400ft. lift = 400ft. drop = Ultra Coaster?

200 and above - Hyper

300 and above - Giga

400 and above - Ultra? Maybe...*shrugs* A 400ft. coaster is in the worx right now...ya think it'll give birth to a new name? A new genre(sp?) of coasters?

I know a lot of people call it a "Tera Coaster". Doesn' that have to do with computers?

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Terra is the next step after giga, if they are keeping with that theme

No, Terra is the prefix meaning "earth."  Tera is the SI prefix following Giga.  Here's hoping they don't call it a Tera coaster.  I don't think they need a new name for the 400 foot mark.
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***sigh***

How many times to we REALLY gotta go through this tired subject???

IT DOESN'T MATTER, people!! It's only a name that the manufactures call it.

Nobody really cares and it has no effect on the coaster, plain & simple.

lets just call it a 400 footer.  The term "hyper" is pretty vague in itself. 
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How about coasters that are over 100 feet?  How about we call those "zooba-coasters"?  And those that are over 24.8 feet should be called "bananarama-coasters."  I agree, this is the dumbest topic ever.  I hate when people say, "MAYBE <some park> WILL GET A GIGA!"  Dumb.
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You can't spell "dishonorable" without "honorable."

We should shut up about the type and wonder what it looks like and the actual name of the coaster

Well it's being built in Germany.  We should call it an "ubercoaster"
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I think classification does matter.  Its all part of an enthusiats way of keeping a database.
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We're not going to have this conversation because despite the ridiculous marketing nonsense, these prefixes stand for numbers involving decimal places, not multiples of a hundred.

I can see scientists and mathematicians cringing now...

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