Comments on: The End of the Record Breaking Roller Coaster Era

By: Player 118462.

Player 118462. — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:34:42 +0000

Also, Oblivion was only 87 or 88 degrees.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:30:45 +0000

Vortex gives me good memories of one of my first roller coasters

By: Matt McIrvin

Matt McIrvin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:27:23 +0000

Roller coasters can get arbitrarily big without killing people with g-forces. It’s just a matter of scaling up the curves and inversions proportionally with the drops.

The acceleration on a curve is the square of speed divided by the radius of curvature. Since the square of speed is proportional to the kinetic energy of the train, it’s proportional to the height of the lift hill (if there is one). Make the turns gentler by scaling up the radius of curvature to the same degree, and the acceleration stays the same; and the jerk–the time derivative of acceleration–actually goes down.

So while there may well be limits to the size of a roller coaster, the acceleration the human body can stand isn’t one.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:19:41 +0000

Although coasters maybe reaching the limits with their tracks, the trains may not have, other types of seats could be made meaning that the coasters can be a simple track design but still be thrilling because of the train design. Or trains that have already been designed could be made to fit other tracks such as; stand up suspended coasters, lay down/ flying trains on a launch coaster such as ALton Towers Rita or they could be fitted to coasters such as Stealth at Thorpe Park or Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point.

By: The Coaster Critic

The Coaster Critic — Mon, 09 May 2011 01:24:57 +0000

I said the first dive machine “to our shores”. By that I meant SheiKra was the first dive machine in the U.S.

By: Quil

Quil — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:10:36 +0000

I’m pettey sure they don’t count because They’re technicaly inversions. You could say that a loop has a 180 degree drop, but people don’t say it’s a drop because it’s also an Inversion.

By: Quil

Quil — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:07:31 +0000

I know, but I posted this more than a year ago.

By: John

John — Sat, 07 May 2011 15:10:26 +0000

Cedar Point are really stripped for space at the moment (and probably money).

By: John

John — Sat, 07 May 2011 15:02:12 +0000

Oh dear….. I smell Rollercoaster tycoon 3

By: John

John — Sat, 07 May 2011 15:01:21 +0000

By the way, you might want to correct one thing in the article.

Sheikra, was opened in 2005.
Oblivion, was opened in 1998.

Which makes Oblivion the first ever diving coaster