I recently purchased the 2015 Guiness book of world records and Goliath is nowhere to be found. Steepest wood goes to Outlaw Run and tallest wood goes to El Toro.
My question is did Goliath not make the records because a late opening prevented Guiness from making it official or does Guiness not recognize Goliath for any records due to it pretty much being a hybrid?
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Goliath is basically a steel coaster as I understand it, in which case it doesn't break any records. Is that correct, or am I mistaken?
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Considering the lead time on print books is something like six months at least, I'm not surprised.
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Chitown said:
I recently purchased the 2015 Guiness book of world records and Goliath is nowhere to be found. Steepest wood goes to Outlaw Run and tallest wood goes to El Toro.
My question is did Goliath not make the records because a late opening prevented Guiness from making it official or does Guiness not recognize Goliath for any records due to it pretty much being a hybrid?
Chitown, unless I miss my guess El Toro is still PHYSICALLY TALLER than Goliath. But Goliath has a longer drop since it goes underground. That might be why El Toro is listed but not Goliath.
Almost 20% of the world's population is in China. It's a huge market for everything.
If I did the math correctly, it works out to 1 coaster for every 2,010,000 Chinese citizens, and 1 coaster for every 485,000 American citizens (numbers rounded). So a lot of markets still in need of coasters :-)
(And feel free to correct my math. It was never one of my strong subjects.)
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Just as a completely random exercise, I wonder what the roller coaster per $GDP works out to.
Edit: Fine, I'll do it. China's GDP is $9.24T which works out to $11.2B of GDP per roller coaster. America's GDP is $16.8 T which works out to $25.7B of GDP per roller coaster. I have no idea what to do with that data, but....um....."Take that, China!"
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