Loefet Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 YAY, I knew that I have read it some where, and after some searches I found it. The now dismantled coaster "Double Loop" at Fuji-Q had one when it was built 1988. http://www.rcdb.com/id1191.htm http://www.coastergallery.com/japan/FH07.html So sorry MF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coasterlicious Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 well thats Japan... so in America it still owns the record.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollocoast Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Just for the record... It's spelled with 2 N's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Real Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 These descriptions of MF from those of you who don't like it sound more like TTD. One trick pony, airless, first drop then track to the station. MF is the blue one! TTD is red and white. MF is my #1 coaster because of all the airtime I get, the overbanks, the tunnels, the ground hugging at speed and the overall smoothness of the ride. Which part isn't to like? Actually, TTD does give more air than MF imo. The drop on MF isnt enough to do it for me. Ive got who knows how many rides on it since its my home park. I even got to ride it before Media Day the year it opened. Sure it was good and fun the first few years but its somewhat boring. I can go 70-75 legally in my car which would be the average speed of MF. Plus going over train tracks at 40mph will give me more airtime than on any other part of MF besides the drop. Anthony "used to be a fanboy" Harrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USRoadTripper Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Yeah, I really didn't like it either. It seemed to just be too fast for me. The wind was hitting me so hard that it made it hard to breathe, and I couldn't really keep my eyes open. And to add insult to injury, there was no airtime! After all the fuss that was made about it, I was truly floored at how lame it was. It was an extremely uncomfortable ride. I'd ride it again, but not because I enjoyed it that much. -Julie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollermonkey Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 YAY, I knew that I have read it some where, and after some searches I found it.The now dismantled coaster "Double Loop" at Fuji-Q had one when it was built 1988. http://www.rcdb.com/id1191.htm http://www.coastergallery.com/japan/FH07.html So sorry MF. Weird. I rode this 4 times before it was shut down, and I never noticed this. I guess I just wasn't looking for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nannerdw Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 10. Steepest non-inversion banked turn on a roller coaster (122 degrees) At what angle would they consider it an inversion? 150 degrees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HCOSurfer90 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 I could have sworn that SFGadv had the record for most rides then, which was about 75 at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterlover420 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 ^Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HCOSurfer90 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Yeah they did. It's even in Guiness World Record books. They broke it in 1999 with their major expansion. They ended up with 75 rides. EDIT: if you dont believe me look here: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=51868 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indyboy Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Millineam force was my favorite coaster the first time i rode it but the second itseemed kinda sucky but itwas still a great ride 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonKhan Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Not only in Japan, but also in Europe there are many, very old classics, that use a cable lift. But MF was the first one to use this modern version. Personally I absolutely LOVE MF (as many people might have noticed), but I can understand why people don't like. I'm an absolute speed freak, and on no other coaster do you get such a nice speed rush like on MF. I really don't care much about airtime. It's nice, but it's not a must for me. I just love how MF keeps up the speed on this huge length of track, and that without a single brakerun or trim in between until the end. So, if you absolutely love air and don't care about smooth, unintense and fast turns, then I see why you don't like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 8 ... wow, just wow. i mean please, that's retarded! You mean petarded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATman Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 ^^^what is your point?????? (and who taught you grammar?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devious Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 airless? i dont know where you rode this, or when, but my last ride (summer 05) on it was DEFINATELY not airless, then again, i'm skinny and rode front car, front row, right hand side dear lord, first drop ejector and plenty of floater over the 2 in the TA section and decent ejector-esque air on the hill by the station i love mf, i hate ttd, or did you know that already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tngdiablo Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 well thats Japan... so in America it still owns the record.... America is not the world, and it doesn't state, "In America" so nyah. Anyway, I too am in the MF sucks camp. However, seeing as how I haven't ridden it yet (I will soon), I am only basing this on how the layout looks. Sure, the first drop looks and according to many people IS awesome, but it seems to me that the rest of the ride is actually just a bunch of meandering back towards the station through various overbanks and whatnot. I'm hoping that it isn't just "meandering" and packs a punch. However, I maintain my reservations towards the ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJackson Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 However, I maintain my reservations towards the ride. lol, I'm not sure if 'reservations' is the word you were looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absimilliard Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 When MF first opened, I think it was shown that the most angled non inversion turn "record" actually was owned by either of the Mr. Freeze coasters! They have 132 degrees banked turns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonKhan Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 airless? i dont know where you rode this, or when, but my last ride (summer 05) on it was DEFINATELY not airless, then again, i'm skinny and rode front car, front row, right hand side dear lord, first drop ejector and plenty of floater over the 2 in the TA section and decent ejector-esque air on the hill by the station i love mf, i hate ttd, or did you know that already? Maybe not airless, but nowhere on the ride you get "ejector air". I think you need to be taught what good airtime is It has air, but all it has is long, unintense floater air... But yes, me too doesn't like TTD as much as Millie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollermonkey Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 ^ Which is why I like it. I am more of a floater air guy, and MF has plenty. Phoenix has more, and KW's Jack Rabbit has the most perfect moment of floater air on any coaster I've been on, but MF is it for steel IMO. (439: 356 Steel, 83 Wood and counting) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 These descriptions of MF from those of you who don't like it sound more like TTD. One trick pony, airless, first drop then track to the station. MF is the blue one! TTD is red and white. MF is my #1 coaster because of all the airtime I get, the overbanks, the tunnels, the ground hugging at speed and the overall smoothness of the ride. Which part isn't to like? Actually, TTD does give more air than MF imo. The drop on MF isnt enough to do it for me. Ive got who knows how many rides on it since its my home park. I even got to ride it before Media Day the year it opened. Sure it was good and fun the first few years but its somewhat boring. I can go 70-75 legally in my car which would be the average speed of MF. Plus going over train tracks at 40mph will give me more airtime than on any other part of MF besides the drop. Anthony "used to be a fanboy" Harrison Well, that's you own fault that you think its boring as I think you've just over ridden it, and then one day just went on it and realised it just wasn't doing it for you anymore. Anyways, I think that MF would be more fun going at 70 mph than in your car, its more of appreciating it for what it is rather than what it isn't. WHat it is, is a 310 foot monster that plows you over over the top into an intense overbank followed by some speed hills there for the sake of splitting up the intensity of the ride with some air time. Its meant really for flying at high speeds with something that is a lot more bare than your car, but safer than a motorcycle, and it can go off the ground which unless your jumping off of a huge ramp on your motor cycle, can't be done otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Immel Man Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I think the main problem with Millennium Force is that we as enthusiasts are so trained to look for specific things like airtime and intensity that when we come across a roller coaster that does not meet that criteria we just close our minds off to it. This is one case where the gp has a definite edge over us. They don't all have that mental checklist of elements we use to compare and critique different coasters, so their opinion is based solely off the ride experience itself. It's that open-minded aproach that allows the gp to appreciate different aspects of some rides that many enthusiasts have lost the ability to recognize. Millennium Force does have a few spots of airtime and it does have several areas where the forces are quite intense, but the fact that neither of these are in abundance and priority is instead given to constant speed tends to turn off people before they even give the ride a chance. This causes a lot of us to have pre-conceived opinions of MF that then overshadow what the ride is actually like. Who really cares if Millennium Force caters to a different set of criteria than what a bunch of coaster fans on the internet have decided is what a coaster should be. Just sit back and enjoy a unique set of thrills that cannot be found anywhere else on the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJackson Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 Lol, i didn't know so many people had an opinion about MF's records. (I intend to kill my own thread, by the way.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollermonkey Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 I think the main problem with Millennium Force is that we as enthusiasts are so trained to look for specific things like airtime and intensity that when we come across a roller coaster that does not meet that criteria we just close our minds off to it. This is one case where the gp has a definite edge over us. They don't all have that mental checklist of elements we use to compare and critique different coasters, so their opinion is based solely off the ride experience itself. It's that open-minded aproach that allows the gp to appreciate different aspects of some rides that many enthusiasts have lost the ability to recognize. This is why I like to go to parks with neophytes whenever possible! It's more fun for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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