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Overshadowed by the nearby three hundred and five foot tall Intimidator 305 one has to remember that back in 1991 this coaster with a hundred and twenty-eight foot tall lift hill and a one hundred and forty-one foot drop into an underwater tunnel was the big thing at Kings Dominion.



 The Arrow Dynamics designed sit down multi looping coaster was the thing from the mid 1970's through the 1980's.



You could probably say that Anaconda was the high water mark for these coasters as after 1991 when Anaconda opened the world would go years between new Arrow loopers until the company built the last of the design in 1999 as the Tennessee Tornado at Dollywood before going out of business.



A product of the technology at the time and coming from a company that put more into just churning out rides using a cookie cutter approach where they would put a standard sized loop here and a standard sized corkscrew there instead of developing and improving their designs, Anaconda is a really great ride.



Anaconda after the lift dives into a tunnel that is built in the middle of Lake Charles and as most of Arrow's designs it goes straight into the loops with a vertical loop followed by what is known as a "sidewinder loop" which really is half of a boomerang element. 



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