Archive for August, 2009

Dueling Roller Coaster

A dueling roller coaster features two (or more) roller coasters, usually with a similar layout, built close to each other. The rides are designed to do just as the name indicates: to duel. The coaster’s layout often consists of strategic maneuvering to produce near-misses between the two coaster trains, adding to the excitement. As of [...]

Corkscrew Roller Coaster

The corkscrew (B&M: flat spin/ wing over) is a roller coaster inversion which most often resembles a loop that has been ‘widened’ in terms of the element’s entrance and exit points being a distance away from each other. The main difference is that riders are inverted at a point angled 90 horizontally from the incoming [...]

Boomerang Roller Coaster

Boomerang is a model of roller coaster built by Vekoma, and named after the sporting implement based on the traditions of the Indigenous Australians. The first Boomerang began operation in 1984, and it has since become one of the most repeated roller coaster designs in the world, with 43 operating roller coasters as of 2006, [...]

Bobsled roller coaster

A Bobsled roller coaster is the generic name given to any roller coaster that uses a track design that is essentially a “pipe” with the top half removed and has cars that are sent down this pipe in a freewheeling mode. The name derives from the great similarity to the track design used for the [...]