Bobsleigh Coaster

A bobsled roller coaster , or bobsleigh in RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, is a type of steel roller coaster that has cars travel along a channel that aren't connected directly to the track but flow with it instead.
==Construction==
Track is a semi-circular channel, supported by tubular steel posts. Cars run on small wheels, and are free to take their own course along the track, guided only by the curvature and gradient of the channel.
===Special Track Elements===
*Banked Curves
*Banked Helix
*On-Ride Photo Section (OpenRCT2)
===Constraints===
*Banked Curves - 50° banking
*Maximum Track Slope - 25°
*Maximum Lift Hill Slope - 25°
*Maximum Height - 78 Feet
===Vehicles===
===Operating Modes===
*Continuous circuit mode
*Continuous circuit block sectioned mode
===Pre-built designs===
====RollerCoaster Tycoon====
=====Build menu only=====
*Big Bob
*Mini Bob
=====Scenarios=====
*Quiver (Mel's World)
*Roller Coaster 5 (Dragon's Cove)
*Avalanche (Megaworld Park)
*Schweizer Bobbahn (Heide-Park)
*Avalanche (Blackpool Pleasure Beach)
====RollerCoaster Tycoon 2====
=====Build menu only=====
*Icicle Bob
*Ignition
*Penguin Paradise
*Penguin Toboggan
*The Plague
*Toxic Toboggan
==== RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 ====
Build menu only
* Icicle Bob
* SlipSlider
* Toxic Toboggan
* Water Python
==Other Information==
* Track layout requires very careful planning, as cars can crash off the track at the crests of hills or the start of drops if going too fast. Note that they become even faster when loaded with guests.
* The Wacky Worlds Bobsleigh prebuilts that use the Penguin Trains are poorly designed to the point of being prone to crashing despite having been tested with blank trains. Even having only two people in a train in either prebuilt design will give it enough speed to fly off the track.
* The Black Death Trains are noticeably longer than the other trains, requiring a very long station to achieve the maximum length of 8 cars per train in OpenRCT2. Sometimes, attempting to run certain track designs with these trains will either result in the trains flying off a hill or stalling out due to not having enough speed.
* The six-seater bobsleigh cars that RCT2 (incorrectly) calls "Flying Turns" are large cars that are heavy enough to run on track designs with short to medium crests but are inefficient for longer track designs. This requires more care when building as the cars can easily fly off the track at a slightly lower speed than other bobsleigh trains on hill crests (26-28 mph versus 30) and drops (30 mph versus 40).
==In Real Life==
*There are two companies that have made the multi-car version of the bobsled coaster. Mack Rides and Gerstlauer have both made over 20 bobsleds around the world and although no new bobsled has been built recently they are still among the most popular rides at their respective parks. The bobsleigh coaster design used in RCT was made by Mack Rides. Two of these bobsleighs can be found in Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Heide-Park.
Intamin also used to produce bobsleigh roller coasters. As of 2024, the only remaining example is La Vibora in Six Flags Over Texas, after "Bob" in Efteling closed in 2019. Intamin's designs used six-seater cars that resemble actual bobsleighs much more closely. RCT2 added these cars (but still used the Mack track), but incorrectly refers to them as "Flying Turns", which refer to a wooden bobsleigh track with multi-car trains. A modern replica of this kind of bobsleigh opened in Knoebels in 2013.
*Bobsled Roller Coaster at Coasterpedia
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