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| Manufacturer | Sansei Technologies | ||||||||||||||
| Product | Jet-Roller Coaster | ||||||||||||||
| Type | Steel | ||||||||||||||
| Riders per train | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Hourly capacity | 360 | ||||||||||||||
| Propulsion | Chain lift hill | ||||||||||||||
| Power consumption | 40 KW | ||||||||||||||
| Top speed | 60 km/h | ||||||||||||||
| Length | 850 metres | ||||||||||||||
| Inversions | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1:35 | ||||||||||||||
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Bobsleigh (Japanese: ボブスレー) was a steel roller coaster previously located at Nara Dreamland in Nara, Nara, Japan.
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The ride was based on the Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland. This was because the park was supposed to become the official Japanese Disney park, with Bobsleigh being an opening day attraction. Negotiations between Disney fell through just before the park opened, and it opened without any official Disney license.[1] This gives Bobsleigh a weird position; it wasn't meant to be a knock off, but it did come across as one due to its situation.
Colour scheme
Trains
2 trains with 2 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged inline in 4 rows, for a total of 8 riders per train. The trains where designed to resemble bobsleighs.
References
External links
- Bobsleigh on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
- Bobsleigh on Coaster-Count.
- Official Sansei PDF featuring the coaster