I believe Drachen Fire was the only coaster arrow made with a cobra roll at all. Thats what made it so unique (as well as the wrap around corkscrew of course).
^Agree. It was really unique, a great idea, and I wish Arrow had done more things like it, but it was quite possibly the roughest coaster I've ever been on. I went on three times, and took the resulting headache with a grain of salt.
Drachen Fire was originally suppose to be made my B&M so thats why it has all the stuff B&M would usually put. Arrow sticks to loops and corkscrews, I was just curious to see if Arrow did anything different.
If you read into it a bit it says Arrow had a different design but was too large so they incorporated some elements from their design into a different layout with some of the B&M elements.
Is it possible that the cutback was made to keep the ride in the area set aside for the ride and send it back towards the station since the ride was going fairly slow at that point?
I read somewhere that there was originally planned to be a train station that went under the cutback or was that idea scrapped as well or am I comletely wrong on my facts too?
I do think that it would have been a very interesting ride to experience at least once though.