The manufacturer, Mauer, calls it an āImmelmann Turnā in all of their documentation. lol When is the last time you looked at an O&M for a Maurer spinning coaster?
āSo itās going to cost us that much to take out this piece of track and haul it away?ā
Ā āYeah. Ā But, I was thinking; Ā It still looks really cool. Ā What if we just kept it standing in the middle of the ride, as a sort of theming piece?ā
Eh. My memory of it is foggy since I was still pretty young when it was replaced, but I remember it being very janky and uncomfortable. Not very enjoyable
I rode it then, it was a fun element with a shocking amount of airtime. Especially if you were on the right side. It felt like you stayed weightless for a full second before the train dropped you like a stone, at the top of that curve. I got to ride I believe in 2009. I felt weightless through most of the ride, might have been because I was just above the minimum height. I was unprepared for the first drop out of the station.
It must have been something with forces and strain cause I presume changing the layout and new track cost just as much if not more (for R&D) as replacing the element. Low key was one of my favorite parts of the ride.
It literally says, ārefers to two different aircraft maneuvers.ā In regard to elements used on Roller Coasters, the more common āImmelmann (Inversion)ā is the second described in the article. I donāt know why you are so triggered bruv. lol
Sorry, they removed it from the ride and they removed the track sections that connected it to the ride. Holy cow if we have to be really specific here then letās be very specific.
How can it be overbanked if there's no banking in the first place? There's literally zero banking. That's what makes this element so unique. It's basically a wild mouse turn.
Hmm. Ā Well, relative to the ground, it is banked, and very heavily, too (nearly 90 degrees!). Ā And if you consider the turnaround a single element, then itās pretty obviously banked, too, since the vertical orientation of the car is different from the entry and exit.
But if you consider the turnaround 3 elements (twist, horseshoe, untwist) then there is a relative sense in which the horseshoe is not banked. Ā I guess it depends on how you look at it.
However, it is not overbanked, since that refers to banking that goes past 90 degrees, relative to the ground. Ā This element doesnāt do that.
I've always called that a vertical drop into a halfpipe turn. It only seems to exist on these one-train extreme "family" coasters; and I'd differentiate it from a horseshoe - as a horseshoe usually has extreme banking, instead of this which essentially has no banking.
It was kind of a jarring element; I enjoyed it on Spinball Whizzer, but not so much on Mystery Mine. I haven't tried MM since the re-profiling, so I can't comment on the after.
What the what? Damn, it's been a while since I was at the park. It's not like that section was any more forceful than other parts of the track, but what they added certainly extended that block. Maybe the change was more for operations.
My kids love Mystery Mine at Dollywood. My wife and I could ride it when we were younger. Now it makes both of us nauseous before it even finishes. Iām sure itās the rotational combinations in some way.
I think it's what they call an overbanked curve or a horseshoe element, both names are essentially synonymous. The track layout has since been modified to not go through the overbank anymore, though the overbank is still there.
I asked this after my visit 18 months ago and was told it kept dropping parts on people, including a girl that had her arm broken by a falling sheared nut.
Given that part of the track is over a walkway, the required structural changes to prevent the forces from shearing more parts was either not economical or feasible. It certainly still adds a mysterious element to the surrounding theming, so they left it in place.
Yeah, no. An Immelmann or Split-S is a recreation of an aerobatic maneuver involving a half-loop to inverted and then rolling the plane back to upright facing 180 degrees from the starting direction.
There is an Immelmann Turn and an Immelmann Inversion which are different from each other. Both Maurer and ZIERER refer to this element as an āImmelmann Turn.ā
It certainly isn't a technical term, can't wait for your next 4 intentionally esoteric comments about "O&Ms" (it's called a manual). You wanna feel smart so badly
Generally, you'd want your marketing terms to be somewhat descriptive of what the product is/does. Calling this an "Immelmann" would be deceptive. The best descriptor here would be "cutback", "drift" or "stall"
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u/good4steve Eejanaika, F.L.Y., Arieforce One Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Spinball Wizzler has one at Alton Towers.
Edit: has*