why soo few B&M hypers in the us

Enigma13 said:
I think the general age of the concept is why we see so few. There has been 1 opened each year since introduction though, which isn't bad.
1999-AC
2000-RB
2001-Nitro
The cost difference between the hypers and the inverts (minus B:TR clones) isn't all that great. In fact if I remember correctly I believe at BGW Alpengeist was $20 million and AC was only $15 million. These prices do however exclude smaller parks from any B&M.

Just thought I would correct you: Raging Bull and Apollo's Chariot both opened in 1999 with Nitro opening in 2001.
Give B&M time to catch on, look how long it took for the Inverted's to get going. The concept has been around for almost 10 years while Speedcoasters only 2. I believe we only had 4 Inverts after 3 years maybe 5. They'll catch up sooner or later.

-----------------
BMCOASTER

bmcoaster@wi.rr.com

It's not like there are all that many Intamin hypers in the USA either...

As far as I know of, there are only 4 in the USA, and 5 in the world.

There are 3 Superman: Ride of Steel coasters (SFA, SFDL, & SFNE) and Millennium Force.

You're all whining about B&M not having enough hyper coasters distributed around the USA... what about Intamin? They also only one more (and that's a clone) than B&M!!!

Well silve dollar city was able to afford a B&M
-----------------
Montu, God Of Coasters

The first B&M inverted came in 1992. 1994 came Raptor, '96 Montu and in '97 Alpengeist. There is a total of 14 B&M Inverteds exsist (One Top Gun, One Batman and Dueling Dragons counts as two) The Speed Coaster have only been around two years and they are around the same pace of Inverteds.
-----------------
Assistant Webmaster
Kennywood Park Unlimited
http://www.kpunlimited.com

Actually Intamin has a full circuit invert called Tornado and is a traveling ride.

they also have volcano the blast coaster
-----------------
Montu, God Of Coasters

It's also rumored that BGT is going to get a B&M hyper, and thats actually believeable cause of the inverts and the fact that B&M has gave them nothing but top 10 coaster.
-----------------
Montu, God Of Coasters

Well, Give B&M a chance, The First One was Raging Bull, CORRECT and that was only built in 1999 I believe, so B&M Hypers have only been around for 2-3 years, If you give them a bit more time, I suspect in about another 5-6 years, there will be plenty more B&M Hypers. Another Reason is, I bet Those B&M Hypers are expensive, so its not like any park can get one of them, Only The Big Companies could get one like Six Flags,Paramount etc.

Also, another B&M Hyper is on the way too, Europa Park have confirmed they are getting one in 2002, that should be good. Also CoasterSaurus, Just for the Record, Volcano The Blast Coaster is not from B&M, I believe its from Intermin