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Re:Backyard Roller Coasters by maverick2007 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:26AM (#27972827)
There's a surprising amount of coasters that run backwards nowadays! You have a handful of wooden coasters that generally run (or did run) backwards as part of a Halloween event (Racer 75, Thunder Road (RIP), Racer at Kings Island and Viper at Six Flags Great America) but a lot of modern steel coasters actually do it by design. Like Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure at Islands of Adventure in Orlando has a decently lengthy backwards section (plus some other surprises I won't spoil) or Mr Freeze at both Six Flags Over Texas or Six Flags St Louis both go through their courses both forwards and back. And that's not even counting Boomerangs like Bat at Canada's Wonderland that another sibling commenter mentioned

(PS glad to see my favorite hobby being mentioned on HN, I could literally talk about this stuff all day)

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Re:Backyard Roller Coasters by redshirtrob on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @11:26AM (#27973582)
The Racer at KI originally ran forward on both sides, then switched to one forward, one backward in '82.

I have fond memories from the 80's and 90's riding both sides. There was always some good-natured trash talking between the two tracks as they headed out from the gate and up the first hill (think "Great Tasting" vs. "Less Filling" and corny stuff like that). They eventually turned away from each other, but came back together for the finish line.

Sadly they flipped it back to the original configuration a while ago.

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