Intamin / Schwarzkopf Track

Has anyone else noticed the similarities of these two track types? Especiall on Mindbender at SFoG. They are nearly identical! Didn't Intamin manufacture track for Anton?

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Millennium Force: The Future's Riding On It

Same designer/engineering/construction teams.

I have a book on Roller coasters called "Roller Coaster" and it says something about Intamin buying Schwarzkopf, that may be why there track looks the same. I noticed that too, but the supports seem a bit different.

On the topic, B&M used to work for Intamin...Do you think B&M will ever make a giga?

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Millennium Force: The Future's Riding On It

Who knows, I bet they will, That would be Awesome and very smooth too.

Another enthusiast told me that Super Dooper Looper at Hershey Park is one of their joint creations.

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Batwing-Bow Down

Anton was the designer, et cetra, Intamin is one of many companies the man worked with. A couple of shuttle loops and some other stuff have track sections like at SFoG. He assembled the MindBender from thier "pieces" that he designed, did I think that out right?

I believe the Anton Schwarzkopf Co. made the track. On the Schwarzkopf fan site, it shows Schwarzkopf by a metal bending machine at his home-base (I think).

Shockwave at Six Flags Over Texas also has the box track.

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Maybe I ain't so shy! *** This post was edited by The Shy One on 7/25/2001. ***