History of the Tallest Roller Coasters in the World?

What if it was a 400 footer, launch like that, up to the top, then down again, spiraling down, then gently go up...thinking like the bunny hop on Kingda Ka...then into a MCBR...a killer one that slows it down to about 80 mph or so...into an overbank curve...and then bunny hop the hell out of the train back towards the station........now that would make for a kick-ass...and not too long (track length-wise) coaster!

Haha no I'm not giving Patrick the finger

also forgot Goliath.

Impulse-ive said:
You forgot Steel Phantom (1991) - 225 ft. which basically trumps everything until Fujiyama.

But are we talking height or drop?

Phantom was (is?) only like 160 feet tall, but the drop is 225 (228 now) - height and drop are two totally different discussions/stats.

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...and that argument should be applied to Goliath at SFMM, as well. :)

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Why Goliath? This is evolution of the tallest coasters in thread, Goliath was never the tallest in the world.

Yes, the drop is a different scenario, but I think (according to what had previously been posted), we were going for height.

Goliath reigned supreme for about four months, it opened in Jan 2000, MF opened in May 2000 and I believe Steel Dragon opened July or Aug 2000.

Back to the normal length issue, I wouldnt be opposed to some trims to have the speed be aceptable for the rest of the ride for it to be done. *** Edited 2/2/2005 6:27:17 AM UTC by Touchdown***

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umm...actually, yes, Goliath was the tallest in the world for a bit.

Not if you are counting Superman: The Escape, which, BTW was tallest from the time it opened till TTD.

That is, if you count S:TE as a coaster (I do).

Touchdown said:
Back to the normal length issue, I wouldnt be opposed to some trims to have the speed be aceptable for the rest of the ride for it to be done.

But then you might as well go ride a separate, shorter ride.

Welcome back, red train, how was your ride?!

I too count S:TE, but... what about Fujiyama? Any reason why it doesn't count?

Fujiyama's height: 259ft., Goliath's height: 235ft.

Spark Notes History:

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I hope that helped ;)

I can't vouch for the accuracy of this page but it looks right as far as I can tell, and goes back to 1914.

Incidentally, my Firefox isn't displaying the edit toolbar on the reply. Had to drop back to IE. Anybody else run into this?

We went from 200 to 300 after 11 years. 3 years later we hit 400. 2 years later we hit 450.
If you plotted that, it would sort of look like Kingda Ka in profile. Interesting how the RCDB doesn't list heights for many of the older coasters. Do you think that was a sign of the times? That height wasn't as much an issue for parks and designers in days gone by. Maybe when people didn't travel as much and pretty much went to their own local park, the need to be competitive wasn't as great. My 72'-5" beats your 72'-4"!!!