Bolliger & Mabillard

B & M Ingénieurs Conseils SA (in short: B & M ) is a Swiss engineering firm and well-known manufacturer of roller coasters from Monthey.

History

Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard worked at the Intamin among other things on the first stand-up coaster, and founded her own company in 1988. B & M has not only pioneered the inverted coaster and floorless coaster, but built with Oblivion at Alton Towers also the first roller coaster with a near-vertical descent. Aside from its main business - the steel coasters - they also built the trains for the wooden roller coaster Psyclone ( Six Flags Magic Mountain). While B & M is represented mainly in the U.S., in Europe there are significantly fewer tracks of the manufacturer. In Germany, this Black Mamba ( 2006) in Phantasialand, Silver Star (2002) at Europa-Park and OCTOPUS (2011) and Flight of the Demon (2014) at the Heide Park Resort.

Rollercoasters

List of B & M trains

Dive Coaster

Floorless coaster

Flying Coaster

Hypercoaster

The products manufactured by B & M Hyper Coaster have in principle always a route of type " Out & Back", which means that removing the moves on an approximately straight line from a point, then turn around and return to the starting point again. The only exception is the web Raging Bull

Inverted Coaster

Sitting Coaster

Stand-Up Coaster

Wing Coaster

Photos

Behemoth at Canada's Wonderland (Hyper Coaster)

Raptor at Cedar Point ( Inverted Coaster )

Kumba at Busch Gardens (Sitting Coaster)

Hydra the Revenge at Dorney Park & ​​Wildwater Kingdom ( floorless coaster )

Manta at SeaWorld Orlando ( Flying Coaster)

OCTOPUS at Heide Park Resort ( Dive Coaster)

Raptor at Gardaland ( Wing Coaster)