Fahrenheit (roller coaster)
| Fahrenheit | |
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Fahrenheit's logo and lift hill
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| Hersheypark | |
| Park section | Pioneer Frontier |
| Coordinates | 40°17′28″N 76°39′19″W / 40.291037°N 76.655204°WCoordinates: 40°17′28″N 76°39′19″W / 40.291037°N 76.655204°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | May 24, 2008 |
| Cost | US $12,100,000 |
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| Type | Steel |
| Manufacturer | Intamin |
| Model | Vertical Lift Coaster |
| Lift/launch system | Vertical chain lift |
| Height | 121 ft (37 m) |
| Length | 2,700 ft (820 m) |
| Speed | 58 mph (93 km/h) |
| Inversions | 6 |
| Duration | 1:25 |
| Max vertical angle | 97° |
| Capacity | 850 riders per hour |
| Height restriction | 54 in (137 cm) |
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Fahrenheit is a steel roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Located in the Pioneer Frontier section of the park, the roller coaster opened on May 24, 2008. It features six inversions and became the steepest roller coaster in the world when it opened with its first drop of 97 degrees. Fahrenheit briefly held the record until Steel Hawg at Indiana Beach, which featured an 111-degree drop, opened several weeks later on July 5. It is now the 7th steepest roller coaster in the world.
Fahrenheit was announced in a Hersheypark press release on September 27, 2007. The ride is the 11th roller coaster and was one of two new attractions for the 2008 season.
Fahrenheit was the first-ever roller coaster to gather hype through a viral marketing campaign. The campaign started as a post on coaster website ThrillNetwork.com regarding the sight of businessmen in the general area of where Fahrenheit is going to be built.
At first, the ride was planned for an announcement on October 2, 2007. A sign was seen on the side of the wooden structure for the Western Chute-Out slide the ride would replace. Not long after the teaser was shown, a web design company named "Nantimi" was uncovered. Curiously, the name of the company was an anagram of Intamin, a roller coaster design firm. Nantimi supposedly had just announced that they would be creating a website to promote Hershey's new attraction, and revealing the price of the attraction, $12.1 million. Two days later, it was discovered that the log-in window on the Nantimi site had a username and password written in it. Using it to log in, logos for a ride called "Tsunami" were discovered.
Soon after, it was found that the Nantimi website was registered through web hosting company Go Daddy, and through it, an address to Nantimi's supposed headquarters was found. Putting the address into online map software, it was discovered that this supposed headquarters was in the middle of an open field with no nearby buildings except a farm. In early September, it was discovered by looking through the Nantimi website a link saying "them.travelled/thRu", that led to a page with a letter that claimed that the materials designed by Nantimi would be ready by September 26, 2007, "for the following day's announcement". An e-mail address was then discovered. Eventually, another e-mail address was discovered, and when e-mailed, provided a response in binary, providing another e-mail address.
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