Kondaa is a steel roller coaster at Walibi Belgium in Wavre, Belgium. First unveiled at the IAAPA 2018 Expo, the coaster marks the end of a three-year park investment plan and upon opening became the tallest and fastest coaster in the Benelux region, as well as the park's ninth coaster. Kondaa features a top speed of 70.2 mph (113.0 km/h), a notable 15 airtime moments, and the world's first non-inverting cobra roll element.
Riders are dispatched from the station into the initial 164 foot lift hill at a 45 degree angle. Upon cresting the hill, riders hit an 80° drop twisting sharply to the right, and into a 38 meter tall airtime, producing G forces as low as -1.3 Gs. The train veers up into a 30 meter tall, sharply outwards banked airtime hill, and into the signature non-inverting cobra roll. Riders exit the element into another airtime hill, followed immediately by a sweeping turnaround, a wall-stall, and an overbanked turnaround at 115°. Now heading back to the station, riders encounter the following elements in this order, which are taken at a high speed and key airtime features; an airtime hill, a side-banked double down that has been advertised as a world's first, another airtime hill, an S curve, a Stengel Dive, S-jump, and a trio of bunny hills. Following this sequence, riders pop up into the brake run at a 25° angle, and make a 180° turn to the left into the station.
Kondaa is 164 feet in height, has an approximate track length of 3,900 feet, and can hit speeds of up to 70.2 mph. The coaster focuses mainly on airtime, producing negative g-forces as low as 1.3 Gs and inducing weightlessness throughout much of the layout, packing a full 15 airtime points. Kondaa utilizes a pair of 24 passenger trains, which will enable the ride to have a theoretical capacity of 1080 people per hour.
In addition to airtime, Kondaa features several elements that are said to be world's firsts, most prominently its non-inverting cobra roll. This element works exactly like a cobra roll inversion (which can be found on Walibi Belgium's Cobra roller coaster), except that the element is a little more elongated and twists outwards instead on inwards in order to avoid going upside down. Other proclaimed worlds-firsts include a wall stall (although similar, if not identical, elements have been appearing on Rocky Mountain Construction coasters for years prior, and also debuted on the Jurassic World VelociCoaster just days after), and a side-banked double down.
#MikeInvadesTheWorld
#travelvideos
#touristvlog
#WalibiThemePark
