***MEDIA ADVISORY TOMORROW 7/30 AT 12PM*** COUNTY EXECUTIVE GEORGE LATIMER OPENS “DRAGONATOR” TO THE PUBLIC, PLAYLAND’S FIRST NEW RIDE IN OVER A DECADE.

***MEDIA ADVISORY***

COUNTY EXECUTIVE GEORGE LATIMER OPENS “DRAGONATOR” TO THE PUBLIC, PLAYLAND’S FIRST NEW RIDE IN OVER A DECADE.

Tuesday, July 30

12p.m.

Playland Park

1 Playland Pkwy

Rye, NY 10580

For the first time in over a decade, Westchester County will welcome a new ride at Playland as County Executive Latimer will officially open “Dragonator” to the public.

After 409 submissions from the public, Latimer was joined by 1st through 6th grade children attending the County’s Nature Camp at Cranberry Lake Preserve last week to choose the name “Dragonator” from five finalists.

“Dragonator” holds 24 riders and is designed with a back restraint which leaves both arms and legs free to move as riders are spun around and travel along a “U” shaped track.  The ride is part roller coaster and part spinning ride.

Zamperla, the ride manufacturer, describes the ride as “running on an approximately 92 m. long track reaching a maximum speed of 70Km/h and drawing different trajectories at any time. From a top height of 15mt., the vehicle starts its wild run along the track concave section at a variable speed of 30 to 70 Km/h. In less than a second, the vehicle reaches the top of the central hump at approximately 40 Km/h and gives passengers a strong ‘negative’ acceleration for an incredible weightless sensation.”