2 Rollercoasters That Changed Everything!

These are truly 2 coasters that changed things...but not everything. I think that inverteds can't be left out...the ride experience they dished out was so different and disorienting that it revolutionized the thrill department, and made way for B&M's successful career.

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Hmm...choosing two coasters that changed the face of the coaster game is pretty hard, but heres my 2 cents.

The Matterhorn was the first tubular steel rollercoaster and opened the door for the next coaster that would change the face of the industry: The Corkscrew at KBF. The first modern steel coaster to sucessfully turn riders upside down. Honorable mention goes to Revolution and Magnum for being the first looping coaster and first full circuit coaster to break the 200ft mark respectively.

Magnum defintely for all coasters that go beyond 200ft. and the Corkscrew @ KBF for saving steel coasters.

1980's:
Magnum XL-200 changed how coasters would be built in the future. It topped 200 ft in 1989.

1990's:
Batman: The Ride at SFGAm. The ride was the first of it's kind, and a new type of coaster. Is it true that the wait time was 5 hours?

2000: Millennium Force. First coaster to top 300 feet. 93 mph speed.

2010: ?

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Off the top of my head, I believe this is right but what if the KW Jack Rabbit didn't exsist? Well it was one of the first coasters to use upstop wheels. Without those, say good-bye to mostly every other coaster ever created
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I think that the Raptor at CP, and Kumba at BGT set a bar for coasters.
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Wait, Wait Wait, what about Superman? the first Rollercoaster to reach speeds of 100 mph?! And the tallest in the world. Also Shockwave, the first stand-up built at Magi Mountain in the Late 70's early 80's. I fully agree that matterhorn changed everything though, it was the first steal tubular coaster.

GJ, the world's first modern stand-up wasn't SFMM's Shockwave (now Batman:The Escape @ SFAW). PKI's King Cobra was the first in America, but I'm not sure which one was the first in the world. I am positive it was manufactured by Togo International though.

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"Off the top of my head, I believe this is right but what if the KW Jack Rabbit didn't exsist? Well it was one of the first coasters to use upstop wheels. Without those, say good-bye to mostly every other coaster ever created
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Yeah, what would happen if you got any bit of airtime?

I think Magnum changed it all. It was the tallest and fastest, and I remember when it ruled the skyline at Cedar Point.

...wasn't King Cobra the first looping stand-up in the US? I thought that Worlds of Fun had a stand up before Kings Island...

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King Cobra was the first looping stand-up in the US, but I can't confirm that Worlds of Fun had a stand-up before PKI. At least according to the Rollercoaster Database.
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Worlds of Fun was the first park in the U.S. to have a stand-up. They took their sit down corkscrew coaster and added stand-up trains. This wasn't too successful so the coaster was converted back into a sit down. I'm not sure which year this happened, but I know it was before King Cobra was made.
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I think some of you are missing the point here. JUST COASTING stated that, in his opinion, Revolution and Magnum respectively changed the direction of rollercoaster construction. Revolution ushered in a NEW ERA of inversions, while Magnum ushered in a NEW ERA of height and speed.
My 3 additional choices would be:
1) BATMAN:The RIDE, for opening a new door to coasters that have NON-traditional trains. This includes inverted, standup, flying, and 4D.
2) SUPERMAN:The Escape, for bringing forth a whole new way of acceleration without the use of a gravitational hill, the LIM. Credit this new theory of thrusting the coaster without gravity to the future development of LIM, LSM, and Thrust AIR.
3) MILLENIUM FORCE: Once again, the height and speed barrier was crushed. Though to early yet to know what impact MF will have for certain, I can only surmise that we will see a rash of 300-400 ft coasters in the comming years.
Honorable mention: SOB, height ond looping on a wooden coaster. Though innovative, at this time there are no other tall looping woods to credit SOB with changing an ERA.
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Everyone is missing something....the Matterhorn at Disneyland was the first tubular steel track coaster. That made room for bending track into corkscrews, loops, twists...and is basically the ingredient that started it all.

My two choices would be -

1. The Corkscrew at KBF because it was the first successful modern rollercoaster to go upside-down back in 1975. It had two corkscrews and wasn't much - but it was a start. (It also was the start of my rollercoaster interest as it was the very first coaster I rode back in 1985.) The Revolution came out the next year with the 1st vertical loop but Corkscrew already had 2 inversions. CP's Corkscrew was just a modified original with an added vertical loop.

2. Magnum XL-200. The first Hypercoaster. Huge height, drops, speed and the out-and-back steel design which would pretty much take the industry by storm. Moonsault Scramble was a 200 foot shuttle coaster so it's spikes were that high. Magnum had a lift hill so everybody on the train reached at least that high at the top, giving a new meaning to height. Now, hypers are like the common thing to have.

I think Hypersonic: XLC takes launches to new level, just like Outer Limits did 5 or 6 years earlier. MForce to new heights, finally breaking the barrier, and X. . .we'll find out.

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When I saw the thread's name - I started to think while waiting for this slow connection to bring me in: I picked the two I would have chosen if forced to name only two...Coney Island Cyclone - everything I thought it was going to be, and SO much more. Rode about 20-25 times during the first ever ERT in Cyclone history during ACE Spring Conference, after refurbishment, thanks to ACE and Colleen Whyte :-)))! Second I would pick would have to be the Matterhorn bobsleds. Without tubular steel track, inversions would still be a dream - even SoB's loop is steel. Arrow has taken a little beating on cb from time to time (in the pre-X days), a fair amount from me. Editorial note: Magnum was still great this year, but I'd love to kill those trims heading into what once was a FANTASTIC turnaround. But Arrow took us into the future, and for that Bacon and Toomer get their due props (although it's hard to trust somebody who won't ride their own rides:-). Other coasters mentioned here that I would have to also give STRONG consideration: JackRabbit - John Miller certainly imnproved everyone's coasting life immeasurably (I'm imagining everyone here complaining about only getting to ride Scenic Railways, and it's funny but NOT pretty!!!). John Allen's PKI Racer is credited with starting the Second Golden Age, and rightfully so. Great American Revolution, Schwarzkopf, 'nuff said, except Anton would NOT be happy about OTSR's. I also have a strange affinity for The Bat (which I never got to ride). I don't get that much from Suspendeds, but the innovation ROCKED.
Honorable mention to Maggie, Millie, Beast, SoB, S:TE, Hypersonic, B:TE, X, Stealth, Corkscrew, King Cobra, High Roller, Steel Phantom, SD2K, first TILT (forgot name), and Crystal ball-time: First FISHHOOK! Wait, did you say 2?

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wahoo skipper said:
Everyone is missing something....the Matterhorn at Disneyland was the first tubular steel track coaster. That made room for bending track into corkscrews, loops, twists...and is basically the ingredient that started it all.

I didn't miss it =)

Sorry px, I missed your comment. It is good to see someone that has a real understanding of rollercoaster history.

one of them would have to be B:TR at Six Flags Great America. It was the first inverted ever. Iron wolf at SFGAm was B&M's first stand up, Raging Bull is the tallest and first hyper twister, SFGAm is a pioneer in firsts and records.

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