Verbolten

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Manufacturer
ZIERER

Model
Elevated Seating Coaster w/ Vertical Drop Element

Hamlet
Oktoberfest (Germany)

Official Opening
May 18, 2012

Soft Opening
May 11, 2012

Tallest Drop
88ft


Top Speed
53mph

Inversion Count
0

Launch Segments
2

Riders Per Train
16

Number of Trains
5

Height Requirement
48in



Verbolten is an indoor/outdoor ZIERER Elevated Seating Coaster that features a Vertical Drop Element. It officially opened in mid-May 2012 on the site formally occupied by the Arrow Suspended Coaster, Big Bad Wolf.


Videos​

Development Documentary​

Ride Recordings​

On-Ride Videos​

Backstage Footage​

 
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ludmarco said:
I really wish they would at least put the dumpster somewhere else. Any particular reason why they won’t move it?
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I might be a simple as they paid to have it delivered and to keep it for X number of days before the company removes it. It's not the park's and I am not sure they can move it on their own.
 
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Saw the Expedition Extinct video on Akbar's Adventure Tours over at BGT...a ride with a story about a dodgy tour company, and a jump scare in the middle of the ride. It was tacky, but pulled it off because it was comedic. Part of why I hate Verbolten so much is that it tries to be edgy and dramatic, but the show building is cheap cutouts, destroying the immersion. If the Verbolten Tour Company was bumbling buffoons instead of slightly sinister, and the show building was just slightly refreshed accordingly (the pre-drop sequences completely redone), the ride would be massively improved.
 
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SLC Headache said:
Saw the Expedition Extinct video on Akbar's Adventure Tours over at BGT...a ride with a story about a dodgy tour company, and a jump scare in the middle of the ride. It was tacky, but pulled it off because it was comedic. Part of why I hate Verbolten so much is that it tries to be edgy and dramatic, but the show building is cheap cutouts, destroying the immersion. If the Verbolten Tour Company was bumbling buffoons instead of slightly sinister, and the show building was just slightly refreshed accordingly (the pre-drop sequences completely redone), the ride would be massively improved.
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For what it is worth, you lose a lot credibility by constantly changing the reason you dislike Bolt. It seems as if every time you post about the failings you see in the ride, you identify a different problem. It honestly comes off as someone just being negative and spiteful.
 
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Nicole said:
For what it is worth, you lose a lot credibility by constantly changing the reason you dislike Bolt. It seems as if every time you post about the failings you see in the ride, you identify a different problem. It honestly comes off as some just being negative and spiteful.
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Not to pile on, but it's especially difficult when the reasoning starts with lamenting a ride as better that was never ridden.
 
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warfelg said:
Not to pile on, but it's especially difficult when the reasoning starts with lamenting a ride as better that was never ridden.
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Also, it’s a family ride. Kids don’t care about tacky, they care that the ride is slightly “spooky” and has a surprise. It does that really well, with the electrified trees, drop, cracking wood sound effects and launches
 
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Nicole said:
For what it is worth, you lose a lot credibility by constantly changing the reason you dislike Bolt. It seems as if every time you post about the failings you see in the ride, you identify a different problem. It honestly comes off as someone just being negative and spiteful.
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Or what if it's because I never really understood Verbolten to begin with, and I'm slowly starting to understand it more?

GrantLee123 said:
Also, it’s a family ride. Kids don’t care about tacky, they care that the ride is slightly “spooky” and has a surprise. It does that really well, with the electrified trees, drop, cracking wood sound effects and launches
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I'll concede that the theming alone of being lightly spooky would be on par with Boo Blasters (and better because it's not so Cedar Fair generic), but that just makes the ride forces that would punch out Flight of Fear that much more inappropriate.
 
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SLC Headache said:
I didn't think they'd make a nanocoaster of a ride with a big old show building hiding half the track, but they did it by removing the show building. Who knew? I'm pleasantly surprised.

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Nanocoaster Verbolten

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They did similarly for KI Flight of Fear, and that's 100% of the ride. It's pretty cool.

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Flight of Fear NanoCoaster

Nano coaster nano coasters Flight of Fear was the world's first launched roller coaster to feature linear induction motor (LIM) technology. Riders are in for an adrenaline rush like no other when they're catapulted from zero to 54 miles per hour in just four seconds.
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EDIT: didn't realize I was dredging up an older post.
 
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