Nemesis Inferno
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Nemesis Inferno | |
Location | Thorpe Park |
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Park section | Calypso Quay |
Type | Steel - Inverted |
Status | Open |
Opened | April 5, 2003 |
Manufacturer | Bolliger & Mabillard |
Designer | Werner Stengel |
Model | Inverted Coaster |
Track layout | Inverted |
Lift/launch system | Chain lift hill |
Height | 95 ft (29 m) |
Drop | 95 ft (29 m) |
Length | 2,461 ft (750 m) |
Max speed | 47.8 mph (76.9 km/h) |
Inversions | 4 |
Duration | 1:43 |
Cost | £6,000,000 |
Max g-force | 4.5 |
Nemesis Inferno at RCDB Pictures of Nemesis Inferno at RCDB |
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Nemesis Inferno is a steel inverted roller coaster, themed around an erupting tropical volcano, in the Thorpe Park amusement park in Surrey, England. It was fabricated by Bolliger & Mabillard of Switzerland.
The ride begins with a small drop into a misty volcano, and then goes into the lift hill. When it has reached the top, it makes a large swooping drop before going straight into a vertical loop. This is immediately followed by a zero-G roll and then swoops back into two interlocking corkscrews, followed by two banked turns, before finally going into a brake run.
There are many similarities between Nemesis Inferno and Nemesis at Alton Towers [1] and also Batman:The Ride which John Wardley (designer of Nemesis and Nemesis Inferno) mentioned that he based the ride on[citation needed]. On the final helix, riders experience a powerful 4.5 g.
Nemesis Inferno is the only inverted roller coaster to feature a set of interlocking corkscrews and it also has the longest pre-lift section (from the station to the lift) of any Bolliger & Mabillard coaster in the world.[citation needed]
[edit] External links
- Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park Insider
- Nemesis Inferno at RCDB
- Nemesis Inferno data on Theme Park Junkies
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