Vertical rollback (element)

A vertical rollback is a spike used on shuttle and backwards roller coasters. There are two types of vertical rollbacks, straight and twisted.

Examples

This list is ordered by opening date.

Name	Park	Country	Manufacturer	Opened	Closed	Status	Type
Greased Lightnin'	California's Great America	USA	Schwarzkopf	July 8, 1977	2002	Defunct	Straight
Greezed Lightnin' Formerly Tidal Wave and Viper	Kentucky Kingdom Six Flags Over Georgia Six Flags Great America	USA	Schwarzkopf	1978 (Great America) 1995 (Over Georgia) April 25, 2003 (Kentucky Kingdom)	1991 September 16, 2001 2009	Defunct	Straight
Montezooma's Revenge	Knott's Berry Farm	USA	Schwarzkopf	May 21, 1978	N/A	Operating	Straight
Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast	Six Flags Over Texas	USA	Premier Rides	March 24, 1998	N/A	Operating	Straight
Batman And Robin: The Chiller	Six Flags Great Adventure	USA	Premier Rides	April 4, 1998	June 28, 2007	Defunct	Straight
Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast	Six Flags St. Louis	USA	Premier Rides	April 11, 1998	N/A	Operating	Straight
Speed - The Ride	Nascar Café	USA	Premier Rides	April 28, 2000	May 1, 2011	In storage	Straight
Possessed Formerly Steel Venom	Dorney Park Geauga Lake & Wildwater Kingdom	USA	Intamin	May 5, 2000 May 2008	2006	Operating	Twisted Straight
Vertical Velocity	Six Flags Great America	USA	Intamin	May 18, 2001	N/A	Operating	Twisted Straight
Wicked Twister	Cedar Point	USA	Intamin	May 5, 2002	September 6, 2021	Defunct	Twisted
Steel Venom	Valleyfair	USA	Intamin	May 17, 2003	N/A	Operating	Twisted Straight
Accelerator	Drayton Manor	UK	Vekoma	April 21, 2011	N/A	Operating	Straight
Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure	Universal's Islands of Adventure	Florida, USA	Intamin	June 13, 2019	N/A	Operating	Straight
Pantheon	Busch Gardens Williamsburg	Virginia, USA	Intamin	March 25, 2022	N/A	Under construction	Straight
Top Thrill 2	Cedar Point	Ohio, USA	Zamperla	May 4, 2024	N/A	Operating	Straight

External links

Straight Vertical Rollback on the Roller Coaster DataBase.

Twisted Vertical Rollback on the Roller Coaster DataBase.

This box: view edit Thrill elements
Inverting	Banana roll Barrel roll downdrop Batwing Bowtie Butterfly Cobra loop Cobra roll Corkscrew Cutback Demonic knot Dive drop Dive loop Diving turn Dog tongue Double inverting dive loop Double inverting stall Drachen fire dive drop Finnish loop Fly to lie / Lie to fly Flying snake dive Heartline roll Immelmann Inclined dive loop Inclined loop In-line twist Interlocking corkscrews Interlocking loops Lagoon roll Negative-g stall loop Norwegian loop Over-banked inversion Pretzel knot Pretzel loop Raven turn Reverse cobra roll Reverse sidewinder Roll out Roll over Rollover camelback Saxophone Scorpion tail Sea serpent Sidewinder SkyLoop Step-up under flip Tongue Top-Gun stall Twisted horseshoe roll Twisted in-line rollback Vertical loop Wraparound corkscrew Zero-g roll Zero-g stall Zero-g winder
Non-inverting	Dark/Show section Double down Hairpin dive Hairpin turn Hammerhead turn Helix High five Hill Horseshoe Jr. Scorpion tail Kickflip Non inverting cobra roll Non inverting loop Octopus arm Outward banked airtime hill Over-banked curve Over-banked pretzel knot Pretzel curve Splashdown Splash effect Splash track Stengel dive Switch track Tilt section Trick track Triple dip Tunnel Turntable Twisted dive Twisted top hat Vertical drop track Vertical rollback Vertical spiral Wagon wheel Water brakes Wave turn Windcatcher tower
Variable	Jr. Immelmann Top hat