SpongeBob SquarePants Bikini Bottom Raceway

SpongeBob SquarePants Bikini Bottom Raceway is a wooden roller coaster at Arizona's Backyard in, United States.

History
The coaster's layout was designed with a 116 ft lift and then a turn into a 139 ft drop into a small ditch and then into an airtime hill, and another one, and then a turn around with a few bunny hops until you hit the brake run, it was heavily inspired by classic wooden coasters.

The coaster opened in 1995.

The coaster's first drop was reprofiled by CCI in 1997, the original drop had multiple stress cracks due to poor and rushed design. The new drop, unlike the original, turns at the bottom of the lift instead of the top of the lift, thus resulting in the first airtime hill turned into a double up.

The coaster was rethemed in 2004 to the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise, with new queue dialogue. It also got new trains from Gerstlauer, replacing the old PTC trains. The new trains served as the prototype of their later Hybrid Coaster Trains, and are styled after the boatmobiles seen in the show.

In 2014, the themed tube-top TV set in the queue station broke, and was temporarily replaced with a generic flat-screen TV until in 2015, a themed flat-screen TV set was installed.

This coaster got a full retrack in 2019 by Great Coasters International. The first drop was replaced with one similar to GCI's style of curved drops, with it turning while going down the drop.

Trivia

 * voiced Mr. Krabs' queue line dialogues due to being unavailable.