Ultra Twister (Nagashima Spa Land)
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Ultra Twister is a roller coaster located at Nagashima Spa Land
in Mie Prefecture
, Japan
. Built by TOGO
, which is also one of the only few Ultra Twister models still in operation in Japan. It is almost identical to the other Ultra Twister models in the United States except it has a vertical chain lift hill and a 84 degree drop. Other ones had a steep lift hill and drop as well.
Lines are often short, as well as load times. However, a car can move slowly into the station, so guests can be able to get into their seats and put their shoulder harnesses down. Ride attendants put the fiberglass shells down to lock in their harnesses. But to other Ultra Twister models, the stations had conveyor belts to allow guests to access to a car. This ride opened with 7 trains. It currently runs with two, allowing the others to be spare.
which operated at the defunct Six Flags AstroWorld
. This version was identical in layout to the Japanese Ultra Twister, but its lift hill went up at a 45 degree angle instead of at a 90 degree angle.
Nagashima Spa Land
is a major amusement park in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan. It features several roller coasters, a giant Ferris wheel, and a water park.-Roller coasters:*Children Coaster*Corkscrew*Jet Coaster*Looping Star*Shuttle Loop*Steel Dragon 2000*Ultra Twister...
in Mie Prefecture
Mie Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan which is part of the Kansai regions on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Tsu.- History :Until the Meiji Restoration, Mie prefecture was known as Ise Province and Iga Province....
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Built by TOGO
TOGO
TOGO was a Japanese roller coaster design company, famous for inventing the stand-up roller coaster. TOGO went bankrupt in the early 2000s due to a lawsuit by Knott's Berry Farm for problems with their Windjammer roller coaster. TOGO is also credited with creating the first working pipeline roller...
, which is also one of the only few Ultra Twister models still in operation in Japan. It is almost identical to the other Ultra Twister models in the United States except it has a vertical chain lift hill and a 84 degree drop. Other ones had a steep lift hill and drop as well.
Lines are often short, as well as load times. However, a car can move slowly into the station, so guests can be able to get into their seats and put their shoulder harnesses down. Ride attendants put the fiberglass shells down to lock in their harnesses. But to other Ultra Twister models, the stations had conveyor belts to allow guests to access to a car. This ride opened with 7 trains. It currently runs with two, allowing the others to be spare.
Ride Experience
The car goes slowly through the station, loads riders, and then flips the car straight up, into the lift hill, which is partially very slow, but soon speeds up as the car is almost at the top. As the drop, into an airtime hill, and then up into a heartline roll, a very small hill, and then a brake run, going down into two heartline rolls, and then a magnetic trim brake run allows a car to go slowly back into the station.Colors
Originally, the ride opened with a white paint job with blue cars. But in 2008, Ultra Twister was repainted yellow and teal, and red trains, along with one blue train remaining, which was still used as a spare train.Similar attractions
Until 2005, Ultra Twister had a sister coasterUltra Twister
Ultra Twister was a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure from 1986 to 1990 and then at Six Flags AstroWorld from 1991 until that park was closed and demolished by the Six Flags Corporation in 2005...
which operated at the defunct Six Flags AstroWorld
Six Flags Astroworld
AstroWorld was a seasonally operated theme park located on approximately of land between Kirby Drive and Fannin Avenue, directly south of Loop 610 in Houston, Texas, USA...
. This version was identical in layout to the Japanese Ultra Twister, but its lift hill went up at a 45 degree angle instead of at a 90 degree angle.