Unique Coaster Elements

[medoman]

Anybody mention the stengel dive on Goliath @ walibi Holland?

 

[CPmillenia94]

Here's another one Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit's non-inverting loop

I was going to put this one in, but they also have another pretty cool element a little bit later in the ride (right after you go through the building).

 

This is actually the same basic thing as Apollo's chariots turnaround. At uinverting loop is pretty unique in every way though.. Always awesome disorienting airtime on that..

[JFrombaugh]

The "Lagoon Roll" on Cannibal. It was actually designed by Lagoon's In-House engineers, hence the name.

 

Haven't been on it yet, but it looks awesome!

[LuminousAphid]

I don't think this has been posted here...

I just realized that the first loop on Olympia Looping might be unique as far as Schwarzkopf coasters are concerned- most of their loops are their standard boxy-support type but this one just has round steel pipe supports with standard-looking track, and that twist along the exit. Are there any other Schwarzkopf loops which are "nonstandard"?

[DoinItForTheFame]

^To go along with that, the Arrow Pipeline coaster

 

 

W.T.F.?!

[KingRCT3]

I don't think this has been posted here...

I just realized that the first loop on Olympia Looping might be unique as far as Schwarzkopf coasters are concerned- most of their loops are their standard boxy-support type but this one just has round steel pipe supports with standard-looking track, and that twist along the exit. Are there any other Schwarzkopf loops which are "nonstandard"?

 

Thriller have the most unorthodox loops ever:

 

 

[LuminousAphid]

I just had a thought; has anyone ever made an "outside corkscrew"? Think a corkscrew shape but instead of spinning around the inside, the train is riding along the outside of the shape?

 

I just realized that's stupid; I don't think people can handle those kind of sustained negative G's without passing out

[gerstlaueringvar]

^Its possible on flyers and 4D/ZacSpin though.

[KingRCT3]

Well, I kind of tried it on NoLimits, but yeah, it would be borderline intense. Though, not as much as you said: Mondial's Capriolos are very famous for their "hedghop" move, which is basically locking down the gondola upward while the main arm is at the apex, and then making the arm do a full loop, and that pulls an impressive -3.5g. I survived that (and liked it) and so thousand of riders each year, so I'd say it isn't unsafe.

 

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[Pirate]

^ That's probably got to be somewhere in China.

 

As a painful knockoff, of course.

[canadianparkfan]

I just had a thought; has anyone ever made an "outside corkscrew"? Think a corkscrew shape but instead of spinning around the inside, the train is riding along the outside of the shape?

 

I just realized that's stupid; I don't think people can handle those kind of sustained negative G's without passing out

Wouldn't the twisted airtime hills on rides like Rita at Alton Towers count as something like this?

[LeoBruz199]

The Katapult loop is an interesting element as well

 

 

They REALLY need to bring one of these back. From my viewpoint they look absolutley kickass and it's a cryin' shame that they're probably rusting in some warehouse in Europe.

 

 

Just watch, for all we know, Dorney will open one

 

Sorry for throwing back an old post, but there is still one operating in Oman. Remember the Pinfari Zyklon in Marah land? Well, they bought Mirabilandia's old Katapult and put it there. I've actually been on it. It's a lot of fun and I enjoyed it, but the restraints are just awful. Some worn-out lapbar mixed with crappy OTSRs? Nope.