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

The Silver Bullet is a "Looping Star" model coaster that Anton designed both portable versions like this one and permanent park models like the long gone Jet Scream at Six Flags St. Louis or the Viper at Six Flags Astroworld (both of which were the same coaster - Six Flags liked to send all of their used coasters to Astroworld). 

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

The obvious difference between the portable and park model Looping Star coasters is that the portable ones like Silver Bullet were designed to be easily broken down, loaded up onto a convoy of trucks and hauled to the next fair or carnival.  You don't really see any fairs or carnivals here in the states with huge looping coasters like this one but in Europe you have massive fairs like Munich's Oktoberfest where portable coasters like Anton's Olympia Looping Bahn that is 110 feet tall and has five loops are a staple on the midway.

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

Unlike the designs by Arrow the coasters that Anton designed flow from element to element.

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

Silver Bullet occupies a space of 103 by 252 feet so there is not a lot of room for long straightaways so there are plenty of twists and turns.

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

After a spiraling drop and the loop Silver Bullet turns you from side to side as it sends you through a figure eight from end to end of its small fooptprint.



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