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How it does that amazing feat that no other trim brake has done is it
slows the car enough so
The Monster just crawls through corkscrew.
![The Monster a new for 2016 Gerstlauer Infinity roller coaster at Adventureland Amusement Park, Altoona, Iowa](adventureland-2016-monster-20.jpg)
With little velocity you just hang there as The Monster slowly takes you
through the roll.
![The Monster a new for 2016 Gerstlauer Infinity roller coaster at Adventureland Amusement Park, Altoona, Iowa](adventureland-2016-monster-8.jpg)
The first time we rode the thought passed through my head "are we going
to make it".
![The Monster a new for 2016 Gerstlauer Infinity roller coaster at Adventureland Amusement Park, Altoona, Iowa](adventureland-2016-monster-42.jpg)
It is really wonderful how the designers at Gerstlauer worked a very
fast and aggressive design and then threw in this slow roll twist to the
layout to really keep the rider unbalanced as what to expect.
![The Monster a new for 2016 Gerstlauer Infinity roller coaster at Adventureland Amusement Park, Altoona, Iowa](adventureland-2016-monster-9.jpg)
Being named The Monster it is like the clichéd ending to those monster
movies where you know the monster is dead and then when you least expect
it BOOM a hand shoots out to give you one final and totally unexpected
fright.
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