Mantis's Inclined Loop - An Inversion?

How could it be a loop without being an inversion? Defifnitely an inversion, I think.

Michael Darling said:
Your feet are *not* higher than your head. It's barely banked up in the turn.

Yeah we are talking about the 3rd inversion after the diving loop.

*** Edited 9/3/2004 4:32:59 PM UTC by delphi94***

"I can't keep this family together and have you running around like Miss Clockwork Orange."
-Julie Cooper

I think it's all about the shape. The inclined loop looks like the popular perception of a roller coaster loop, only tilted. Whereas the overbanked turns of MF look like, well, overbanked turns and not like "typical" loops. Neither puts you 100% upside down, but the Mantis looks more like it does.

Technicalities are great, aren't they? *** Edited 9/3/2004 4:36:29 PM UTC by CoasterGuy78***

Any similarity in name is purely coincidental.

Isn't it referred to as a "leaning loop?"
So what's the point of this discussion?
Websters definition of lean:
"To bend or slant away from the vertical"
Simple... it's an inversion!

The Amazement Park

I've never heard it referred to as a leaning loop. Walter & Claude call the element an inclined loop. Whatever. It goes upside down. Whoop-dee-doo.

Rich G / PTC99

I consider it a pseudo-inversion. It does go in the same direction it started and it does go almost upside down but it doesn't go upside down. To me and my friends, it's a pseudo-inversion.

Okay, you might not be upside down, but I am . . just as I am on MF. I think we can all be satisfied in calling it half an inversion. ;)

Rich G / PTC99