B&M originally from intamin

I was looking on the web today and I found this:

B&M was initially part of Intamin, another roller coaster builder. Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard split off and built its first coaster, Iron Wolf at Six Flags Great America in 1990. This coaster was recognized for its extreme smoothness. In 1992, B&M built the world's first inverted coaster, Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Great America. It was Kumba, built in 1993 at Busch Gardens Tampa, that helped B&M gain recognition. Kumba was very fast, intense and a highly regarded coaster in 1993 and still is today. Since then, B&M has been a leader in the roller coaster building industry. B&M was the first to build inverted coasters, as well as the vertical coaster and the new floorless model.

I never new that B&M was, at first, part of Intamin. I found that pretty cool. It is actually not hard to believe because both manufacturers have very smooth and very good coasters.

You're probably the one of the only ones that didn't know that. :) Some of Intamin's coasters had B&M looking track just prior to the split. It wasn't until recently (1999) that Intamin adopted the open lattice track type. Personally, I think that it looks the best, and is also the most logical and economical of the track types. Track sections can be changed to accomodate different amounts of forces on the track and the amount of supports for the track.

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I never knew that thanks for the information.

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Millenium Force rides: 52
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Not that it's at all important, but I also like Intamins box and triangle track. Just something about it that looks kind of cool...at least for a big hunk of steel.

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