How long is the roller coaster that sprawls across much of Paradise Pier?
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Paradise Pier Paradise Pier is a themed land at Disney California Adventure, based on that of Victorian boardwalks that were once found along the coast of California. Despite its name and the presence of a nearby man-made lake, Paradise Pier is not actually a pier, but merely a waterside area of the park. The roller coaster California Screamin' sprawls across much of it, with various other attractions and forms of entertainment scattered around it.
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California Screamin' The boardwalk-themed launched roller coaster was designed by Ingenieur Büro Stengel GmbH and was built by Intamin. California Screamin' is the eighth-longest rollercoaster in the world (and third-longest steel coaster in the United States), at 6072 ft long. It is also the longest ride with an inversion (since Son of Beast became defunct). Its highest point is 120 ft followed by a 108 ft drop. Though built of steel, the structure as designed visually mimics the features of a wooden coaster.
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Dauling Dragon Dauling Dragon (Chinese: 木翼双龙) is a wooden roller coaster located at Happy Valley in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is China's third wooden roller coaster and its first racing roller coaster. Although billed as a racing coaster, it contains elements that make it similar to dueling coasters, such as racing portions, head-on collision turn-arounds, and sections where the tracks weave around each other. This is much like Lightning Racer at Hersheypark (however, Lightning Racer was manufactured by Great Coasters International).
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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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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.
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Big One (roller coaster) The Big One, formerly known as Pepsi Max Big One, is a steel roller coaster located at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in Blackpool, Lancashire in the United Kingdom.
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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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Timberline Twister The Timberline Twister is a steel roller coaster located at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. It was built in 1983 and is mainly aimed at younger kids, as well as adults under 5'9" tall who do not wish to go on the park's wilder roller coasters. The ride features small "bumps" and one lift hill. This mini-coaster is perfect for a thrill seeker who is not tall enough to go on the bigger rides. This ride is located in Camp Snoopy next to The Camp Bus Ride.
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The Racer (Kings Island) The Racer is a wooden, racing roller coaster located at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. Designed by the legendary John C. Allen, The Racer made its public debut at the park's grand opening in 1972. It was thrust into the national spotlight after being featured in an episode of the popular TV sitcom "The Brady Bunch" in 1973 and is often recognized for playing a vital role in the roller coaster renaissance of the 1970s. The Racer inspired similar designs in other roller coasters, such as Rebel Yell at Kings Dominion and Thunder Road at Carowinds. The Racer is also one of the few original Kings Island attractions still in operation today.
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GhostRider (roller coaster) GhostRider is a wooden roller coaster at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. It is located in the Ghost Town section of the park, south of the main entrance. It is the longest wooden coaster on the West Coast of the United States.
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Lagoon (amusement park) Lagoon is a privately owned amusement park in Farmington, Utah, United States, located about seventeen miles (27 km) north of Salt Lake City. It has ten roller coasters, five of which are unique; "Colossus the Fire Dragon", the last Schwarzkopf Double Looping coaster still in operation in the United States (Laser at Dorney Park closed at the end of the 2008 season and was moved to Germany to become the Teststrecke traveling roller coaster in 2009); Roller Coaster, one of the oldest coasters in the world operating since 1921; Wicked, designed by Lagoon's engineering department and Werner Stengel in cooperation with ride manufacturer Zierer; BomBora, a family coaster designed in-house; and Cannibal, built in-house with one of the world's steepest drops.
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Rita (roller coaster) Rita (formerly known as Rita: Queen of Speed) is an Intamin accelerator coaster located in the Dark Forest area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire Moorlands, England. Open since 2005, it accelerates to 65 mph in 2.2 seconds. The ride is loosely based on drag racing, though this partly changed with the retheming of "Ug Land" into the "Dark Forest" in 2010. It now stands as an abandoned drag racer that is used as the escape cart to escape the Dark Forest. Riders must be over 1.4 m tall to ride. In 2006, a similar coaster opened at Thorpe Park, called Stealth which accelerates faster at 80 mph in 2.3 seconds.
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Intimidator (roller coaster) Intimidator is a steel roller coaster built by Bolliger & Mabillard at Carowinds. The roller coaster is located in the Celebration Plaza section of the park on the former site of the Wild Thornberry's River Adventure log flume ride. Intimidator is the thirteenth roller coaster installed at Carowinds and is located near the entrance of the theme park. It is currently one of the tallest, fastest and longest roller coasters in the Southeast with a 232 ft lift hill, a top speed of 75 mph and a track length of 5316 ft . It was announced on August 26, 2009 and opened March 27, 2010. The roller coaster's name comes from the nickname of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt.
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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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Freedom Flyer Freedom Flyer is a 395m Vekoma Suspended Family Coaster at Fun Spot America. It has yellow track and blue supports. It has been operating since May 2013 and is 1,295 feet long.
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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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Brake run A brake run on a roller coaster is any section of track meant to slow or stop a roller coaster train. Brake runs may be located anywhere along the circuit of a coaster and may be designed to bring the train to a complete halt or to simply adjust the train's speed. Contrary to some belief, the vast majority of roller coasters do not have any form of braking on the train itself, but rather forms of braking that exist on track sections. One notable exception is the scenic railway roller coaster, which relies on an operator to manually control the speed of the train.
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Big Splash (Singapore) Big Splash (Singapore) is a former waterpark at East Coast Park in Singapore, which has been redeveloped into a dining and recreation area, now also known as Playground at Big Splash. The waterpark was built in 1977 and featured an 85-metre long water slide, said at the time to be the longest and highest in the world. There was several other pools, as well as facilities such as an open-air theatre, a restaurant and food kiosks, and an arcade.
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Dreamworld Dreamworld is a theme park situated on the Gold Coast in Queensland. It is Australia's largest theme park with over 40 rides and attractions, including five roller coasters.
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Silly Symphony Swings Silly Symphony Swings is a wave swinger attraction in Paradise Pier at the Disneyland Resort in California. Themed to Disney's 1935 short film "The Band Concert", Mickey Mouse conducts from high atop the attraction, synchronized with the music. Although "The Band Concert" was not part of the "Silly Symphonies" film series, the name was applied to the attraction as a result of its symphony storyline. Closely following the plot of "The Band Concert" the main column of the ride rises, revealing a tornado which spins the riders to the tune of the William Tell Overture and William Tell's "Storm". Once the tornado safely passes, the music comes to an end and the ride slows and lowers riders to the ground. It is speculated that the new voice of the Silly Symphony Swings is that of the fictitious Mr. Tinkershmidt, the supposed new owner of Paradise Pier. Tinkershmidt and the Silly Symphony Swings update is part of the multi-year, $1.1 billion (US) expansion plan for Disney's California Adventure Park. Previews of the attraction were offered at California Adventure's Walt Disney Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar.
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Thirteen (roller coaster) Thirteen (officially stylised as TH13TEEN) is a steel roller coaster at Alton Towers in England. The ride was constructed by Intamin and opened on 20 March 2010. It is the world's first vertical freefall drop roller coaster, on which the track and train freefall approximately five metres in darkness. The ride replaced and is built on the former site of the Corkscrew, which resided at Alton Towers for 28 years between 1980 and 2008.
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10 Inversion Roller Coaster 10 Inversion Roller Coaster is a steel roller coaster at Chimelong Paradise amusement park in Guangzhou, Guangdong China. Completed in 2006, Tenth Ring is the second roller coaster in the world with 10 inversions, after Colossus in England's Thorpe Park, which is an exact replica and has the same length and height statistics. A third 10 Inversion Roller Coaster will be located at Hopi Hari, São Paulo, Brazil soon.