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Post April 17th, 2010, 9:05 pm

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I personally love the roll over element, it is graceful, smooth, more disorienting, and natural ,

the cobra roll is an interrupting kind of element , it just isn't very fun to do a cobra roll vs a roll-over

and i am a bit surprised that B&M makes sooooo many cobra rolls when their coasters are usually graceful and fairly elegant and the cobra roll itself seems to simply be a disruptive "asymmetrical" ( discursive , un-elegant ) feeling

maybe it isn't as much of an eye-candy piece for the parks but i do feel like its a much better element

Post April 17th, 2010, 9:36 pm
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... "Roll Over"? do you mean zero g roll or barrel roll or am i missing something?
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I stand completely on the other end! I love cobra rolls... B&M does a great job with these. Plus, In my eyes its a better reverse direction change then an actual turn.
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Post April 17th, 2010, 10:04 pm

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Originally posted by slosprint

... "Roll Over"? do you mean zero g roll or barrel roll or am i missing something?


maybe he meant to say "wing over"

Well, B&M only has rough Cobra Rolls on Inverts. Otherwise they are "graceful," as you said.

Post April 17th, 2010, 11:11 pm
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He means what vekoma calls the thing all the standard SLC's do as the first two loops. Also what Xpress does as its first two loops.
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Post April 18th, 2010, 6:43 am

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Cobra Roll.

Roll Over's are rough and mostly only done by Vekoma. When B&M do Roll Over's [Medusa @ SFDK] They look unaesthetic and stupid.
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Post April 18th, 2010, 10:06 am
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^ yeah, that element on Medusa looks very ugly. I can imagine it feels better to ride than the vekoma ones though, so I guess there is a trade off.

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I thought it actually looked cool on Medusa, since it's the only time B&M used that element.

Post April 18th, 2010, 10:38 am
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The reason it's the only one is because it's so ugly.
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Post April 18th, 2010, 12:00 pm
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They could make another one that didn't snap 3 goddamned times.
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Post April 18th, 2010, 1:53 pm

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Any standard Vekoma SLC is not graceful... nor attractive, fun... Painful yes!
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