Cobra roll
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The cobra roll is a roller coaster inversion which resembles a cobra's head. It takes riders upside-down twice.
There is much confusion pertaining to the correct naming of this inversion. This is because different rollercoaster manufacturers give their own names to inversions. Cobra roll is the standard name used by Intamin and B&M for this type of inversion. On Vekoma coasters, it should be referred to as a boomerang. On Arrow coasters, it is called a Batwing.
The first coaster to use a cobra roll was Vekoma's Boomerang model, the first of which was built in Mexico in the early 1980s.
[edit] Roller coasters with cobra rolls (or equivalent)
- Alpengeist (Busch Gardens Williamsburg)
- Colossus (Thorpe Park)
- Déjà Vu (Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Great America, Six Flags Over Georgia)
- Dominator (Geauga Lake) (formerly Batman: Knight Flight)
- Dragon Khan (Port Aventura)
- Drachen Fire (Busch Gardens Williamsburg) (no longer operating)
- Dueling Dragons (Ice) (Universal Studios Islands of Adventure)
- Flashback (Six Flags New England)
- Flight of Fear (Kings Island, Kings Dominion) (originally opened as Outer Limits: Flight of Fear)
- Incredible Hulk (Universal Studios Islands of Adventure)
- Hydra: The Revenge (Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom)
- Invertigo (Paramount's Great America)
- Joker's Jinx (Six Flags America)
- Kumba (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay)
- Medusa (Six Flags Great Adventure)
- Monte Makaya (Terra Encantada)
- Pyrenees (Parque Espana-Shima Spain Village)
- Raptor (Cedar Point)
- Rock 'n' Roller Coaster (Disney-MGM Studios)
- Scream! (Six Flags Magic Mountain)
- Sidewinder (Hersheypark)
- Silver Bullet (Knott's Berry Farm)
- Superman: Krypton Coaster (Six Flags Fiesta Texas)
- Tidal Wave (Trimper's Rides)
- Wildfire (Silver Dollar City)
Other Vekoma Boomerangs and most other B&M 7-inversion coasters also have a cobra roll.
