Biggest and Baddest: World’s Biggest Roller Coaster Drops
April 24th, 2007 by steven.hillIf you want to find out what the biggest steel roller coaster (circuit track) drop in the world is then I obtained this list from ultimaterollercoaster.com. Pretty annoying that none of these beasts reside in the UK - or even Europe for that matter! It’s additionally a little bit sad to hear that Stealth cost only about 10% less than Kingda Ka to construct, yet is less than half the height and 48mph slower - we always get ripped off in this country! However, The Pepsi Max Big One and Stealth aren’t far off making the list, about 20 feet off, which isn’t that much considering how huge they are anyway, and their certainly two brilliant roller coasters. I can’t really imagine how big Kingda Ka is to the naked eye, but at one third of the height of The Empire State Building you can predict it to be absolutely huge!
| Roller Coaster | Drop | Location | Year |
| Kingda Ka | 418 feet | Six Flags Great Adventure Jackson, New Jersey |
2005 |
| Top Thrill Dragster | 400 feet | Cedar Point Sandusky, Ohio |
2003 |
| Steel Dragon 2000 | 306 feet | Nagashima Spaland Mie, Japan |
2000 |
| Millennium Force | 300 feet | Cedar Point Sandusky, Ohio |
2000 |
| Goliath | 255 feet | Six Flags Magic Mountain Valencia, California |
2000 |
| Titan | 255 feet | Six Flags Over Texas Arlington, Texas |
2001 |
| Fujiyama | 230 feet | Fujikyu Highland Park Japan |
1996 |
| Phantom’s Revenge | 228 feet | Kennywood Park West Mifflin, Pennsylvania |
2001 |
| Desperado | 225 feet | Buffalo Bill’s Hotel and Casino Primm, Nevada |
1993 |
418 feet of…steel. It’s pretty difficult to judge the actual height of Kingda Ka from this photo alone, so I’ll stick a video of the ride on this blog soon. If you can’t wait then head to the Kingda Ka link where there’s one on the Six Flags website. Arthur Levine gives some handy information on Kingda Ka and Six Flags New Jersey.
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April 26th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Sadly I think the coaster height war is over and it will be a long time before we see any new record breakers and I very much doubt it will ever happen in the UK. Great blog, the last post on water rides was very interesting. They don’t usually get much attention.