-hand turn, and into the final brake run. It runs for about 3 minutes, including the lift hill.

Incidents

In 2018, a group of 6 visitors, including 3 visually impaired people, were prevented from riding the roller coaster because park employees were concerned it would be less safe for them. The visitors filed a disability discrimination lawsuit and won the case. The judge stated that there was no evidence or statistics to demonstrate that blind people were in more danger on the rides.

Reception

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The ride caused more people to visit Everland. According to a 2009 press release, the number of teenagers who visited the park increased by 73% and the number of college students by 14%. That same press release noted that three out of ten visitors to Everland rode T Express.

It had more than one million total riders within six months, more than 1,758,800 within its first year, around 3,000,000 within two years, and close to 5,000,000 by 2011. In 2010, it was reported that an average of 4,500 people rode the roller coaster each day.

Awards

| type = wood | accessdate = October 4, 2016 | 2009 = 46 | 2010 = 36 | 2011 = 39 | 2012 = 46 (tie) | 2013 = 41 (tie) | 2015 = 47 | 2016 = 44 | 2018 = 45 | 2019 = 37 | 2021 = 50 | 2022 = 39 |2023=38 |2024=44 | 2025 = 42}}

Metaverse ride

In June 2022, T Express, as well as the rest of Everland, opened in the metaverse. The ride and park are based in PlayDapp Land, a Roblox-based metaverse blockchain platform. Everland and PlayDapp announced in 2022 that it would also open NFT services. The metaverse version of Everland was designed to make users interact with the system instead of simply looking at the virtual theme park.

References

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