Steel Taipan

The ride begins with a left hand turnaround out of the station and onto the launch track, parallel to the BuzzSaw roller coaster and car park. The train launches up the attraction's signature 124.7 feet (38.0 m) foot tall wave turn, but ultimately does not gain enough speed to crest it, thus rolling back into the launch. The train is blasted backwards into a 128 feet (39 m) curved spike overtop the Dreamworld Express train ride; it's one distinguishing feature from the standard Blue Fire layout. Rolling forwards once again, the train hits the launch track for the third and final time, where it reaches speeds of approximately 65.2 mph (104.9 km/h) and tops the wave turn, leading into the first of four inversions on the ride; a 105 feet (32 m) vertical loop. Exiting such, it twists around and up into a mid-course brake run, which then leads into a pair of back-to-back twisted horseshoe rolls and an airtime hill through the centre of the loop. Riders enter another slow turnaround and ride through the final inversion on the ride, a heartline roll, before making a final right-hand turn into the brake run.

Steel Taipan is located in the Gold Rush Country section of the park. It is being constructed on the site of the former Thunder River Rapids Ride, which closed permanently immediately following an October 2016 accident that saw four people killed and left the park's reputation and infrastructure mostly crippled. [9] It also interacts with parts of the Dreamworld Express train ride, which received some modifications during construction in order to accommodate the coaster.

Blue Fire opened in 2009 at Europa Park in Rust, Germany, which was also run by Mack Rides themselves. It was their first coaster to utilize a Linear Synchronous Motor launch, and proved to be a smash hit for the company. During the 2010s, the ride was heavily cloned and installed at parks in China, Russia, and the UAE. [10]

Blue Fire, since it was custom-built for Europa Park, includes an extended turn into the launch room, which makes up the ride's dark ride section, and also has the ability to run up to 5 trains at a time. All the clones installed since then possess the same extended turnaround, although they feature a reduced number of trains. Steel Taipan's beginning and launch area differ greatly from these attractions, as the following modifications were made to the attraction;

• The extended turn into the launch section was removed and instead replaced with a hairpin turn and switch track to the launch area.
• The launch hardware and programming was reconfigured so that the train could be launched in both directions along the track.
• The twisted spike shuttle track was added to the back end of the launch.
• The maximum speed was increased from 62.1 mph (99.9 km/h) to 65.2 mph (104.9 km/h), the length increased from 3,464.5 feet (1,056.0 m) to 3,937 feet (1,200 m), and with the twisted spike, the model's total height was increased slightly from 124.7 feet (38.0 m) to 128 feet (39 m).