Intamin Facts for Kids

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Intamin
Industry	Manufacturing
Headquarters	Wollerau , Switzerland
Products	Amusement rides, roller coasters, transportation
Divisions	Intamin Amusement Rides Intamin Transportation

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.

The first roller coaster they built was The Jr. Gemini at Cedar Point in 1979. After that, they installed a total of 70 roller coasters around the world.

Roller coasters built by Intamin

Year	Accomplishment	Ride	Location	Notes
1979	Intamin's first roller coaster	Wilderness Run	Cedar Point	Steel children's coaster Formerly Jr. Gemini
1981	First wooden coaster built by Intamin	American Eagle	Six Flags Great America	Was the fastest, highest and longest coaster in the world; still is the fastest, highest and longest racing roller coaster
1985	First (and only) Spacediver coaster	Z-Force	Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Great America and Six Flags Over Georgia	Opened in '85 at Great America, was relocated to Over Georgia in '88, then to Magic Mountain and opened there as Flashback in '92; demolished and scrapped in mid-December 2007 after sitting idle since 2003 First coaster to feature four-abreast seating
1997	First coaster to go above 300 ft (90 m) First coaster to go 100 mph (160 km/h)	Tower of Terror II	Dreamworld	Not a complete circuit; the train does not reach the top of the vertical spike
1997	First coaster with a structure to reach beyond 400 ft (120 m)	Superman: Escape from Krypton	Six Flags Magic Mountain	Not a complete circuit; the train does not reach the top of the vertical spike; formerly Superman: the Escape
1998	First LIM launched inverted coaster	Volcano, The Blast Coaster	Kings Dominion	Fastest inverted coaster at 70 mph (110 km/h) when first opened
2000	First Giga Coaster (over 300 ft) First coaster to drop 300 ft (90 m)	Millennium Force	Cedar Point	First complete circuit coaster to stand over 300 ft (310 ft) Drop is exactly 300 ft (90 m)
2000	First LIM Twisted impulse coaster	Possessed	Dorney Park	Previously operated at Geauga Lake as Superman: Ultimate Escape
2001	First coaster to utilize a LIM launch hill	California Screamin'	Disney California Adventure Park	Has a magnetic launch followed by a magnetic non-cable/chain lift hill (this along with "scream tunnels" was done to reduce noise) Currently the longest coaster with inversions
2001	First wooden coaster with prefabricated track	Colossos	Heide Park	Currently the tallest continuously-running wooden coaster in the world
2002	First coaster to do 10 inversions	Colossus	Thorpe Park	Has 10 inversions - in order: 1 Loop, 1 Cobra Roll (counts as 2), 2 Corkscrews, and 5 barrel rolls
2002	First hydraulic catapult launch coaster	Xcelerator	Knott's Berry Farm	Accelerates from 0 to 82 miles per hour, covering 157 feet of launch track, in just 2.3 seconds
2003	First Strata coaster (over 400 ft)	Top Thrill Dragster	Cedar Point	Tallest and fastest coaster in the world when opened at 420 ft (128 m) and 120 mph (190 km/h)
2004	First accelerator coaster to feature inversions	Storm Runner	Hersheypark	Reaches a height of 150 ft and catapults riders from 0 to 72 mph in 2 seconds Features a top hat and three inversions
2005	World's tallest coaster (2005–present); was world's fastest coaster (2005–2010)	Kingda Ka	Six Flags Great Adventure	456 feet high; launch speed 128 mph (206 km/h)
2007	First 4th Dimension design Ball Coaster by Intamin First Intamin coaster to include curved hydraulic chain lift hill	Kirnu	Linnanmäki	First compact 4-D coaster in the world Features redesigned restraints (lapbar with safety belt shoulder harness system) and non-friction magnetic brakes
2007	Intamin's first WingRide coaster	Furius Baco	PortAventura	Fastest coaster in Europe Accelerates from 0 to 135 km/h (84 mph) in 3.5 seconds
2008	At 97 degrees, steepest drop of all Intamin coasters	Fahrenheit	Hersheypark	Ascends chain lift hill at a 90 degree angle Features a 121 foot Norwegian loop and six inversions
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	Maximum 77 degrees Height 183.75 ft (56.01m) Top speed 64.6 mph (104 km/h) Length 5383.10 ft (1641m) 12 airtime hills
2008	Denmarks fastest and tallest coaster, chosen as world's 5th best coaster	Piraten	Djurs Sommerland	Mega-Lite Coaster Maximum 70 degrees Height 104.99 ft (32m) Top speed 56 mph (90 km/h) Length 2477.04 ft (755m)
2010	World's first freefall drop coaster	Thirteen	Alton Towers	Horizontal track falls vertically down in the crypt After being dropped you are flung into a backwards helix
2010	Current record holder for the world's fastest coaster	Formula Rossa	Ferrari World	Top speed 150 mph (241 km/h)
2011	First ZacSpin built in the USA	Green Lantern: First Flight	Six Flags Magic Mountain

Images for kids

Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure
Roaring Rapids river ride at Six Flags Over Texas (2007)
Maverick at Cedar Point
Hyperion at Energylandia
Giant Wheel, a double wheel at Hersheypark
Sky Whirl, a triple wheel at Six Flags Great America
Incredicoaster, a Custom Intamin Looper at Disney California Adventure

Intamin facts for kids

Roller coasters built by Intamin

Images for kids

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