The Demon was a Vekoma

Vekoma

Vekoma Rides Manufacturing B.V. is a roller coaster and thrill ride designer with its facilities based in the Netherlands. The company was founded in 1926 by Hendrik op het Veld under the name "Veld Koning Machinefabriek" and had first manufactured agricultural machinery and mining equipment...

 Boomerang

Boomerang (roller coaster)

Boomerang is a model of roller coaster built by Vekoma, and named after the hunting implement based on the traditions of the Indigenous Australians...

 roller coaster

Roller coaster

The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. LaMarcus Adna Thompson patented the first coasters on January 20, 1885...

 that operated at Wonderland Sydney

Wonderland Sydney

Wonderland Sydney was a theme park in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The park was the largest one in the southern hemisphere. It remained open for almost nineteen years and was the premier theme park in New South Wales for much of its life, but it closed in 2004...

 in New South Wales, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It originally opened in 1988 as Titan at World Expo Park

World Expo Park

World Expo Park was an amusement park built for Expo '88 in Brisbane, Australia. It was positioned on the corner of Melbourne and Glenelg Streets in South Brisbane, the current site of the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. The park was opened when the exposition opened on the 30 April 1988...

 in Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, before reopening in Wonderland Sydney in 1992. It operated until Wonderland Sydney closed in April 2004, where it was sold to Alabama Adventure in Bessemer, Alabama

Bessemer, Alabama

Bessemer is a city outside of Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States eight miles west of Hoover. The population was 29,672 at the 2000 Census, but by the 2009 U.S...

 and now operates as Zoomerang

Zoomerang (Alabama Adventure)

Zoomerang is a Vekoma Boomerang roller coaster that operates at Alabama Adventure in Bessemer, Alabama. It originally opened in 1988 as Titan at World Expo Park in Brisbane, Australia. It closed after only one season before opening as Demon in 1992 at Wonderland in Sydney...

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History

In September 1992, Wonderland Sydney introduced a new steel coaster called The Demon. The ride had originally operated in 1988 as Titan at World Expo Park

World Expo Park

World Expo Park was an amusement park built for Expo '88 in Brisbane, Australia. It was positioned on the corner of Melbourne and Glenelg Streets in South Brisbane, the current site of the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. The park was opened when the exposition opened on the 30 April 1988...

 in Brisbane, Australia. The ride operated until the park's closure in April 2004, where it was sold to Alabama Adventure in Bessemer, Alabama

Bessemer, Alabama

Bessemer is a city outside of Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States eight miles west of Hoover. The population was 29,672 at the 2000 Census, but by the 2009 U.S...

 and now operates as Zoomerang.

Ride

The ride starts with the train being pulled backwards up the first lift via a cable. At the top it is released where it then passes through the station at 75 kilometres per hour (46.6 mph). It goes through three inversions then goes up a second chain lift. The train is released and travels the course in reverse.

Train

The train was built by Arrow Dynamics

Arrow Dynamics

Arrow Dynamics was a roller coaster and amusement ride design company based in Clearfield, Utah, United States. In 2002, the company went bankrupt but was quickly bought by fellow amusement ride manufacturer S&S Power to form S&S Arrow. During its peak, Arrow Dynamics was responsible for some of...

 and features 7 cars, seating 4 per car (28 total). The train and track were repainted before it was installed in 1992. The train was painted bright red and the remaining ride painted black. It was repainted again in 2000 prior to the park's 15th Anniversary. A new bat

Bat

Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...

 logo was airbrushed onto the front of the train and a linked chain airbrushed onto the side of each car.

External links

• Australia's Wonderland Demon Rollercoaster Tribute at YouTube
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• Australia's Wonderland Sydney - The Demon at YouTube
• The Demon - Australia's Wonderland Commercial at YouTube
• Australia's Wonderland Demon ad 90s at YouTube
• The Demon at Wonderland History
• The Demon (Wonderland Sydney) at Parkz