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100 inversion challenge - go upside down 100 times in one day

Rob Coasters

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Who here has completed the "100 inversions in one day" challenge? I got extremely close to completing it at Phantasialand last month in April where 7 rides on Talocan and one on FLY & Black Mamba took the count up to 84.
4 inversions on Black Mamba
2 inversions on FLY
11 inversions on Talocan six times, and 12 inversions (bonus flip) on one.

Me & my friend had separated from the group who wanted a second ride of FLY, and by the time our seventh lap was finished, they were done, and wanted to meet back up to end the day on Taron - two extra laps of Talocan would have completed the 100 inversion challenge.

I have not yet visited a park with the mindset of completing the 100 inversion challenge, but that's the closest I've gotten. Shoutout to me hitting 75 in one of my Parque Warner Madrid visits too, with a huge thank you to Gotham City Escape ERT contributing to more than half of that!

Who has completed it?
 
I've done an ERT on Colossus at Thorpe - 11 rides in an hour or so. So that's 110. During the day I did a couple of other rides too - inversion count would have been greater than 120.

But I guess that's cheating a little bit.

So let's see if I can figure out if I've done it without ERT.

And after some thought...no.

I think my highest would be a super quiet day at Thorpe when they did their super quiet "Summer Nights" event. I got 11 rides on Swarm, 6 on Inferno, 3 on Saw and 1 on Colossus. That would be 87 (98 if you include the inclined loop on Swarm as an inversion, as the park do...though I do not).

I'd guess aside from that, one of my days at Liseberg which had 7 rides on Helix would be up there as my one of my highest. Linnanmäki would be up there too, thanks to 10 rides on Taiga.

I don't get a chance to visit on super quiet days these days, and never really focused on inversion-chasing. My favourite rides at parks are rarely inversion heavy too.
 
If you visited Alton Towers and rode The Smiler at least 8 times in that day (so once per hour on a 10-6pm day) then that would be achievable.
 
Never tracked/tried for it, but almost certainly managed this at Thorpe in August 2023. Park was open until 7 but was pretty much empty thanks to forecast torrential rain. It did rain, but only properly stormed enough to shut rides for about an hour, so I ended up getting about 40 rides in, including 11 on Inferno (for 44 total inversions), 10 on The Swarm (for another 40), and at least 2 on each of Colossus and Saw. Throw in a lap or two on Samurai and possibly Zodiac, can't remember, and it must have come in around 120 in the end.

I'm sure there's a good few people here who've spent a quiet day at Towers lapping The Smiler for 200-300+ total though!
 
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