Negative-G - Frontier City Theme Park

The Silver Bullet Roller Coaster at Frontier City Theme Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Silver Bullet brought Bond's coaster count of Schwarzkopf designed rides to six while it was my fourteenth coaster by the "master".

Many coaster enthusiasts hold Anton Schwarzkopf and his rides in high regard because they are extremely fun, smooth, thrilling and despite their age very reliable rides.

You see back in the 1970's during the amusement park and roller coaster boom there were two companies who made tubular steel coasters that looped (which was the revolutionary new thing at the time). One was Arrow Dynamics who pretty much made their coasters out of pre designed parts (all the loops were the same size for example) that they'd just arrange in order to make a ride and keep the rides cost down and then there was Anton's company.

Schwarzkopf was the type of engineer who spent his time with each of his designs making them the best rides possible. Needless to say Anton's rides were not cheep and as a result of his constant tinkering with his designs to make them better it cost him in the end as Arrow sold more rides than Schwarzkopf due to cost and other factors.

The thing is the coasters, especially the looping ones that Arrow sold back then are now being demolished and removed due to roughness and low ridership while Anton's coasters like Silver Bullet here at Frontier City, Shock Wave at Six Flags Over Texas, Mind Bender at Six Flags Over Georgia, Scorpion at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay or the Revolution at Six Flags Magic Mountain are still running great and giving as good a ride as they did when they opened. The shows what a truly amazing designer Anton Schwarzkopf was.