Dorney Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Iron Menace

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What riders love
  • The front row is the best since you can really appreciate the pause before you plummet.
  • You just gradually kept getting steeper and steeper. The extra 5 degrees in steepness really made a difference.
  • great drop and placement seeing the entire park in front of you and it has nice air in the back.
  • Phenomenal first drop and a super solid array of fun, floaty, and intense inversions.
  • The inclined loop is quite good with the short cars maintaining the speed.
  • The drop is spectacular, and the inversions are fun and floaty.
  • I love the theming present throughout the queue and the lift hill.
  • The theming of being at a steel mill is excellent and the restraints are pretty cozy.
  • The soundtrack adds a lot to this ride.
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Iron Menace Drone Flyaround

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Performance

Vs. other coasters at Dorney Park

Sure, it could be smoother in the back row, but the drop gives nice floater, the zero g roll did too, and I grayed out HARD in the tilted loop on all my rides.

R S

• great drop and placement seeing the entire park in front of you and it has nice air in the back.

SnowyShores

...Toonami event "The Forge" with this ride (bringing back flashbacks of TOM being choked.) The airtime is nice, but not as splendid as Griffon’s (THE AIRTIME RIGHT BEFORE THE SPLASHDOWN IS UNREAL.)...

Danielle Pluzsik

You go up the lift into a decent drop that has some decent airtime.

Caiden Brauchler

No airtime at all.

Bubble Gaming

Noticed it a bit in the middle row but the front was pretty smooth didn’t ride in the back row so can’t comment on that experience.

Glass Cannonn

Just make sure to ride up front for not only the best experience on the coaster, but to avoid that nasty rattle in the back row edge seats.

Anthony DeNight Jr.

...until the brake run it vibrates like a massage chair until you hit one of the absolute worst moments on a B&M coaster as your head slams side to side before flattening out into the final brake run.

B West

But otherwise, it was a pretty good dive coaster with an intense inversion-filled layout and solid theming.

roller rider

• while I didn’t lose any vision the Immelmann was INTENSE and I definitely felt it pressing down on me.

SnowyShores

While the first drop is, of course, great, I think the 4 intense inversions after it are just as fun.

MapleFlakes

The dangle and the drop are very fun, and the ride has nice intense inversions.

Henry Japha

It didn’t feel as tall as my favorite dive Griffon, but I loved the graceful and not too forceful layout.

David

Iron menace just hauls ass the entire time and that makes the ride have the extra edge over the other dives I’ve ridden to this point

SnowyShores

The inclined loop is quite good with the short cars maintaining the speed.

Alessio Romano

I hate how slow the big dives that I’ve done (Griffon and sheikra) are, so it’s nice that this ride type has a fast paced version.

@Thrills_And_Chills_WQAQ

There are taller dive coasters out there, but few are as fast-paced as this one.

Canobie Coaster

The ride objectively probably isn’t as good as Valravn, but I think I enjoyed my rides on this more due to the lack of a wait and because I had a bit of a headache getting on Valravn.

Ryan Armstrong

However, there was basically no wait so I got to ride this 4 times.

Kristofer Wempa

The operations were possibly the worst I’ve seen for any coaster with 5+ minutes per dispatch.

David

Should I ride it?

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Car 1, the front: 3 of 3 riders who named a row

Specifications

160 ftHeight
200 SteelForce 160 IronMenace 135 Talon 95 Hydra theRevenge 80 Thunderhawk 49 Wild Mouse
152 ftFirst drop
205 SteelForce 165 Possessed 152 IronMenace 120 Talon 105 Hydra theRevenge 65 Thunderhawk
64 mphTop speed
Steel Force75 Possessed70 Iron Menace64 Talon58 Hydra theRevenge53 Thunderhawk45 075 mph
95°Drop angle
95°Iron Menace90°Possessed68°Hydra theRevenge61°Steel Force50°Talon46°Wild Mouse45°Thunderhawkdashed line: straight down, 90°
4Inversions

What riders say

Praised for

Huge first dropGreat themingGreat inversions

Criticised for

Rough or rattlyToo shortOverratedWeak layout

This is a fun enough mini-dive coaster, but I think it’s gotten a lot of negative attention for what a certain detail suggests about its manufacturer.

Matt McIrvin, Captain Coaster review

It had such an awful rattle and the final kink was the final nail in the coffin.

Nate C., Captain Coaster review

I love how it perfectly fits to the park, the coaster’s appearance looks great but the ride experience is just ok.

Joey Leary, Captain Coaster review

I felt the shake just before the brake run, but it was not enough to spoil the experience for me.

thomas stanley, Captain Coaster review

Based on my two rides, outer seats have a bad rattle, inner ones don’t.

Zach O., Captain Coaster review

Theming is great for a Cedar Fair park but i still couldn’t really figure out the story very well.

Spencer S., Captain Coaster review

Planning your ride

History

May 10, 2024Opened

A dive coaster, built by Bolliger & Mabillard.

Sources

Restraint types: Captain Coaster. Height requirement: Dorney Park. Specifications and status: Coasterpedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Also read: Captain Coaster (converted to feet and mph). Rider sentiment and performance scores: rider reviews on Captain Coaster, youtube.com, read and scored by AirtimeFever.

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What riders love, by theme (themes in the order riders pick them most on Captain Coaster): Carrie Flynn, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The 3 second hang at the top of the…”; Kristofer Wempa, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The front row is the best since you can…”; Bubble Gaming, rider review on Captain Coaster: “You just gradually kept getting steeper and steeper. The…”; SnowyShores, rider review on Captain Coaster: “great drop and placement seeing the entire park in…”; MapleFlakes, rider review on Captain Coaster: “While the first drop is, of course, great, I…”; Anthony DeNight Jr., rider review on Captain Coaster: “Phenomenal first drop and a super solid array of…”; Blake Stoudt, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The inclined loop is quite good with the short…”; Alexander Marko, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The drop is spectacular, and the inversions are fun…”; B West, rider review on Captain Coaster: “There is audio on the lift hill as the…”; MapleFlakes, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I love the theming present throughout the queue and…”; Clayton Latone, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The theming of being at a steel mill is…”; Sara Alexander, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The soundtrack adds a lot to this ride.”.

The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: East Coasters's back row POV, Iron Menace POV 5K Back Row NEW RIDE AT DORNEY PARK! Allentown, PA (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.