Fact Sheet

RIDE TYPE: World’s largest inverted steel roller coaster

THEME: A mysterious snowbeast takes Alpine skiers on the most chilling ride of their lives as six staggering inversions turn an innocent ski lift into a blizzard of fright. This eerie creature is now stalking the hamlets of Busch Gardens Europe, just as it did in the German and French Alps of long ago.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• World’s tallest fastest, most twisted hanging roller coaster, towering 195 feet

• World’s largest inverted vertical loop at 106 feet

• World’s fastest inverted roller coaster at 67 mph

• World’s largest drop on an inverted roller coaster at 170 feet

INVERSION ELEMENTS:

• The "Immelman," an inverse diving loop named for a WWI German fighter pilot

• 106-foot vertical loop half-buried in an isolated ravine

• "Cobra Roll," boomerang-style inversion over the Rhine River

• "Zero-G-Roll," provides a sensation of weightlessness while completing a 360-degree roll

• "Flat Spin," similar to flipping a pancake, flies among snow and ice-covered rocks

• "High-Speed Spiral," resembles a horizontal loop

TRACK LENGTH: 3,828 feet

SPEED: 67 mph

MAXIMUM G-FORCE: 3.7 Gs during the "Cobra Roll" at 58 mph

RIDE TIME: Three minutes, 10 seconds

RIDE CAPACITY: 1,820 passengers per hour

HEIGHT: 195 feet

MAXIMUM DROP: 170 feet, or 17 stories

CARS: Three trains of eight cars each. Each car accommodates four passengers across, for a total of 32 passengers per train.

OPENING: Spring 1997

LOCATION: Entrance is located in Busch Gardens’ Rhinefeld hamlet. Ride spans four of the park’s nine hamlets (Rhinefeld, Oktoberfest, Aquitaine and New France), one-third of which drifts over the scenic Rhine River.

ARCHITECT: Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets, Inc.; St. Louis, Mo.

THEMING DESIGN: Suzanne Sessions, Inc.; St. Louis, Mo.

MANUFACTURER: Bolliger & Mabillard; Monthey, Switzerland

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Armada Hoffler Inc.; Chesapeake, Va.

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