Now this may seem a little more unusual,
What ride can you get the most inversions off of?
Whether the inversions come from what the ride's programmed to do (ie: Enterprise & Top Spin), or with a little help from you and/or others (ie: the Zipper & Chaos).
I'd like to know if there are any that will flip you maybe over 20 times or so!
What's that thing at Knott's? I think it's 6 or 7 of them.
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Build it taller, faster and with a loop please! (Before I'm too old to ride it!)
The thing at Knott's is The Axis but i don't think they have it anymore. I've never ridden it so I wouldn't know how many inversions.
-Charlie Weingartner
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No it's there. Right next to Boomerang! It's a twist and puke.
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Build it taller, faster and with a loop please! (Before I'm too old to ride it!)
The Hammerhead? It's a amperla rotoshake. We have one of those here at SFA. Great ride if you like that kind of thing. Try hanging against the restraint for a really wild ride.
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2001- the year of flight!
I think that the ride that you are reffering to is the Iron Eagle. I've counted 18, that's right, 18, complete inversions on the Iron Eagle, and that's even counting the times where you are overbanked. It's a long ride.
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Thank you Wild One! I hate it when that mind block thing happens.
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Note to self. Move away from Downtown San Diego. Far away from the man who swears at 3AM at the top of his lungs!
Texas Twister (I think? Maybe it's named Tornado...) at what was then Geauga Lake -- my husband counted while I went on (he isn't all that fond of flat rides) and we hit 21 inversions in 2 minutes. Yikes! And wow, it can be painful. :)
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http://www.crosswinds.net/~justmayntz/thrills/index.html
"The Storm" at Morey's Piers in Wildwood. Its a Zamperala version of the Huss Topspin, like the Twister. Its also the largest in the world, as it holds 48 people, and it crests at over 90 feet in the air. It also does some different angles that Huss models do not do. Very intense ride. Very Intense.
Chaos flips you around a lot. But then the cars kind of swing independently like a 4
Coastergenius, the Iron Eagle is a Zamperla Rotateshake. I believe there are only two others in America, The Hammerhead at Knotts and one at the Mall of America.
That sounds awsome Agent Johnson. Too bad it was closed when I was there. :(
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- Peabody
I counted 40 flips off a portable Top Spin at the Easter Show a while back - Urrrgh!
(warning; aside story following)
Right before I went away to college, I went to a church stret fair. At the carnival, there was a ride called the Kamikazee (dual looping starships, like the areo 360 @ kennywood, but enclosed in plexiglass not inverted). Anyway, I was flirting with this girl in the other ship and we exchanged names via the ride op. He gave us a really long ride. After locking us upside down for 20+ seconds, we proceeded to go through 30+plus loops (after that I stopped counting). I ended up getting another ride just like that later in the nite. those were my most flips.
jeremy
Hammerhead is a downright crazy ride. Unless you like to be tossed around in such a way. :) Some day at work I may count the # of inversions.
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Home Park: Knotts Berry Farm!
but also Disneyland and DCA
you guys are forgetting one ride that is designed to execute inversions...NIGHTWING, the Huss Fly Away at SFNE. Once the whell gets pushed vertical, riders go in a loop for about 6 or 7 times in a row. I think that ride probably has the most inversions. Huss Top Spins are close behind, too.
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SROS at SFNE, the #1 coaster on the planet!
