Atomic Coaster

[ParkTrips]

I've been working on my site's database, and I've come across an interesting ride, Monkey Park's Atomic coaster. Looks like a standard shuttle loop, but the photos confuse me

 

Does it launch you BACKWARDS into the loop, and then you proceed back through forwards? Thats what I would guess, just wondering if anyone could confirm this (which would be awesome, a backwards launch!) or better yet, have any sort of video of the ride.

 

Cool park name BTW 8)

 

Regards

 

- Joe

[V2-dude]

It pulls you forwards up a lift, releases you, you travel through the course backwards, go up the spike, and go through the course forwards.

 

Robb made a POV of a coaster just like this. You can find it in the members only forum.

[Real]

Japan Monkey Park?

 

Where and How do they get these names?

[baclueless]

Yeah, that coaster was totally fun. The day the photos were taken for RCDB, Jim, Sean and I waited around for a couple of hours just to get that credit.

 

If I recall correctly, it had two chains. You get pulled up the hill, when it reaches the end on the flat part of the hill, it some how releases you and the train slowly rolls backward until it hits the steep decline. You then fly thru the station, catch a little air dropping some more after the station into the loop. Up the spike, thru the loop forwards and back into the station.

 

It was a really enjoyable shuttle loop with the added backwards airtime! Yummy!

But that day was uncomfortably hot! Uggh! But hey, I was in Japan!

[SharkTums]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is a clone of the one we rode at Mitsui Greenland.

[rollermonkey]

That's the 'standard' Meisho shuttle loop. There are a couple other examples around Asia.

 

If you think Japan Monkey Park (Nihon Saru Koen is the Japanese) is an odd name, they just opened a coaster called Go Go Banana Coaster this year.

 

I am trying to get there on Memorial Day.