Dennis Speigel: 1,000ft tall coaster coming soon

You may not have to travel to Saudi Arabia to ride the tallest and fastest coaster after all.

Industry veteran Dennis Speigel of ITPS posted yesterday that there is a project announcement imminent that will include a new 1,000 ft tall coaster, dethroning the under construction Falcon's Flight. He claims it will not be in the US: https://www.linkedin.com/pu...NVQg%3D%3D

I think it's fair to be extremely skeptical until the ride actually opens, but I have no doubt that Dennis has seen a real proposal. In my eyes, we should hold our breath until we know who is financing the project. Otherwise, I have a polar coaster to sell you.

Maybe if Disney builds a fifth gate.

1000 feet? I suppose that number will be reached at some point. Not sure it will happen near any metropolitan park.

Maybe someplace like Glenwood Caverns where they could take advantage of a mountain and not have to invest in a lot of superstructure? I think Ocean Park in Hong Kong is on a mountain. Not sure what other parks are.

“Now, it’s only a matter of time and financial investment before this aspiration becomes a reality” screams scam to me.

Yawn. Call me when they build one that's

Even in the mountains a 1000 foot drop is pretty hard to come by without a lot of structure. And, just think of the overall coaster. 1000 foot drop means 1000 foot to get there. With that much speed, probably 10000 total feet of track. It won't be cheap...

If there was demand for a 1,000ft coaster someone would have already built one.

That's what I'm supposed to say, right?

Son of Rip Ride Rocket coming soon!

They couldn't even get the 500 footer built on I drive, I'll believe it when I see it.

The 78 foot tall Phoenix will still be more fun.

And Whizzer :)

That's a fair point. Dragster was probably the most "extreme" coaster I've ridden, and it might be at the top end of my limits for what I find comfortable and enjoyable. I wonder how many "average" theme park goers would even want to ride a 1000-foot ride? Can it really be that high of a number and, if not, what is the return on that investment?

Can we keep the goggles?

If it’s a Six Flags operation, after a year or two they’ll ditch the goggles to save $120 a year and you’ll just be looking at blurry images.

With all the talk about keeping the wheels on Falcon's Flight cool enough for the ride to operate frequently, I seriously don't think earthlings have the technology for a one-thousand foot tall drop on a coaster.

But it's fun to speculate. You have mega, giga, and strata... What would this type of coaster be called?

So is the Strat trying to do their coaster off the tower again? Wasn’t that going to be a 1200 ft drop.

LostKause:

I seriously don't think earthlings have the technology for a one-thousand foot tall drop on a coaster.

Maglev

With the slogan, "Wheels? Where we're going we don't need wheels."

I was actually thinking maglev is about the only way this works. But I’m also imagining Wooden Warrior at Quassy would probably be a lot more fun than this ride, if it’s ever built.

(Narrator: It won’t ever be built.)

The simplest way to do this is to control the speed of the car down the hill- if indeed the train drops all 1,000 feet at one time.

That is some Kinzel-era thinking there.

I was hesitant to bring up maglev. I thought about it. It sounds expensive.