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>After riding on the new Vekoma SLC at Southport UK and seeing the
>discussions on suspended Vs inverted coasters I realised that the
>coaster is actually inverted.
>Presumably a coaster has to be able to freely 'swing' to be called
>suspended.
>So shouldn't they be Inverted Looping Coasters?
Suspended Looping Coaster is the term Vekoma uses to describe that model of
roller coaster. Simply because B&M calls coasters which suspend riders from an
overhead track in ski lift-style chairs "inverted" doesn't mean that Vekoma has
to call similar coasters "inverted." Vekoma has chosen to call what most
people automatically think of as "inverted" coasters "suspended." Also, all
of Vekoma's SLCs have basically the same layout, so SLC basically refers the
the model/layout of the coaster (I think, but I may be wrong).
Bert Kolick
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