Amusement parks

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Gigacoaster

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A marketing term used by Cedar Point and manufacturer Intamin to describe a roller coaster that stands more than 300 feet tall. Millennium Force a 310-foot tall, 92 mph hypercoaster at Cedar Point is ...

Lim or linear induction motor

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A magnetic motor commonly used to launch a roller coaster train along or up a section of steel track. LSM or Linear Synchronous Motors are the same idea, but the technology used to propel the train ...

Tyre drive lift hill

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A lift hill that uses tyres to pinch the steel fin on the undercarriage of a car or train to drive the vehicle up the hill. tyre drive lifts may also use tyres that just come in contact with a ...

Compressed air launch

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A launch using the forced of compressed air being uncompressed like a hydraulic mechanism.

Hydraulic launch

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A launch that makes use of compressed hydraulic gas. Usually this is used when there isn’t any force of gravity to help.

Mobius track

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A racing roller coaster where the track forms one continuous-circuit and passes through the station twice. There are only a few mobius track roller coasters still operating in the world and they are, ...

Jet star

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A production-model steel roller coaster with a twister layout designed by Anton Schwarzkopf. There are several variations of this type of Schwarzkopf coaster, which are called Jet Star, Jet Star II, ...