Thunder Striker
0800 - Celebration Plaza (NG), Carowinds
About Thunder Striker
Take a joy ride—if you dare—on Thunder Striker, the tallest, fastest, longest hyper coaster in the Southeast. It's also one of North America's tallest steel roller coasters at an astonishing 232 feet tall.
Height requirement
- From 137 cm
Stats and facts
- Type
- Roller coaster
- Top speed
- 128.7 km/h
- Height
- 70.7 m
- Length
- 1,620 m
- Inversions
- 0
- Duration
- 3:33
- Opened
- 2010
- Manufacturer
- Bolliger & Mabillard
- Model
- Hyper Coaster
- Material
- Steel
- Style
- Sit-down
- Layout
- Out and back
- Lift/launch
- Chain lift
- Drop
- 64.3 m
- Max angle
- 74°
- Capacity
- 1,600 / h
- Trains
- 3 trains of 8 cars, 1 x 4 riders