500 Ft tall coasters possible

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BeastieBrent said:
"Anyone know what a ticket to Spaland costs?
Must be outrageous if they build a 51 million doallr coaster.

I was there 2 weeks ago. Cost is roughly $45
dollars for an all day pass including the water park (which has some super tasty tube rides-scariest ones I have ever been on). Not bad when you take into account the cost of SD2K.

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;)Rollercoasters are like parrots...if you take care of them, they should outlive you;)

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Neglecting all mechanical friction and air drag, the peak speed on a 500 foot rollercoaster would be 122 mph not the higher numbers listed above. I don't expect to see anyone build a coaster this bign any time soon for several reasons.

1) The economy is slowing. This will reduce the coaster wars.
2) A lot of wheel technology will need to be developed to deal with the speed and energy involved.
3) The cost of a hill that big will be enormous, unless some park has terrain that allows it to use the terrain to get a huge drop.
4) The space for turning a coaster around will become enormous. At 100 mph the turn radius for a baked turn without a MF style overbanking would be 200 feet. A simple 180 degree return woule require over 1200 feet of track.
5) Unless you make the ride a one trick pony and just burn off all of that energy with brakes at the end, the whole ride will be enormous.
6) I suspect that the ticket for a 500 foot full circut coaster with 2-3 miles of track would be something on the order of 50-100 million dollars.

I found this quote over at Guide To The Point...

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"The only real limit to height is what people are willing to get on and what the park is willing to pay."
-Ron Toomer

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I'd Rather Be Riding Rollercoasters
www.mycoasters.homestead.com/mycoasters.html

The Coaster war will never be over. Coasters can reach that height, I don't know who would do it but they can hit that height.

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You are the Weakest Link, Goodbye.

I'd do anything and everything. Bring on the 500ft coasters. lol

Keep this in mind:

It does not have to be over 300 or even over 100 ft tall to be the best.

Take GCI'S Twister coasters for example. The Best Wooden Coasters I have ever been on"Wildcat, Lightning Racer, Gwazi"

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God Bless Theme Parks!
A New Hoosier Theme Park is on the horizion!

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Jephry said:
"The Coaster war will never be over. Coasters can reach that height, I don't know who would do it but they can hit that height."

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Intamin. They already have a next generation box track, larger in size with vehicles having larger wheels.


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What's next at Knott's? Anyone know?

would be pretty awsome and incredible. I wonder what the next big thing will be after the gigacoaster? who knows?????? lol bye

I think a 500 ft coasters are possible but I highly doubt we will see one any time soon. First, MF goes 93mph on a 300 ft drop I dont think a steel track could handle the speed. Itamin (or whatever company decides to build it) would have to come up with a whole new track, train, restraint system. Sounds tough and expensive to me.

some park is talking about the things that they could do in the next 7 years and one of them was building a 400 ft drop on a rollercoaster! >:)

Terminal velocity of a falling object is not the main consideration, maximum g-force load on a human body is more likely the constraint that needs to be considered. Also, don't be too surprised when Arrow's fishhook coaster at the Stratosphere tower goes up. Remember, I first mentioned it on this site about 8-10 months ago...

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rollergator - intent on improving the "guest experience" - coming soon to a park near you

I wonder how expensive it would be to dig a mineshaft straight down? At the heights being discussed, the cost of going down instead of up may become the way to go. Seems that coasters are reaching their cost limits.

Besides, look at what CCI can do with 70'.

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