400 ft. coaster called???

A coaster reguardless of how high over 200ft is refered to as a hyper.

Looks are deceiving. Superman goes VERY near the top when your on it. Just an AMAZING ride, an SFMM has the only one.

In the US that is...

whatever happened to nano-coaster? whyd they skip that and call mf a giga coaster? im saying mf shouldve been a nano-coaster
and a 400 footer should be giga. but whatever the designers decide when that day comes...

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About dirtyvern's comment...thats not true. a 300 footer is a giga coaster
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-Edum

"whatever happened to nano-coaster?"

nano just doesn't have the same ring to it as hyper and giga. As far as future monikers go, I vote for hyper-giga coaster.

Stratocoaster might be too easily confused with the train ride on the top of the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas.

Sim Coaster, Doesn't Austraila's Dreamworld have the exact same clone as S:TE? Isn't it called the Tower of Terror? I read it goes just as fast as S:TE.
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DOWN WITH TRIM BRAKES!

No, Dreamworld's Tower of Terror is different than S:TE. It does reach a top speed of 100mph, but the vertical ascent is 390 feet high as compared to S:TE's 415 feet height.

The cool thing about TOT is that the other side of the tower has a freefall drop ride on it!

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Thanks Kman, your exactly right! I have ridden TOT and although it's a great ride in it's own right, it is not NEARLY as powerful as S:TE. BTW, that freefall is extremely frightening!

"Giga coaster" is a stupid marketing term invented by Intamin and perpetuated by Cedar Point. It's a metric prefix that has nothing to do with 300 feet. Intamin calls their 200+ coasters "mega coasters," instead of hypers like we call them, so it's no surprise they just "added a zero" to the term.

Add zero to zero and you've still got zero. :)

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I agree with you Jeff. I like the term hyper-coaster, and that's what i'll came them no matter how tall they get :)

Sorry, call them ")

I noticed that we rely on the term name of a coaster now than we did back in the 80s. There are way to many names now that it makes your head spin.

I like the idea of a face lift coaster
lol!

Why would you call it a nano-coaster? That would imply really really small. Nano means 1 billionth. as in .000000001 Giga means 1 billion. So yes, a giga-coaster is stupid, but hey. I like stratocoaster as well.

Jman

since when was s:te a coaster? somehow it reminds of an intamin first generation freefall........ 415ft? ILMAO
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S:TE is far from a first generation anything. I call it a coaster, others do not. I love the ride others do not. Some love the 100mph launch, others think it is lame. It is not worth discussing since we all have voiced our opinions at one time or another.

Although "Teracoaster" would be the next in the progression, but that sounds lame. I like the name Ultracoaster, or Supercoaster.

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Gotta ride 'em all!

Punk, the 415ft is the height of Superman, it actually goes up 380ft. Just like MF is 310ft, but drops only 300ft of that. I hope that makes sense.

Why the stupid debate about what to call a stupid 400ft coaster? It is in fact in all its fancy shmancy crappy nicknames, a ROLLERCOASTER. Wow, what a concept, calling a rollercoaster a ROLLERCOASTER. But I'll play along though so I think it should be a CDCOASTER. CD is the roman numeral equivalant of 400. Makes alot more sense than Giga or Tera.

Just to fan the flames of the S:TE debate, from what I know, it has the same specs as ToT in Australia, but S:TE is built over a cliff, hence the difference in height. There's about 30' of tower base below the runway level.

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http://www.midwestcoastercentral.com