Kanonen, Steel launch roller coaster at Liseberg, Sweden
Matugani is a steel accelerator roller coaster in the Yuta Earth Tribe realm of Lost Island Theme Park in Waterloo, Iowa. Its 16-person trains are launched hydraulically to 72 km/h into a 24-metre top hat, then an airtime hill, a 20-metre vertical loop and a heartline roll. The station is themed as the Yuta's former mining headquarters, now a temple to the serpent Matugani.
The ride opened at Liseberg in Gothenburg in 2005 and later relocated to a different location. During its time at the original site, it was a featured attraction at the park.
At Lost Island Theme Park the coaster is named Matugani after a giant emerald serpent in the Yuta Realm backstory, said to have led the Yuta people out of their collapsed mines. The station is themed as the Yuta's former mining headquarters, converted into a temple honouring the serpent, and the trains carry snake designs.
Matugani now runs at Lost Island Theme Park in Waterloo, Iowa, in the Yuta Earth Tribe realm, not at Liseberg. Its 16-person trains launch to 72 km/h into a 24 m top hat, then an air time hill, a 20 m vertical loop, a banked turnaround and a heartline roll. The station is themed as the Yuta's former mining headquarters turned temple.
On 8 June 2009 a train stalled balanced on top of the 24-metre top hat with 14 riders aboard, a rollback incident riders still mention. The ride's tight layout came from the small plot available at Liseberg, which forced Intamin to pack the launch, top hat, airtime hill, vertical loop and heartline roll into a compact footprint.
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