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''Shockwave'' at Drayton Manor Park, the only
Stand-up in Europe
Stand-up in Europe
A 'stand-up roller coaster' is a roller coaster designed to have the passengers stand through the course of the ride. Typically, the passenger is restrained by an adjustable, bicycle-like seat and an over-the-shoulder (OTS) restraint.
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History
Trains feature saddle seats that move vertically to accommodate various heights. (The Riddler's Revenge (1998), at Six Flags Magic Mountain)
The first stand-up roller coaster was, depending on how you look at, either the Standing & Loop Coaster at Yomiuriland in Inagi, Tokyo Japan, or Dangai, which operated at Thrill Valley in Gotemba, Shizuoka Japan. Standing & Loop Coaster technically opened first, in 1979. When it first opened, however, it operated as a standard sit-down style looping roller coaster. A second train, a stand-up train, was added in 1982, with the coaster opening for the season just one day after Dangai. Standing & Loop Coaster still operates to this day, whereas Dangai closed in 2002.
Extremeroller, at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri, was the first roller coaster to operate in a stand-up configuration in the Western Hemisphere, though it only operated in this manner for the 1983 season, when it also adopted the name EXT. Because the track and structure were never designed for stand-up trains, they were removed and the original sit-down trains were reinstalled in 1984.
King Cobra at King's Island in Mason, Ohio was the world's first coaster designed specifically to be stand up. It operated from 1984 to 2001.
Three companies built stand-up coasters during the approximately twenty years they were actively built. The last stand-up coaster to be constructed was Georgia Scorcher at Six Flags Over Georgia in 1999, although a stand-up coaster is in storage at Darien Lake [1] (formerly Batman: The Escape at the late Six Flags Astroworld)
Stand-up Coasters
Georgia Scorcher, the last stand-up coaster to be built
Mantis, a Bolliger & Mabillard stand-up coaster
The first Bolliger & Mabillard stand-up coaster, Iron Wolf
External links
★ Intamin AG Official Site
★ Bolliger & Mabillard Official Site
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