Mega, Ultra and Giga Coasters: World Scarriest, Fastest and Highest Roller Coaster

Last time when i am small, i am afraid of the height. So when i visited theme parks with my family, i never dare to ride on them. One time, my cousins force me to take a ride at Genting Theme Park and it nearly blow off my heart. I cried all the way inside the ride and when i am down, i nearly puke. Imagine the fright i have during that ride. After that for the rest of the day, i could not even look at another ride anymore. People will have this impression that after this ride, i would not take another ride anymore in my life. But practically they are wrong because after this i begin to enjoy the thrill of riding roller coaster and when you look at the people around you shouting all they way, the fun and excitement is unimaginable. Below are some of the worlds top Roller Coasters:

Millennium Force: Cedar Point

Millennium Force

Millenium Force is voted number one steel roller coaster in the world in Amusement Today's Golden Ticket awards five times since the year 2001 and stands taller than 300 feet at its highest point.

Top Thrill Dragster: Cedar Point

Top Thrill Dragster

Known to the world as the first Strata Coaster, it measures more than 400 feet tall and the dragster speed can reach up to 120mph. Imagine the thrill you get at this height with this speed.

The Steel Dragon: Nagashima Spa Land Amusement Park

The Steel Dragon

The name of this ride was derived from the year of the dragon. The track is consider the longest in the world measuring 8133 feet, 2 inches (2479m) in length. I am sure to puke myself out in this ride.

Kingda Ka: Six Flags

Kingda Ka

When it open its door to the public, it became the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world, claiming the title from Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point. It reaches speeds of 128mph and stands close to 456 feet high and has a drop of 418 feet.

Xcelerator: Knotts Berry Farm

Xcelerator

Xcelerator was Intamin AG first hydraulically launched coaster. it has a powerful hydraulic catapult motor that accelerate it over 82mph in 1.8 second. Looking at the tracks give me the bumps. Look at the height of the track going up n down. Wow!! Very exciting

Amusement VS Theme

Have you guys wonder whats really the difference between an Amusement Park and a Theme Park? Different website gave you different answer and all of them are correct. It actually depends on how you perceived and interpret the meaning. I have gather information from several websites and here is my own interpretation on the differences. An Amusement Park is a park that operate on just the rides itself while a Theme Park is a place where the park itself, tells the story or shows a certain theme.

Cedar Fair Park (Amusement Park)

Amusement Park's main focus is just about amusement and how to thrills the passengers that rides it. It does not tell any story about that particular ride unlike the Theme Park. Rides on an Amusement park does not tailor to everyone but in the other hand only for specific ages. Some rides are not suitable for older people and some are not for the younger generations. In other words, amusement is just about the rides and nothing else. You go in and you enjoy the ride and get thrilled.

However, there are lots of Amusement Park that called themselves Theme Park such as the Cedar Fair Park. But in most of the forums and websites that i found, they all agree on 1 thing, that Cedar Fair Park is an Amusement Park instead of Theme Park because it does not have a theme. Above are example of Cedar Fair Park.

Kobe Disneyland

Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland

A Theme Park in the other hand tells a story of how that particular theme evolve. Every single ride and attractions are build around the park together with that theme. The story that each Theme Park provide should fully immerse you into the environment it creates within the whole that totally has no connection to the outside world. The best example here is Disneyland. There are lots of Disneyland all around the whole and we will discuss further about each Disneyland in our future post.

Disneyland is a Theme Park and every ride and attractions in it carries a certain theme itself. Each park and land has its own story and you will be brought to a whole new level of experience where the story starts the moment you step into the ride. One thing special about Disney is that once you get inside it, you wont be able to look at the outside world. This totally makes you forget about the problems outside and only focus on 1 thing, the experience within the walls.