We jogged through the labyrinths leading to the Big Thunder Mountain roller coaster, then stood in line for perhaps 10 minutes before getting on the car.
Bolliger & Mabillard currently manufactures nine different roller coaster styles: Stand-Up Coaster, Inverted Coaster, Floorless Coaster, Flying Coaster, Hyper Coaster, Dive Coaster, Sitting Coaster, Wing Coaster and Family Coaster.
The Joker is expected to be located at the spot where the Ragin Cajun roller coaster once stood.
Now with a company to manufacture the track, B&M built its first roller coaster, a stand-up roller coaster, Iron Wolf, which opened in 1990 at Six Flags Great America.
In July 1981, 16-year-old Michele Johnson of Bristol died after falling from a roller coaster as she stood and reached out the side of the car.
There is also a new equestrian centre, a huge water park and revamped "fun fairs" replete with roller coasters, fast-food stands and a 5-D theatre.
In Seaside Heights, south of here, the 17-block Boardwalk settled in splintered heaps, the Jet Star roller coaster that once stood on it now ducking in and out of the waves like a skeletal serpent.
The creaky old Grizzly still feels like it might self-destruct at any second; Anaconda is still doing loop-de-loops and making a splash; the oldie but goodie Shockwave, a.k.a. the roller coaster on which you stand up, is still eliciting terrified screams; and the Berserker viking ship still sets sail for 360s every few minutes.
This park is also home to the world's first stand-up coaster.
To be converted from a Stand-up Coaster to a Floorless Coaster.
