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Park:   Holiday World (travel info)
Ride Type:   Wooden Coaster
Status:   Operating since 5/6/2006
Category:   Out-and-Back
Builder:   The Gravity Group, LLC
Cost:   $6,500,000
Length:   6442'
Height:   173'
Drop Height:   154'
Drop Angle:   66°
Max Speed:   67 mph
Duration:   2:45
Capacity:   1200 pph
Arrangement:   Three 7-car trains that hold 28 riders/train.
Restraints:   Individually ratcheting lapbar with seatbelt
Visits:   116
Rating:   This Ride's Rating Is: 5
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More About This Ride
Ride Restrictions:
Minimum height restriction:   48 in.

Structure:
163' lift-hill.

Steel support structure.

Estimated 750 tons of steel.

320,000 board feet of treated Southern Yellow Pine.

Ride begins with an "Out-and-back" configuration, with the return run diving around and through the structure.

Features:
Three drops in excess of 100': 154' at a 66 deg. angle, 107' at a 51 deg. angle, and 100' at 50.5 deg.

Five subterranean tunnels - some in which the trains pass through twice, for a total of eight underground passes. One of these traverses features a "triple-down" maneuver on one of the return-trip tunnels.

Three 90-degree banked track sections.

A total of 24.2 seconds of airtime (at any moment that is less than .25 vertical G's).

Average ride speed is 42 mph.

History:
Rolling stock by Philadelphia Toboggan Company.
Voyage is the main attraction of Holiday World's new Thanksgiving themed-area for the 2006 season.


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Reviews
BryanWood

Joined: May 2001
Posts: 4008

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What a brilliant ride. I'm going to ride every single Gravity Group installation in the future thanks to this ride and Hades. Wow is the best word to describe this beast.

5-4-06 22:03:48
Wes

Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 11387

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Insane is the only word to describe this ride. It's just insane!

5-30-06 8:21:02
m-force 4 ever

Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 460

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Simply amazing...it ruins every other wooden coaster ever

6-21-06 18:10:50
pkiknowitall

Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 28

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What an amazing work. It is so smooth and tall with relelntless speed and non stop air. It seems that after nearly every turn or underground pass, you receive more air! My favorite part is the triple drop on the return tunnel. The third drop gives you a ton of air. This ride just doesnt slow down! I rode it 11 times the day I went! It's my number one favorite roller coaster, steel or wood! Ride the Voyage!

7-21-06 15:05:43
SheikraTTD

Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 997

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There is absolutely nothing wrong with this ride! My alltime favorite amusement or theme park ride! This ride is insane! I can't wait till Holiday World's next ride and also Gravity Group's!

8-3-06 15:28:09
Zingoman

Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 1307

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Relentless insanity!! This ride was unreal! It is like NOTHING else in this world! They really went to the extreme with it. There is simply no way to top this ride. It is the best, and I will be totally shocked if it is ever beaten in the near future.

8-13-06 0:56:20
I love DW

Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 2065

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I loved the Voyage. Little rough, but not too bad for as fast as it is. I liked all the tunnels and the double down inside the tunnel is awesome. The first drop was awesome. And once your at the top of the chain hill you have a good veiw of alot of the park and all of Splashin Safari. I would definetly recommend this ride to anyone who likes wooden coasters. It's awesome.

8-17-06 14:32:16
TrailblazerTony

Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 136

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This is the first ride in a very long time that has actually taken my breath away! It started with the tunnel that is visable from the queue line, just seeing the speed made the ride much more anticipated. After riding, i seriously could not tell you if i took an ounce of breath the entire ride. Insanely fast, i've never felt speed in the way i could on this ride. The tunnels were simply amazing with the triple down tunnel being the best element of the ride. The first three hills are awesome and the 90 degree turns were neat as well! My only complaint about this ride is that it went so fast through so many turns that my back was kind of sore towards the end, making it hard to reride multiple times in a row, however, a must hit for any coaster lover and especially for any wooden coaster lover!

9-16-06 23:17:16
KY_THRILLBILLY

Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 253

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This coaster doesnt deserve all the hype that it has been receiving, its just slightly overated. I also thought the coaster was extremely rough, well maybe not extremely, but it was rough none the less. I would certainly prefer El Toro over this any day, but this coaster is still a good 4/5.

10-1-06 20:35:36
helix123

Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 181

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Freakin Awsome! A totally unique and insane exprence, love It!

11-20-06 20:01:36
Zingoman

Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 1307

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This coaster I would hardly describe as rough. The front row is actually sort of rough going into some of the turns, but the back is butter smooth. If you thought this ride was rough, then you sat in the wrong place. It is night and day from back to front on this coaster.

4-5-07 16:31:14
G-Farce

Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 882

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Just amazing.
one monster of a wooden coaster

5-29-07 13:04:37
Freddie

Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 175

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The Voyage is an amazing ride, but it didn't live up to Boulder Dash or Legend for me, so it's #3 on my top 10. The midcourse brakes were on, so i think that brought it down a bit for me. It is very smooth though, just aggressive.

8-21-07 15:32:20
Chip

Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 7396

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Voyage is simply the best roller coaster I've ever ridden. It blows everything else away. It might as well be my Nos. 1, 2 and 3. It's that good.

12-23-07 14:46:34
I love DW

Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 2065

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Just rode the Voyage and it seems a lot more rough than it did back in 2006 and 2007. Not nearly as much fun with being so rough now.

5-30-08 2:25:24
Thunderhawk

Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 761

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I just got back from Holidayworld. Having never ridden this before, but having heard such great reviews, I expected a fantatic wooden coaster. This thing was just brutally rough and did not have nearly as much air time as I thought it would. I rode in the last row, second row, and middle, and the only ride that wasn't devastatingly rough was the middle. I rarely find a wooden coaster too rough, that distinction up until this ride being Son Of Beast. While Son of Beast is still much worse, I have to knock Voyage down many places for being just too painful. I am assuming based on the above post it is not aging well, and I fear for how rough this ride will become in the next few years.

7-26-08 16:46:07
Mamba205

Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 42

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Totally amazing! Can I say that again? Totally amazing! Insane. Awesome. Cool. Wicked airtime over what seemed like a thousand hills. The front gives the most airtime, but the back is most intense when going through the 90 degree turns. Everything is great about the Voyage. Insane airtime, wild curves, it's built in a forest, endless speed. It is still going 45-50 mph at the end! Dont' forget those tunnels. This ride actually took my breath away! I couldn't breath for the first few hills. No wonder why the Voyage was ranked the Number 1 Roller Coaster In The World! Props to Holiday World for building possibly the best roller coaster I've ever ridden. It's not too rough either.

8-24-08 0:21:41
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