Intamin
Intamin Worldwide is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland. They are known for building thrill rides and roller coasters. The Intamin name stands for: INTernational AMusement INstallations. They distribute about 5-7 roller coasters from their workshops every year.
| Industry | Manufacturing |
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| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Amusement rides, roller coasters, transportation |
| Divisions | Intamin Amusement Rides Intamin Transportation |
| Website | www |
The first roller coaster they built was The Jr. Gemini (new name Wilderness Run) at Cedar Point in 1979. After that, they installed a total of 181 roller coasters around the world.
Roller coasters built by Intamin
| Year | Accomplishment | Ride | Location | Notes |
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| 1979 | Intamin's first roller coaster | Wilderness Run | Cedar Point |
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| 1981 | First wooden coaster built by Intamin | American Eagle | Six Flags Great America |
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| 1985 | First (and only) Spacediver coaster | Z-Force | Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Great America and Six Flags Over Georgia |
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| 1997 | First coaster to go above 300 ft (90 m) First coaster to go 100 mph (160 km/h) | Tower of Terror II | Dreamworld |
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| 1997 | First coaster with a structure to reach beyond 400 ft (120 m) | Superman: Escape from Krypton | Six Flags Magic Mountain |
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| 1998 | First LIM launched inverted coaster | Volcano, The Blast Coaster | Kings Dominion |
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| 2000 | First Giga Coaster (over 300 ft) First coaster to drop 300 ft (90 m) | Millennium Force | Cedar Point |
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| 2000 | First LIM Twisted impulse coaster | Possessed | Dorney Park |
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| 2001 | First coaster to utilize a LIM launch hill | California Screamin' | Disney California Adventure Park |
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| 2001 | First wooden coaster with prefabricated track | Colossos | Heide Park |
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| 2002 | First coaster to do 10 inversions | Colossus | Thorpe Park |
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| 2002 | First hydraulic catapult launch coaster | Xcelerator | Knott's Berry Farm |
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| 2003 | First Strata coaster (over 400 ft) | Top Thrill Dragster | Cedar Point |
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| 2004 | First accelerator coaster to feature inversions | Storm Runner | Hersheypark |
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| 2005 | World's tallest coaster (2005–present); was world's fastest coaster (2005–2010) | Kingda Ka | Six Flags Great Adventure |
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| 2007 | First 4th Dimension design Ball Coaster by Intamin First Intamin coaster to include curved hydraulic chain lift hill | Kirnu | Linnanmäki |
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| 2007 | Intamin's first WingRide coaster | Furius Baco | PortAventura |
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| 2008 | At 97 degrees, steepest drop of all Intamin coasters | Fahrenheit | Hersheypark |
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| 2008 | Record holder at the time for the steepest wooden coaster in the world Currently the highest, fastest, longest coaster in South Korea | T Express | Everland |
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| 2008 | Denmarks fastest and tallest coaster, chosen as world's 5th best coaster | Piraten | Djurs Sommerland |
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| 2010 | World's first freefall drop coaster | Thirteen | Alton Towers |
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| 2010 | Current record holder for the world's fastest coaster | Formula Rossa | Ferrari World |
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| 2011 | First ZacSpin built in the USA | Green Lantern: First Flight | Six Flags Magic Mountain |
References
- Datasheet for Mega-Lite coaster Download Archived 2013-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
Other websites
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