The Viper is a steel looping roller coaster located at Darien Lake. This was the first large ride at the park and the first roller coaster of its type anywhere in the world to have five inversions.The ride was built through a joint venture of the now defunct Arrow Dynamics and Huss. It opened in 1982, and still operates to this day.The coaster has three trains, color-coded red, yellow, and blue, with seven cars each; riders are two across with two rows in each car. The track was originally all black, but it was repainted to a green track with black supports when Six Flags took Darien Lake over. When new, The Viper ran all three trains at a time, with the safety blocks being distinguished as: The station house and lift hill, the top of the lift hill to the brake blocks just before the corkscrew, and from the corkscrew to the holding area just before the station house. Now there are only ever two trains running at a time, with the third stored unde

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