jayjay
Giga Poster
I'm doing a bit of research for a project I'm working on and I'm getting different facts from different websites here.
Basically, this involves Millennium Force's height and speed records and Superman the Escape at SFMM. From THIS article (relevent passage quoted below) it gives me the impression that Cedar Point advertised the ride as "the fastest roller coaster in the world" but from other places I've picked up that it was advertised as the "fastest continuous circuit..." and I've got all sorts of other facts that seem to contradict each other from other places.
Could somebody clarify what happened? Did Cedar Point genuinely disregard Superman as a roller coaster?
Basically, this involves Millennium Force's height and speed records and Superman the Escape at SFMM. From THIS article (relevent passage quoted below) it gives me the impression that Cedar Point advertised the ride as "the fastest roller coaster in the world" but from other places I've picked up that it was advertised as the "fastest continuous circuit..." and I've got all sorts of other facts that seem to contradict each other from other places.
Could somebody clarify what happened? Did Cedar Point genuinely disregard Superman as a roller coaster?
There's also the age-old question - what is a coaster? Parks will call anything a coaster if it means they can claim they have the tallest, while other parks will conveniently forget other 'coasters' if it suits their agenda.
One of the best examples has to be Superman The Escape at Six Flags Magic Mountain which opened in 1997. Delayed by a year, it opened to deafening fanfare and was the first coaster to go over 100mph with a 415ft spike of track.
There was muted debate as to whether Superman The Escape was a coaster. In fact, it became a topic of ridicule (and so it should) on newsgroups and forums, not least when Millennium Force opened at Cedar Point five years later.
Like Superman, Millennium Force was claimed to be the tallest, fastest coaster in the world. The press release loudly proclaimed that "Millennium Force [would] shatter 10 world records" including "tallest roller coaster at 310 feet" and "fastest roller coaster at 92 mph"
So Cedar Point made up its own mind as to whether Superman The Escape was a coaster or not. Although Millennium Force was without question the tallest and fastest complete circuit coaster, any extra (and perhaps unnecessary) adjectives water down what is otherwise a press-ready soundbite.