New theme park coming to the Redneck Riviera

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A new theme park coming to Alabama’s Gulf Coast hopes to fill a void left by Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of Six Flags New Orleans more than a decade ago.
The Owa theme park, about 45 minutes southeast of Mobile, is set to open this summer. It will feature 20 rides as part of a $500-million complex built by a local Native American tribe.

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Italy-based Zamperla will provide all the rides for Owa park, including three roller coasters.
The marque Rollin’ Thunder coaster will be a clone of the Thunderbolt at New York’s Coney Island. The 125-foot-tall looping steel coaster will feature a 110-foot vertical lift and four inversions, including a dive loop, a corkscrew and a heart-line roll.
The other two coasters: A wild mouse ride with spinning cars and an oval kiddie one with a mid-course helix.
The collection of thrill rides includes:
? Disk’O half-pipe ride
? Air Race airplane ride, which simulates an acrobatic air show
? Discovery pendulum swing, with outward-facing seats and a rotating gondola
? Enterprise-style ride attached to a tilting arm with swinging gondola seats
? a 125-foot tall swing tower
More family-oriented rides include:
? 40-foot-tall hot air balloon tower ride
? Wave Swing carousel
? Rockin’ Tug half-pipe ride
? Kiddie drop tower
? Teacups
? Autopia-style big-rig truck driving course; and
? 5 Dumbo-style spinning flat rides (Aerozoom, Magic Bikes, Flying Tigers, Jump Around and Mini Jet)

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Zamperla is a company that creates most of the rides at parks in Italy, Germany, Guatemala, Iraq and North Korea as well as at Luna Park at New York’s Coney Island.

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