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Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure, the world's tallest rollercoaster

Intamin Amusement Rides is a design and manufacturing company in Schaan, Liechtenstein, best-known for designing and constructing thrill rides and roller coasters at dozens of international theme parks, amusement parks and other establishments. The Intamin brand name is a syllabic abbreviation for "international amusement installations". The company has corporate offices across the world, including three in Europe, three in Asia, and two in the United States.

Primarily, Intamin is known for their roller coaster portfolio. Through working closely with their clients, Intamin addresses each project's unique prerequisites; in addition to the basic type of attraction desired, the company assesses the client's property, the surrounding terrain and works within the confines of local regulations, such as building height restrictions, and more. Their roller coaster models range from children's "kiddie" coasters and family-style mine trains to some of the tallest and fastest steel roller coasters in the world. Intamin has also manufactured pre-fabricated wooden roller coaster models, a concept which ultimately facilitates with ease of construction, as well as providing a superior ride experience. Prefabricated wooden coasters are computer-designed with pre-measured lumber; most traditional wooden coasters are built using hand-measured, manually-cut lumber.

Among the many unique ride concepts and patents to their name, Intamin designed and constructed the first-ever river rapids ride (known as Thunder River), and marketed the first freefall ride (developed by Giovanola) and drop tower.

Beyond roller coasters, Intamin is well-known for their design and construction of vertical rides and drop towers, water rides (including log flumes and river rapids), unique water coasters, immersive dark rides, large swing rides, and different observation tower attractions. With such an extensive portfolio, Intamin is known as one of the top most-innovative and sought-after amusement ride firms in operation today. The company has installed scores of roller coasters and other rides in many countries and territories, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, México, Japan, China, Vietnam, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Finland, South Korea, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Guatemala and Poland, among others.

Products and technologies

Intamin's product range spans two broad categories: rides and transportation.

Amusement rides

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Roaring Rapids river ride at Six Flags Over Texas (2007)

Roller coasters

Шаблон:Unreferenced section Intamin created the first hydraulic launch system (known as the Accelerator Coaster), which catapults roller coaster trains from standstill to speeds upwards of Шаблон:Convert in a few seconds before climbing to immense heights. Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure, for instance, is North America's tallest and fastest coaster, launching riders from 0–Шаблон:Convert in 3.5 seconds.

Intamin is also known for its massive Mega and Giga Coasters, Intamin's terms for a hypercoaster. Intamin Giga (roller coasters with no inversions, and a height of 400ft) and Mega Coasters (500ft or higher) currently occupy three of the top five Golden Ticket Awards with perennial favorites Millennium Force, Superman the Ride and Expedition GeForce.

Intamin uses computerized and industrialized engineering and manufacturing methods for its wooden coasters, rather than traditional on-site fabrication. Coasters such as Colossos at Heide Park, Balder at Liseberg and El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure utilized this manufacturing technique. Unlike other traditional wood coasters, these rides use prefabricated track sections made of a high-strength wooden laminate that can be secured on-site when the superstructure is completed. This design enables the coaster to reach speeds and navigate course elements smoothly, like a steel roller coaster, while retaining the look and some of the traditional feel of common wooden coasters.

Another development by Intamin is the ZacSpin, a type of 4th Dimension roller coaster first seen in 2007. Kirnu at Linnanmäki in Finland was the first ZacSpin in the world and opened on April 27, 2007. It has individual cars, each with 8 seats, arranged in two pods coming off the sides of the car, each with 2 seats facing forward and two facing backward. This car is either lifted to the highest point by a conventional chain lift, or propelled around the course at a constant speed by a Linear Motor system.

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Maverick at Cedar Point

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Hyperion at Energylandia

The company is known for being the original home to Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M). The two engineers worked for Giovanola who in turn were frequently contracted by Intamin for their early stand-up roller coasters (Giovanola eventually started producing roller coasters independently). B&M broke away from Giovanola to form their own company which now supplies roller coasters as well. Similarities between the two companies are often apparent, such as the style of track used by B&M, which was used in a number of early Giovanola installations which were contracted by Intamin.

Ferris wheels

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Giant Wheel, a double wheel at Hersheypark

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Sky Whirl, a triple wheel at Six Flags Great America

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Incredicoaster, a Custom Intamin Looper at Disney California Adventure

Intamin brokered a number of rides that were manufactured by Waagner-Biro. These included a series of rides for Marriott Corporation, each comprising a vertical column supporting multiple horizontal arms, with each arm supporting a Ferris wheel. The first was Giant Wheel which operated at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, from 1973 until 2004. Similar Intamin supplied Waagner-Biro wheels included Zodiac (Kings Island, Mason, Ohio) and Scorpion (Parque de la Ciudad, Buenos Aires, Argentina). All are now defunct.

Sky Whirl, the world's first triple Ferris wheel, which debuted at both Marriott's Great America parks (now Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois, and California's Great America, Santa Clara) in 1976, was also manufactured by Waagner-Biro and brokered by Intamin. Also known as a triple Ferris wheel, Triple Giant Wheel, or Triple Tree Wheel, it was Шаблон:Convert in height. The Santa Clara ride, renamed Triple Wheel in post-Marriott years, closed on 1 September 1997. The Gurnee ride closed in 2000.

The Orlando Eye, which opened in April 2015, was designed and built by Intamin.

Transportation

Outside the amusement realm, Intamin supplies monorail transportation systems which are used in both public transport networks and at tourist attractions across the world. Intamin was responsible for the design and building of the Moscow Monorail (Шаблон:Lang-ru), which is Шаблон:Convert long and is located in the North-Eastern Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia, running from the Timiryazevskaya metro station to Sergeya Eisensteina street. Planning of the monorail started in 1998. It has six stations.

In 2016 two monorails using Intamin equipment were opened, the Шаблон:Convert Ashgabat Monorail in Turkmenistan and the Шаблон:Convert Calabar Monorail in the Cross River State, Nigeria, which connects the Calabar International Convention Centre to the Tinapa Resort.

In 2020 the Marconi Express Monorail opened as a shuttle between the Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport and the Bologna Centrale railway station.

Intamin has also constructed monorails at amusement parks Xi'an and Ningbo in China and the Asia Park Monorail in Da Nang in Vietnam.

Notable Intamin rides

Year	Accomplishment	Ride	Location	Notes
1981	First wooden coaster built by Intamin	American Eagle	Six Flags Great America	When opened it featured the longest drop in the world and fastest speed on a wooden coaster.
1985	First (and only) Spacediver coaster	Z-Force	Six Flags Great America, Six Flags Over Georgia, Six Flags Magic Mountain	Opened in '85 at Great America, was relocated to Over Georgia in '88, then to Magic Mountain and opened there as Flashback in '92; demolished and scrapped in mid-December 2007 after sitting idle since 2003 First coaster to feature four-abreast seating
1994	First and only stand up coaster to feature a Zero G Roll	Shockwave	Drayton Manor Resort	The ride closed in November 2023 to be converted to a sit-down coaster
1997	First coaster to go above Шаблон:Convert First coaster to go Шаблон:Convert	Tower of Terror II	Dreamworld	Not a complete circuit; the train does not reach the top of the vertical spike
1997	First coaster with a structure to reach beyond Шаблон:Convert	Superman: Escape from Krypton	Six Flags Magic Mountain	Not a complete circuit; the train does not reach the top of the vertical spike; formerly Superman: the Escape
1998	First LIM-launched inverted coaster First Impulse shuttle coaster	Linear Gale	Tokyo Dome City	Closed in 2010 and subsequently removed
1998	First complete-circuit, LIM-launched inverted coaster	Volcano, The Blast Coaster	Kings Dominion	Fastest inverted coaster at Шаблон:Convert when first opened Closed in 2018
2000	First Giga Coaster (over 300 ft) First coaster to drop Шаблон:Convert	Millennium Force	Cedar Point	First complete circuit coaster to stand over 300 ft (310 ft) Drop is exactly Шаблон:Convert
2000	First LIM-launched Twisted impulse coaster	Possessed	Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom	Previously operated at Geauga Lake as Superman: Ultimate Escape and Steel Venom
2000	First Stand Up Drop Tower	Apocalypse	Drayton Manor	5 Towers with 3 stand up towers & 2 sit down towers Tower 5 was modified in 2002 to feature the World's First Stand Up Floorless drop tower The ride was closed in 2022
2001	First coaster to utilize a LIM launch hill	California Screamin'	Disney California Adventure Park	Has a magnetic launch followed by a magnetic non-cable/chain lift hill (this, along with scream tunnels, was done to reduce noise) Currently the longest coaster with inversions
2001	First wooden coaster with prefabricated track	Colossos	Heide Park
2002	First coaster to do 10 inversions	Colossus	Thorpe Park	Has 10 inversions - in order: 1 Loop, 1 Cobra Roll (counts as 2), 2 Corkscrews, and 5 heartline rolls
2002	First hydraulic catapult launch coaster	Xcelerator	Knott's Berry Farm	Accelerates from 0 to 82 miles per hour, covering 157 feet of launch track, in just 2.3 seconds.
2003	First Strata coaster (over 400 ft)	Top Thrill Dragster	Cedar Point	Tallest and fastest coaster in the world when opened at Шаблон:Convert and Шаблон:Convert
2004	First accelerator coaster to feature inversions	Storm Runner	Hersheypark	Reaches a height of 150 ft and catapults riders from 0 to 72 mph in 2 seconds Features a top hat and three inversions
2005	World's tallest coaster (2005–present); was world's fastest coaster (2005–2010)	Kingda Ka	Six Flags Great Adventure	456 feet high; launch speed Шаблон:Convert
2007	First 4th Dimension design ZacSpin Coaster by Intamin First Intamin coaster to include curved hydraulic chain lift hill	Kirnu	Linnanmäki	First compact 4-D coaster in the world Features redesigned restraints (lap bar with safety belt shoulder harness system) and non-friction magnetic brakes
2007	Intamin's first Wing Rider coaster	Furius Baco	PortAventura Park at PortAventura World	Accelerates from 0 to Шаблон:Convert in 3.5 seconds Was fastest coaster in Europe until 2017.
2008	At 97 degrees, steepest drop of all Intamin coasters	Fahrenheit	Hersheypark	Ascends chain lift hill at a 90 degree angle Features a 121-foot Norwegian loop and six inversions
2008	Record holder at the time for the steepest wooden coaster in the world Currently the highest, fastest, longest coaster in South Korea	T Express	Everland	Maximum 77 degrees Height 183.75 ft (56.01m) Top speed 64.6 mph (104 km/h) Length 5383.10 ft (1641m) 12 airtime hills
2010	World's first freefall drop coaster	Thirteen	Alton Towers	Horizontal track falls vertically down in the crypt Train is launched into a backward helix after drop.
2010	Current record holder for the world's fastest coaster	Formula Rossa	Ferrari World	Top speed Шаблон:Convert
2011	First ZacSpin built in the U.S.	Green Lantern: First Flight	Six Flags Magic Mountain	Closed in 2017, subsequently relocated to La Ronde, scheduled to open as Vipère for the 2020 season. The project was eventually scrapped in 2022.
2014	First Special Effects Coaster/Dark Ride Hybrid	Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts	Universal Studios Florida
2014	First Drop Tower to tilt riders 90 degrees toward the ground	Falcon's Fury	Busch Gardens Tampa Bay	Currently North America's tallest freestanding drop tower Tilts rider face down and drops them at speeds of Шаблон:Convert
2016	Fastest multi-launch coaster (forward only)	Taron	Phantasialand	Multi-launch coaster Held three world records at opening: Fastest multi-launch coaster, longest multi-launch coaster without inversions, greatest number of intersecting track points at 58 .
2016	Fastest multi-launch coaster (bi-directional)	Soaring with Dragon	Hefei Wanda Theme Park	Fastest multi-launch coaster at 77.7 mph (train is launched three times — forward, backward and forward again).
2017	Fastest LSM-launch coaster	Red Force	Ferrari Land at PortAventura World	Currently fastest LSM-launched coaster in the world.
2021	First single-rail roller coaster for Intamin.	Big Dipper	Luna Park Sydney	Hot Racer model

Safety incidents

Шаблон:Undue weight Шаблон:See also Intamin has been in the news for a number of safety-related incidents.

• In 1984, three passengers riding The Edge at Six Flags Great America were injured and briefly hospitalized. The ride experienced a malfunction that caused it to fall backward down the wrong shaft.
• On June 9, 1991, 32-year-old Candy Taylor of Toledo, Ohio, fell to her death from Flight Commander, an Intamin Flight Trainer, located at Kings Island. Investigators determined that a design flaw in the seat divider could allow a rider to slide into an unoccupied seat and become free from the restraint. A coroner's report later revealed that the victim had a blood-alcohol level of 0.30 which may have also contributed. Speculation suggests the rider lost consciousness during the ride and slid out from the restraints.
• On May 16, 1999, a Шаблон:Convert guest was unable to close his lap bar on Ride of Steel at Six Flags Darien Lake. As a result, he was ejected, fell approximately 9 feet as the ride went over a camel hump hill, and suffered serious injuries. He sued the park and the ride manufacturer for negligence and was awarded US$3.95 million.
• In August 1999, a 12-year-old mentally disabled boy fell from the 207-foot (63 m) high Drop Tower: Scream Zone, at California's Great America, and died. The victim's family claimed his harness was not locked properly. An investigation was inconclusive and no charges were filed.
• In September 2001, a 40-year-old woman fell from Perilous Plunge (Knott's Berry Farm) into the water, was hit by the boat, and died. An investigation showed that the Шаблон:Convert woman had loosened the safety restraints, so she could fit more comfortably into the ride.
• On April 16, 2004, a 16-year-old girl from Pontypool was killed after falling approximately 30 m (100 ft) into shallow water from the top of Hydro (now called Drenched) at Oakwood Leisure Park, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom. During a lawsuit brought by the victim's family against Oakwood, a jury returned a narrative verdict stating that the victim had fallen out due to being improperly restrained.
• The second incident of 2004 was on one of Intamin's mega coasters, Superman: Ride of Steel, at Six Flags New England in Massachusetts. The ride, again with lap bar restraints, was dispatched with a rider who had cerebral palsy in the front seat; this passenger subsequently died after being ejected from his seat. According to an investigation, the ride operators were primarily to blame, for not ensuring the rider was properly secured. Intamin was also partially blamed, as the ride's safety system allowed the train to be dispatched without all of the restraints properly secured.
• The third incident of 2004 happened on July 14 and involved one of Intamin's launched stratacoasters. Four people were injured while riding on Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster. The riders were struck by metal debris that sheared off from the coaster's launch cable; during the initial launch, the train accelerates from 0 to Шаблон:Convert in 4 seconds, before climbing up the Шаблон:Convert foot vertical structure and back down again. The majority of guests waiting in the queue line would be standing no more than 10 to 15 feet from the track, at closest range. They were treated at the park's first aid station. Two were further treated at Firelands Regional Medical Center.
• In June 2007, a 13-year-old girl lost both feet at the ankles on Superman: Tower of Power, at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, when a ride malfunction and improper maintenance caused a cable to snap. She was brought to the hospital in critical condition, but survived, with doctors being able to re-attach her right foot. The park was later fined $1,000 for not properly maintaining the ride; an undisclosed settlement was later reached with Six Flags, which will provide for her for the remainder of her life.
• On September 16, 2009, two guests were injured when a cable snapped on Xcelerator at Knott's Berry Farm. The train launches riders from 0 to 80 miles per hour in a matter of seconds, ascends a vertical top-hat, and descends down the other side. The 12-year-old victim had lacerations on his leg, while the adult victim complained of back injuries.
• On April 29, 2010, a ride train on Expedition GeForce partially derailed from the track, fully occupied with passengers. Riders were stranded 20m in the air, with eight of them complaining of nausea and bruising.
• On July 8, 2011, a 29-year-old guest was killed when he was ejected from Superman: Ride of Steel. The rider, an Iraq War veteran whose legs had been amputated, was on the front row of the roller coaster when he was thrown from the train during the course of the ride. Park officials stated that the ride was in proper mechanical order and that the various safety restraints were also working normally at the time of the incident, but that the attraction would remain closed pending an investigation. It was determined that ride operators at the time should not have permitted the man to get on the ride, due to his status as a double amputee.
• On February 24, 2012, a 14-year-old girl died in an accident at Hopi Hari, Vinhedo, São Paulo State, Brazil. She fell from the La Tour Eiffel drop tower ride, suffered cranial trauma, and died on the way to hospital. Initial investigations suggested the possibility of mechanical failure in a restraint latch.
• On July 24, 2012, the launch cable of the accelerator coaster Rita at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, UK, snapped during a morning test run. There were no passengers aboard at the time and no injuries occurred.
• On July 19, 2013, a boat on the Shoot the Rapids log flume (at Cedar Point) rolled back down the ride's lift hill and flipped over, injuring seven, and was said to leave them stranded under water for a few minutes before guests and park employees could get them out. Six were cleared by park medical staff, and one was examined at a local hospital before being released. The ride closed during the investigation. Cedar Point reopened the ride in May 2014 but it would close in 2015.
• On July 7, 2014, a teenager was killed after his harness sprung open on Inferno, a ZacSpin fourth-dimension roller coaster at Terra Mítica in Benidorm, Spain.
• On May 9, 2017, an 11-year-old girl, Evha Jannath, died from her injuries after she fell from the Splash Canyon ride and into the water at Drayton Manor Theme Park in England. The water ride has remained closed for the foreseeable future, following the HSE safety examination.
• On July 3, 2021, an 11-year-old boy died and five others were injured on the Raging River at Adventureland Park in Altoona, Iowa when their raft flipped over. The raft was found to be under inflated, and the ride's emergency drainage system failed.
• On August 15, 2021, a female guest was seriously injured while standing in line at Cedar Point when a metal object dislodged from Top Thrill Dragster and struck her in the head. The ride was shut down following the incident, and remained standing but not operating until Cedar Point announced its retirement in 2022, with plans of an updated ride experience.
• On April 7, 2023, two female guests were injured at Futuroscope, France when a lithium battery on a train car caught fire. The guests suffered burns and were hospitalised. Park employees exposed to lithium fumes were treated on premises. The ride has been closed since.

External links

• Шаблон:Official website