[SamAdams76]

The roller coasters just keep getting bigger and faster. Everytime the "biggest one ever" is built, the bar is raised for the next one.

Eventually we are going to have roller coasters that are 2,000 feet high, travel over 40 miles of track and reach speeds of 400mph. If you think I'm nuts, just wait about 20 years. You'll see.

[Tigercap]

ouch! After reading the title, I wondered if it was my favorite park - Cedar Point in Ohio.
I wonder if anyone happened to get it on video tape.

[Richard Kimball]

I agree. When I was a kid, the log ride at Six Flags Over Texas was considered a fast ride. The wooden roller coasters are a lot rougher, too. Here's the coaster from the story:

FWIW, I rode the Texas Giant at Six Flags five straight times a few years ago, and ended up with a mild whiplash. Didn't complain to anyone, but my daughter and I stopped riding it after that.

[HamiltonJay]

I think this is the stupidest thing... building bigger and faster does not remotely mean better....

I'll take the last seat on the Jack Rabbit at Kennywood Park, over any huge gigantic steel coaster any day of the week. Not a damned one of those huge gawdy contraptions can give you the thrill of that ride, and it was built in I believe the 1920s.

Going "bigger and faster" is just a cop out.. I've been on short little <1000' wooden out and backs that are far more thrilling and fun than the "super coasters"

[DarkSavant]

Actually, the limit is how much the human body can handle. One of the first roller coasters was more intense than any of the coasters today, the problem is it snapped the necks of some of the passengers.