Primeval Whirl is an attraction at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Disney's Animal Kingdom

Disney's Animal Kingdom is an animal theme park located at the Walt Disney World Resort. The fourth park built at the resort, it opened on April 22, 1998, and it is the largest single Disney theme park in the world, covering more than . It is also the first Disney theme park to be themed entirely...

 at the Walt Disney World Resort

Walt Disney World Resort

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. The ride is an "off the shelf" spinning roller coaster

Wild Mouse roller coaster

A Wild Mouse roller coaster is a type of roller coaster characterized by small cars that seat four people or fewer and ride on top of the track, taking tight, flat turns at modest speeds, yet producing high lateral G-forces...

 purchased from Reverchon Industries

Reverchon Industries

Reverchon Industries was a developer, designer and manufacturer of amusement park attractions that were sold all over the world. The company went into liquidation in September 2008, filing for bankruptcy and closing down their manufacturing and operations plant.Its production unit was set set in...

. The ride is part of Chester and Hester's Dino-Rama, which is itself part of Dinoland USA. It is a roller coaster in the "Mild But Wild Thrills" category. It has cars that spin in circles while traveling on tracks, permitting the ride experience to vary greatly each time it is ridden. It usually seats up to 4 riders.

The ride is lightly themed, with decorations related to time travel

Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...

 and to the meteor which is believed to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. This gives the coaster a storyline very similar to that of the nearby dark ride

Dark ride

A dark ride or ghost train is an indoor amusement ride where riders in guided vehicles travel through specially lit scenes that typically contain animation, sound, music, and special effects....

, DINOSAUR.

On Thursday, November 29, 2007, Karen Price, a Disney Cast Member, died in a Florida hospital, five days after falling from the Primeval Whirl ride platform and hitting her head. On March 5, 2008, Disney announced it was adding sensors that would detect if a cast member entered into areas that are off limits and stop the movement of the ride vehicles in the immediate area.

On Monday, March 14, 2011, 52-year-old Russell Sherry Roscoe, a Disney Cast Member, died at Orlando Regional Medical Center after suffering a head trauma while working on The Little Dip section of the ride the previous day.

Similar to Space Mountain

Space Mountain (Magic Kingdom)

Space Mountain is an indoor outer space-themed steel roller coaster at the Magic Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It opened on January 15, 1975 and is the original version of the iconic attraction that is included in all five of the Disney theme parks...

 at the Magic Kingdom

Magic Kingdom

Magic Kingdom Park is one of four theme parks at the Walt Disney World Resort located near Orlando, Florida. The first park built at the resort, Magic Kingdom opened Oct. 1, 1971. Designed and built by WED Enterprises, the park's layout and attractions are similar to Disneyland in Anaheim, California...

, Primeval Whirl is actually two roller coasters with identical layouts, but facing opposite directions.

Attraction facts

• Grand Opening: April 18, 2002
  • Soft Opening: March 31, 2002
• Designers: Reverchon Industries
  Reverchon Industries
  Reverchon Industries was a developer, designer and manufacturer of amusement park attractions that were sold all over the world. The company went into liquidation in September 2008, filing for bankruptcy and closing down their manufacturing and operations plant.Its production unit was set set in...
  
   with Walt Disney Imagineering
  Walt Disney Imagineering
  Walt Disney Imagineering is the design and development arm of the Walt Disney Company, responsible for the creation and construction of Disney theme parks worldwide...
  
   designing the theming.
• Length: 1377' 11"
• Height: 42' 8"
• Vehicles: 13
  • Vehicle theme: Time machine
• Inversions: 0
• Top Speed: 29.1 mph
• G-Force: 2.5
• Ride Duration: 1:10
• Height Requirement: 48" (122 cm) (see below)
• Ride System: Roller coaster
• Location: DinoLand U.S.A.
  DinoLand U.S.A.
  DinoLand U.S.A. is the name of the land in Disney's Animal Kingdom that contains all of the dinosaur-themed attractions.- Backstory :DinoLand U.S.A. originally started as a small highway town where an amateur fossil-hunter found some dinosaur bones in 1947. After contacting some scientist friends,...
  
  

Fastpasses are on an indefinite hiatus for this attraction and are currently unavailable

External links

• Official Page
• WDWMAGIC Dino-Rama page - includes details about Primeval Whirl