SaiyanHajime
CF Legend
...full circuit roller coaster? Or did that title belong to Tower of Terror in Gold Reef City? Or something else?
When Oblivion opened, was it the world's steepest...
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Anonymous
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Hard to say really, since RCDB don't let you search for steep drops...
The only one that I would thin could challenge it would be Tower of Terror but it didn't open until 2001. So Oblivion were most likely the steepest full circuit coaster in the world at that point.
I can't think of any other that would match it at that point...
Posting on the go...
The only one that I would thin could challenge it would be Tower of Terror but it didn't open until 2001. So Oblivion were most likely the steepest full circuit coaster in the world at that point.
I can't think of any other that would match it at that point...
Posting on the go...
SaiyanHajime
CF Legend
For some reason I thought ToT was earlier, but was SBNO for years? Thanks.
dropthefloor93
Hyper Poster
It was the steepest full circuit coaster in the world yes.
Followed by Diving Machine G5 with a 89 degree drop and finally Gravitymax is 2002 with a 90 degree drop.
Followed by Diving Machine G5 with a 89 degree drop and finally Gravitymax is 2002 with a 90 degree drop.
^I don't buy that G5 is any steeper than Oblivion to be honest. It's a mirror clone; I don't see why B&M would redesign it to be half a degree steeper, if rcdb is to be believed. It just doesn't make any sense.
They ride exactly the same anyway.
They ride exactly the same anyway.
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Anonymous
Guest
^^ Also Tower of Terror (in South Africa) opened 2001 with a 90° drop so gravity max is out of the question...
dropthefloor93
Hyper Poster
loefet said:
The question was full circuit. ToT is a shuttle. Is everybody forgetting the question here?
Joey said:
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Anonymous
Guest
^ You are thinking about Tower of Terror at Dreamworld in Australia which is a Reverse Freefall Coaster (shuttle). Where as I and Joey are talking about Tower of Terror at Gold Reef City in South Africa, which opened in 2001.
Link > Tower of Terror - Gold Reef City - RCDB
So I know exactly what we are talking about...
Link > Tower of Terror - Gold Reef City - RCDB
So I know exactly what we are talking about...
dropthefloor93
Hyper Poster
Oh thanks for correcting me. I thought It was a Eurofighter and therefore more recent.
I never actually looked into it.
I never actually looked into it.
Gazza said:
True, but only because the parks buying them requested it so that they could go after the steepest coaster record.
That wasn't the case for G5; as far as I'm aware it was never sold as the world's steepest coaster. Nor was Oblivion come to think of it. It was always advertised as the world's first vertical drop. Ok, so it amounted to the same thing, but it wasn't until the "beyond vertical!" eurofighters that anything was ever made of the steepness again.
dropthefloor93
Hyper Poster
^ What were the rides? and what was the steepness?
Eurofighters used the beyond vertical drop as their major marketing point. I'm not sure if the parks that first got them were going for the "world's steepest!!!!!!!!!!" angle with advertising though.
Thorpe were going to take that approach with Saw (UK's steepest), but Flamingoland basically pissed on their chips with Mumbo Jumbo in the same year, which they kept fairly quiet and then announced right after Thorpe had made a big deal about Saw.
The S&S El Locos have basically added 1 degree each time to try and go for the "steepest" record:
Steel Hawg - 111 degrees
Mumbo Jumbo - 112 degrees
Timber Drop - 113 degrees
But now Gerstlauer has brought Takabisha, a Eurofighter with a 121 degree drop and basically destroyed them all.
Personally I think it's all a bit stupid. The beyond vertical drops are nowhere near as good as a vertical drop anyway; it's just a "cheap" record to go for since nobody's going to go for height/speed anytime soon.
Thorpe were going to take that approach with Saw (UK's steepest), but Flamingoland basically pissed on their chips with Mumbo Jumbo in the same year, which they kept fairly quiet and then announced right after Thorpe had made a big deal about Saw.
The S&S El Locos have basically added 1 degree each time to try and go for the "steepest" record:
Steel Hawg - 111 degrees
Mumbo Jumbo - 112 degrees
Timber Drop - 113 degrees
But now Gerstlauer has brought Takabisha, a Eurofighter with a 121 degree drop and basically destroyed them all.
Personally I think it's all a bit stupid. The beyond vertical drops are nowhere near as good as a vertical drop anyway; it's just a "cheap" record to go for since nobody's going to go for height/speed anytime soon.
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Anonymous
Guest
You mean the Togo - Ultra-Twisters??
They are just 85°, but I would guess that it was they who were the steepest before Oblivion...
They are just 85°, but I would guess that it was they who were the steepest before Oblivion...
metalhead7
Mega Poster
khanage said:
Screaming squirrels don't count because they use brakes to slow the car down preventing high negative g's a true coaster drop allows the ride to reach its full potential speed
Coaster_Dude
Roller Poster
Don't the El Locos have brakes on the top of the drops as well? Mumbo Jumbo does unless my memory mistakes me?