Which one was the first Cobra Roll?

Don't you think this topic has become a little bit confusing with all these names of elements?!?! :) lol :)

Well, here is something crazier....

I have heard that Arrow referred to one of their elements as a "boomerang." This element, I believe, was developed for Vortex at PKI.

It is a corkscrew to the left, followed by a half loop down, half loop up then corkscrew left again. The idea is, once completed you exit at the same place you entered... like a real aussie boomerang. On Vortex it is the last two inversions on the coaster.

Now that I think about it, Viper at SFDL has this element too. I am not sure which came first, Viper or Vortex. And right now I am too lazy to look it up on RCDB.

Never-the-less, the "boomerang" term differs from manufacturer to manufacturer. On a "boomerang" coaster, most people consider the "boomerang" to be the cobra roll.

But then there's the whole lovely world of bow ties, batwings etc etc etc.

Shaggy

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Shaggy
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Viper came first, but I'm not sure which Arrow coaster used the element first. I do know that Shockwave at SFGA has one, though.

Viper 1982

Vortex (well, part of it anyway) 1987

Shockwave 1988

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what about orient express?

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Orient Express's inversion is known as a kamikazee element.

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The Oreint Express was the first to utailize what Arrow call a Boomerang element now. Its called by many of us a Kamakaze Curve. B&M has a very simular type of element called a batwing. The First Cobra Roll style loop that I know of is on the 1st Vekoma Boomerang. I belive Vekoma also call that element a Boomerang, while B&M calls it a Cobra Roll.

I have 2 pages you should look at for info on the types of loops that exist and which coaster was the first to use them.

http://www.coasterglobe.com/features/history-inversion/index.cfm

and

http://www.coasterglobe.com/features/quickreference-tableoftheelements/index.cfm

Coasterglobe.com is one of my favorite sites becasue of what information it has about these types of elements.

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Proof that Rock n Roller coaster was built before the building. And that looks like a boomerang/cobra roll.
http://www.disney.force9.co.uk/construc.htm

1. Orient Express featured the first Arrow boomerang/batwing/kamikaze curve/whatever.

2. On Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, that would be a sea serpent type element. Its hard to tell because that track from a long distance will look the same from the front or the back, in relation to the spine. Its a Sea Serpent type thing, though.

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