Manufacturing Companies
An old steel coaster company known for creating the first hyper coaster Magnum XL 200 at Cedar Point.
What is Arrow Dynamics/Devolopment?
Located in Anaheim California; an extremely popular theme park that modernized how other parks past present and future operated. Has rides like Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad…
What is Disneyland?
A roller coaster that launched you to 55mph at Disney’s California Adventure that played surf rock music. Built by intamin and had one vertical loop. Now known as the incredicoaster.
What is California Screamin?
A roller coaster that has a 200-299 foot drop.
What is; hyper coaster? Mega coaster?
This is how a ride slowly gets to the tallest point of a roller coaster before the first drop.
What is a chain lift?
Known for their modern take on the hybrid roller coaster like Twisted Colossus at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
What is Rocky Mountain Construction.
One of the United States oldest amusement parks. Established in 1870 but now home to record breaking attractions like Millennium Force, Steel Vengeance, located in Sandusky, Ohio on a peninsula on Lake Erie.
What is Cedar Point.
The first hybrid Roller Coaster built by Rocky Mountain Construction.
What is New Texas Giant?
A modern roller coaster that uses steel track but has wooden supports, capable of airtime moments and inversions.
What is a hybrid coaster?
A way for a roller coaster to accelerate from the start using magnetics. A ubiquitous way to accelerate a roller coaster compared to their air powered or hydraulic systems.
What is a Linear Induction Motor Launch? Linear Synchronous Motor Launch?
Known for their modern wooden roller coasters with millennium flyer trains that provide padding on the seats for a more comfortable ride experience. Such rides include Mystic Timbers Kings Island; Gold Striker; California’s Great America
What is Great Coasters International? GCI?
An indoor theme park in Las Vegas, NV at the circus circus hotel and casino.
What is Adventuredome?
A wooden roller coaster built by Intamin known for it’s prefabricated wood that provides a relentless ride with a lot of Airtime at six flags Great Adventure in New Jersey?
What is El Toro?
A coaster that has a 300-399 foot drop.
What is a giga coaster?
What is a vertical loop?
A steel coaster manufacturer known for many models including the inverted roller coaster, the wing coaster, and the dive coaster. These rides usually seat 4 or more passengers per row.
What is Bolliger and Mabillard? B&M?
A park found at the beach near the Bay Area home to the 100 year old Giant Dipper wooden roller coaster.
What is Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk?
This defunct coaster was built by premier rides and launched you out of the station with linear induction motors at The Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It went forwards and shuttled you backwards.
What is Speed the Ride?
These 400-499 foot coasters can sometimes surpass 120mph usually built by intamin with a hyrdaulic launch system. However some of these coasters did not have a long lifespan like Kingda Ka, and Top Thrill Dragster.
What is the strata coaster?
This is a straight block section that can drastically or minimally depending on the ride slow a train down to increase capacity and run more trains usually found in the middle of a track layout of a roller coaster.
What is a mid course brake run?
A Japanese manufacturer that got a bad reputation in the United States with rides like The Big Apple Coaster at New York New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Nevada.
What is ToGo?
Bolliger and Mabillard built thier first giga coaster here called Leviathan. This park is in Ontario.
What is Canada’s Wonderland?
What is Fury 325?
What is a wing coaster?
Found usually on coasters that are more focused on airtime hills rather than inversions, however there are a few rides that are capable of going upside down with just this restraint so you feel more free than you do with an over the shoulder harness.
What is a lap bar?