When you want to take your emotions to the limit, roller coasters will undoubtedly leave you breathless. They offer an incredible adrenaline rush. Their designs and fabrication have evolved with time, and that made them a unique and unrepeatable experience in modern times, with their 90-degree drops and their frightening high speed, which can be too scary for some people.
There are lots of scary roller coasters around the whole world, but most of them are in the United States. “Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit”, in Orlando, Florida, is property of Universal Studios Florida. It is 167 feet high, reaches a maximum velocity of 66 miles per hour and is 1300 yards long. After you ride it, you have a chance to see the expression of terror reflected on your face, because you’ll be filmed throughout the ride. Something very particular about this roller coaster is that you can choose the music you’ll listen to during the ride, thanks to the speakers installed on the seat.
“Kingda Ka”, located at Six Flags Great Adventure Park, in New Jersey, is the highest roller coaster in the world, 456 feet, and it is also the fastest. It goes from 0 to 128 miles per hour in just 3.5 seconds, it has a terrifying descend of 140 yards.
The fastest rollercoaster in the world is located in the United Arab Emirates, and is called the “Formula Ross”. It is at the Ferrari World Abu Dhabi Park and reaches an incredible maximum velocity of 150 miles per hour. It simulates the tracks of a Ferrari Formula 1, and is 1.25 miles long. Those brave enough to ride it must use goggles to protect their eyes from the sandstorms in that place.
Dodonpa can be found at the Fuji-Q-Highland Park, Japan. It is the fastest roller coaster in the whole world, reaching 94 miles per hour in just 1.8 seconds, that’s an astonishing 2.7G of accelerating force.
The Incredible Hulk Coaster can be found in Orlando, Florida, at Universal’s Islands of Adventure. Named after comic book character Hulk, it is painted green, it has a height of 50 yards and its top speed is 68 miles per hour. This amazing ride has two corkscrews, two complete vertical turns, a 0 G turn, and an inverted double turn, all that in just two minutes and 15 seconds.
In Busch Gardens, Tampa Bay, you can see Falcon’s Fury, which makes a turn that puts its riders upside down, and then lets them fall with a speed of 60 miles per hour.
The lightless mode causes a double emotion among those who ride it. When there is a sudden fall or turn, it becomes even more exciting. From Space Mountain, in Disney’s Magic Kingdom, or Revenge of the Mummy in Universal Studios, Florida, or even Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, in Universal’s Islands of Adventure, riding in the dark uses the element of surprise to take people into adrenaline rushes. Some of these roller coasters have internment lightshows and special effects.
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