Heide Park announces 412 ft. coaster

bigger isn;t always better. I agree. this thing could be worse than rattler, it might looks sweet but it could stink.
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I highly doubt it.  Newer technology, the smoothness of big Intamin rollercoasters - to me it seems like a bigger, badder and more thrilling Millennium Force. Whether or not it is a great ride does not matter right now.  These people are raising the bar for rollercoasters and they should be commended. 

I don't care about if Cedar Point will beat this or Magic Mountain will beat that - I personally hope that a no-name U.S. park builds the first U.S. 400 ft. lift-hill rollercoaster so that all these people can shut their traps.  Thank you Heide Park for taking us rollercoaster enthusiasts to a whole new level at a fast pace. I'm pretty sure that many people will enjoy this coaster in the future.  But I not sure if people will be intimidated be it's enormous size first. . .

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That sounds awesome! Too bad it's across seas. We will just have to wait for someone over here to make one that high.

Also, I would like to make a small comment on why I prefer CP to SF........(Im not trying to start a fight..this is just MY opinion) but SF does not have a Parent Swap program and that really sucks for those of us who love coasters but have to take our kids along with us. It's very inconvenient and that is the reason why I never go to SF. There is no reason why SF shouldn't have this type of feature. For those of you who are not familiar with the Parent Swap~it's when you get a pink slip from CP and someone from your group waits in line for a ride and someone else waits with the kids. When that person rides the ride they give the pink slip to a ride op and goes down the exit. The person (s) waiting with the kids then walk up the exit and ride the ride. That way you don't have to wait in line TWICE! SF doesn't have this feature. (atleast not SFWA). So that is why I don't like those parks. I hope my opinion doesn't anger anyone but like I said-it's MY opinion.

Thanks!

These things are always happening in Europe and Japan, never in America. I'm all for a 1,000 ft coaster.

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I must agree with SCoaster, at PKD, in the back between Nightslider and Rebel Yell, is a LONG, cleared stretch of land waiting, just waiting, for a nice 400+ ft. Tera-Coaster.
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the lift hill will scare the crap outta me! :)

Liz
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Am I the only one who caught what Brian A. Plencer said? There is a measurement wrong on that webpage. Oh by the way, this topic's not about Cedar Point, and Cedar Point has aspiratons of building a 400 ft. coaster in the next 5 years. God people, they just built Millennium Force! 

Ddogg and everyone else,

I went back and looked at the webpage that BMCoaster referenced a few days ago, and noticed that for 2002 it appears that they may be getting some kind of freefall ride that is suppose to be at a height of 105 Meters, which is around 345 feet. The english version (which is the one that BMCoaster posted) says "using the panoramic ride" so I'm not sure if they mean that ride is there now, and they are going to add this free-fall ride onto it, or if they plan on building a 345 foot tall tower with an observation deck on top of it. Since I've never been to the park, I have no idea what is there. It also says that this has yet to be confirmed by the park.

Anyway, I found the exact same page written in German.

http://www.themeparkvision.net/NL/ParkXtraInfo.Asp?what=nieuwsgeruchten&park=Heide%2DPark&parkid=111&LandID=6

Looking at the same text on this page, it says

De achtbaan zou een top van 170 km/h halen, de hoogste achtbaan ter wereld worden, met hills van wel 60m hoog!

Which, translates on the English side to

This rollercoaster will be the heighest in the world, with hills of 60m heigh, and a top speed of 170 km/h.

So, I wonder if we all got mixed up here.  From what I'm reading, they are not getting a 412 foot tall coaster, but possibly a 350 foot drop tower, and a 196.85 foot roller coaster.

Of course, I've not read the article in Amusement Business, so again, I could be wrong.  But, now I've seen two webpages that show this figure. So, either the initial german page was incorrect in their statement, and then was incorrectly translated into english (or the other way around), or amusement business is wrong.

Again, I'm not trying to point fingers at anyone, just going by what I've found so far.

Thanks in advance if anyone can clear up this matter for me, and let me know who is right on this one.

--Brian

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Brian A. Plencner
E-Mail: saurses@home.com

Hello?? Air Germany? I need to make a reservation for May of 2003........

Hi there !
I´m from Germany. I live in Hamburg, which is about 100 km from Heide-Park Soltau. I´m a big fan of Heide-Park since its opening in 1978. Since last year, when the new wooden coaster Colossos was built (perhaps you´ve heard about it...) my interest in rollercoasters grew more and more. So when I read about a new record-coaster in Soltau I searched the whole web for articles about it. And I found some interesting information. OK, there are no official facts about the new rollercoaster, but officials of Heide-Park´s confirmed on http://www.coastersandmore.de/Rides/giants/giantsmain.htm that they plan to build the world´s tallest record coaster. Themepark-World.de says that "it´s a fact that its height will be between 100 and 125 m" (which means about 300 - 412 ft). About Brian A. Plencner´s article I have to say: You´re right when you say the hills will be 60 m high (by the way, the page you talk about is not written in German but in Dutch :-)). But that just means the hills (the "second drop") and not the first drop! The first drop really is planned to be 412 ft. You can read articles about it at http://www.screamscape.com/html/heide-park.html or also on http://www.themepark-world.de/news/deutschland.htm#Heidepark (only German language). The other thing is: Heide-Park has got two observation towers. One is 75m, the other 105m tall. Now they plan to add a "freefall-kit" to the greater one (there´s no official statement yet), so that they can use it for both, observation and freefall. Its height has nothing to do with the new rollercoaster. I hope the Park will release some more official information in the future. And I hope, the region´s government will not cancel that project...

Greetings from Hamburg, Germany *** This post was edited by TheGerman on 11/30/2001. ***

Six Flags does indeed have a Parent Swap program. While you are at a Six Flags park, check out the page in the park map about park policies. :)
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This will be a great coaster to market in Germany as it is just less than the height of its two big competitors expidition ge force and silverestar
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I don't care about the other coasters i'm just waiting to ride top thrill dragster at cedar point. I am making a special trip up teir just for that coaster.