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Tower Height: 208 Feet
Track Length: 2,735 Feet
Ride Time: 2 ½ minutes
Maximum G Force: 4.2 G’s
Maximum Speed: 70 miles per hour
Maximum Inverted Loop: 140 Feet Tall
Riders Per Car: 12
Rider Capacity Per Hour: 1,200
Minimum Height to Ride: 46 to 48 inches, to be determined
Budget: $22 Million
Aggressive Thrill

Cannibal is a 208-foot roller coaster, or megacoaster that is currently under construction. It is scheduled to begin operation in 2015.

This article is about an upcoming ride at Lagoon. The information on this page may not be fully up to date, and details may change as the ride gets closer to opening. Up to the minute discussion can be found on the Forum.

Announcement

Lagoon unveiled plans to debut the biggest and fastest roller coaster in the park’s history in September of 2014. According to Julie Freed, spokesperson for Lagoon, “We have named it Cannibal, because in our collective mind it will eat other roller coasters in their tracks!” Cannibal has been under construction for over two years and is set to open for the upcoming 2015 season. This steel roller coaster is one of a kind, and is primarily manufactured and constructed locally."

Cannibal will be the tallest attraction at Lagoon with a height of 208 feet. This state of the art coaster will thrill riders with its unique elements unlike anything else at Lagoon. Riders will be lifted 208 feet on a vertical lift and then plunged into a free fall at a break-over angle of 116 degrees into an underground tunnel. The 12 occupant vehicles travel up to 70 miles per hour through three inversions. Cannibal will be the most exciting thrill ride in Lagoon's history and is the only roller coaster of its type in the world.

Unique Ride Elements

Vertical Lift
Inverted Loop
Diving Loop
Underground Tunnel
Exclusive thrill element to be announced at a later date.

Ride Logo

Design Images

All images below provided as a courtesy by Lagoon.

Lion statues

Cannibal's theming includes concrete lions that previously sat at the steps to the Utah State Capital Building. The lions are over 100 years old and due to their deteriorated state, they were auctioned on eBay and replaced by new marble lion statues. Lagoon won three of the statues at auction, spending nearly $16,000 but were outbid by a Salt Lake City resident on the fourth, which sold for $8,100. The lions have been fully restored by Lagoon and sit near Cannibal's entrance.

Manufactured and constructed locally

Cannibal is unusual in that it is not being designed and built by an existing roller coaster manufacturer. It was designed by Lagoon's head engineer, and is being built by Lagoon and it's contractors. Over 75% of contractors and vendors used to help build this coaster are from Utah. Below is a list of these companies as identified by Lagoon.

Automotive & Industrial Supply
Border States Electric
Brundage-Bone
Codale Electric Supply
Colonial Building Supply
Fastenal Company
FOR-SHOR Company
GEM Buildings
Geneva Rock Inc.
H&E Equipment Services
HOJ Engineering & Sales
Intermountain Concrete Specialties
Intermountain Lift
Lakeview Rock Products
Marmon/Keystone, LLC
Marz Precision Manufacturing
Masco, Inc.
Mountain Crane Services, LLC
Pacific Steel
Petersen Incorporated
Pilot Freight Services
Quality Fire Protection
Richards Sheet Metal
T.H.B. Inc.
Wadsworth Brothers Construction
Ward Engineering Group
Wells Fargo Bank
Wells Fargo Equipment Financing
Wilson Brothers Trucking

February Update Video

Lagoon created a video showing the coaster under construction in mid-February. This is the first video footage of the coaster released by Lagoon.

Cannibal Progress February 2015

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+== Lion statues ==
+Cannibal's theming includes concrete lions that previously sat at the steps to the Utah State Capital Building. The lions are over 100 years old and due to their deteriorated state, they were auctioned on eBay and replaced by new marble lion statues. Lagoon won three of the statues at auction, spending nearly $16,000 but were outbid by a Salt Lake City resident on the fourth, which sold for $8,100. The lions have been fully restored by Lagoon and sit near Cannibal's entrance.
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-== Lions ==
-Cannibal's theming includes concrete lions that previously sat at the steps to the Utah State Capital Building. The lions are over 100 years old and due to their deteriorated state, they were auctioned on eBay and replaced by new marble lion statues. Lagoon won three of the statues at auction, spending nearly $16,000 but were outbid by a Salt Lake City resident on the fourth, which sold for $8,100. The lions have been fully restored by Lagoon and sit near Cannibal's entrance.
 == February Update Video ==