most expensive coaster?

How much is that new space ride being built this year gonna cost disney? It looks like it will cost a pretty penny.

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kRaXLeRidAh said:

Then that makes Knott's GhostRider the single most expensive wooden coaster ever built at $25 million.

Not saying that you're wrong, but how can that be? Xcelerator only cost 13 million... Ghostrider really put Knott's on the map in terms of "Big" parks... how could the pre- Cedar Fair park justify a $25 million coaster? It just doesn't make seem to sense to me, especially when other wooden coasters by CCI were are in the 3-7 million range.

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What would be really interesting is to factor in inflation and see how The Beast stacked up to Ghostrider.

How much did Hulk at IOA cost????
From TV's ive seen the launch system is unique in its construction and the power station buult for the ride was very expensive and not used on any other ride.
And you should count the total coast of the ride, including the building and any other effects as it all impacts on the ride!!! Space Mountain if outside would be a medicore ride but withint the building it improves greatly.

Zero-G: From what I've heard, GhostRider was incredably expensive due to the earthquake regulations. Not only did they have to put in a ton more wood, but they had to put in proportionatly more wood than they would have had to steel, because wood is much weaker. As to how Knott's managed paying that much, I have no clue.

Anyone know how much White Cyclone in Japan cost?

Forget even coasters, was The Amazing Advenutres of Spiderman, at IoA like 250 million.

Making it probally the most expensive ride ever made?

I think certain parks obviously exaggerate when they quote how much a ride cost. For instance, there's no way Ghostrider cost that much. CCI's were notoriously cheap, and a ride Ghostrider's size at another park would probably have cost maybe $5 million max. *Maybe* you could double that because of the extra wood, but that only puts the project at $10 million. There's no way Ghostrider has five times as much wood as other CCI coasters (which, you'd think, it would have to to have cost $25 million).

Disny is also very good at exaggerating the cost of their attractions. They're like the military...a couple hundred dollars for a hammer, $500/bolt, etc. ;-)

-Nate

There's no way? I doubt that. Most of here have a extremely vague idea of what all goes into a coaster. Just because it may SEEM that Ghostrider is similar to other CCI wooden coasters, doesn't mean that it is. What would a park gain from saying that their coasters are more expensive than what they truly are?

Knott's would have been getting what, at least 2-3mil (probably upper end of that, if not more) guests per year, even pre-CF? Entrance ranged from what, $25-35? People spend money in parks too, so I'll say that they had 2.5m guests each year, spending $35 each I know I'm being generous with that. That comes to $87,500,000 turnover in a given year. How much does the place cost to run? $50-60m per year? They've got at least $15m I'd say for themselves (or banks).

A few years of 'saving up' could easily get them a $25m attraction. Whether it cost that much or not (deciding knott to go for the obvious grammar joke there ;)) is another story.

Hey - 23 years earlier they opened the world's first (modern, for all you perfect people) inversion. I'm sure that was probably seen as a pretty huge investment.

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I thought that MF was 13 million, then with everything else(seating, special lift hill...) it was 25 million.

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Wow, that's one heck of an expensive lift hill, my friend.

MF was $25 Million, folks. If you don't believe the rest of the people who have said so, it is listed on the Cedar Point website.

*Amazed* I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned Son of Beast. The ride itself is huge, plus if we're counting all the work that was done in 2000's summer that'd add up a lot. Oh, and you can't forget all the legal crap that PKI had to go through.

CoasterKrazy, CCI coasters much larger than Ghostrider cost less than $5 million. You can't tell me there was somehow five times the materials used on Ghostrider than there was on other massive CCI coasters (Timbers, for instance).

Inflating he cost of the ride is simply another marketing trick. If you make it seem huge and expensive, it's a bigger draw to people. This would be especially true in Knott's case, I think, as it attempts to replace the "Oh, it's just an old, rickity wooden coaster" thinking with the idea that it's a huge, expensive addition. What else did Knott's add/remove the year Ghostrider was built?

-Nate

Watching Video of GR I dare say it has more wood then I have ever saw. The enginneering costs of putting together that much lumber has to be astronomical.

There has to be 3 times for footers then your avg CCI. Even the big boys like Timbers and The Boss and Everythign costs more in Cali too.

I could easily see GR running in the 20-25 million range.

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RllrCstrDude187 said:

Does anyone know how much Nemesis at Alton Towers costed. I know that its most likely not the MOST expensive coaster, but I'm curious to know how much it costed since its a terrain coaster.

aprrox £12mil. although they did have to build a big hole, the ride is actually rather short. i think this coaster was a very good deal as it was built in 1994 when inverted coasters had only been around 1-2 years and were in huge demand.

and when i made my original post, i meant rides that included all themeing, landscaping etc. by giving space mountain as an example, i would have thought most people would have caught on

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Wasn't Jubilee Odyssey like 40,000,000ish? I remember hearing that a while back...

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Knott's could have built 5 wooden coasters with the amount of wood used to put Ghostrider together. Just attend Coaster Solace and ask the GM himself, he'll tell you.

jubilee odyssey was £40mil

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And it was also over 200 feet ;)

40 million pounds sounds grossly overinflated just like the height.

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