Tallest coaster with an inversion or more than one
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Not to continue this debate, but I agree: Millennium Force turns riders upside-down.
But I don't think it has "inversions." I'm just weird. ;)
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But I don't think it has "inversions." I'm just weird. ;)
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Call me nitpicky but technically I'm not sure Steel Phantom was the tallest - The biggest drop perhaps but not tallest. Even though Steel Phantom dropped 225 feet it never went more than 160 or 165 feet above ground level.
Am I being too percise?
Am I being too percise?
coastersrz said:
"Steel phantom was the tallest with a loop until Son of Beast was built and Steel Phantom was closed for the renovation/transformation into Phantom`s revenge.
The word TALLEST applies to height off of ground. Now Steel Phantom's 225 FT drop is diving down along with the slope of the ravine by the side of the cliff. The Steel Phantom's 160 FT lift hill never made it the tallest, as this thread was asking for.
sfmmlord said:
"Millennium force doesn't go upside down freak."
Wow, what an eloquent way to put that! ;)
Sure, MF doesn't officially have inversions, but try going up 160+ feet in the air, put yourself at a 122 degree angle, and then tell me whether you feel upside down or right side up!
Tallest full circuit coaster with a traditional inversion: Son of Beast
Tallest coaster where your feet are over your head: MF
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So someone has a different opinion. Do you have a problem with that?
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Any over 90 degrees is considered upside down in my book. So since the overbanked turns of MF are 122 degrees, it goes upside down! Other than that, Son of Beast is the tallest with a loop.
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No, MF doesn't go upside down. I don't know who said it here, but someone said that an inversion is where a person's feet go over their head. 122 degrees doesn't get your feet over your head.
Err that one confused me a bit. Do you mean like me doing a flip in my harness so that my legs swing around the lap bar and are above my head? Oh, and I agree completely with Lynch lol.
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In my book your feet must pass over not just higher than your head to be inverted. If you are on the couch with your feet elevated do you consider yourself inverted? Inversions are over-rated anyway.
Okay, here's my 2 cents.
First of all, Mr. Inverted, at 122 degrees your feet are higher above the ground than your head. That's just a fact.
Say on a normal banked turn, you are 45 degrees more tilted than perfectly flat. This is considered upright still isn't it??
So, if 45 degrees more tilted than flat is STILL considered upright (which it should be), then why would 58 degrees LESS than perfectly inverted (180 degrees) not be considered inverted??
Basically I'm saying that if your still upright even if your not on a 0 degree angle, why should you have to be perfectly 180 degrees to be considered inverted?? Then Millennium Force would have 3 inversions.
But I also do agree inversions are highly overrated and I don't really care for them.
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What the mo K!?!
First of all, Mr. Inverted, at 122 degrees your feet are higher above the ground than your head. That's just a fact.
Say on a normal banked turn, you are 45 degrees more tilted than perfectly flat. This is considered upright still isn't it??
So, if 45 degrees more tilted than flat is STILL considered upright (which it should be), then why would 58 degrees LESS than perfectly inverted (180 degrees) not be considered inverted??
Basically I'm saying that if your still upright even if your not on a 0 degree angle, why should you have to be perfectly 180 degrees to be considered inverted?? Then Millennium Force would have 3 inversions.
But I also do agree inversions are highly overrated and I don't really care for them.
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What the mo K!?!
My head hurts.
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Well I really don't care if Millennium Force has "inversions", it won't change the ride. Anyway, if you have to be 180 degrees, then Mantis's tilted loop isn't an inversion now is it? *rolls eyes
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i dont think its really inverted an inversion means completely turned around
ah it doesnt matter anyway
wait...
haha
*** This post was edited by Wackokid on 6/8/2001. ***
ah it doesnt matter anyway
wait...
sfmmlord said:
"I am wondering, what is the tallest coaster with a loop in it?"
haha
*** This post was edited by Wackokid on 6/8/2001. ***
sfmmlord also said:
Tallest coaster with an inversion or more than one
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What the mo K!?!
Tallest coaster with an inversion or more than one
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What the mo K!?!
I want a giga-coaster with a hyper loop!!
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I would have to agree that any curve banked at over 90 degrees should qualify as an inversion. You're more upside down than you are right side up, so if that's not an inversion, what is it? Just an overbanked turn? I don't think so. Premier's Mr. Freeze coasters are billed as 4 inversion coasters by the manufacturer, even though 2 of those inversions are the result of a 120 degree overbanked turn. So, since Intamin obviously banked the overbanked turns of Millennium Force at 122 degrees to break Mr. Freeze's previous records, the question is why aren't they billing those turns as inversions, like Premier did with their coasters featuring overbanked turns? The only logical explanation that I can come up with is because Millennium Force looks and sounds scary enough as it is, without saying that it turns you upside down 4 times! But the fact is that it DOES turn you upside down 4 times, it just doesn't do so while making you 100% perpendicular to the ground. And if you still don't believe that Millennium Force has 4 inversions, look at is this way: If you were stuck at the apex of one of the overbanked turns, and your safety restraints happened to fail and come open, you would FALL out, so you ARE upside down in those curves! Just because they're not PERFECTLY upside down elements doesn't mean that they aren't inversions. If it has the potential to make riders FALL out, I say it's an inversion, and the overbanked curves of Millennium Force would certainly qualify as such!
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