(Redirected from Giga)
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Description |
A complete-circuit roller coaster that is 300 to 399 feet tall. |
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First |
Millennium Force - 2000 |
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Millennium Force - 2000 |
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Newest |
Red Force - 2017 |
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A giga roller coaster is a complete circuit roller coaster that is built for height, speed, and airtime. These coasters are between 300 and 399 feet (91.4 and 121.6 meters) in height. The first giga coaster to be opened was Millennium Force located at Cedar Point, Ohio, USA.
Giga roller coasters[edit]
So far, there have been six giga roller coasters built.
- Millennium Force (2000)
- Steel Dragon 2000 (2000)
- Intimidator 305 (2010)
- Leviathan (2012)
- Fury 325 (2015)
- Red Force (2017)
| Types of roller coaster | |||||||||
| Track materials | Hybrid • Steel • Wooden | ||||||||
| Scale | Kiddie • Family • Hyper (200+ feet) • Giga (300+ feet) • Strata (400+ feet) | ||||||||
| Train configurations | 4th Dimension • Bobsled • Flying • Inverted • Motorbike • Pipeline • Side Friction • Spinning • Stand-Up • Suspended • Winged | ||||||||
| Track layouts | Figure 8 • Out and Back • Wacky Worm (Big Apple) • Wild Mouse | ||||||||
| Multi-tracked | Number of tracks: 2 (twin, möbius) • 3 (triple) • 4 (quad) • 6 (sextuple) | ||||||||
| Style | Mine Train • Water (liquid) • Virginia Reel | ||||||||
| Situation | Enclosed • Indoor | ||||||||