Interlocking corkscrews

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Interlocking Corkscrews are a type of roller coaster inversion found on B&M coasters. In this inversion, two separate corkscrews spin around each other; one turns riders upside down over the other. Despite being close to each other, the two corkscrews are not taken consecutively.

Coasters with interlocking corkscrews include:

[edit] Sit Down

• Dragon Khan (Port Aventura)
• Kumba (Busch Gardens, Tampa)

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• Dominator, (formerly Batman: Knight Flight) at Geauga Lake
• Medusa* at Six Flags Great Adventure
• Medusa at Six Flags Marine World
• Scream!* Six Flags Magic Mountain
• Superman: Krypton Coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas

*Medusa (Great Adventure) and Scream have the same layout.

[edit] Inverted

Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park is the only inverted coaster to feature interlocking corkscrews on the same track. (On another inverted coaster, Dueling Dragons at Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure, one corkscrew on the "Fire" track interlocks with the corkscrew on "Ice.")