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  • Thumbnail for Dual-tracked roller coaster
    A dual-tracked roller coaster is a roller coaster that consists of two tracks. They can be configured as racing, dueling, or Möbius loop roller coasters...
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    A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride employing a form of elevated railroad track that carries passengers on a train through tight turns, steep...
    54 KB (5,396 words) - 03:45, 28 October 2024
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    Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues...
    72 KB (6,918 words) - 03:43, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of roller coaster rankings
    ice. The first roller coasters that attached a train to a wooden track appeared in France in the early 1800s. Although wooden roller coasters are still...
    39 KB (857 words) - 19:19, 26 October 2024
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    band Aerosmith. A second installation with an identical track layout opened as Rock 'n' Roller Coaster avec Aerosmith at Walt Disney Studios Park within...
    21 KB (2,233 words) - 10:25, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wooden roller coaster
    A wooden roller coaster is a type of roller coaster classified by its wooden track, which consists of running rails made of flat steel strips mounted...
    42 KB (3,436 words) - 17:28, 1 October 2024
  • a helix. A brake run on a roller coaster is any section of track that utilizes some form of brakes to slow or stop a roller coaster train. The most common...
    57 KB (6,777 words) - 11:01, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Red Force (roller coaster)
    Red Force is a steel launched roller coaster located at Ferrari Land within PortAventura World in Salou, Catalonia, Spain. The ride was manufactured by...
    6 KB (388 words) - 14:24, 6 October 2024
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    The High Roller (also known as the Let it Ride High Roller) was a steel roller coaster constructed 1,070 feet (330 m) over the Las Vegas Strip. It was...
    11 KB (914 words) - 21:34, 7 August 2024
  • A steel roller coaster is a type of roller coaster classified by its steel track, which consists of long steel tubes that are run in pairs, supported by...
    16 KB (1,334 words) - 18:19, 15 July 2024
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    track conversion, which was officially confirmed in August 2017. It was marketed as the world's first hybrid hypercoaster – a wooden and steel roller...
    32 KB (3,218 words) - 21:47, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Beast (roller coaster)
    The Beast is a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio, United States. Designed and manufactured in-house for approximately...
    34 KB (3,977 words) - 15:09, 15 October 2024
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    of the ride. The roller coaster cars are suspended below the track, with riders secured such that their backs are parallel to the track.[citation needed]...
    20 KB (1,487 words) - 03:53, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shambhala (roller coaster)
    public on 24 October 2011; the layout of the roller coaster was leaked 2 days earlier. The last piece of track was installed in mid-April 2012 following...
    13 KB (1,392 words) - 11:13, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iron Gwazi
    Iron Gwazi (formerly called Gwazi) is a steel-track hybrid roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, a theme park in Tampa, Florida, United States. Development...
    81 KB (6,606 words) - 20:50, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the roller coaster
    Roller coaster amusement rides have origins back to ice slides constructed in 18th-century Russia. Early technology featured sleds or wheeled carts that...
    34 KB (3,516 words) - 12:37, 18 September 2024
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    roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. It was the world's first fourth-dimension roller coaster and was the final roller...
    15 KB (2,065 words) - 13:43, 10 September 2024
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    hydraulic or pneumatic power, along a launch track. This mode of acceleration powers many of the fastest roller coasters in the world. Launched coasters mainly...
    17 KB (1,815 words) - 01:00, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roller coaster inversion
    A roller coaster inversion is a roller coaster element in which the track turns riders upside-down and then returns them to an upright position. Early...
    14 KB (1,410 words) - 09:37, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rougarou (roller coaster)
    a floorless roller coaster located at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. Designed and built by Bolliger & Mabillard, the roller coaster originally...
    13 KB (1,183 words) - 17:10, 29 July 2024
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