Le Vampire (
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: The Vampire) is an inverted
roller coaster at
La Ronde La Ronde may refer to:
Geography
* La Ronde, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime ''département'', France
* La Ronde River, on the Caribbean island of Dominica
*La Ronde (amusement park), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
*A La Ronde, an ...
amusement park in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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, Canada, designed by the Swiss firm
Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M). It is a mirror image of
Batman: The Ride, but the roller coaster has no association to the
Batman media franchise and was given an unrelated name and a slightly different cosmetic appearance. The track is 823 metres in length and reaches a height of nearly 32 metres. Riders sit with their legs dangling such as on a ski chairlift and reach speeds of up to 80.5 km/hour and loop head-over-heels five times. The Vampire can carry up to 1,400 riders per hour.
The ride was closed due to an
accident on July 6, 2012. It opened for the first time since the incident on August 13, 2012. On September 3, 2015, the park announced that the ride would run backwards for a limited time during the 2016 season and become part of a new section of the park.
''Le Vampire'' was constructed by
Martin & Vleminckx
Martin & Vleminckx is a roller coaster manufacturing and construction company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with an affiliated office and manufacturing facility in Haines City, Florida, United States, and two subsidiaries, including a ...
.
See also
*
Incidents at La Ronde
*
Batman: The Ride
References
External links
Vampire at La Ronde website
La Ronde (amusement park)
Roller coasters in Quebec
Roller coasters introduced in 2002
2002 establishments in Quebec
Inverted roller coasters manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard
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