How many steel roller coasters of the same type as The Swarm are currently operating worldwide?
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The Swarm (roller coaster) The Swarm is a steel Wing Coaster at Thorpe Park, a theme park in the United Kingdom. "The Swarm" was the world's second Wing Coaster designed by Swiss roller coaster manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and the United Kingdom's first Wing Coaster. Construction commenced in May 2011, and the coaster opened on 15 March 2012. Starting in 2013, the last two rows of each train face backwards, while the first five rows face forward. This was removed in 2016, with all riders facing forward once again.
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Wing Coaster A Wing Coaster is a type of steel roller coaster manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard where pairs of riders sit on either side of a roller coaster track in which nothing is above or below the riders. Development of the Wing Coaster began between 2007 and 2008 leading to the opening of Raptor at Gardaland, the world's first Wing Coaster, on 1 April 2011. There are currently eight Wing Coasters operating worldwide.
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Canyon Blaster (Six Flags Magic Mountain) Canyon Blaster is a steel family roller coaster located in the Bugs Bunny World area of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. It is themed to the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
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Eureka Mountain Mine Ride Eureka Mountain Mine Ride is a Wild Mouse steel roller coaster located at Dreamworld in Gold Coast, Australia. After closing for maintenance in 2006, the ride has remained inactive indefinitely. In early 2015, Dreamworld reported they were performing testing on the ride and that it may open in 2016, but it remains inactive.
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Lagoon (amusement park) Lagoon is a privately owned amusement park in Farmington, Utah, United States, located about seventeen miles (27 km) north of Salt Lake City. It has ten roller coasters, five of which are unique; "Colossus the Fire Dragon", the last Schwarzkopf Double Looping coaster still in operation in the United States (Laser at Dorney Park closed at the end of the 2008 season and was moved to Germany to become the Teststrecke traveling roller coaster in 2009); Roller Coaster, one of the oldest coasters in the world operating since 1921; Wicked, designed by Lagoon's engineering department and Werner Stengel in cooperation with ride manufacturer Zierer; BomBora, a family coaster designed in-house; and Cannibal, built in-house with one of the world's steepest drops.
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SkyLoop SkyLoop is a type of steel roller coaster manufactured by Maurer Söhne. There are currently 10 SkyLoops operating worldwide; 9 of which are identical XT 150 models with only one being the extended, XT 450 model. The first SkyLoop to open was Sky Wheel in 2004 (XT 150) while the first and only XT 450, Abismo opened in 2006. There are also 3 other models available; XT 900, Custom, and Launch, those have not been built yet.
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Battlestar Galactica (roller coaster) Battlestar Galactica: Human vs. Cylon is a pair of steel, dueling roller coasters at Universal Studios Singapore. One of the coasters is an inverted roller coaster track in silver, and the other half is a traditional seated roller coaster in maroon. The coasters, which opened in 2010 and inactive between 2013 and 2015, reach 42.5 m in height and are the tallest dueling coasters in the world.
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Mamba (roller coaster) Mamba is a steel hypercoaster designed by Steve Okamoto and manufactured by D.H. Morgan Manufacturing. Mamba is located at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri. Mamba opened in 1998 at a cost of 10 million USD.
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Matterhorn Bobsleds The Matterhorn Bobsleds are a pair of intertwined steel roller coasters at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. It is modelled after the Matterhorn, a mountain in the Alps on the border with Switzerland and Italy. It is the first known tubular steel continuous track roller coaster. Located on the border between Tomorrowland and Fantasyland, it employs forced perspective to seem more impressively large.
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Great Coasters International Great Coasters International, Inc. (GCI or GCII) is a Sunbury, Pennsylvania-based roller coaster manufacturer which has created several award-winning rides since its formation in 1994. Starting in 2006 with Thunderbird in Finland, the company expanded beyond the United States and began building coasters in Europe and Asia. Günter Engelhardt GmbH handles the company's marketing rights in Europe. In addition to designing and building new roller coasters, GCI also refurbishes and re-tracks existing roller coasters, regardless of manufacturer.
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Taron (roller coaster) Taron is a multi-launch steel roller coaster manufactured by Intamin situated at Phantasialand in Germany. It is the fastest multi-launch roller coaster in the world, whilst also the longest of its kind. The ride also boasted the fastest LSM launch system in the world when it opened, until Red Force opened at PortAventura World's Ferrari Land in 2017. Taron opened on 30 June 2016.
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Roller coaster inversion A roller coaster inversion is a roller coaster element in which the track turns riders upside-down and then returns them to an upright position. Early forms of inversions, dating as far back as 1848 on the Centrifugal Railway in Paris, were vertical loops that were circular in nature. They produced massive g-force that was often dangerous to riders, and as a result, the element eventually became non-existent with the last rides to feature the looping inversions being dismantled during the Great Depression. In 1975, designers from Arrow Development created the corkscrew, reviving interest in the inversion during the modern age of steel roller coasters. Since then, the element have evolved from simple corkscrews and vertical loops to more complex inversions such Immelmann loops and cobra rolls. Featuring fourteen inversions, The Smiler at Alton Towers holds the world record for the number of inversions on a roller coaster.
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Roller Coaster Corporation of America Roller Coaster Corporation of America (abbreviated RCCA) is an amusement ride manufacturer based in the United States. The company's first major project was the Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in 1992, while their most famous coaster was the Son of Beast at Kings Island, the world's tallest and first looping wooden coaster when it opened in 2000.
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Extremeroller Extremeroller was a steel stand-up roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri. It was built by Arrow Dynamics and the first stand-up roller coaster in the United States. It was built in 1976 under the name Screamroller. In 1983, Arrow designed a stand-up train for the attraction, which was subsequently renamed Extremeroller (also known as EXT). However, the original sit-down trains were reinstalled in 1984, remaining in place until the attraction was removed in 1988 and replaced by Timber Wolf that opened in 1989. In 1990 extremeroller was relocated to Formosa WonderWorld in Taipei Taiwan under as "spiral" which standing until end of 2006 the attraction have been removed and it is unknown if it its being scrapped or in storage somewhere.
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Primeval Whirl Primeval Whirl is a steel wild mouse roller coaster at Disney's Animal Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort. The ride is a spinning roller coaster purchased from Reverchon Industries. The ride is part of Chester and Hester's Dino-Rama, which is itself part of DinoLand U.S.A. It is a roller coaster in the "Mild But Wild Thrills" category. It has cars that spin in circles while traveling on tracks, permitting the ride experience to vary greatly each time it is ridden. The ride features 13 cars, each seating up to 4 riders.
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Pandemonium (roller coaster) Pandemonium is a spinning roller coaster located at several Six Flags theme parks in North America. Designed by Gerstlauer, a German ride manufacturer and Werner Stengel. Since 2005, Six Flags has installed Pandemonium in five of their parks, with one being relocated to another company park.
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Thirteen (roller coaster) Thirteen (officially stylised as TH13TEEN) is a steel roller coaster at Alton Towers in England. The ride was constructed by Intamin and opened on 20 March 2010. It is the world's first vertical freefall drop roller coaster, on which the track and train freefall approximately five metres in darkness. The ride replaced and is built on the former site of the Corkscrew, which resided at Alton Towers for 28 years between 1980 and 2008.
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Salitre Mágico Salitre Magico is an amusement park located in Bogotá, Colombia inside the territory of the Parque el Salitre. Currently it has 39 mechanical attractions such as roller coasters, bumping cars, and the unique "Castillo del Terror" (Castle of Horror). It was one of the most important and classic amusement parks of the city, as well as the largest, among some others such as the Mundo Aventura and the Cici Aquapark.
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Crystal Wing Crystal Wing is a steel roller coaster at Happy Valley in Beijing, China. The layout of this coaster is identical to the flying coaster located at several Six Flags parks.
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Cheetah Hunt Cheetah Hunt is a steel launched roller coaster currently open and operating at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. It opened to the public on May 27, 2011 alongside a new cheetah exhibit - "Cheetah Run".
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Steel roller coaster A steel roller coaster is a roller coaster that is defined by having a track made of steel. Steel coasters have earned immense popularity in the past 50 years throughout the world. Incorporating tubular steel track and polyurethane-coated wheels, the steel roller coasters can provide a taller, smoother, and faster ride with more inversions than a traditional wooden roller coaster.
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The Smiler The Smiler is a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Manufactured by Gerstlauer, it features 14 inversions and holds the world record for most inversions on a roller coaster. The Smiler has suffered a series of setbacks and ride incidents, including a malfunction at a press preview event which delayed the official opening date by two months, and a collision in 2015 which left five riders seriously injured. An investigation by the HSE was initiated, and the ride was closed for the remainder of that season. The ride eventually reopened on 19 March 2016 with revamped safety standards.