El Toro (Six Flags Great Adventure)

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El Toro

Six Flags Great Adventure Location Jackson, New Jersey, USA, New Jersey Coordinates 40.138805°N 74.434608°W / 40.138805; -74.434608 Status Operating since June 12, 2006 Rider height 48 inch minimum Replaced Viper, Rodeo, Taz Twister
Statistics
Manufacturer	Intamin
Product	Wooden Coaster (Prefabricated Track)
Designer / calculations	Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH
Type	Wooden
Track layout	Out and Back
Riders per train	36
Hourly capacity	1500
Propulsion	Cable lift hill
Height	181 feet
Drop	176 feet
Top speed	70 mph
Length	4400 feet
Inversions	0
Drop angle	76°
Duration	1:42

El Toro (Spanish for "The Bull") is a prefabricated wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, USA. The attraction was designed by Intamin and opened on June 12, 2006. It had the steepest drop of any wooden roller coaster in the world, at 76 degrees, until this record was broken by T Express at Everland in 2008.

The ride is the only prefabricated wooden coaster by Intamin in the United States.

History

On September 28, 2005, Six Flags Great Adventure announced that El Toro would be added to the park. It would replace Viper, an infamous looping coaster that closed in 2004 after years of maintenance issues and plummeting guest satisfaction. Viper's station would be reused. The final piece was topped off in December 2005.

El Toro opened on June 12, 2006.

A single rider line was added to El Toro in 2022.

Design

Elements
181 foot tall cable lift hill with a 176 foot drop at 76° 112 foot tall hill 100 foot tall hill 82 foot tall hill Helix

Unlike "traditional" wooden roller coasters, El Toro was prefabricated in a factory. Instead of trackers cutting, shaping and laying down the track, each piece of track was cut by using a laser. This means it was manufactured to a higher degree of precision than can be achieved by hand. The track snaps together easily and is made out of layers of wood that are tightly bonded together instead of nailed together by hand like a traditional wooden roller coaster. This makes the ride much smoother and speeds up construction (thus costing less as less man-hours are needed to construct the ride.

Trains

2 trains with 6 cars per train. Riders are arranged 2 across in 3 rows for a total of 36 riders per train.

Incident

On June 29, 2021, a train partially derailed and stalled. Nobody was injured, but El Toro was closed pending a report on the incident from Intamin. The ride reopened for the 2022 season.

In August 2022, the ride was closed following an "on-track incident". Following repairs, it reopened in June 2023.

Images

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  The queue line
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  Train approaching a turn
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  The turnaround
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  View from the exit ramp
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  View of the ride

External links

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  El Toro on the Roller Coaster DataBase.

Tallest wooden roller coaster drop June 2009–May 2014
Preceded by Son of Beast	Tallest wooden roller coaster drop June 2009–May 2014	Succeeded by Goliath

Fastest wooden roller coaster 2012–May 2014
Preceded by Colossos	Fastest wooden roller coaster 2012–May 2014	Succeeded by Goliath

Steepest wooden roller coaster 2006–2008
Preceded by Balder	Steepest wooden roller coaster 2006–2008	Succeeded by T Express

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