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Millennium (formerly Millennium Roller Coaster) is a roller coaster at Fantasy Island in Ingoldmells, United Kingdom. It was built by Vekoma , a Dutch roller coaster manufacturer, to celebrate the arrival of the new millennium but despite its name, was opened in May 1999.
The planning, design and development phases of Millennium Force took place over five years, from 1996 to 2000. [4] The first rumors that a new record-breaking roller coaster would be built at Cedar Point, which included speculation about a ten-inversion roller coaster from Bolliger & Mabillard and an Arrow Dynamics MegaLooper, began circulating in early 1998.
Thrillville is a simulation and strategy video game developed by Frontier Developments that depicts theme park management, similar to RollerCoaster Tycoon. Thrillville is available for PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and, in North America, Xbox.
The debut of Magnum XL-200 in 1989 at Cedar Point introduced the first complete-circuit roller coaster to exceed 200 feet (61 m), [5] [6] marking a pivot point in the industry. [4] The new era, sometimes referred to as the Coaster Wars, [ 4 ] saw increasing competition as parks sought to be the latest to break world records, with some only ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. American roller coaster reviewer and video game producer Robb Alvey Born Robert Lee Southern California Nationality American Occupation Video game producer Known for Theme Park Review Robb Alvey (born Robert Lee) is an American roller coaster reviewer and video game producer. Alvey has ...
The park hired Premier Rides to design a one-of-a-kind prototype model known as a Liquid Coaster. This new water coaster model would feature a log flume portion and a roller coaster portion. It would sit in a 6-acre (2.4 ha) plot of land surrounded by trees and hilly terrain.
During the end of the video, Williams drives away in an economy car, a Bond Bug, instead of 007's Aston Martin DB5, which later drives past him while he is having car trouble. [6] Lorraine Pascale appears in the video as a 'Bond Girl'. [7] At the 1999 Brit Awards, "Millennium" won the award for British Video of the Year.
Corkscrew was a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers theme park, in the United Kingdom. Corkscrew was manufactured for Alton Towers by Dutch company Vekoma, [2] [3] engineered by Werner Stengel of German Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH (Ingenieur Büro Stengel). [4] The coaster was located in the Ug Land area, formerly called Talbot Centre. [2]