500' tall coasters.

[Yankee cannonball]

Okay, so 200' is a hypercoaster, 300' is a gigicoaster, 400' is a stratacoaster. What the hell will 500' be? a coasterzilla?

[RIP Psyclone]

I've heard the term "terracoaster" but it's also used to mean basically a terrain coaster, or one that spends a lot of time close to the ground.

[Yankee cannonball]

Terracoaster would describe maverick, and would make me think the coaster is made of Terra Cotta

[the sound]

Well, for a start, there isn't any 500' coasters, so i don't think this is something that really you should worry about. But, i would say it would be called a Mesocoaster.

[Carnage]

Whatever pointless buzzword Cedar Fair decides to come up with.

 

I still say Maverick being a terrain coaster is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

[Wes]

A waste of money.

[ebl]

Aside from ridiculous, I think it would depend on who builds it.

 

Intamin = Most likely fun.

 

Vekoma = Torture

 

Eric

[sixflagsguy5]

It'll probably be whatever one the head designer of the ride decides unless the park wants to use a certain term for advertising purposes. It's very doubtful that a park would do this, but you never know. If it is done I would guess that it would be Intamin.

[Hurricane]

Imagine a 500ft Togo Standup

[Team Thriller]

I think a 500 foot tall coaster would be called and 'O-Zone Coaster'. Because they named the Stratacoaster because "it almost touched the Stratousphere." This "Almost touched the O-Zone layer."

 

--James

[Hurricane]

Hmmm... if they DO name it a "O-zone" Coaster, will the theme song be the Numa Numa Song?

[Yankee cannonball]

If Vekoma made the first 500' coaster, I would simultaneously have a heart attack and develop a double hernia

[benzo41190]

A waste of money.

 

YES!

 

But I honestly don't see the point of a 500ft coaster. I could see a drop tower ride or a sky coaster.....but not A coaster.

[the sound]

If Vekoma made the first 500' coaster, I would simultaneously have a heart attack and develop a double hernia

 

Why would Vekoma make it anyway? I don't understand. Besides, newer vekoma rides are apparently "Smooth".

[niiicolaaah]

Hey, you never know... just look at Magnum. "They said it couldn't be done. They said a coaster that high would require a chain lift to get the train up the second hill."

 

I *really* HOPE Intamin never makes a 500 ft version of Kingda Ka....

[Yankee cannonball]

Hey, you never know... just look at Magnum. "They said it couldn't be done. They said a coaster that high would require a chain lift to get the train up the second hill."

 

I *really* HOPE Intamin never makes a 500 ft version of Kingda Ka....

 

LOL, you're like "anything is posssible...Ijust wish it weren't "

[ebl]

A 500 ft. version of Kingdom Come is entirely possible. It's only, what 45 feet taller? A bit more power and 500 ft. up you'll go. Pointless, but possible.

 

Eric

[Carnage]

^ I'd say that's just about the only possible way.

 

Physically, a park could build a traditional 500 footer. But it would cost so much that it'd just be cheaper to build an entire park from scratch.

 

Probably the only company that could afford to build such an attraction would be Disney. And they don't build massive thrill rides.

[downunder]

I don't see it happening anytime soon, it wouldn't be a good commercial decision for any park at the moment. A 500 foot drop would be easier if it was from an elevated point ie 300 foot one side and 500 foot over the edge for the drop, obviously Cedar Point couldn't do this, Magic Mountain, hmmm.

[Tanks4me05]

Or even better, Kennywood. They have the terrain. (I know, they wouldn't build anything that big at this time.)

[downunder]

Kennywood have made excellent use of their terrain, love that 2nd drop on Phantom.

 

You could certainly make a big coaster much more efficient by having a shorter lift hil than the drop, I love that idea of dropping off into a ravine or something. Where Superman the Escape is at the moment would be a good place for this type of ride.

[sirdss]

They have been talking about something like this at Vegas's Stratosphear for a while now...

[Carnage]

^ Only talk though. Seems the locals are against having a loud roller coaster next door.

[Yankee cannonball]

^would they even hear it, being 900 something feet above them? or would the drop go from 500' to ground level?

[Carnage]

^ The plan was a 750ish foot fishhook coaster.

 

Meaning it would drop straight down the tower, and then pull out across the street. So yes the coaster would make quite a bit of noise that the locals could hear.

 

They were going to build it, but it got shot down.

 

Last I heard they were hoping to make a much smaller version. No idea though what the chances of that happening are.