Euro Star at Fun Fairs in Germany

Well, I recently recieved the ECC 2001 calendar, and I came upon a coaster I was not familiar with. Its an inverted coaster called Euro Star that gives off a B&M look, but is clearly not B&M. My best guess would be that it's Giovanola. It says it's at a park called Fun Fairs. However, strangely enough, neither the coaster nor the park is listed at RCDB.com or even here on the CoasterBuzz database. Anyone know any more about this coaster?
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-FCR
I'd Rather Be Riding Roller Coasters

Eurostar was a Gioavanola/Warner Stengel collaboration that is the world's first portable inverted rollercoaster. It travels from funfair to funfair in Germany, being disassembled and reassembled from place to place.
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Wow, that's incredible, considering the size and complexity of the ride! It looks like a great ride!

If anyone is interested, here is the calendar page with the coaster on it... Click Here

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I'd Rather Be Riding Roller Coasters

*** This post was edited by FloridaCoasterRider on 12/29/2001. ***

It's Intamin designed & built by Giovanola. It opened in 1995 therefore Intamin must've asked B&M for permission to use the 4-across design. Or they got around that by designing it as a portable coaster.

As seen in this pic & others the track is huge, with some solid track sections for maximum strength. Note how tiny the trains are in comparision. In the bottom left corner is the intense final helix.

Taipan said:
Intamin must've asked B&M for permission to use the 4-across design.

While the trains may look similiar, I don't think they are the same design. There are many differences that I notice, most noticable of them are the restraints and handlebars.

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I'd Rather Be Riding Roller Coasters

I'm not talking about the design itself, doesn't B&M have the rights to seating 4 people across? That would explain why the rest of the designers only use 2 across trains.

Oh... Hmmm. I'm really not sure about that. Can one really have that broad of a patent? Also, some of Intamin's earlier coasters use the 4 across seating (and standing). But then again B&M came from Intamin, so who knows...

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*** This post was edited by FloridaCoasterRider on 12/29/2001. ***

I'm certainly not a patent inspector, but I would think that it would be patentable if 1) no one has done it before and 2) you can cite reasons why it would be an advantage.

I don't know of any pre B&M coasters that used 4 abreast seating, though there may be a coaster history buff who can correct me.

I don't have time to look up the patent right now to view the claims, but the shorter trains resulting from 4 abreast seating are a major advantage, especially on inverting coasters since they result in the G forces varying less through the length of the train.

what about Deja Vu, technically it is 4 across.. as is X. they are both non B&M's.

This doesn't have to do with anything, but in the last picture of Cobra it looks like the track just cuts off. Even though it goes in the trees I thought it looked cool.

Don't ask me why I said that I just wanted too!!!=)

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