Worlds fastest roller coaster

[WaTaGuMp]

The 2nd coaster looks more fun to me.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/blog...stest-rollercoaster-at-Ferr?urn=nascar-284980

 

[lxskllr]

Not much to it, but I bet that kind of speed's intense in a little car on a rail.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

The Ferrari one doesn't look too exciting, the launch would be great and after that nothing else looks even close to being a world class coaster. The Intimidator looks a lot better, all those high speed rolls from side to side would be pretty violent.

 

[CPA]

damn that looked boring.

 

[0roo0roo]

Ferrari World?
that is pretty lame.

 

[DrPizza]

Intimidator looks more fun to ride. The Ferrari one looks kinda lame. It goes fast. Big deal.

 

[destrekor]

Intimidator looks more fun to ride. The Ferrari one looks kinda lame. It goes fast. Big deal.

As a person who enjoys speed, and more importantly loves the impression of speed on a roller coaster, I can say I wouldn't mind the Ferrari coaster.

Not much too it, but tight helices are fun (and that wide-open course makes it appear G's are tame, but knowing the firm behind both those rides is Intamin, I doubt it's super-tame), and there looks to likely be a lot of zero-g moments. Probably not much in the way of ejector hills (negative Gs), and no sharp twists.. so it is not super-wild, but probably a fun ride.

Intimidator looks like a more spaced-out, taller and faster version of Maverick at Cedar Point. Slightly tamer than CP's ride, but still sharp and balls-to-the-wall, probably a wee-bit faster too.

 

[zerocool84]

The best coaster in the world is X² in Six Flags Magic Mountain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C2%B2_(roller_coaster)

 

[WaTaGuMp]

The best coaster in the world is X² in Six Flags Magic Mountain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X²_(roller_coaster)

I havent been there since that opened.

 

[indamixx99]

The best coaster in the world is X² in Six Flags Magic Mountain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X²_(roller_coaster)

+1
That thing disorients the hell out of you and you have no idea which way you're going!

 

[Old Hippie]

The best coaster in the world is X² in Six Flags Magic Mountain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X²_(roller_coaster)

I've never gotten to ride that thing.

 

[jaha2000]

The best coaster in the world is X² in Six Flags Magic Mountain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X²_(roller_coaster)

Best in the world? I dont know about that. Hard to beat some of the stuff at cedar point.

 

[roguerower]

Ferrari World?
that is pretty lame.

Yea, well, when you have a shit ton of money and no common sense it makes sense to put up stupid shit like this. Why invest in technology or industry when you can make your country one of the greatest tourism spots in the world...wait a second, that region sucks.

Think Matt Damon said it best in Syriana:

But what do you need a financial advisor for? Twenty years ago you had the highest Gross National Product in the world, now you're tied with Albania. Your second largest export is secondhand goods, closely followed by dates which you're losing five cents a pound on... You know what the business community thinks of you? They think that a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other's heads off and that's where you'll be in another hundred years, so on behalf of my firm I accept your offer.

Granted, this is from a movie, but I feel the rule applies to all oil producing middle eastern countries.

 

[Crono]

The best coaster in the world is X² in Six Flags Magic Mountain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C2%B2_(roller_coaster)

Maybe, but the single huge drop of the Kindga Ka is pretty intense.

 

[Old Hippie]

Best in the world? I dont know about that. Hard to beat some of the stuff at cedar point.

It's definately unique and put Arrow (the manfg) into bankruptcy fixing the flaws.

It all depends on what you're looking for in a perfect coaster ride but the X(2) coaster has elements only seen in one other coaster....it's sister in China(?).

 

[Gibsons]

The best coaster in the world is X² in Six Flags Magic Mountain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X²_(roller_coaster)

This thing scared me more than any other coaster, and by a long way. That first drop isn't that big, but iirc you go 'blind' (backwards) over the top then it spins you to where you go face-first straight down. Mind=blown.

 

[destrekor]

This thing scared me more than any other coaster, and by a long way. That first drop isn't that big, but iirc you go 'blind' (backwards) over the top then it spins you to where you go face-first straight down. Mind=blown.

Yeah, I've never gotten a chance to go to Magic Mountain, so until then, I won't ever get to know what it's like to do all that twists and turns in the chair itself.

At the right moments, it would just be insane. I remember Arrow building it, and I followed it a lot back then, and was always insanely jealous that SFMM got that ride. And then it was just full of problems, as one could expect of a new ride of an entirely new type. But after a handful of years the rides and crew get more efficient, and I swear that anytime I am near SFMM, I must go - solely for the reason of that ride, and that ride only. However, a few other rides thankfully get included with the ticket, and would be fun.

But nobody has a better overall park that Cedar Point. Too much fun to be had at CP.

 

[Old Hippie]

Yeah, I've never gotten a chance to go to Magic Mountain,

I've been to MM but it was in 1982.....that probably doesn't count. :biggrin:

The Mormons owned it at the time and it was horrible.

No beer, no smoking cigs in the park, and they were busting people in the parking lots for not following the rules.

Pretty restrictive for the time.

 

[Gibsons]

I've been to MM but it was in 1982.....that probably doesn't count. :biggrin:

The Mormons owned it at the time and it was horrible.

No beer, no smoking cigs in the park, and they were busting people in the parking lots for not following the rules.

Pretty restrictive for the time.

I can understand not wanting beered up people riding rollercoasters. beer barf flying allover the place, raining down on everyone, ew.

 

[Old Hippie]

I can understand not wanting beered up people riding rollercoasters. beer barf flying allover the place, raining down on everyone, ew.

:biggrin:

I understand but I don't think that was the reason.

 

[DrPizza]

This thing scared me more than any other coaster, and by a long way. That first drop isn't that big, but iirc you go 'blind' (backwards) over the top then it spins you to where you go face-first straight down. Mind=blown.

Sounds like X-Flight at Geuga Park (formerly Six Flags)
Incredible coaster; definitely on my top 5 coasters list.

 

[destrekor]

Sounds like X-Flight at Geuga Park (formerly Six Flags)
Incredible coaster; definitely on my top 5 coasters list.

A 4-Dimension coaster is not exactly like a Flying coaster. (those are the names of the coaster-types, btw)
A Flying coaster has seats that, while they rotate in the station, the riders only change position when the track changes from suspended-type (overhead) to regular type (underfoot(?)). You are either on your back or on your stomach, and the track's twists and turns then provide the different viewpoints and whatnot.

A 4-Dimension coaster has a sub-rail iirc, and the position of this sub-rail provides action on a mechanism on the train itself, which drives the rotation of all the seats. They don't rotate freely, but they also don't rotate in a predictable sense, you could be facing an entirely different direction when compared to the train's maneuvers around the track.

It's quite an interesting coaster type, one that brought Arrow (the manufacturer) quite the headache in the following years after it was first introduced at Magic Mountain.

I'd love to go on that coaster, but there are many miles between Ohio and California.

And being an hour away from Cedar Point isn't exactly bothersome.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I saw video of this yesterday during the second practice session for the Formula One race this weekend. They had Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, the current Ferrari F1 drivers, riding in the front of it. Looks like fun.

That entire complex is fucking amazing. I'd love to visit there for an F1 race.

 

[Krazy4Real]

The 2nd one looks better.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

And due to the speed and the frequent dust storms in Abu Dhabi, all riders are required to wear safety goggles.

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fail.