I think this qualifies as odd. Instead of a traditional chain lift this coaster at Hokkaido Greenland in Japan uses a belt system like your standard log flume.
That part on Fujiyama at Fuji Q-Highland where it does an overbanked turn and it looks like a banana roll streched out really wide from the back of it. TOGO made some pretty weird looking coasters.
It seems to be even shallower than the lift hill...
If anybody have been on it (or have a POV), how many seconds is it between the train detaches from the chain and the coaster reaches the loop? Seems to be in the range of ten to fifteen seconds.
They're almost certainly there to act as a pre-drop. They allow the train to disengage from the chain on the lift hill before accelerating down the first drop. This relieves stress on the chain and is somewhat common on older coasters (you don't need to look far to find many examples). It just appears as if Togo used a long flat section in their designs.
If it's been mentioned, then sorry but I don't remember and I ain't trawling through 50+ pages to check.
It's called a Gyroflyer, and is basically a Batflyer with spinning cars. I was just doing a trip report and was checking with RCDB what it was, and apparently it's the only one that was built.
[plug]The trip report is here in case you're interested[/plug]:
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