Manta, Ride the Flying Ray at SeaWorld!
SeaWorld Orlando has announced the next generation of SeaWorld thrills with Manta - a new mega-attraction designed to seamlessly transition guests from the awe of encountering rays in underwater flight…into the sensation of being one. Swooping over sea and sky, Manta will inspire riders with amazing underwater animal habitats, then soar them face down, in a horizontal position, aboard a manta-inspired flying coaster. The new signature ride is scheduled to open summer 2009.
Guests will enter a mythical village filled with artisan-created engravings and artwork that celebrate ray legend and lore. The queue line winds through caverns with floor to ceiling windows to huge aquariums filled with 300 rays, as well as thousands of fish and mysterious sea creatures from oceans around the world such as sea dragons and sea horses. Shark rays, spotted eagles rays, leopard rays, cownose rays and oscillate river rays will all float past and above.
Once guests traverse the fun-filled queue line, they’ll fly face down, in a horizontal position, underneath the belly of a coaster train shaped as a giant manta. With a wing span of 12 feet, the giant manta will soar over a 16,300 square foot lagoon - swooping and diving at nearly 60 mph, through four inversions on 3, 359 feet of track. The manta sails from sky to sea - at a height of up to 140 feet and a drop of 113 feet - with the manta’s wings nearly skimming the waves below.
Stumble it!
