Shift focus now to Silverwood Theme Park. Silverwood had just come off of 4 straight years of adding new offerings, the most recent of which in was to double the size of the Boulder Beach water park.
Truly Silverwood was in the middle of a growth spurt unlike anything the park had ever seen before, and eventually, the growth had to taper off. The rumors started around February in the dead of an extra-cold, extra-snowy northern Idaho winter. The rumors were met with more skepticism than excitement. And there was no way on earth that even if they were adding a coaster, that it would be a used Vekoma GIB? The subsequent months saw the coaster begin to take shape in — naturally — the Roller Coaster Alley section of the park, just Southwest of Tremors.
The green and blue track made its way skyward, and guests began to realize that this was something on an entirely different level from anything Silverwood had ever done in the past. The park sponsored a contest to name the new ride, and the winning entry was a fitting compliment to the earthquake-themed Tremors coaster that raced nearby: the new ride would be dubbed Aftershock.
It would stick out like a sore thumb among the existing wooden coasters, and look like something out of a dream to drivers heading up Highway Silverwood would never be the same. As the spring turned to summer, it became quickly apparent that the new coaster would not be ready for the peak crowds that start arriving around the Memorial Day weekend.
Rumors circulated. Something was wrong with the coaster. Silverwood was having second thoughts. Parts were missing. After a couple of additional weeks of delays, Silverwood opened its fifth coaster yes, we do technically count Tiny Toot as a coaster, folks on July 21, And the ride was of course met with rave reviews. The first train of guests included the winner of the contest to name the ride, along with other key players and members of the Silverwood team.
Slowly, and surely, the ride made its climb up the initial foot spike — backward. Riders screamed as their feet dangled below them, facing straight down toward the earth, climbing higher and higher into the sky. Soon, they were staring straight down at the top of Tremors.
A moment of pause, and then, the release. The coaster free-falled down the spike, reaching a speed of 65 miles per hour, tearing through the loading station, and soaring up into the massive foot boomerang element.
Around it went, turning riders upside-down twice before plummeting back to earth. Next was the giant foot vertical loop — the first vertical loop at Silverwood, followed by the second spike, which took riders straight up this time, again to a peak higher than any other in the park.
One more moment of pause, and the train and its victims experienced the entire thing again — this time backwards. As the train rolled through the loading station again, the brakes set in, and the coaster eventually returned to its point of origin, riders clapping, screaming, yelling and cheering. Sounds like another winner. As the park continued through the Summer months, word quickly spread that this new ride was unlike anything most guests to Silverwood had ever seen or experienced.
And now, with yet another addition to the park, Silverwood was not only serious about its future, but was fast becoming a legitimate dot on the theme park map. Wiki tools Upload file Special pages. Page Discussion View View source History. Click here to watch the on-ride POV. This box: view edit.
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