Jaguar!
| Jaguar! | |
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| Knott's Berry Farm | |
| Park section | Fiesta Village |
| Coordinates | 33°50′45″N 117°59′57″W / 33.84583°N 117.99917°WCoordinates: 33°50′45″N 117°59′57″W / 33.84583°N 117.99917°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | June 17, 1995 |
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| Type | Steel |
| Manufacturer | Zierer |
| Designer | Ingenieur Büro Stengel GmbH |
| Model | Tivoli |
| Lift/launch system | Two Drive Tire Lifts |
| Height | 65 ft (20 m) |
| Drop | 45 ft (14 m) |
| Length | 2,602 ft (793 m) |
| Speed | 35 mph (56 km/h) |
| Inversions | 0 |
| Duration | 2:00 |
| Max vertical angle | 25° |
| Capacity | 1800 riders per hour |
| Height restriction | 48 in (122 cm) |
| Trains | 2 trains with 15 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in a single row for a total of 30 riders per train. |
 Fast Lane available |
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Jaguar! at RCDB Pictures of Jaguar! at RCDB |
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Jaguar! is a themed steel family roller coaster located at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, built by Zierer GmBH.
Riders must be 48" or taller to ride.
Riders approach the ride through the temple in the Fiesta Village section of the park. Many Mayan-style drawings and paintings can be seen on the walls throughout the entire temple. The bottom queue is the most themed part. On one side, you can see prisoners that were imprisoned in the temple that are now just skeletons. On another side, riders see a giant Aztec idol with skulls on the side of him. The bottom walls are painted to show Aztec gatherings with prisoners and others. The queue winds through a series of rooms and tunnels. As you walk up the next ramp, you can see more skulls into the temple. Straight ahead, there is giant stone tablet of some more Mayan Jaguar Warriors with the head of a jaguar. To the left of that, there is another Mayan idol head. You can sometimes hear the roaring of the Jaguar, activated when the train enters the helix located at the end of the coaster. Tribal drums and other Mayan sound effects and also be heard. The queue rises in elevation to the station where riders board the roller coaster.
The ride starts out with ascending a lift hill after exiting the station. Next, the coaster goes to the left, and down slightly. After that, the coaster does banked right turn up, and then travels through the top of the temple (where the fire effect used to occur), and then goes through the loop of Montezooma's Revenge. The train then turns right and travels up a second lift hill. The track bends left, and the coaster goes through a series of bunny hills. As the track approaches the Timber Mountain Log Ride, it turns around. The train travels through some more bunny hills, then does a banked helix to the left. Finally, it goes into a brake run and arrives back in the station.
The train is propelled by drive tires because of the short distance of the two lifts. These tires vary in tread pattern. The main tread pattern is recycled rubber diamond cut. Some tires appear to not be spinning, but rather are speed monitors, which track how fast the train is being propelled, and depending on how fast the train is going, tells the other motors how fast to spin. If the train is going too fast, a fault will occur and the train will stop at the next possible stopping point. Each lift is 65 feet high; the first lift is a 20 degree incline, while the second lift is a 25 degree incline.
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