Wild Thing, MN

[henryt93]

Hi. I'm doing a math project and need some info on the parabolic hill on Wild Thing at Valleyfair in MN. I already know from the wikipedia article that the parabolic hill is 103 feet tall, but does anyone know how wide it is? If someone had a head-on photo of the parabolic hill, that would be great too. Thanks.

[Speeddeamon128]

I have never been on the ride but http://rcdb.com/id137.htm wikipedia sucks. The lift hill is 207 ft tall, not 103 ft tall. Use rcdb for factual coaster information

 

EDIT: Welcome to TPR!

[ginzo]

^I don't believe he's talking about the lift hill, which aren't usually parabolic. At least not on the lift side of the hill.

 

He's talking about the second hill, the one immediately after the lift. Both Wikipedia and RCDB agree on a height of 103 ft. for that hill.

 

Though I do wonder about the validity of the following statement on Wikipedia:

 

The train then enters a 103 ft (31.4m) parabolic hill, resulting in the longest low gravity section of any coaster in the world.

[Speeddeamon128]

^Woops my mistake Still Wikipedia is a bad source for any information.

[Hercules]

90% of the stuff on Wikipedia is about as real as Laser Snake Horse.

[Speeddeamon128]

^Agreed

[Airtime&Gravity]

Though I do wonder about the validity of the following statement on Wikipedia:

 

The train then enters a 103 ft (31.4m) parabolic hill, resulting in the longest low gravity section of any coaster in the world.

 

I read somewhere, Negative-G.com I think, that when Wild Thing opened, the second hill was "the longest low gravity section of any coaster in the world." I doubt it holds the record any more though, but Negative-G said that Valleyfair was still saying the record still stood (I think this was from a 2007 update).

[DBru]

^What coaster do you think would've taken that record? I can't really think of any, except for maybe Goliath at SFMM...

[Wood Dragon 1988]

El Toro, EGF, SROS, T-Express maybe?

[Vffreak07]

That would be f***ing insane negative gravity, not low gravity.

[holyblakbelt]

I don't know a lot about parabolas, but all I care is that the airtime on that hill is crazier than a patient in a mental hospital!

 

O.K. Maybe not that crazy, but the airtime is pretty sweet.

[DBru]

El Toro, EGF, SROS, T-Express maybe?

 

I don't believe any of the coasters you just named have sufficient amounts of low, sustained negative G's.

[CP_RULES]

"The longest low gravity section of any coaster in the world" means the single hill that holds airtime for the longest period of time, not the strongest or most airtime on any coaster.

[Mike Austin]

That would be f***ing insane negative gravity, not low gravity.

 

-2g sounds like a pretty low gravitational force to me though...?

[ginzo]

"The longest low gravity section of any coaster in the world" means the single hill that holds airtime for the longest period of time, not the strongest or most airtime on any coaster.

 

O RLY???

[timberskara]

I already know from the wikipedia article that the parabolic hill is 103 feet tall, but does anyone know how wide it is?

 

I would love to help out with this...I'll see what I can come up with!

 

Best of luck with your project

[KrakenKing]

I believe I heard that Goliath has 3 seconds of airtime on the hill after the first turnaround.