Roller Coaster Tycoon Cheats article by Al Giovetti
Roller Coaster Tycoon Cheats article by Al Giovetti
Roller Coaster Tycoon Cheats article by Al Giovetti
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Type the following cheats to achieve the desired result.Please check out our cheats definitions, hints, and instructions at this location.
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Bugs and Exploits
Hex Cheats:
- Cheat Codes:
- Chris Sawyer Takes Pictures of Rides
- Simon Foster Paints Pictures of Rides
- Melanie Warn Increase Guests Happiness
- Katie Brayshaw Waving Guests
- John Wardley Constantly Thinks Wow!
- John Mace Pays Double Prices on Rides
- Damon Hill Drives Go-Karts Twice as Fast
- BigBucks Unlimited Cash
- Tony Day Eats Lots of Hamburgers
- Michael Schumacher Rides Four Times as Fast
Cheat Codes
- Free money:
Go to the Finances by pressing «F», then press ENTER + «M» for $5,000.
This can only be done once a month for unlimited amount of cash. - All scenarios, rides and infinite money:
At the Main Menu, hold SHIFT, type «rct2» and press ENTER. If done correctly, you will hear clapping.
Note: These 2 codes may not work on all versions. - Hire Einstein
To extend your research by leaps and bounds, find Guest #1 and rename him «E=MC2». Then find guest #2 and rename him «E=MC3». The two will meet and begin brainstorming. Shortly thereafter they will ask to be hired on as the park’s research developers. Say «yes» and pour your resources into the think tank. The following year, research and development will have grown by leaps and bounds. You will have all of the latest rides and nearly a billion dollars to spend! - Receive A One Million Dollar Gift
To get lots of money for your park, close it down for one full year! Afterwards, a man dressed in a blue suit and holding a clipboard will give you a little «helpful money» ($1,000,000). - Retain Ride Popularity
To retain a scary ride’s popularity, simply delete a segment of track and replace it with the same thing.
The guests will be fooled into thinking that the amusement has been improved and will continue flocking to it!
- Kill Everything (CENSORED)
- Increase Park Rating
Though it is questionable ethically, it makes business sense… Maintain high park ratings by drowning all unhappy guests! (Click on a mad guest and use the pincer icon to place him in the water.) - Maximizing Productivity of Shops and Stalls
Location is the key to maximizing profits! Here are a few business tips:
Don’t squeeze stores together. They will compete for customers and their prices will fall. Put shops and stalls near the rear of the park, NOT at the entrance. Once tired and hungry guests have walked all the way to the back, they will be more than willing to pay higher prices for snacks. - Remove Weeds without Mowing
To remove weeds without mowing the landscape, click on a construction button (like the leveling land button). Then click on a weed it will disappear! - Utopia at Mega Park
To unlock Mega Park, a scenario with a sprawling plot of land and no objectives, you must complete all other scenarios.
- All Facilities
To stuff your park with all the enmities, push [Shift] + Z. - All Rides
To put all of the rides in your amusement park, push [Alt] + Z. - All Shops
To put all of the shops in your amusement park, push [Ctrl] + Z.
Rename any of your park guests to one of the following names to activate cheat function:
Code Result
- Downloads:
- Unlimited Money Trainer (pdmrctt.zip)
- All rides, money, win scenerio, etc (rct-trn.zip)
- 30 items trainer (cesrcttr.zip)
- FAQ
- Strategy Guide
- Command Line Codes:
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Subject: This Game for Computer? I have Game Hack but i cant find any codes or HEX cheats for Roller Coaster Tycoon so can you update the game which you dont have in your cheat list and
explain how to use this Game Hack?? Thanks 🙂
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Cheats for Roller Coaster Tycoon
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Cheats
Hire Einstein
To extend your research by leaps and bounds, find Guest #1 and rename him “E=MC2”. Then find guest #2 and rename him “E=MC3”. The two will meet and begin brainstorming. Shortly thereafter they will ask to be hired on as the park’s research developers. Say “yes” and pour your resources into the think tank. The following year, research and development will have grown by leaps and bounds. You will have all of the latest rides and nearly a billion dollars to spend!
Free money:
Go to the Finances by pressing “F”, then press ENTER + “M” for $5,000. This can only be done once a month for unlimited amount of cash.
Receive A One Million Dollar Gift
To get lots of money for your park, close it down for one full year! Afterwards, a man dressed in a blue suit and holding a clipboard will give you a little “helpful money” ($1,000,000).
Cheap Coaster:
To make a popular, money making coaster for around $2,000 dollars, listen to this. Choose the steel mini coaster, not the steel looping coaster. Build the coaster until it says too high for supports. Then make a steep drop all the way down. Then, brakes at 9MPH, and make 2 small curves to end it. Make a big waiting line. This will get you lots of money, higher your park raiting, and all for a small amount of money.
The coaster will be extremely popular:
Name a Roller Coaster the following: Tycoon Roller Coaster
Get More Guests:
Build a steel roller coaster (shuttle loop), then build the exit path through the loop. This will attract more guests.
Happy Guest:
To make lots of guests happy make a shuttle loop and then add onto it. Make a huge queue line and charge 3 bucks. It’s a short ride and you’ll usually get up to 100 guest in line and they wont get mad because the line moves quickly.
Food Courts:
Build all of your food courts in 1 place, that way guests don\’t have to walk all around the park to get what they want.
Unlock Mega Park:
Finish all levels to unlock the Mega Park.
Prevent guests from getting sick:
Hold one of the mouse buttons and the ride will slow down, preventing guests from getting sick.
Get More guests:
Click on the “Park info” icon and set the admission fee to $20.00. Then, go to “Financial Information”, click on “Advertisements” and start a marketing campaign for free park entry for four weeks. Watch your guest rates, however results may vary.
Keeping guests happy:
A clean park is a happy park.
Clapping guests:
Before you complete a mission go to a location that has a lot of guests. When the mission is over they will all start to clap.
Build underground:
Raise or lower land with the shovel.
Then, go to the eye at the top of the screen. You should be able to see and build underground.
Keep ride’s popularity:
To keep a scary ride’s popularity, delete a segment of track and replace it with the same item. The guests will be fooled into thinking that the ride has been improved and will continue going to it.
See through bathrooms:
Build a bathroom and when someone enters click on the eye on top and choose “See Though Rides”.
Build on high places:
When the message “Too high for supports” appears, just raise the land where you want to build.
Better shop and stall placement:
Put shops and stalls near the rear of the park, not at the entrance. Once tired and hungry guests have walked all the way to the back, they will be more than willing to pay higher prices for snacks.
If you click on the fence you will return to the entrance with the Park Information.
Easy Money:
CLick on the raise or lower land button and make the land high and low and high and low again and keep doing this until you run out of money then after a while you will have unlimited money and all of the parks will be unlocked and you can go to the mega park!
Build a cheap ride and make a huge queing line.
make the ride free-.20 until it fills up. then, change the fee to $10-$20. everyone in line will have to pay since they cant get out of line (unless they don’t have enough money)
Faster research:
Go to research and look under funding. There will be a lot of items check-marked, such as Shop and Stalls, Roller Coasters, etc. Go to maximum funding and choose only one item to check-mark to get faster research.
Cleaning paths:
Simply place a new pathway over a dirty path to quickly clean it.
To quickly clean your park without using more money to replace the path that is dirty, select one of your handymen. Even though it might not be as fast as just replacing the path, drop them wherever there are empty cans and vomit piles. This also works for emptying the garbage.
Increase park rating:
Set your research to just roller coasters until you receive a steel or inverted steel coaster. Build a lot of power launched mode roller coasters( such as the Shuttle Loop).
This should increase your park rating and guest numbers.
If you set the advertisements all at four weeks your money, park rating, and guests will all increase.
Make a real good park:
put lots of short go karts and lots of shuttle loop steel roller coasters put the steel shuttle loop at $1.50 – $2
and put the go karts at $1 – $1.70 depending on how long the go kart track is.
Lots of Ride Passengers:
To get alot of people to go on a ride put the charge to .20cents. I did this with a merry-go-round. Next make sure you use a queing line (the blue one) and make it really long. Your guests will flock to the ride and fill up your queing line.
Keep Guests in Park:
Make a massively long line for some popular ride. Then lower the price to $0.20 and wait until the whole line is full (something like 100 guests). Then wait until the ride breaks down and do not hire any mechanics afterwards. This will keep the guests standing in line forever.
hahaha.
Go-Karts:
Yeah, this is useful. When you get the go karts as a ride build a custom go kart, then build the track like so: click on a wide land area and do the following, station platform(x4), right turn(x2),up track, straight track, down track, left turn(x2). open the ride at 3 bucks and put the number of laps at 10 and this will make the excitement rating soar for such a tiny ride. low cost easy to build and will never be unpopular, this little giant is the ultimate ride.
Glitches
Pop balloons:
When someone releases a balloon, click on it to pop it.
Sell lots of balloons at a really low price. When you complete the mission you can pop a large number of balloons.
Balloon display:
If you accomplish the mission on the level that you are on, and if you have a balloon stall, when your guests clap they will all drop their balloons and have to buy another one.
Happy Therapy:
If you want happy guests, build a small island surrounded by water or with a fence. Build a bathroom, drink stall and food stall. (Overprice them all for extra money) Then place like 3 entertainers there. Roam around the park looking for angry guests and carry them to the island. Drop them there and forget about them for some (game, not real) days. Rescue them later and put them on firm land, but only if the have a wide smile on their faces. Ta DA! Instant Happiness.
P.S. If after a month, they\’re unhappy, drown them… it relieves stress.
Display the date:
Move the pointer to where the month is shown, above the weather. Hold the mouse there until the date appears.
Mowing the Lawn:
Instead of having your handyman mow your grass, all you have to do is click on the shovel..make the land area for it bigger and just click! Make sure you dont drag up or down, or your raising or lowering your land.
P.S. do get your handyman not to mow..click on the hand on his window and unclick mow grass. and tada. no more working on grass for him.
Ballon Money:
Deprive people of their balloons by putting them in water. Them put them in front of the balloon stall and they will usually buy another balloon.
Codes
Increase the amount the bank will give you:
Type in the code: kandy jain
Win Money:
Type in the code: tapish khivensra
Guest Names
Unlock the waving guests:
Submit the guest name Katie Brayshaw.
Unlock the hungry guest:
Submit the guest name Tony Day. This guest will usually be hungry or very hungry.
“Wow!” thinking:
Submit the guest name John Wardley.
Get guests to pays double entrance fee:
Submit the guest name John Mace.
Get faster Go-Karts:
Submit the guest name Damon Hill.
Submit the guest name Michael Schumacher to race even faster.
Unlock rich guests:
Submit the guest name Richard Branson.
Unlimited Cash (For guest):
Submit the guest name BigBucks.
Unlock the pick pocket:
Submit the guest name Richard Tan.
Unlock the photographer guest:
Submit the guest name Chris Sawyer.
Unlock the artist guest:
Submit the guest name Simon Foster.
Increase guest happiness:
Submit the guest name Melanie Warn.
If you rename this guess later in the game, you can use this code over again to increase the guest happiness even more.
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Roller Coaster Tycoon 3
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All guests get sick |
Make Me Sick |
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\”Flying Camera\” routes editor |
D Lean |
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Guests stand around looking down at the ground |
Mouse |
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Increase money by $10,000 |
John D Rockefeller |
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Increase park value; on first career mission will double the value rating of your park |
Andrew Gillett |
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Unlock advanced fireworks editor |
Guido Fawkes |
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Peep cam; see through eyes of guest |
Jonny Watts |
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Decrease track friction; can help when importing some RCT 1 or 2 coasters |
Andrew Thomas |
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Unlimited launch and chain lift speeds |
David Braben |
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All coasters irresistible to peeps |
Sam Denney |
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All rides irresistible to peeps |
Jon Roach |
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Removes height restrictions for building coasters |
John Wardley |
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All rides and coasters to never break down |
Frontier |
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Peeps dance |
Shifty |
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All peeps laugh |
Atari |
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Peep jumps for joy |
Chris Sawyer |
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Get the buggy to actually ride through the park |
James Hunt |
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All guests ride every coaster before leaving |
Sam Denney |
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Peeps take photos |
PhotoStory |
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New guests not allowed to enter, current guests may leave if desired |
Ghost Town |
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Lots of ducks appear |
A Hitchcock |
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Enables walls and scenery items to be placed on path edges |
M Brookes |
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Roller coaster history: entertainment as a serious business
A good roller coaster ride is better than sex.
(Letter to the editors of Oui magazine, January 1978)
It is possible that no other attraction in the history of mankind has evoked so many opposite feelings at the same time in visitors — from undisguised horror to pure delight — as effectively as roller coasters do ( roller coasters ).
Since they saw the light of day some 250 years ago, these «scream machines» have extracted oceans of emotion and millions of dollars from their passengers. One of the design engineers for the roller coaster, speaking on condition of anonymity, described how he sees his main task: “My job is basically to make the roller coaster as close as possible to the feeling that they are now going to have an uncontrollable bowel movement from fear. But at the end of the trip, passengers should go down the slides delighted and with a desire to ride again and again.
” 😉
The very history of this entertainment was full of elevation changes and sharp turns no less than its best tracks: extremely popular at the beginning of the twentieth century, roller coasters experienced something of a «death experience» in the 1920s; titans and entertainment moguls dutifully watched as their destinies perish under the rubble of collapsing attractions. However, in the second half of the twentieth century, the «scream machines» triumphantly rose from the ashes, stronger, taller and faster than ever before.
The industry is currently experiencing a strong growth with 2,956 tracks worldwide located in 2,067 amusement parks and visited annually by almost 400,000,000 ride users.
But how did this marvel of engineering become so popular, and to whom do the fans of roller coaster owe their gratitude for their favorite pastime?
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History of ups and downs
The earliest precursor to roller coasters are the so-called «Russian Mountains» ( «Russian Mountains» ), giant artificial ice hills built in Russia as winter sets in.
The first mention of them dates back to the 17th century.
Visitors climbed a 70-foot (21 m) wooden tower and swiftly slid down a 600-foot (180 m) ice ramp set at a 50-degree angle and supported by wooden beams on small sledges.
At first, this «winter sport» was practiced only by representatives of the noble class.
Catherine the Great, who visited the «roller coasters» in St. Petersburg in the mid-1700s, was so passionate about skating that she ordered the construction of a summer version of attraction for her in the royal residence in Oranienbaum. Instead of ice and sleds, the Rolling Hill device used simple carts installed with wheels in specially carved grooves of an inclined wooden slope.
The huge popularity of this pastime attracted the interest of European entrepreneurs. In 1812, the French built their own version of the «roller coaster» ( «Les Montagnes Russes» ), equipped with guide tracks for carts. Then came «Air Walks» ( Promenades Aeriennes , 1817) — they were the first ride for riding, which had wheeled carts securely fixed on the track, the trajectory of which was set by the guide rail.
The French made a lot of improvements to the early models of «rolling hills» — for example, in 1846 they built and tested the first track in history in the form of a closed loop. The cart, held on the track by centrifugal force alone, rushed through a 13-foot (about 4 m) loop at a speed of «150 miles per hour» (241 km / h! — a very implausible statement). During the tests of these slides, the role of passengers was initially played by sandbags, chicken eggs, and monkeys. Then one of the workers serving the attraction was lucky to ride.
His account of the sensations experienced during the trip served as the basis for a report published in the French newspaper «Journal du Havre»: «Starting at the highest point of the trajectory, the tester reached the end of the track in 8 seconds, located at a distance of 248 feet (approximately 76 m). At the end of the ride, he seemed very pleased and said that he had such a delightful experience during the «loop» that he would like to ride again.
While in Europe rollercoasters were just a fashionable pastime, in the United States they were used in a more pragmatic way. At 1791 year in the town of Summit Hill, Pennsylvania ( Summit Hill, Pennsylvania ) extensive deposits of coal were discovered, which indirectly caused the appearance of real roller coasters. 😉
In those days, the mined coal was transported in bags loaded on mules. Delivery of cargo over rough terrain took several days. The mining company Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, which developed the Summit Hill deposit and oversaw the delivery of coal to clients — Philadelphia industrialists — could not ensure a stable supply of «black gold». New times required new solutions.
In 1827, the company built the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, the second «gravity» railroad in US history, carrying extracted anthracite from the top of the hill to the coal yards at its foot. Gravity-driven, loaded with coal, the wagon passed the track from top to bottom in a record 30 minutes, but to drag it up it required the grueling 4-hour efforts of several mules.
The railroad soon becomes a Sunday pilgrimage site for the upper class, willing to pay 50 cents to ride the «somewhat thrilling» 5-mile track. This entertainment becomes so popular with tourists that in 1829year, the owners of the road leave only the morning time for transporting coal, and the rest of the day is devoted to riding idle revelers. Even the 18th US President Ulysses S. Grant ( Ulysses S. Grant ) and the legendary American inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison ( Thomas Edison ) even honored the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway with their presence.
By 1846, the company had developed a ratchet mechanism, which, in combination with the use of a steam-powered funicular, made it easier to lift wagons to the top of the hill. The ratchet will later become the basis of the anti-recoil system used in the design of modern roller coasters.
Inspired by a new idea, LaMarcus Adna Thompson ( LaMarcus Adna Thompson ), an inventor, investor and businessman from Ohio, became the world’s first rollercoaster mogul.
He was the first to recognize the commercial potential of an unpretentious entertainment — going down the railroad in a trailer — and in 1881 erected on the peninsula of Coney Island (Brooklyn, New York) the first Switchback Railway roller coaster in the USA, specially designed and built for the entertainment of the public.
Thompson was literally fascinated by riding his own slides. He compared his feelings to “bright sunlight that dispelled the darkness. For only 5 or 10 cents.” 😉
Indeed, passengers paid only 5 cents “from the nose”, climbed the high starting tower and sat on the benches in the trailer; after the push, they rolled down a 600-foot path (about 183 m) to the base of the opposite tower (approximately like on the old St. Petersburg «roller coasters»).
The attraction enjoyed such high popularity and, accordingly, profitability that the initial investment paid off in 3 weeks — that’s what a high ROI means! ;).
Thompson’s ambitions were further embodied in the construction of a closed track roller coaster (1884) and in an innovative design in 1885 with a visitor lift and wagons in which passengers were seated «forward facing» (in the direction of travel).
In 1886, Thompson patented his concept of roller coaster design, using which he built more than 20 «scream machines» throughout America in the first decade of the twentieth century.
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Historian Judith Adams on the cultural impact of Thompson’s attractions: «They combined seeming danger with real safety, tickled the nerves of passengers with breathtaking speed, and allowed the general public to come into close contact with the new aesthetics of the Industrial Revolution: steel, gears and dazzling electric lights.»
Patented Improved Rollercoaster Design Drawing, 1898
John Miller ( John A. Miller ), considered the «father of the modern high-speed coaster», used Thompson’s ideas to develop a bottom clutch wheel that sits under the rail and holds the car securely on the track. This invention not only dramatically increased the safety of the attraction, but also opened a “window of opportunity” for developers: it was now possible to launch cars at higher speeds along tracks with sharp elevation changes and dizzyingly sharp turns.
Speed, courage and recklessness — these three words can characterize the twenties of the last century in the history of the described attraction: during this decade — a real «golden age» of roller coasters! — almost 2000 were built.
The Cyclone ( Cyclone ), a roller coaster in Coney Island built to replace the old Thompson Switchback Railway, has become the most memorable symbol of the period. Built in 1927 for $175,000 ($2.3 million in 2014), the Cyclone could handle a peak load of 1,400 passengers per hour. A ticket for one trip cost 25 cents.
The Great Depression abruptly, quickly and decisively ended the «golden age» of rollercoasters. Hundreds of these structures, built in the years 1890-1930, met their premature end under the blows of ball rams: in 1965, only 200 of the 2,000 rides launched in the 1920s remained «on the move».
In 1960, roller coasters as a sector of the entertainment industry were at an all-time low.
But the dawn of change is on the horizon: the American economy has recovered, the baby boomers ( Baby Boomers ) more money for entertainment.
Shortly after the opening of the first Disneyland (1955), its management approached the rollercoaster developer Arrow Dynamics, Inc. with a proposal to build a good old attraction for the amusement park, but using the most advanced technologies at that time. And here is the result: in 1959, the Matterhorn ( Matterhorn ), the world’s first roller coaster made of tubular steel and with nylon-coated wagon wheels, was put into operation. These groundbreaking innovations changed the industry forever «scream machines» .
A few years later, one of the most famous slide designers, John C. Allen ( John C. Allen ), was on fire with the idea of returning the attraction to its former glory. He had seen the industry flourish in the 1920s and 1930s and was about to retire when he met Gary Wachs ( Gary Wachs ), an amusement park owner in Coney Island. In 1968, Wax convinced the elderly engineer to «leave with a loud slam of the door» by constructing another slide as a farewell.
Allen agreed. During his time at the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, Allen worked exclusively with wood and believed that the material’s potential for building roller coasters was far from being exhausted.
Allen’s creation, «The Racer» ( The Racer ), erected in 1972 in Kings Island Park ( Kings Island ), which is located in Mason, Ohio ( Mason, Ohio ), has become something more, than the pinnacle of a personal career as a designer: The Racer ushered in the «second golden age» of rollercoasters. The unique design of the wooden Racer allowed two trains to be launched simultaneously on parallel tracks so that they raced along the track next to each other, simultaneously performing similar maneuvers.
This project has become a cult among development engineers. One of them called The Racer «a theme park dream, a work of art and a thrill generator all rolled into one.» Throughout the eighties, the “Racer” literally bathed in the rays of media attention, and he had his own fanatically devoted fans: a certain Don Helbig ( Don Helbig ) managed to ride the attraction 1200 times in one summer, and in total he “dashed off” on this hill there are 12,000 descents, with which he got into the Guinness Book of Records.
In the wake of the success of Allen’s brainchild in 1974-1990, roller coasters are experiencing a triumphant revival: in one year of this period, more of them are built than in any previous year, if we count from 1920. Steel structures built using the latest technologies are beginning to almost completely dominate the industry.
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Gigantism and record-breaking: the new era of «shout machines»
In the 1970s, Ron Toomer ( Ron Toomer ) became a leader in the construction of tubular steel slides. The talented designer, who received a degree in mechanical engineering in 1961, participated in the launches of the first American artificial Earth satellites, and then worked for NASA ( NASA ), where he designed heat shields for the Apollo project devices — his developments were used on the Apollo 11 ( Apollo 11 ), the famous spacecraft that landed the lunar module with astronauts on the lunar surface.
However, in 1965, Ron left NASA and took a job with the ride-building company Arrow Dynamics Inc, launching his 30-year career as a rollercoaster designer.
Toomer never ceased conquering new heights: in 1966, on a budget of $1,000,000, he built the all-steel Runaway Mine Train at the Six Flags Over Texas theme park in Arlington, Texas. This masterpiece of engineering has become the symbol of the American Rail Coaster Enthusiasts ( American Coaster Enthusiasts, ACE ). Here is how the “enthusiasts” themselves appreciated the creation of Ron Toomer: “By combining thoughtful turns with impressive elevation changes, he [Ron Toomer] helped the roller coaster move straight into the 21st century. The Runaway Mine Train has taken a place not only in history, but also in the hearts of park visitors.”
In 1975, Toomer erected the Corkscrew track ( Corkscrew ) at Knott’s Berry Farm in California — according to popular belief, this was the first attraction with turning carriages with passengers upside down.
Ron considered his design only as a prototype for a new series of slides, but the owners of the park, representatives of the wealthy Californian Knott family, were so delighted with this attraction that they purchased it without further ado.
Another record set by Ron is the construction in 1989 of the Magnum XL-200 coaster, the first in history to exceed 200 feet (61 m). Today, such structures «growth» above 200 feet stand out in a separate category of «hypercoasters» ( hypercoasters ).
However, the legendary designer himself, who left our world in 2011, relatively rarely honored his offspring with skating. “I have been sick on roller coasters since childhood,” he explained his problem to interviewers from ACE. “But I still traveled enough on them to know what is happening on them and how the passengers feel.”
With a rare talent for looking to the future, Toomer’s developments were so ahead of their time that he was ranked among the «100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time» by the editors of the famous Encyclopedia Britannica, along with Henry Ford ( Henry Ford ) and Steve Jobs ( Steve Jobs ).
His later designs, combining inexpensive microprocessors and new hydraulic technologies, paved the way for «hypercosters» and «gigacosters» ( giga-coasters ) from the 1990s. Kent Seko ( Kent Seko ), a veteran design bureau at Arrow Dynamics, calls this time «the height war era, an era when parks and manufacturers competed to build the biggest, fastest, fastest rollercoasters in the world.»
In the nineties, a number of records were set in the industry, which until recently seemed fantastic: on the coaster «Escape Superman» ( Superman The Escape ), located in California’s Six Flags Magic Mountain Park, passengers for 400 feet (122 m) were in a state of free fall and developed a speed of almost 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). Japanese «Steel Dragon-2000» ( Steel Dragon 2000 ) boasted an incredible track length of 8133 feet (2479 m).
Records were set in order to be broken in a week: it was a «battle of the giants» that upset and confused roller coaster fans around the world — it was worth arriving at the track in New Jersey, which until yesterday was considered the fastest in the world, as it turned out, that her result is surpassed by a new attraction in distant Abu Dhabi.
In 2000, the concept of «gigacosters» debuted: roller coaster industry legend Werner Stengel ( Werner Stengel ) built the Millennium Force, the first 300-foot (91 m) fully enclosed track that included 80-degree slopes.
Just three years later, the 400-foot (122 m) fully enclosed Top Thrill Dragster was built. On it, passengers reached a dizzying speed of 120 miles per hour (193 km / h) in less than 4 seconds. Six Flags amusement park in New Jersey responded to this challenge with the construction of an incredible «monster» Kingda Ka, which reaches a vertical height of 456 feet (139m).
The technology used to create scream machines is constantly evolving. Today, many of the most modern slides use the latest electromagnetic technology and powerful linear asynchronous motors to create a magnetic pulse that propels the cars down the track. Jim Seay ( Jim Seay ), president of linear motor manufacturer Premier Rides, is confident that passenger cars will soon be hovering over the track on a magnetic levitation — the future of this technology, which provides a ride without friction, therefore without shaking and noise.
The industry is “getting younger” before our eyes: all record-breaking slides were built less than 15 years ago. An industry that teetered on the brink of death in the 1950s is now in its second golden age.
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Blueprint for a new ride in Mason, Ohio (nowadays)
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John S. Allen, structural engineer, at 19In the 1979s, who revived the
roller coasters , he once joked unnecessarily familiarly: “To design a roller coaster, you don’t need an engineering degree — you need a degree in psychology.”
Needless to say, this joke is not even close to true.
The construction of such an attraction is a massive undertaking that requires the participation of astute project managers and good engineers, recognized experts in structural engineering, materials science, load analysis, electrical engineering, etc. To get a job in this industry, the applicant will have to overcome an extremely high competition: roller coasters in the USA designs and builds by about a hundred firms, most of which have small, highly specialized teams of 10–15 people at the creative and production core.
Most developers have good math skills, a keen eye for detail, and a genuine passion for physics in addition to an engineering degree. Engineer Glenn Birket ( Glenn Birket ) says that he devotes more than half of his project time to safety issues: how to protect passengers from all sorts of troubles.
Designer Mike Boodley ( Mike Boodley ) adds that he and his colleagues, as true enthusiasts, «literally dedicate their lives to the project» for a generally modest industry average salary by American standards — $ 74,600 a year.
Eamon Kelly ( Eamon Kelly ), lead designer for the Baltimore affiliate of Premier Rides, grew up playing the popular economic strategy game RollerCoaster Tycoon. As a child, Eamon built slides in virtual amusement parks, now he builds in real life. Below, he explains the process of building the attraction step by step.
As a rule, the work begins with the fact that the owners of the park determine what material the slides will be built from — steel, wood, etc.
Having resolved this issue, they send letters outlining the concept of the attraction to manufacturing companies offering their prices for the execution of the contract for construction. The initial concept can range from a vague idea to a meticulously crafted 50-page specification.
Construction of slides in the theme park Toverland (“Wonderland”), the Netherlands, 2007
After the manufacturer is selected, he begins to work on the project together with the representatives of the park. The latter require a lot of information that affects the design of the slides — the density of the soil, the prevailing weather conditions in the area, the type of soil, the topography of the site, etc. In the design process, 3D modeling programs are used — Inventor and SolidWorks, to visualize the layout — 3DStudioMax and NoLimits , the latter of which Kelly refers to as the «Adult RollerCoaster Tycoon».
When the project is approved and construction has begun, the assembly of components begins, and delivery of some of them by sea can take about a month: the construction of roller coasters is a very small and highly specialized industry, and some parts necessary for the attraction have to be bought «by around the globe.
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Every aspect of construction requires the attention of engineers: from the analysis of the influence of soil and weather conditions on the strength of supports to the installation of control and management systems. As Project Engineer, Kelly is personally involved in the development of the overall plan for the slides and the pre-estimation of construction costs.
Prices for the construction of an attraction range from 3 to 30 million dollars, depending on the size and scope of the slides (region, type of park, etc.). Wooden roller coasters are usually assembled in 8-9 months, steel — for a period of up to a year and a half. Very specialized in design slides — like in Disneyland — are built in terms of 3 to 5 years.
Jeff Pike ( Jeff Pike ) recalls that the choice of future profession was influenced by his childhood ride with his father on roller coasters and the thought that flashed then: “Who built them?”. From that moment on, he knew what he wanted to do when he grew up.
Jeff explains, «I wasn’t really interested in being an engineer per se, but I wanted to build slides, and if that wasn’t possible without a degree, well, I got it.»
A brief internship at Lexmark only reinforced this desire: “I got a real dose of corporate culture. I thought: enough, I want to do only slides.
He studied at the University of Louisville ( University of Louisville ) as a Mechanical Engineer and in 1998 was hired by his dream job at Great Coasters International (GCI) 5 months before graduation. GCI, one of three companies in the world that design and build exclusively wooden slides, caters to a narrow marketing niche: out of 29Of the 56 rollercoasters currently available worldwide, only 174 are made from timber. Jeff is currently GCI’s Vice President of Sales and Design.
Jeff Pike at the top of the Ozark Wildcat in Missouri
He spends half of his working time developing new concepts, plans and layouts. The other half, he says, is «divided between trips around the world trying to sell projects and the dirty drudgery of installing wagons on slide rails.
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As for new projects, Pike jokes that ideas for them come from the most unexpected sources: “Once we were working on a new project, and there was a People magazine in the office with a photo of Jay Leno ( Jay Leno ). We just sketched his profile from hairline to chin — that’s how we got the plan for one of our tracks in Holland.
Although most of Pike’s colleagues view the wooden roller coaster as an anachronism that accidentally survived the «steel age», Jeff himself distinguishes his creations from the crowd: «They look like good paintings in decent frames on the walls of a technological museum.»
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Roller coaster cultural impact
In the American lexicon, the phrase «the roller coaster» has become a kind of cliché, a verbal stamp, depending on the context in which it is used, taking on diametrically opposite meanings — both «hard experience» and «pleasant trip.
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Rollercoaster references are from pop singer Avril Lavigne («Life is like a rollercoaster — live, be happy, enjoy life») to right-wing conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh («I gotta tell you every day is a roller coaster») . This phrase itself has become inextricably linked with the expression of human emotions in all their diversity.
This connection was noted as early as 1928, when the German sociologist Siegfried Krakauer ( Siegfried Kracauer ) observed slide passengers in a state of emotional conflict during the trip : danger.» Krakauer recorded the following observation: “This is a cry of triumph: “Here we have risen to the top in bliss and, accelerating, we are flying forward, where death may await, but peace may also.”
There is a design for a rollercoaster not yet built—and hopefully never built—that embodies this emotional duality of the ride. In 2010, Royal College of Art London student Julijonas Urbonas ( Julijonas Urbonas ) conceived the «Euthanasia Coaster» ( Euthanasia Coaster ), a steel railroad designed to «leave life with euphoria and elegance».
The concept of a «death ride» involves descending from a height of 500 meters at a speed of 220 miles per hour (354 km / h), followed by the passage of 7 consecutive vertical loops. Hypothetically, the intended passengers should die painlessly from brain anoxia (cerebral hypoxia) after the completion of the first or second loop.
Euthanasia Coaster Layout
This artistic concept, according to the author, seeks to show «a joint future of man and technology», emphasizing the sadomasochistic, ambiguous nature of the attraction: we enjoy suffering because we are passionate about unknown — perhaps a potential danger — hidden from us around the corner or over the peak of the track.
Dr. Seymour Epstein () Dr. Seymour Epstein (), a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts ( University of Massachusetts ), compares the motivations driving rollercoaster fans and skiers who prefer life-threatening mountain slopes: “If you ask such skiers why they won’t take a less risky descent, they will answer that they prefer slopes that scare them.
This fear makes them feel as alive as possible . When you respond to a challenge that requires your maximum concentration of attention, you turn on all your feelings «to the fullest.»
So the roller coaster, which has undergone a series of improvements that have taken them far from the icy hills of seventeenth-century Russia, serves the same purpose as a dangerous ski slope: to arouse in us a primitive desire to feel truly alive, to leave the limits of boring comfort, to experience the whole range of human emotions.
Although most of the time, in the words of John S. Allen, «the rollercoasters are just damn fun to ride.» 🙂
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2015-06-22
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