[Capler]

I doubt Cedar Fair is going to let our coaster be taller than Millennium Force. Levithan is 306 and I-305 is 305.

I'm really hoping Fair is ready to move past that, especially with the new management. Somebody in the US is going to top MF soon. If Fair wishes to retain that record as a company, now is the time to do it considering they are likely building a new Giga at Carowinds, and it they will only need to go a few more feet upward. 320 seems like a good number to me.

[Merthecat]

You are very right tyler, according to Roller Coaster Database, http://rcdb.com/rhr.htm?m=1&l=59 Millennium Force and I-305 are the only two 'traditional lift' coasters that hit the 300 foot mark. So simply outdoing Millennium's height by a foot or two would make out giga the tallest Giga coaster in not only the US, but in North America. If it hit 320, it would be the tallest giga in the world!! THAT is a destination coaster!

-World's Longest Coaster: They could go for the world's longest coaster but to beat Steel Dragon's 8,133 feet this ride would cost WAYYYYY more than $30m. Leviathan isn't even in the Top 10 and it cost $28m.

Yes, but you must take into consideration that SD2000 was built in Japan, and was specially made to withstand earthquakes and typhoons and whatever other natural disasters happen there. I do highly doubt that it would be the longest coaster in the world, though.

[Jonathan]

The cost of SD2000 is irrelevant. His point was that if Leviathan cost $28 million and was 5,486 feet long, there's no way that the Carowinds ride would be 3,000 feet longer for just $2 million more.

[swampfox43]

Got me to thinking. Top Thrill Dragster and Kingda Ka are between 2800-3100 feet. I haven't researched the cost of these but with those launch systems I know they ain't cheap. Just some food for thought....

[Jonathan]

Dragster was $25 million ($31.5 million adjusted for inflation) and I think Kingda Ka was around the same.

[tylerSC]

I doubt Cedar Fair is going to let our coaster be taller than Millennium Force. Levithan is 306 and I-305 is 305.

I'm really hoping Fair is ready to move past that, especially with the new management. Somebody in the US is going to top MF soon. If Fair wishes to retain that record as a company, now is the time to do it considering they are likely building a new Giga at Carowinds, and it they will only need to go a few more feet upward. 320 seems like a good number to me.

It will indeed be interesting to see if they decide to top Millenium Force in height, or if it turns out to be around 305 or 306 ft.

[mightyray23]

Coaster may be a Giga coaster called "Centurion". Im hoping for a winged or launched coaster

[mightyray23]

I doubt Cedar Fair is going to let our coaster be taller than Millennium Force. Levithan is 306 and I-305 is 305.

I'm really hoping Fair is ready to move past that, especially with the new management. Somebody in the US is going to top MF soon. If Fair wishes to retain that record as a company, now is the time to do it considering they are likely building a new Giga at Carowinds, and it they will only need to go a few more feet upward. 320 seems like a good number to me.

It will indeed be interesting to see if they decide to top Millenium Force in height, or if it turns out to be around 305 or 306 ft.

Top Millenium! Top Millenium!

[mark40511]

Well, MF is 6,595 feet. It was 25 million.........so it's a lot longer than Leviathan.........God......As awesome as Leviathan looks to me, I do hope it's at LEAST 6,000 ft. I actually LOVE the name Centurion.....

[Jay]

That was also Year 2000 prices, which is significantly cheaper. The same coaster would be 30-35 million dollars today. And it was Intamin, which is a much cheaper company than B&M.

The coaster will be longer than Leviathan, but probably not by much.

[Jarsh]

They could go for the "World's Longest Coaster of it's kind" record. Kinda how Dollywood still touts Wild Eagle as the first coaster of it's kind in the US. Even though wing coasters existed, they weren't by B&M, lol.

[Hiveminded]

Its going to be 307 feet tall, I just know it... Especially based off the last 2 CF gigs were 305, then 306 feet tall...

[DT3]

I'm not a psychic or anything, but last night, I had a dream of seeing an all black wing coaster inside of carowinds. What if dreams could predict the future...

[mark40511]

Interesting that Intamin is cheaper than B&M.......I did not know this.........

But if you look at MF............As an example, say MF and Leviathan were the same length for the sake of this example......

It actually looks like MF would have more metal, just the way the supports are designed. They look like those electricity towers you see going through fields.....

I also can't BELIEVE I never realized this until JUST NOW.......Carowinds Intimidator is LONGER than I 305, and so is Leviathan. It look like CF made sure to make Leviathan just a WEE bit longer than Behemoth.....so you're probably right........it will be longer than Intimadator , but not my much, and probably 1 foot higher than Leviathan.

[Jonathan]

Is Intamin cheaper? Carowinds' Intimidator was $23 million while Intimidator-305 was $25 million. I-305 is obviously taller but it has a lot of low to the ground parts and the Carowinds ride is a bit longer.

Millennium Force would be around $31.6 million in 2010 dollars. $34.3 million in 2014 dollars.