Ride Experience
The ride starts when the trains make a right-hand, 90-degree turn out of the station. Then, the riders climb the 143-foot-tall (44 m) lift hill. At the top, the 32 passenger trains pass through Bolliger & Mabillard's signature pre-drop element before making a swooping 135-foot (41 m) drop to the left, leading right into a 114-foot-tall (35 m) vertical loop, which wraps around the lift hill. After leaving the vertical loop, riders rise up into Bolliger & Mabillard's first ever Diving loop. Following this, trains rise up into a Zero-G roll, before dropping to the ground. After speeding along a short straight section of track and small hill, trains pass through a Cobra roll, flipping riders upside down twice. A footbridge crosses over the entrance and exit to the Cobra roll. Leaving the cobra roll, the trains rise up into the midcourse brake run.
The second half of Kumba begins as riders dive off the midcourse brake run and enter a pair of interlocking corkscrews (another first for a Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster). After the corkscrews, trains travel through a tunnel. The ride ends with trains passing through an upward helix before hitting the final brake run, before making a right hand turn back into the station.
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