Mamba (roller coaster)

Mamba at Worlds of Fun (Kansas City, Missouri, United States) is a steel roller coaster manufacturer Morgan, which was opened on 18 April 1998. With a length of 1707 m, it is the ninth longest steel roller coaster in the world and the fourth longest in North America.

It has a classic out-and -back layout that is equipped with a 63 m high hill first, a second 56 m high hill, a 580 ° helix at a speed of more than 96 km / h and five other hills and a particularly rare vorzufindenden double-up hill.

Mamba has three trains with six cars. In each carriage six people ( three rows of two people) take place.

Template for the Steel Dragon 2000

Two years after the opening of this roller coaster, the roller coaster Steel Dragon was opened in 2000 at the amusement park Nagashima Spa Land. These also designed by Steve Okamoto roller coaster, has great similarity with the Mamba, which is why it can be assumed that the Steel Dragon 2000 is an evolution of the design of the Mamba system. One of the most obvious similarities include two large hills after the first drop ( first exit ) and a clockwise helix, which connects directly to the second Hill. Then the steel Dragon 2000 is followed by a second helix counterclockwise. Afterward there is two roller coasters, a reduction brake, which is located next to the first Hill. Then several small hills follow one after the other, which are located at two roller coasters next to the lift.

Before Mamba and the Steel Dragon 2000, Steve Okamoto had designed the roller coasters Wild Thing and Steel Force. All these four roller coasters exhibit certain similarities in appearance.