Ten exact replicas of this same design were produced 1975–1979 at other scattered parks, followed by numerous other installations around the world featuring updated supports.
After the train is dispatched from the station, it enters a small dip and into a short U-turn followed by a 70-foot-tall (21 m) chain lift hill.
The train then travels through one final 90-degree banked turn and into the brake run which leads back to the station.
Once Arrow Dynamics completed reviewing the design, members of the Knott's family personally opted to purchase the prototype.
[2] In 1989 Knott's Berry Farm sold the Corkscrew to Silverwood Theme Park in Idaho for $250,000 to make room for Boomerang.