NewsPlusNotes: Vekoma Tilt Coaster - Circuit Breaker - Coming to Cotaland

Sunday, April 3, 2022

Vekoma Tilt Coaster - Circuit Breaker - Coming to Cotaland

© ACE News / Cotaland

Earlier this week a local news station out of Texas did a report on the developments at Cotaland, which has already announced the plan to expand with a lot of rides including Palindrome, a Gerstlauer coaster. The park is planning on having their kiddie rides open this Summer, while the bigger rides will come online more in 2023. Palindrome was announced to open "late" 2022, so I'm not sure if that's still the plan or if that coaster will also open in 2023.

Regardless, in the article it is mentioned that Cotaland will open Circuit Breaker, a brand new tilt coaster designed by Vekoma. The first of these opened many moons ago in 2002 in Taiwan, and suddenly there appears to be a resurgence of them. Well maybe resurgence is too much but another one is also planned as Energialandia's next coaster as well. Vekoma has also hinted that two additional Tilt coasters are in the works, so that's 4 new ones in total.

© Ace News / Cotaland

Soon after the article came out ACE News released the concept art for Cotaland's Circuit Breaker, seen here. The ride looks bonkers in a great way. Vekoma has been designing some amazing looking coasters in Europe and Asia in the past few years, and Circuit Breaker looks much more in line with those awesome rides than those the company produced in, say, the 1990s.

After the super-dramatic tilt mechanism points the train toward the ground and releases them, riders on Circuit Breaker will enter a twisted and kind of inverting first element, then into a downward banked zero g roll. After more inversions and plenty of twisted track the trains will stop at the station. No doubt that we'll all want another ride! We're looking forward to seeing this coaster come to life.

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