A butterfly model is a small coaster model which is usaully found in europe and were invented in 1993 by Sunkid Heege.The butterfly is a shuttle coasers with small cars,each car can seat up to two people and also self operated,meaning that riders are the one who operating the coaster.Due to the butterfly's small space use,the model became popular with european theme parks.The ride goes like this:riders that approach the ride must close the gate first,than,after a poosh of a button on the car,the ride slowly pulled of a lift hill and relised.The ride goes back and forth severla times before coming to an abropt stop.After that,the person have to relise himself from the car and then close the gate for the next rider.
Types of Butterfly
-Original
-large:the large model has one more support on the side making it larger than the original
-II XL
-II SB
An example of a butterfly coaster.