Blue Fire Megacoaster, Launched roller coaster at Europa-Park, Rust, Germany.
Blue Fire Megacoaster is a steel launched coaster in Europa-Park, Rust, with blue track and light gray supports. Its 1,056-metre layout reaches 38 metres and includes a 32-metre vertical loop, a twisted horseshoe roll over a lake, an airtime hill and a heartline roll. The station is themed as the Orka Rannsóknarstofa – International Institute for Energy Research.
Ground was broken on 22 October 2008, the last track piece was set at the loop in December 2008, and Blue Fire opened on 4 April 2009 as the first attraction of the new Iceland area. Mack Rides built it with Stengel engineering the layout, Weiss Ingenieure drawing the supports and Intrasys supplying the linear motor. Gazprom sponsored the ride from 2009; the park ended the partnership after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The station is named Orka Rannsóknarstofa – International Institute for Energy Research and styled as an old warehouse or laboratory, with machine parts in steel cages. The queue passes a pool with fountains and the Blue Fire Dome, whose three 360° cinemas screen footage before boarding. The dark-ride section shows cave walls with animatronic technicians, then an industrial hall with ventilation and furnaces.
Riders must be at least 1.30 metres tall and seven years old. The queue splits at the entrance into a line for the front row and one for rows two to ten, and a separate single-rider line fills empty seats. A rock terrace along the launch track serves as a photo point for those not riding, and parts of the old queue between the rails are open as a walking route.
The loop reaches a height of about 32 meters (105 ft) and ranks among the tallest on launch coasters in Europe. The twisted horseshoe roll is a rare element found on only a few coasters worldwide.
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