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#4520 Mobia Roller Coaster

This roller coaster is a huge Mobia strip where the train car cruises on both sides (or all 1 sides) of the track. In it's simplest (ish) form, the experience resembles a skate board half-pipe where the train car shoots off form the bottom, up around a 180 degree bend, spin upside down, up around the outside of a 180 degree bend, then cruises upside down under the loading bay, then up around the outside of the first bend, then spins right side up, goes up and over the 2nd bend inside, like the first bend and then back to the loading bay.

The track consists of a regular track with C shaped rails around the sides. The wheels of the train go in the slot in between the track and the C (not around the track). The wheels are flat and concave (every other one), and are slightly offset so as to contact the appropriate surface (ie the rail or C). The supports fasten to the outside of the C.

Depending on the danger factor, the seats either are stationary and just cruise upside down or have some kind of flip around thing that changes it from a sit-on-track model to a hang-from-track model.

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