New rides at Wonderland

[Northern Light]

Would you happen to know what that water area by the Ampitheatre land is supposed to be?

I didn't get the memo on that spot, unfortunately.

 

[khris]

Tomorrow is the announcement of the new ride.

 

[Northern Light]

Tomorrow is the announcement of the new ride.

Of the new coaster.

 

[khris]

Of the new coaster.

Yes

 

[Coolibop]

New ‘dual-launch’ rollercoaster coming to Canada’s Wonderland in 2025 | Globalnews.ca

A new rollercoaster is coming to Canada's Wonderland next year and the theme park is promising it will be 'the longest, tallest and fastest launch roller coaster' in the country.

globalnews.ca

From the above:

 

[Northern Light]

The official page from CW is here:

Canada's Wonderland

www.canadaswonderland.com

Some stills/renders from the above:

 

[Towered]

Ugh. I used to love going on rollercoasters, but I find these next generation ones rather unsettling. It's the lack of shoulder harness that I couldn't handle at all. After enduring Behemoth, I was officially done. I didn't even bother with the insane ones that came after that - Leviathan and Yukon Striker, and this new one will continue that trend...

 

[khris]

Ugh. I used to love going on rollercoasters, but I find these next generation ones rather unsettling. It's the lack of shoulder harness that I couldn't handle at all. After enduring Behemoth, I was officially done. I didn't even bother with the insane ones that came after that - Leviathan and Yukon Striker, and this new one will continue that trend...

Over the shoulder restraints are not necessary for most things.

 

[JasonParis]

Ugh. I used to love going on rollercoasters, but I find these next generation ones rather unsettling. It's the lack of shoulder harness that I couldn't handle at all. After enduring Behemoth, I was officially done. I didn't even bother with the insane ones that came after that - Leviathan and Yukon Striker, and this new one will continue that trend...

Which is a bit odd to say, as they are far smoother rides than many of the earlier park coasters like Wilde Beast, Minebuster, and especially Flight Deck.

 

[Johnny Au]

Official POV:

Official Off-Ride POV:

Here’s an American YouTuber discussing AlpenFury:

There is no doubt AlpenFury would be Canada’s Wonderland’s new signature roller coaster.

I can’t wait to ride it!

 

[Towered]

Which is a bit odd to say, as they are far smoother rides than many of the earlier park coasters like Wilde Beast, Minebuster, and especially Flight Deck.

They're smoother, but far scarier!!

 

[Towered]

Over the shoulder restraints are not necessary for most things.

I was really freaked out by my upper body not being secured...I bet the lap handles still have slit damage from digging my nails in so hard...

 

[JasonParis]

I love that the off-ride POV shows Wonder Mountain's upper to waterfalls working again. I can't remember the last time they did. Here's hoping this construction will repair them as well.

 

[Johnny Au]

Here are a few more analysis videos from various American amusement park YouTubers regarding AlpenFury:

 

[ryguy7787]

Grace Peacock, the Director of Communications, did confirm there will be a pyro aspect to the mountain as it ejects the coaster out of the mountain as well as some refurbishments on Alpenfest overall. I hope this means The Fly gets a new look/theme as well as if we have a pyrotechnic on site again hopefully Backlot gets to come back in its former glory with its fire fx.

Looking at the animation I bet there are intentions for a flat ride to go where the coaster turns around on Skyflier's plot of land and I wouldn't be surprised if World Expo starts coming into fruition within two or three years by replacing Flight Deck and Timewarp. Every time I've been in that area this summer (8 times) that area has been a ghost town until you get to Psyclone and Sledgehammer. With Backlot Cafe this season getting replaced with the Grand World Eatery, I feel like that was only the beginning.

My major complaint about this, because there is very little to complain about, is the riders per hour cap being maxed out at 810 whereas all of the B&Ms are well over 1k. This shiny new toy is going to be a slog to get through with only 18 riders per train and two trains instead of three due to there not being a mid-course break run/ secondary launch. Grace did mention that they had a certain budget to work with and they landed on this, which makes me think there might be a similar investment into a new coaster a lot sooner than the time frame of Levi to Yukon (2012-2019) or Yukon to Alpenfury (2019-2025)... and I believe it will be that family wood coaster that was on the pass holder survey from last year. I just don't think it'll be in the forest, I think it'll be beside the parkinglot where they would want more foot traffic for their recent investments.