Moonsault Scramble was the tallest roller coaster until 1996, when which steel roller coaster at the same park overtook it?
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Moonsault Scramble Moonsault Scramble was a shuttle roller coaster that operated from 1983 until 2000 at Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan. According to the "Guinness Book of Records", Moonsault Scramble was the tallest roller coaster in the world until 1996, when its record height was surpassed by another roller coaster at Fuji-Q Highland called Fujiyama, which reached 79 m in height. Moonsault Scramble was the first roller coaster to surpass 61 metres (200 ft) in height, and it remains the third tallest shuttle roller coaster ever built, behind (Six Flags Magic Mountain), and Tower of Terror II (Dreamworld) The coaster was removed from the park to make way for the construction of Dodonpa in 2001.
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Fujiyama (roller coaster) Fujiyama is a steel roller coaster at Fuji-Q Highland, Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan. When Fujiyama opened in 1996 it was the world's tallest roller coaster at 259 ft , and had the largest drop in the world at 230 ft . Fujiyama was also the world's fastest roller coaster for a year of its operation, succeeded by Tower of Terror at Dreamworld theme park in Queensland, Australia in 1997. Despite being the world's fastest roller coaster in operation for a year, Fujiyama set no world records for roller coaster speed. Steel Phantom at Kennywood set the world record for speed before engineers added additional brakes to slow the ride down because of safety and rider comfort concerns.
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Steel roller coaster A steel roller coaster is a roller coaster that is defined by having a track made of steel. Steel coasters have earned immense popularity in the past 50 years throughout the world. Incorporating tubular steel track and polyurethane-coated wheels, the steel roller coasters can provide a taller, smoother, and faster ride with more inversions than a traditional wooden roller coaster.
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The Joker (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom) The Joker is a steel roller coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. The ride opened on May 29, 2016, as a rebuild of former wooden roller coaster Roar, adding a new steel track on top of Roar's wooden support structure. This hybrid configuration was implemented by Rocky Mountain Construction and is themed to the Joker, a comic book character villain featured in DC Comics publications. The original Roar roller coaster was constructed by Great Coasters International and opened in 1999.
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Alpine Bobsled Alpine Bobsled is a steel bobsled roller coaster, made by Intamin. It has been at three parks, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Great America and now stands at Great Escape in Queensbury, New York.
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Battlestar Galactica (roller coaster) Battlestar Galactica: Human vs. Cylon is a pair of steel, dueling roller coasters at Universal Studios Singapore. One of the coasters is an inverted roller coaster track in silver, and the other half is a traditional seated roller coaster in maroon. The coasters, which opened in 2010 and inactive between 2013 and 2015, reach 42.5 m in height and are the tallest dueling coasters in the world.
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Superman the Ride Superman the Ride (formerly known as Bizarro and Superman: Ride of Steel) is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts. Built by Intamin in 2000, it features a 208 ft lift hill, a 221 ft drop, and over 1 mi of track. The park announced plans to change the name from Bizarro to Superman the Ride for the 2016 season, as well as adding a virtual reality feature to the ride, starting June 11.
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Dare Devil Dive Dare Devil Dive is a steel roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. Designed by German company Gerstlauer, "Dare Devil Dive" is based on the company's Euro-Fighter model, and features a 95 ft -tall vertical lift hill, a 95° first drop, three inversions and a top speed of 52 mph . It is also the first Euro-Fighter to debut a new lap-bar restraint system, replacing the more common over-the-shoulder harnesses.
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Beast (Alton Towers) Alton Beast (later known as New Beast) was a roller coaster at Alton Towers. It first opened in 1988 in the Talbot Street (now Cloud Cuckoo Land) section of the park with the "Alton Mouse", a second-hand wild mouse coaster, and was marketed by the park as the largest coaster in the UK. It was a very popular ride, and it stayed in Talbot Street until 1992, when it was moved to Thunder Valley near the "Thunder Looper" (where the Rollercoaster Restaurant is now) and renamed the "New Beast". In 1994, "Nemesis" opened and the area was changed into Forbidden Valley. The "New Beast" stayed in Forbidden Valley until the end of 1997, when it was removed to make way for "Air", the park's 2002 flying coaster.It was later removed in 1999. It was sent to Divertido in Mexico City as Space Mountain. It was removed when the park closed in 2004. In 2010, the Beast was reopened in Salitre Magico as the Tornado.
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Daidarasaurus Daidarasaurus was a steel roller coaster located at Expoland in Suita, Osaka Japan. According to some sources (i.e. the roller coaster database), Daidarasaurus was the second longest roller coaster in the world, behind Steel Dragon 2000. For reasons explained below, other sources (i.e. the Guinness Book of World Records) did not recognize Daidarasaurus's claim as longest roller coaster in the world from 1999 to 2000. Daidarasaurus has now been demolished as Expoland has now permanently closed.
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Parachute Jump The Parachute Jump is a defunct amusement ride in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, whose iconic open-frame steel structure remains a Brooklyn landmark. 250 ft tall and weighing 170 tons (150 tonnes), it has been called the "Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn".
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Sierra Tonante Sierra Tonante (Italian for "Thundering Mountain Range") was a wooden roller coaster at Mirabilandia, Savio in Emilia-Romagna, Italy that operated between 1992 and 2007. It was designed by William Cobb & Werner Stengel and opened as Europe's tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster with the longest ride time.
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Flight of Fear Flight of Fear (previously known as The Outer Limits: Flight of Fear) is an enclosed launched roller coaster at two Cedar Fair parks, Kings Island in Mason, Ohio and Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. Both Flight of Fear roller coasters first opened in 1996 and were the world's first roller coasters to feature a linear induction motor (LIM) launch. Flight of Fear has won three awards from the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, including one for Major Theme/Amusement Park Ride/Attraction and two for Technology Applied to Amusements.
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Jaguar! Jaguar! is a themed steel family roller coaster located at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, built by Zierer GmbH.
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Kumba (roller coaster) Kumba is a Bolliger & Mabillard sit down roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, in Tampa, Florida. Opened in 1993, it stands 143 ft tall and has a top speed of 60 mph . "Kumba" features a total of seven inversions across the 3-minute ride.
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Canyon Blaster (Six Flags Magic Mountain) Canyon Blaster is a steel family roller coaster located in the Bugs Bunny World area of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. It is themed to the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
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Shock Wave (Six Flags Over Texas) Shock Wave is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas. Built right at the edge of the park, the "Shock Wave" is easily seen by passers-by on Interstate Highway 30. Its unique four-sided tube truss track system is similar to the "Mind Bender" roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia which was constructed at the same time.
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Demon (roller coaster) Demon is a multi-looping roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois in the Chicago area and California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. Both coasters opened in 1976 as Turn of the Century and were heavily rethemed and renamed as Demon in 1980.
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X-Scream X-Scream is, at a height of approximately 866 ft , the world's third highest amusement ride, located on top of the Stratosphere Las Vegas. The name of the ride is a play on the word 'Extreme'.
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High Roller (Valleyfair) High Roller is a wooden roller coaster located at Valleyfair in Shakopee, Minnesota. High Roller is Valleyfair's oldest roller coaster, being built in 1976 when the park opened. It is an out-and-back type coaster, and is 70 feet (21 m) at the highest peak with a top speed of 50 mph (80 km/h).
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Roller Coaster Corporation of America Roller Coaster Corporation of America (abbreviated RCCA) is an amusement ride manufacturer based in the United States. The company's first major project was the Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in 1992, while their most famous coaster was the Son of Beast at Kings Island, the world's tallest and first looping wooden coaster when it opened in 2000.
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Pandemonium (roller coaster) Pandemonium is a spinning roller coaster located at several Six Flags theme parks in North America. Designed by Gerstlauer, a German ride manufacturer and Werner Stengel. Since 2005, Six Flags has installed Pandemonium in five of their parks, with one being relocated to another company park.