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Model Statistics

Completed	2010
Coaster Type	Sitdown Coaster
Height	6 grey rods
# of Inversions	6
# of Vehicles	2

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Vortex

Vortex a custom sit down looper. My second custom coaster of any significance and my first one with inversions. The lift passes under the Zero G roll, pre-turn into a diving drop, tight overbank turn, under the brake run up into the Zero G followed by reverse sidewinder, vertical loop, sidewinder and double corkscrew.

11 Comments

SuperTKDKid

Very nice job on this! You should build a launched next.

Nov 30 2010 01:20 AM

Kevkillerke

nice lay out!

Nov 30 2010 10:31 AM

LaMbChOpZ

Awesome coaster! i should prob try a looper after im done my woodie... hmm ideas are coming. BTW, where'd you get all those neon parts? the bright orange half connectors? ebay?

Nov 30 2010 05:17 PM

ForgotToGrowUp

thanks for comments! Not sure what you mean by orange half connectors. I have some orange half moons with the track connector tabs but did not use a single one in this coaster. I do have a small number or bright orange 45* connectors, not sure what they came from, I bought a couple mixed lots on ebay. I used those to connect the catwalk and in my brakes, nowhere else. Only other orange I had was orange rods, used on the lift hill and tower orange ladder connectors used in station and on lift hill micro orange rods for catwalk, stairs and queue. I do have a bunch of yellow half moons in the coaster. They look a little orange in some of the pictures. Most of those came from a big ball factory. I think all the neon yellow stuff is from RR coasters, not sure where the neon yellow micro pieces came from.

Nov 30 2010 08:24 PM

alpal

great coaster! It is just inversion after inversion

It looks sweet.

Dec 02 2010 06:33 PM

The Stig

You've mastered some very nice inversions here. Nostalgia from the days of Arrow Dynamics.

Dec 10 2010 03:32 PM

LaMbChOpZ

^^^ oh, just wondering. I was like "SO COOL!" and then after reading this, still cool, but now I want to buy some from eBay now. I really hope they have some Neon Blue half-moon connectors!)

Jan 06 2011 07:53 PM

ForgotToGrowUp

neon blue? Not sure I can even imagine that color!

Jan 06 2011 10:50 PM

chaindogg33

Hey ForgotToGrowup, this is a really awesome layout! I love conservation of speed, and really your first hill is not that huge and you squeezed 7 inversions into it. Seriously, that is awesome and shows great trackwork, support (not shaky), and your trains must be working nice too. Sweet coaster!