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Silver Dollar City Opens This Weekend - Debuts Giant Swing

You know spring is here when amusement parks start opening their doors for the season.

Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri opens this weekend with a brand new ride, the Giant Swing which gives riders the thrill of a ride on a barn rope times 1000.

The swing is 7 stories tall and cost 6 million dollars to build.

Riders go bursting out of the giant haybarn and out into the atmosphere.

The Giant Swing’s two colossal arms hold back-to-back seat rows, so riders soar backward as well as forward. Environmentally-friendly compressed air power launches the swings, sending riders 75 feet high in opposite directions and through the barn roof before powering them back toward the ground and past each other at speeds up to 45 miles per hour.
The swings then soar 75 feet skyward, high above the trees on the other side, arcing almost 230 degrees so riders are nearly upside down. The tremendous acceleration produces back-to-back G-force kicks and sensations of weightlessness for a full-throttle, high-flying thrill ride.

This ride doesn’t sound like it was made for the weak of heart!

For more information on the Giant Swing please visit Silver Dollar City.