Silver Bullet, Steel roller coaster at Frontier City, Oklahoma City, United States
Silver Bullet is a steel roller coaster at Frontier City that guides riders through sharp turns and steep drops as it winds across the park. The ride uses a chain lift system to climb and features a single vertical loop as its main element.
The ride was originally designed in 1978 by Anton Schwarzkopf as a portable attraction and first operated at German fairs. It was later moved to Texas and eventually to Oklahoma, where it became a permanent fixture.
The ride keeps the name Looping Star from its fairground years in Germany, where showmen Oscar Bruch and Fritz Kinzler toured it after its 1978 debut at the Cranger Kirmes. At Frontier City it was renamed Silver Bullet, and it is now the coaster that has run longest at the park.
Riders are held by a single lap bar, with seat belts added in 2017; check the posted height requirement at the entrance before joining the queue. The train climbs the lift hill straight out of the station, so the front row gives the clearest view of the first right-curving drop into the vertical loop.
Silver Bullet was the first transportable looping roller coaster built by Anton Schwarzkopf, debuting as Looping Star at the Cranger Kirmes in 1978. Its train holds riders with a single lap bar, a Schwarzkopf design that relies on the forces of the loop and helices pressing riders into their seats; seat belts were added in 2017.
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