Invertigo

The late 1990s saw Vekoma popularize the inverted boomerang format — a face-to-face variant of its classic boomerang shuttle coaster — and Kings Island added one to Coney Mall as the format's only Midwest installation.

Invertigo suspends riders beneath the track rather than on top of it, launching two facing trains up a spike, through three inversions, and back down before repeating the entire sequence in reverse. It opened in 1999 with a top speed of 55 mph, giving riders two distinct passes through the same loops and corkscrews on every cycle.

Kings Island has marketed it for more than two decades as the only face-to-face inverted coaster in the Midwest, a claim that still holds since no other regional park has installed a competing model.

Invertigo continues to run in Coney Mall as one of the park's few remaining Vekoma boomerang-family coasters, valued for a shuttle-style back-and-forth pacing that few other rides in the park replicate.