Spinning Coaster (Gerstlauer product)

Spinning Coaster

Status	In Production
Introduced	2004
Number built	17
First built	Timberland Twister (15 March 2004)
Latest built	Unknown (2025)
Statistics
Manufacturer	Gerstlauer
Type	Steel - Spinning - Wild Mouse
Riders per train	4
Propulsion	Chain lift hill Tyre propelled launch Elevator lift Spiral lift
Top speed	55 km/h
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The Spinning Coaster is a steel spinning wild mouse roller coaster product manufactured by Gerstlauer. They have relatively mild layouts and spinning cars that seat four riders facing each other. The first one to be built was Timberland Twister at Camp Snoopy in 2004.

Layouts

	380m	405m	420m	700m
Length	380 metres	404 metres	412 metres	700 metres
Height	16 metres	17 metres	16.5 metres	28 metres
Speed	50 km/h	51 km/h	50 km/h	56 km/h
No. build	2	1	6	1
Status	In production	In production	Discontinued	In production

Notes

• The Six Flags installations use a variation of the 420m track layout, with the location of the station being different.
• 380m is the same as the 380m layout on Gerstlauer's Bobsled model.

Installations

Name	Park	Country	Layout	Opened	Status
Fairly Odd Coaster	Nickelodeon Universe	USA	420	March 15, 2004	Operating
Spinning Dragons	Worlds of Fun	USA	420	April 17, 2004	Operating
Pandemonium	Six Flags New England	USA	420	April 16, 2005	Operating
Pandemonium	Six Flags Fiesta Texas	USA	420	March 10, 2007	Operating
Pandemonium	Six Flags St. Louis	USA	420	April 10, 2007	Operating
Han-Katten	BonBon-Land	Denmark	380	July 7, 2007	Operating
Galaxy Orbiter	Galaxyland Amusement Park	Canada	Custom	July 17, 2007	Operating
Pandemonium	Six Flags Over Texas	USA	420	May 18, 2008	Operating
Dubai Drone	Play DXB	UAE	Custom	2009	Operating
Spinning Coaster	Infunity	Kuwait	Custom	2010	Operating
Vicky The Ride	Plopsa Coo	Belgium	405	June 25, 2011	Operating
Gekion Live Coaster	Tokyo Joypolis	Japan	Custom	July 14, 2012	Operating
Joker Formerly Pandemonium	Six Flags Mexico Six Flags Discovery Kingdom	Mexico USA	380	March 6, 2013 23 May 2008	Operating Closed 2012
Maskerade	Prater	Austria	Custom	May 1, 2015	Operating
Spin Runway	Yomiuriland	Japan	Custom	March 18, 2016	Operating
Shredder	Nickelodeon Universe	USA	700	November 2, 2019	Operating
Unknown	Parc Astérix	France	Unknown	2025	Under construction

External links

• 

  Spinning Coaster on the Roller Coaster DataBase.

• 

  Spinning Coaster on gerstlauer-rides.de.