Do You Dare Try And Conquer Valravn?
https://youtu.be/sEydyLJ-wjw
Valravn, the TALLEST, FASTEST, LONGEST dive coaster in the world …
After leaving the station, the train turns 180 degrees to the left, then begins to ascend its 223-foot-tall (68 m) chain lift hill. Once the train reaches the top, it turns right, slightly hangs over the first drop and pauses for four seconds. The train then drops 214 feet (65 m) at a 90-degree angle where it reaches 75 miles per hour (121 km/h), its maximum speed. The train then enters a 165-foot (50 m) Immelmann loop before rising into the mid-course brake run. After the midcourse brakes, the train goes through a second drop at 131 feet (40 m). Out of the drop, the train enters a dive loop that leads into its third and final inversion, a 270-degree zero-g roll. The train encounters an airtime hill before turning left and entering the final brake run.
Valravn holds records for the following:
Tallest Dive Coaster (223 feet)
Fastest Dive Coaster (75 miles per hour)
Longest Dive Coaster (3,415 feet)
Longest drop on a Dive Coaster (214 feet)
Most inversions on a Dive Coaster (3)
Highest inversion on a Dive Coaster (165 feet)
My Dick
Sent to me by my 16-year-old.
1970 Hot Wheels Peeping Bomb Restoration
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What’s In The Bag…
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Swamp Thing 21
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Best not to know what’s going on here.
What Makes This Song Great?
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In today’s episode, Beato breaks down “Been Caught Stealing,” Jane’s Addiction’s biggest hit from 1990’s Ritual de lo Habitual. Check it.
Everybody Caught Up?
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This Looks Completely Bonkers In The Best Way Possible And I Can’t Wait To See It
Starring Nicolas Cage, directed by Panos Cosmatos, music by Jóhann Jóhannsson. September 14th!
Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.