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Like many of Anton Schwarzkopf's large looping portable coasters Colossus The Fire Dragon has a spiraling first drop that takes you from eighty-seven feet above ground twisting down to the ground and...



...right into the rides two back to back vertical loops.



Colossus opened on the German fair circuit in 1981 where it traveled from town to town on a fleet of trucks before being assembled for another fair full of thrill seekers.  Portability was designed into every feature of Colossus with a foundation of interconnected steel bracing and track sections that can snap together with Anton's "cone and plug" system that you can see where the track pieces come together.



Anton's vertical loops are fantastic because you get some serious positive g forces when you pull up into the loop and just as the train  just starts to plunge down from the top there is a brief moment of hang time before your world rights itself.



With nothing over your head and just a lapbar to hold you in being to dangle your arms towards the ground as Colossus The Fire Dragon inverts you gives the rider the chance to just let go and roll with the ride.
 


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