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Millennium Force {#4 Steel}


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Facts about Millennium Force
  • Located: Cedar Point, Sandusky, OH
  • Type: Steel
  • Status: Operating
  • Opened: May 13, 2000
  • Manufacturer: Intamin AG
  • Designer: Ingenieur Büro Stengel GmbH
  • Model: Gigacoaster
  • Track layout: Out and Back
  • Lift/launch system: Cable lift hill
  • Drop: 300 ft (91 m)
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  • Height: 310 ft (94 m)
  • Length: 6,595 ft (2,010 m)
  • Max speed: 93 mph (41.6 m/s)
  • Duration: 2:20 minutes
  • Max vertical angle: 80°
  • Capacity: 1600 riders per hour
  • Cost: $25,000,000 USD
  • Inversions: 0
  • Height restriction: 4 ft 0 in (1.2m)
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    Description of Millennium Force:
    Cedar Point pushed the limits on roller coaster design in the new millennium, breaking ten world records when it debuted Millennium Force in the year 2000. This impressive steel monster called a "giga-coaster" by Cedar Point was the first full-circuit roller coaster to stand more than 300-feet tall, thus making it the tallest, fastest full-circuit roller coaster in the world at opening. Designed and built by Intamin AG, Millennium Force has an "out and back" layout in an L-shape that begins with a 310-foot tall lift hill that parallels Lake Erie. This 6,595-foot long scream machine includes a 310-foot, 169-foot and 182-foot tall hills, a stomach stealing 300-foot drop at a near vertical 80 degree angle, two dark tunnels and three overbanked turns. Since its debut, Millennium Force has consistently been voted in polls the No. 1 steel roller coaster in the world. In its first six years, Millennium Force has thrilled more than 10 million riders.
    Experience on Millennium Force:
    While the train is being loaded in the station, the catch car for the cable lift descends the lift and latches onto the middle car of the train. Once the train is cleared, the cable lift pulls the train up a 45 degree lift hill at 15 mph (6.7 m/s) to a height of 310 feet (94 m). After reaching the top, the train drops 300 feet (91 m) down at an 80 degree angle and reaches a top speed of 92 mph (41 m/s) at the bottom of the hill. It then climbs 169 feet (52 m) through a right overbanked turn at 122 degrees from the horizontal axis, then travels through a tunnel as it passes over the Frontier Trail midway. It then travels over a 182-foot (55 m) parabolic hill, which provides a moment of airtime (negative G-forces) as it passes over a lagoon and down onto Millennium Island. While on Millennium Island, the train completes a 105-foot (32 m), 360-degree, right-handed helix, followed by a left overbanked turn and then a small right-hand turn before traveling over another airtime hill to exit the island. After exiting the island, the train travels left through a second tunnel, then travels over a small airtime hill over the station exit before passing by the queue. Finally, the train travels 68 feet (21 m) high through another right overbanked turn over the queue and is brought to a stop by magnetic brakes.
    Accidents on Millennium Force:
    There have not been any reported accidents on the Millennium Force roller coaster at this time.
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