run was completed on 15 March 2012, and on 18 April 2012, Canada's Wonderland announced on its Facebook account that a tunnel would be placed at the bottom of the ride's first drop. First rider auction On 19 January 2012, Canada's Wonderland launched an auction in which bidders around the world competed to be one of the first ninety-six public riders on Leviathan on 27 April 2012, a week before the park officially opened the ride. The auction raised over 40,000, which was donated to the Hospital for Sick Children. The highest bid in the auction for a single seat was $1,000. When bidders got to ride the roller coaster, the tunnel at the bottom of the first drop was not yet installed. Ride experience , Leviathan is Bolliger & Mabillard's second tallest and fastest roller coaster, and the company's first giga coaster – a class of roller coasters with a height or drop that exceeds . One cycle of the ride lasts about 3 minutes and 28 seconds. Layout After leaving the station, the train turns 180 degrees to the right, then begins to climb the chain lift hill, traveling at a speed of . Once at the top of the lift, it drops to the ground at an 80-degree angle, reaching a top speed of . Following the first drop, the train goes through a tunnel next to the Wonderland Terminal, then curves upwards into a overbanked banked turn to the right. This is followed by another drop that enters a speed hill, which makes a high speed turn slightly to the left at approximately . The exit of the first high speed turn leads directly into a camelback, followed by a , 115-degree hammerhead turn. Both of these elements are located above the guest parking lot and in front of the park's main entrance. After leaving the hammerhead turn, the train enters a second high-speed curve at approximately . The train then traverses a smaller, camelback, leading to a third high-speed turn which bends to the left and leads into the brake run and into the station. Trains Leviathan operates with three open-air steel and fibreglass trains coloured red, orange and yellow, respectively. The face of Leviathan, a theme element, covers the front of the trains. Each train has eight cars with four seats per car, which are styled after Bolliger & Mabillard's traditional hyper coaster cars,