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 Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Steep Rollercoaster

By Paul Hsieh @ 12:00 PM

If you like rollercoasters, then you'll love this one:
The new attraction at Thorpe Park in Surrey, Saw -- The Ride, claims to offer the world's steepest freefall drop -- a beyond-vertical 100-degree descent back under the ride's 100ft (30m) peak.
Includes video. (Via BBspot.)

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 11:53:04 mst
Comment ID: #1
Name: Dana H.

And check out the very cool Roller Coaster Database here, which I discovered one day when I went on the web to find some pictures for my roller coaster-obsessed son:

http://www.rcdb.com/


Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 13:10:35 mst
Comment ID: #2
Name: Johnathan Reale
E-mail: john(at)goingjohngalt.org
URL: http://goingjohngalt.org

I'm not buying equating "steepest freefall drop" with "a beyond-vertical 100-degree descent", not unless they're even more impressed with my soon-to-be-unveiled roller coaster: what seems to be just a straight forward movement is in fact a "WAY beyond vertical" 360-degree "drop"!


Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 17:26:29 mst
Comment ID: #3
Name: Valda Redfern
E-mail: valda.redfern(at)gmail.com
URL: http://valzhalla.blogspot.com

Has anyone ever actually died of fright on a roller coaster? I ask because I think I might just manage it. The last time I went on a thrilling ride was when I accompanied my two young nieces on a day out to a theme park near London (it might even have been Thorpe Park). I thought it would be poor form to let the little girls go on one particularly scary ride by themselves, so I went with them. They loved it; I was the one screaming "I want to get off!".


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