Colossus, Steel roller coaster in Thorpe Park, United Kingdom
Colossus is a steel roller coaster in Thorpe Park near London and delivers ten complete inversions along an 850-meter track. The circuit includes vertical loops, cobra rolls, corkscrew turns, and a sequence of four consecutive heartline rolls.
The installation opened in March 2002 as an Intamin construction and held the world record for most inversions until 2013. The Smiler at Alton Towers later surpassed that count with fourteen overturns.
The ride sits inside the Lost City themed area and shows design touches drawn from old Atlantis myths. Visitors walk into a zone with tropical planting and artificial ruin pieces around the track layout.
Riders must reach at least 1.4 meters (55 inches) in height and keep full upper body control to handle the 72 kilometers per hour (45 miles per hour) and the intense rotations. Boarding happens through a ramp with a queue, and rides last around two minutes.
The track layout contains five consecutive heartline rolls just three meters (ten feet) above ground, creating a very low rotation sequence for passengers. This passage spins riders repeatedly around their own body axis before the train climbs again.
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