le-claw

The acceration on that is awesome...

One of the best roller coasters i have ever been on.....

Mike Rainbird

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1.5g - more than the fastest accelerating road car is capable of (even an NMS one .

Where's my cheque?

le-claw

Mike i am sending it with joining stuff for croft so i was waiting for your response and i have been out all weekend.

2.5 secs o-62mph is pretty impressive for a rollercoaster mate.....i aint comparing it to any car or bike u arse bandit......

Danielle

omg no not best rollercoaster but really good

you wait hours to get on it and it last seconds lol

i love that spinball rollercoaster at alton towers!!!

i love all rides but thats definately my favourite there!!

gingeRS

you should go on stealth then @ thorpe park.

same starting accel as RITA, but after 600 foot you go vertically up for 200, feet, twist through 90 degrees, then over the top, in a tight radius, back down to earth (vertical) 90 degree twist, then run off

top

Lambchop

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What kind of name for a rollercoatser is Rita?

Danielle

shes the queen of speed

MWF

It was originally chosen to be themed on a biker girl called Rita, since it was a launch coaster it would be like riding on the back of her bike. The ride at that point was called 'Ride Rita' which was pretty catchy. There were a lot of adverts put up round the park and online showing a cartoon image of a girl in leathers which was traced from the Kill Bill poster.

For some reason the whole theme changed to 50's hotrodding and since they'd already coined the Ride Rita title they couldn't make a drastic name change so late on, so the 'Ride Rita' name was dropped in favour of 'Rita Queen Of Speed' and bizarely involved Transvestites during its launch.

I'm not sure why this happened but it appeared to me to be a knee jerk reaction to how risque the name 'Ride Rita' was as it obviously had a double meaning. Or perhaps it was technical limitations with trying to make the carridges like motorbikes.

Lambchop

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Christ so much politics on naming a roller coaster

AndyRST

Thats the same time as a F1 car accelerates from 0-60mph

S1sam

It was closed when I went to alton towers a few ago..

But if its as scary as Oblivion then fook that

MAD EVO 4

oblivion is not scary,

me and a mate had bloke tell us we were mad because we had our hands in the air the moment we left the station till the end of the ridge

Stu @ M Developments

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Look forward to my ride on it. Cant see it being very scary, so hope teh acceleration alone can give you a bit of a high.

le-claw

Stu u go on about the big one being good - personally think its shite, rita is much better for getting the adrenaline going

Stu @ M Developments

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Really? Do I? Where?

The big one bores me to tears and i can hold a solid conversation all teh way round it, play with my balls and take pictures mate. In fact, i did so for charity for many many misserable cold hours. lol.

I even took these pictures on PF days out myself i was so scared...

Upside down on teh revolution:




Big one drop tide out.


Big one drop tide in.




However your report that Rita is at least better than the Pepsi max is great news indeed. Thanks.

rocky_robin

Agree fully with the acceleration!!! It's mad! You should have seen my face on the picture that you see at the end......looks as though I was crapping it! lol! Totally opposite as it was BRILLIANT!

Pity the queue was soo flipping long, as we would have run round to do it again!

le-claw

Thought i had read u said it was good - sorry like - i aint that interesting in your posts so it was just a glance LOL

Stu @ M Developments

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Que was huge when we went so had to miss it out sadly, but look forward to going in a few weeks.

_SpeedX_

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yes its good but u still cant beat the top thrill dragster in cedar point lol.


biggest and fastest roller coaster in the world.


theres videos of it plastered on the net truly awesome!

_SpeedX_

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stupid repost lol

gingeRS

stealth is similar to that, bit less crazy looking.

is that a flat launch coaster too?

looks quality

cant wait to ride the coasters whn i'm in vegas in sept.

_SpeedX_

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yes mate stationary to 120mph lol, i got a video somewhere of the coaster not making it to the top and dropping down backwards and then relaunches to get over lol.

aparently its a common thing!!

Stu @ M Developments

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That looks wicked.

Fastmaul

Blahhh
Rita is mere Childs play!

Kingda Ka is the tallest and fastest

Kingda Ka will begin with an impressive launch from zero to 128 mph in just 3.5 seconds. The coaster's train will then rises up a tower at a vertical angle, twisting 90 degrees, reaching a height of 456 feet or nearly 45 stories.

Crossing the apex riders will begin a vertical descent into a 270 spiral as the train falls again reaching speeds in excess of 100 mph. The entire ride will be just under one minute.

aduz

cedar point is the daddy

Fastmaul

Yeah, and second place to Kingda Ka

aduz

its just a bigger version of cedars dragster and ive been to six flags and cedar point is still the daddy imo

GTechR

Well I aint ever gonna afford to go to the States, (I assume thats where they are?) So in responce to le-claw, yes it IS fukkin awsome matey

Danielle, I thought the Spinball was wicked, evidently I appeared to be screaming like a big girl the entire way around it, (I was actually laughing my ass off), but that argument will always go on