{"id":171916,"date":"2026-04-21T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171916\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:19:09","slug":"back-on-track-talon-reassembled-as-dorney-park-rolls-towards-opening-day-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171916\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on track: Talon reassembled, as Dorney Park rolls towards Opening Day | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Dorney Park &amp; Wildwater Kingdom is back on its tracks ahead of Opening Day on May 8.<\/p>\n<p>The coaster has officially been reassembled and placed back on the tracks as preparations continue for its milestone 25th season in 2026, the amusement park said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Video from Dorney Park &amp; Wildwater Kingdom<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Introduced in 2001, Talon has ski-lift style seating, suspended track design, and intense near-miss elements that create the sensation of flying just above the ground, the park says.<\/p>\n<p>The park says the coaster was manufactured by Bolliger &amp; Mabillard. It reaches speeds of 58 mph, climbs 135 feet in the air, and flips riders upside down four times.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Talon reassembled for 2026 season.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e78eeaf0ae3.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Park maintenance teams recently completed the reinstallation process, carefully lifting and securing the coaster\u2019s train back into place following offseason maintenance and inspections, according to the news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Dorney Park &amp; Wildwater Kingdom is back on its tracks ahead of Opening Day on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,77123,77124,8790,27399,77122,77121,66308],"class_list":["post-171916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-amusement-park","tag-bolliger-mabillard","tag-dorney-park","tag-opening-day","tag-roller-coaster","tag-talon","tag-wildwater-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}