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Silver Bullet

Silver Bullet is Knott’s Berry Farms B&M inverted coaster in Ghost Town, met 3.125 ft track, zes inversies en hangende treinen.

Silver Bullet laat rijders met bungelende benen boven Ghost Town en de omliggende parkpaden vliegen. De B&M-layout gebruikt het meer, de paden en meerdere inversies voor een lange, vloeiende rit die duidelijk aan de thrillkant van Knott’s Berry Farm zit.

Normal 24 min
Average 25 min
Highest measurement 90 min Measured at 26-07 20:49
Type Ride
Category Roller coaster
Photos
RCDB

Coaster profile

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Classification

RCDB #2536
RCDB status Operating since December 7, 2004
Classification Roller Coaster
Track type Steel
Design Inverted
Scale Extreme
Categories Roller Coaster, Steel, Inverted, Extreme
RCDB cost 16000000
RCDB reserve train Technically 3 trains, but only 2 can run simultaneously
Official height rule 54 in minimum
Official category Coaster

Tracks

Length 3,125.0 ft (952.5 m)
Height 146.0 ft (44.5 m)
Drop 109.0 ft (33.2 m)
Speed 55.0 mph (88.5 km/h)
Inversions 6
Ride duration 2:30

Trains

Arrangement 2 operationele treinen met 8 wagens per trein; rijders zitten 4 naast elkaar in 1 rij, samen 32 rijders per trein. RCDB noteert dat een derde trein als reserve bestaat.
Trains 2
Cars per train 8
Rows per car 1
Riders per row 4
Riders per train 32
Capacity per hour 1,300

Location

Ghost Town

Notes

RCDB vermeldt B&M Inverted Coaster Custom, opening op 7 december 2004, 952,50 meter baanlengte, 44,50 meter hoogte, 33,22 meter drop, 88,51 km/u, zes inversies en 2:30 ritduur. Knott’s noemt 3.125 ft track; Wikipedia bevestigt Ghost Town en de inversies zoals vertical loop, cobra roll, zero-g roll en corkscrews.

Theming

Westernnaam en Ghost Town-inbedding, met zilverkleurige track, een reflecterend meer en een klassieke coasterpresentatie boven het parklandschap.

Data

Wait statistics

Based on available measurements and historical wait-time data.

Now 15 min
Normal 24 min
Average 25 min
Highest measurement 90 min Measured at 26-07 20:49
Measurements 3415
Outage measurements 643
Avg. outage duration 67 min
Often busy 22:00 45 min average
Often quiet 10:00 5 min average
Reliability High 3478 measurements, 13 hour blocks
Distribution

Boxplots

Spread of wait times, outage duration, and the number of outages per day based on available historical data.

Wait times

3415 measurements

0 min 25 min 50 min 75 min 100 min
Min
0 min
Q1
10 min
Median
20 min
Q3
30 min
Max
90 min

Typical wait time: around 20 min.

It usually falls between 10 min and 30 min.

See more than 30 min? It is probably busier than usual — consider a quieter moment.

Less than 10 min? You are in luck: that does not happen often.

Outage duration

73 outages

0 min 25 min 50 min 75 min 100 min
Min
1 min
Q1
5 min
Median
6 min
Q3
15 min
Max
98 min

On average, an outage lasts about 6 min.

In three out of four cases, the attraction reopens within 15 min.

If it takes longer, expect extra waiting time.

Outages per day

30 days

0 2 4 6 8
Min
1
Q1
2
Median
2
Q3
2
Max
8

On days with outages, we see an average of 2 per day.

That usually falls between 2 and 2.

On quiet days it was 1, on busy days up to 8.

Historical

Wait-time build-up

Today compared with historical wait times by hour.

Today Expected Historical
Horizontal axis hours, vertical axis queue minutes. 0 min 15 min 30 min 45 min 10:00 12:00 14:00 16:00 18:00 20:00 22:00