Ultra Twister (Nagashima Spa Land)

This article does not cite any sources. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (June 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Ultra Twister
Final inversion on Ultra Twister
Nagashima Spa Land
Location	Nagashima Spa Land
Coordinates	35°01′43″N 136°43′57″E / 35.028490°N 136.732587°E / 35.028490; 136.732587Coordinates: 35°01′43″N 136°43′57″E / 35.028490°N 136.732587°E / 35.028490; 136.732587
Status	Operating
Opening date	1989 (1989)
General statistics
Type	Steel – Pipeline
Manufacturer	TOGO
Model	Ultra Twister
Lift/launch system	Vertical Chain lift
Inversions	3
Duration	1:18
Max vertical angle	85°
Height restriction	48 in (122 cm)
Ultra Twister at RCDB Pictures of Ultra Twister at RCDB

Ultra Twister is a pipeline roller coaster located at Nagashima Spa Land in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Built by TOGO, the ride opened to the public in 1989. It was moved from its original location in 1989 to a new location in 2011, which sits further north inside the same park. It is also one of the few Ultratwister models from TOGO still in operation.

Ride attendants put the fiberglass shells down to lock in their harnesses. However, on Ultra Twister models, the stations had conveyor belts to allow guests access to a car. This ride opened with seven trains. It currently runs with two, allowing the others to be spare.

Ride experience[]

The car goes slowly through the station, loads riders, and then flips the car straight up, into the lift hill, which is partially very slow, but soon speeds up as the car is almost at the top. As the drop, into an airtime hill, and then up into a heartline roll, a very small hill, and then a brake run, going down into two heartline rolls, and then a magnetic trim brake run allows a car to go slowly back into the station..

Colors[]

Originally, the ride opened with a white paint job with blue cars. But in 2008, Ultra Twister was repainted yellow and teal, and red trains, along with one blue train remaining, which was still used as a spare train.

Similar attractions[]

Until 2005, Ultra Twister had a sister coaster which operated at the defunct Six Flags AstroWorld. This version was identical in layout to the Japanese Ultra Twister, but its lift hill went up at a 45 degree angle instead of at a 90 degree angle.