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The Beast is a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio, United States.Designed and manufactured in-house for approximately $3 million, the ride opened in 1979 as the tallest, fastest, and longest wooden roller coaster in the world.
Kingda Ka, the tallest roller coaster in the world until it was removed from operation in November 2024: Among the tallest wooden coasters in the world, El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey features one of the longest drops. Colossos at Heide Park in Germany, one of the tallest wooden coasters in the world
Gold Striker is a wooden roller coaster located at California's Great America amusement park. Built by Great Coasters International and designed by Jeff Pike, Gold Striker was the park's eighth roller coaster which opened to the public on May 31, 2013. Its 174-foot-long (53 m) tunnel is the longest in the world to be featured on the first drop ...
It was the tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster in the world and the first with two drops greater than 100 feet (30 m). Colossus became well known after appearances in film and television, including the box-office hit National Lampoon's Vacation and the made-for-TV movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park .
The Texas Giant was constructed using over 900,000 board feet (2,100 m 3) of wood. [4] The trains were manufactured by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters. [2] The Texas Giant officially opened on March 17, 1990. [2] At opening, the ride was the world's tallest wooden roller coaster, standing 143 feet (44 m) high. [5]
Troy was GCI's second roller coaster in Europe, following Thunderbird at PowerPark in Finland. [3] With a height of 31.9 metres (105 ft), a maximum speed of 86.9 kilometres per hour (54.0 mph), and a track length of 1,077.2 metres (3,534 ft), Troy is the tallest, fastest, and longest wooden roller coaster in the Netherlands as of 2018.
American Eagle is a wooden racing roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois. It was the first wooden roller coaster designed by Intamin of Switzerland and was built in 1981 by the contracting firm Figley-Wright at a cost of $10 million. While most of the records have since been broken, American Eagle had ...
Son of Beast was a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, United States.Built and designed by the now-defunct Roller Coaster Corporation of America (RCCA), the ride opened as the tallest and fastest wooden coaster in the world on April 28, 2000.