Weird roller coasters.

[RAWKIN_coaster38]

I've had fun just looking at all the strange coasters on this thread. There are some really weird ones in various countries in Europe and in China and Japan.

 

I saw this one, but it was SBNO the year I was there. Too bad. It's probably the strangest one I've seen in person.

 

 

It's a real tower from a gold mine turned into a coaster.

http://rcdb.com/1481.htm

[CorkscrewFoley]

^Scenic railways have interested me since I first heard about them. It would be fun to ride Montaña Suize, Hochschaubahn, Vuoristorata, or any of the other classics.

 

On topic, Zola7 at Fuji-Q seemed really funky with its combo coaster/shooting dark ride.

 

Glad to see more people like me who are fascinated by scenic railways.

[DougMJr]

^^RCDB says that thing pulls 6.3g's. Short layout but still looks pretty epic.

[WildStangAlex]

http://www.rcdb.com/3218.htm?p=20926

 

Space Switchback in the Pearl Tower in Shanghai. This ride is inside a skyscraper!

[jmicha]

^For being inside such a modern tower located in one of the most overly-planned financial districts of any city I've ever seen, that looks pretty...junky. I honestly never knew that was located inside the Oriental Pearl. You learn something new every day.

[TJ27]

^It looks like the put black garbage bags up and hung Christmas lights on the garbage bags.

[Andrewoplis]

Pretty much anything that has to do with PAX!

 

http://www.mir-pax.ru/en/attraction/index.php

[Schrecken]

The weirdest coaster I've ever ridden is this one:

http://www.rcdb.com/113.htm?p=209

 

I've never seen a coaster with a spiral lift hill and it is that, and not the rest of the ride (which IMO is a fun family-type coaster), that makes this one an oddity.

[SoCalCoasters]

While it's not weird for me now, back before I was a coaster nerd, I was puzzled by Mack's Water Coasters, mainly because of the flume/coaster hybrid aspect.

[coasterbill]

The Classic (I believe it was almost unrideably rough)

 

That's an understatement... that is easily the most awful coaster I've ever ridden. They should have moved it to Guantanamo Bay.

[Kingsislandfreak]

This is an obscure roller coaster.

 

[A.J.]

Cool & Fresh, a traveling Euro-fighter knockoff. The brakes keep the car at a constant speed until it's back down to just being a vertical drop, and then it's a trip through rough, un-heartlined track.

 

 

 

It's one of those "Coaster enthusiasts hate it, but the public eat it up because they want to say they rode a roller coaster with an upside down drop to their friends who really couldn't care less" coasters.

[SoCalCoasters]

^More things wrong with that ride then there are right.

[DiSab]

^^Ah, so that's where RCT3 for that ride design from. But yes, that looks absolutely awful.

[Andrewoplis]

A certain Eurofighter in Japan always caught my attention as "Weird"

 

http://www.rcdb.com/9795.htm

[dippindotsguy8]

^^^^I had always thought the "Towering Coaster" was RCT3's attempt at a eurofighter. I can't believe it's real!

[disturboed]

^^^^^ LOL! I've ridden that exact ride pictured there. It was earlier this year at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

 

The brakes hold you until you hit the red section of track and then you hit the mega shakey crushing loop of death. It travels to the major capital city shows here in Australia, I believe it is apparently Italian? Sure I read that somewhere.

 

Also gotta love all the little planks of wood as chocks under the supports.

 

The really sad thing is, this is the first rollercoaster with an inversion I have ridden since 2003!

[Kingsislandfreak]

Speaking of China

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHSReZgFn3o

[screaminkid2005]

Don't miss something and you'll be fine! haha

[Jeroen_twee]

^^^^^ LOL! I've ridden that exact ride pictured there. It was earlier this year at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

 

The brakes hold you until you hit the red section of track and then you hit the mega shakey crushing loop of death. It travels to the major capital city shows here in Australia, I believe it is apparently Italian? Sure I read that somewhere.

 

It was on the Dutch fairs, and supposed to end up in a 'themepark' near Eindhoven.

[australianalex]

Sorry its an old post but where is that? I always assumed the Sea Serpent shuttle in RCT3 was made up. Goes to show that all of the designs in RCT3 are real (except the Robo Coaster?)

[A.J.]

The Robocoaster on a track exists, it's the system used on Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey at Islands of Adventure, albeit a constant-speed ride as opposed to RCT3's gravity-driven one.

 

As for the shuttle, it's a PAX (shudder) "Cobra-1". The one in the picture you posted was located in a park in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, and as of 2009 has been relocated to a park in Moscow, Russia, where it is still operating. The most recent new example of this kind of ride (now called a "Loop 520") is Cobra at Conny-Land in Thurgau, Switzerland, which was finished in 2010. It has a unique near-inverted spike after its loop.

 

[RoCo]

I'm still ROTFLMAO over the Miami Dolphins coaster a few pages back...

[australianalex]

Holy crap that coaster is insane! Thanks for the info, and I thought maybe the robocoaster was inspired by dark rides like Harry Potter.

 

And I saw that Miami Dolphins coaster when I lived in Dubai, I actually rode it too. Most pointless, weird as hell coaster ever lmao

[Jackdude101]

Weirdest steel coaster:

 

Hexenbesen at Seilbahnen Thale Erlebniswelt in Germany. It's one-of-a-kind, It's a flying AND a suspended model, it's self-operated, and it can only take one passenger at a time. It also has a strict weight limit of 65 kg. which, as an American, I find highly offensive and I will not stand for it (standing makes me tired).

 

http://rcdb.com/3050.htm