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The first floorless coaster was Medusa at Six Flags Great Adventure that opened up in 1999.



Bolliger & Mabillard and Six Flags headed west for 2000.



With this Medusa what do you have?  There is a one hundred and fifty foot drop, a vertical loop, a dive loop, a zero g roll and a sea serpent inversion for the first half of the ride.  Here is Medusa leaving the sea serpent inversion.  A "sea serpent" inversion is similar to a cobra roll but instead of sending you back out the opposite direction from which you entered the two inversion element you exit it heading in the same direction that you entered it.  For those of you who used to play the classic Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 or 2 to make a sea serpent just have a half a loop with the exit half of a corkscrew with an entrance half of a corkscrew followed by another half loop going down.



After the sea serpent Medusa spirals you up into the mid course brake.



Spiraling down out of Medusa's mid course it has a twisted finale ahead for you.



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