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Boomerang (Six Flags México)

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Park section
  
Hollywood

Opening date
  
1988 (1988)

Manufacturer
  
Vekoma

Height
  
36 m

G-force
  
5.2 g

Opened
  
1988

Status
  
Operating

Type
  
Steel – Boomerang

Designer
  
Arrow Dynamics

Max speed
  
76 km/h

Height restriction
  
1.22 m

Track length
  
285 m

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Boomerang is a Vekoma roller coaster currently operating at Six Flags México since 1988.

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History

Boomerang first started at the former Rafaela Padilla in Puebla, Puebla in Mexico, as Boomerang from 1984 to 1986, and was the first Boomerang ever built by Vekoma. Then the roller coaster was relocated to Reino Aventura as Boomerang in 1988. A couple years later in 1992, Boomerang got a new name as Escorpión (themed to a Scorpion), until 1999. When Six Flags purchased Reino Aventura and transformed the park to Six Flags México in 2000, Escorpión was renamed back to Boomerang as it is the current name in the present.

Ride

When the coaster starts, the train is pulled backwards up the lift hill, then dropped through the loading gate through a cobra roll and then one loop. At the end of this cycle the train is pulled up the lift hill at the end of the track, then dropped once again allowing the train to go back through the loops backwards. This is the standard Vekoma Boomerang roller coaster design found at forty-three different amusement parks worldwide.

References

Boomerang (Six Flags México) Wikipedia