Silver Bullet

Knott's rounded out a wave of mid-2000s attraction investments by adding its first inverted coaster to Fiesta Village, a section of the park that had gone years without a major new thrill ride. Bolliger & Mabillard, the manufacturer most associated with the inverted-coaster format, was brought in to design a layout that could fit within the park's existing footprint.

Silver Bullet climbs 146 feet before a 109-foot first drop, then carries riders through six inversions — including a cobra roll and a zero-gravity roll — across 3,360 feet of track at up to 55 mph, with cars hanging beneath the track rather than riding on top of it. Construction required relocating the Church of Reflections wedding chapel to make room for the layout, and the finished ride weaves directly over park pathways and a small lake near Fiesta Village.

Silver Bullet opened December 7, 2004, as part of a broader expansion that also brought new attractions to other areas of the park, and it quickly became one of the more consistently ridden inverted coasters in Southern California thanks to its unusually compact, tightly packed inversions.

Two decades later, Silver Bullet remains Knott's primary inverted coaster and one of Fiesta Village's most visible attractions, its yellow supports and looping track still a landmark for guests navigating that side of the park.