what coasters were the hype before 1999?

im just interested because i moved to the US in 99 and it wasnt until then that i became an enthusiast. even then, i wasnt really into coasters before 2000(Superman: RoS!)

anyway, what was considered all the hype? i hear my local Volcano: The Blast Coaster was pretty famous when it opened....so what do you all say? im just interested in a brief background, not what you personally thought was the best. just what was talked about alot(like X has been talked about lately). so what do you all say?

Superman: The Escape was quite the big deal as I remember correctly.
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I don't know if this was being talked about alot but Top Gun: The Jet Coaster at Paramount's Carowinds opened in '98 and many people think its one of the best inverts (including me)
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Well, I hyped Top Gun at Carowinds up for about 3 years :P. Come to think of it, I'm still hyping it up 3 years AFTER it opened :)

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Some standouts as far as being anxiously awaited in recent years, but prior to 1999 were:

Outer Limits: Flight of Fear

Batman: The ride

Legend

Raging Bull and Apollo's Chariot

Stealth (I believe it was constructed a full year prior to it's openeing)

Knoebel's Twister

There are plenty more... but these are some I heard lots of talk about a few years back.

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RB and AC were in 1999, so really that doesn't count. I myself didn't really become an enthusiast until 1999, so I only knew of the hype around my home park's (SFGAm) coasters. The one I remember being hyped up the most was Viper in 1995, because it was brand new. I remember the Golden Grams commercials with it, and how I laughed at it for not being Viper in the footage. Little did I know that it was Viper, just not SFGAm's, as I recall, it was SFMM's.
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Hymmm...does anybody else remember the hoopla over Volcano:The Blast Coaster?
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It was pretty hyped-up, but PKD couldn't get the vertical "Volcano" launch down pat for quite some time after it was supposed to open. Eventually they figured out something, which included removing a row of seats from each car to make the trains lighter. Consequently, this created monstrous lines. PKD later fixed the problem completely, and added the previously removed seats.

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Remember when Mantis first came out? I remember going to Cedar Point's old skool website just to drool over the pictures, especially the one of the vertical loop.
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Lol Antuan, I've still got old school website on paper in a binder somewhere. It was such a plain website, but easy to print out!

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Wouldn't be one of these sites, would it? :)
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jeez.....CP's website has been improved alot.......if that were its site now it would make the park look a little cheap(as a general park guest, not an enthusiast who knows about it).

Youve got to rember this was in 1996!

How about Wild Thing at Valleyfair in 1996 Morgans first hyper coaster.

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how would i remember that that site was in 96? i was still making wooden forts in the woods. i remember when an unknown coaster at holiday park(germany) was the next best thing for me.

if you were going to ask, that HIGHLY upsets me. i went to both europa park and holiday park.....grrr

expedition G-force would have been nice :-)

Definatly Alpengeist! My aunt went on it in 1996 and she raved about it for months. Also Kumba, Damn a didn't stop hearing about it!
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Wasn't Alpengeist opened in 97? That's what RCDB says.

Since the question is which coasters were they hype BEFORE 1999, I would say there were a lot. Magnum comes to mind initially because it was the first coaster to top 200 feet.
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The FL coasters mentioned were quite the rage 'round here, but the ONE "distant" ride I really wanted to get was Steel Phantom...the second drop WAS everything I had hoped for and imagined.

Now if only GregLeg invited us, we'd go check out PR...;)

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I remember, when S:TE opened there was a photo on the front page of the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.
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