Boomerang

The Boomerang is always a shuttle. Its track doesn’t come back round: it starts at the station and ends in a spike, and the train climbs until it stops and rolls back. The ride setting Runs says how many times it goes out and back before it stops in the station.

It can be launched from linear motors right after the station, or hauled backwards up a chain lift on a spike behind the station and let go. Every loop and corkscrew is ridden twice, once facing backwards, so a short track packs a lot of inversions, and riding backwards counts as more intense.

In Park Baron the Boomerang can rise 101 m above the ground under its track. It can build steep slopes, loops and corkscrews, vertical drops and top hats and launch track, but not tight turns. Its launch track pushes the train up to 121 km/h. Its trains run 5 cars of 4 seats, 20 riders a train, and its station is 5 to 8 tiles long. Track costs $95 a piece and the station $1,300; it costs $850 a month to run, and guests pay $3.5 a ride by default. The type adds 0.30 excitement to whatever the track earns, and its rolling friction is 0.010. Children are too short to ride it. It is free to build.

Its showpiece design, Full Circle, climbs 55 m, reaches 83 km/h and pulls 4.3 g, with 8 inversions over 242 m of track and a 43-second ride. It rates 8.42 excitement, 7.70 intensity and 6.12 nausea, costs $6,951 and fills 2 × 32 tiles.