Arrow coasters with cobra roll
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1989, 9 years old bawling my eyes out because I didn't want to ride Magnum. I did anyway and look at me now. Why did ya make me do it Dave? ;)
Drachen Fire, the SBNO Arrow looper at BGW.
Of course, the cobra roll on that is a result of B&M designing the ride, and handing the plans off to Arrow. Why? I'm not sure.
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As far as I know it was the only cobra roll on an Arrow.
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And technically Arrow didn't call it a cobra roll - they called it a Batwing. Cobra Roll is a B&M term. For the record Vekoma calls it a boomerang, hence the name of their shuttle coasters featuring that element.
Interestingly, Vekoma created the Boomerang 12 years before B&M put a Cobra Roll on Kumba, yet among enthusiasts Cobra Roll seems to be the accepted term.
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Heh, sorry Soggy. :)
You're probably right though, ride a boomerang - pretty much what an Arrow "Cobra Roll" would've been.
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To some degree yes. I rode Drachen Fire a long time ago and i dont remember any thing about it, i had myself thinking it had two lift hills. But i do remember i had an isane head ache after riding it. On boomerang coasters there smoother than most Arrow's.
Drachen Fire was one of my first big coasters, big step up from Space Mountain. I remeber watching it go through the batwing/boomerang/cobra roll, and getting very scared, very scared.
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bigkirby said:
B&M never had anything to do with Drachen Fire. That argument was settled a few threads back.-----------------
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B&M designed Drachen Fire. Oh it's very much true.
Raymond Blake from marketing (I think that's where he works) told me so and members from the in-house maintenance team told me and a former supervisor along with Bill (13 or 14 year employee at the park) told me. I really don't think would all lie about that and much less all tell me the same story.
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Fear The Two: Apollo’s Chariot,which boasts nine drops,totaling 825-feet!while approaching speeds of 75 mph and Alpengeist,the world’s tallest at(195-feet!),fastest approaching (70 mph!)and most twisted inverted roller coaster.
The batwing looks exactly like B&M cobra rolls.
Phaethon said:
bigkirby said:
B&M never had anything to do with Drachen Fire. That argument was settled a few threads back.-----------------
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My fellow Americans; Let's Roll!
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B&M designed Drachen Fire. Oh it's very much true.
Raymond Blake from marketing (I think that's where he works) told me so and members from the in-house maintenance team told me and a former supervisor along with Bill (13 or 14 year employee at the park) told me. I really don't think would all lie about that and much less all tell me the same story.
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Fear The Two: Apollo’s Chariot,which boasts nine drops,totaling 825-feet!while approaching speeds of 75 mph and Alpengeist,the world’s tallest at(195-feet!),fastest approaching (70 mph!)and most twisted inverted roller coaster.
If this is true, than why would B&M sign a letter stating that they had absolutely nothing to do with Drachen Fire? If B&M did design Drachen Fire, why did Arrow Dynamics tell Jeff that the project was their's and their's alone? Park employees may say a lot of things, but not all of it is true.
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Speedy said:
The batwing looks exactly like B&M cobra rolls.
Yes, except the Arrow Batwing element was first so technically B&M's Cobra Roll looks exactly like Arrow's Batwing. ;)
And Arrow's Batwing looks almost exactly like Vekoma's Boomerang which came even before - 1981 to be exact.
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Thanks...I've been searching forever, it seems...but I haven't gotten very far. In the internet age that we are in, you would think there would be a www.defunctcoasters... or something...(If anyone cares...that's not a real site...) Oh well, I've always wanted my own coaster car in my living room...It'd be a nice conversation piece...don't ya think?? *smiles*
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