Boomerang (La Ronde)

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Boomerang

Entrance to Boomerang
La Ronde Location Montréal, Québec, Canada Coordinates 45.523048°N 73.532493°W / 45.523048; -73.532493 Status Operating since 1984 Rider height 121.9 cm minimum
Statistics
Manufacturer	Vekoma
Product	Boomerang
Type	Steel - Shuttle
Track layout	Boomerang
Hourly capacity	760
Propulsion	Catch car lift hill Chain lift hill
Area	88 metres × 30 metres
Height	35.5 metres
Top speed	75.6 km/h
Length	285 metres
Track inversions	3
Rider inversions	6
Duration	1:48
Rolling stock
Manufacturer	Arrow Dynamics
Riders per train	28

Boomerang, or Le Boomerang, is a steel shuttle roller coaster located at La Ronde in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is a Boomerang installation from Vekoma.

History

The ride was originally constructed at Tivoli in Spain. This park did not open, and the boomerang was sold and sent to La Ronde.

Design

Elements
Catch car lift hill Cobra roll Vertical loop Chain lift hill

See Boomerang (Vekoma product)

When the ride begins, the train is pulled backwards up the lift hill, then dropped through the loading station and into a cobra roll and then a vertical loop. At the end of this cycle the train is pulled up the other lift hill at the end of the track, then dropped once again, allowing the train to go back through the layout backwards.

Colour scheme

Blue track and silver supports. It used to feature white supports up untill 2019. Its original scheme had featured white track in addition to the white supports.

Trains

Single train with 7 cars. In each car, riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows, for a total of 28 riders per train.

Images

• 
  A view showing the inversions
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  Lift hills
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  The second inversion
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  The cobra roll
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  The station
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  The station again
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  Under the Cobra roll
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  The first lift hill
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  In the Cobra roll

External links

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  Boomerang on the Roller Coaster DataBase.

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  Boomerang on Coaster-Count.
• Boomerang on the parks website