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Dorney Park has not just one inverted shuttle coaster (a coaster that goes forward and reverse on the same track) but sitting right next to Stinger the Vekoma sits Possessed which was designed and built by Intamin.



Possessed is what Intamin calls a "Twisted Impulse Coaster".  It is twisted as one of the spikes the train travels straight up has a heart line roll and it is called an impulse coaster as it used a magnetic launching system that shoots the train both forward and reverse faster and faster until the ride reaches the maximum speed of 70mph.
 


As you can see we were greeted by an empty station making it so we could lap and ride Possessed over and over again.   



Bond was the only person in our group that had not been on this coaster.  Now this was my first visit to Dorney so you ask how I got to ride it?  Possessed began its life as Superman Ultimate Escape at the now closed Geauga Lake/Six Flags Ohio/Six Flags Worlds of Adventure park just outside of Cleveland, Ohio.  It was one of the few rides from there that Cedar Fair removed and moved to one of the chains other parks.  It was at Geauga Lake where I added this coaster to my count.



Possessed was Bond's third Intamin inverted impulse coaster and the first of them to have the holding brake on the back spike operational.  We were going to try to surprise him by not mentioning it but he saw Possessed run and got all excited about hanging there against his restraints looking straight down for ten seconds.  I know the one at Six Flags Great America broke and the park decided to leave the brakes there inactive but just hanging there really makes the ride. 

We couldn't get enough of Possessed again we had to grab four or five rides on it each time we passed on by.



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