Top 10 Hypothetical Roller Coasters
This is about roller coasters that don’t exist, or don’t exist yet, but would be great if made.Some I thought about and others from other people.
This would be an excellent and fantastic ride for thrill seekers. I thought of this in 2018.
Riders would board the trains and wear special spacesuits. The familiar safety spiel we all know from Space Mountain would be played. Then they would go through some hills, turns, and a huge drop into the main lift, slowly ascending.
A countdown starting from T-10 seconds would be heard, and then they would be launched into space in just a few seconds. The rocket train would pass by the Moon and other planets, then the stars and through a short wormhole, eventually leaving the Milky Way and twisting their way past other galaxies. They keep accelerating, making sharp turns, acrobatic maneuvers, and sudden drops, not slowing down until they reach the edge.
Then they see a weird dim glow, indicating they have reached the edge of the known universe (13.7 billion light years) in 1 minute. They make a huge 90°-banked 180° turn back to Earth, slowing down the whole time, passing galaxies, and going through a long wormhole back to Earth in just 30 seconds. They hit a long brake run, go through a tunnel, and slow down until they come to a complete stop.
These days, many people want thrills at Disney World and Disneyland, and they are meant to be places for the whole family. Not everyone is up for thrills (health warnings, height requirements, seating restraints, acrophobia, claustrophobia, lift hills, launches, inversions, g-forces). If Disney made this, guests would learn whether or not thrills are suitable for the parks.
It should be either an overhaul of Magic Kingdom's Space Mountain (since it is currently rough and outdated) or a new one in Shanghai Disneyland (since they do not have one but might need their own).
It would be a huge and fast roller coaster located in Orange County, Florida, with launches, hills, and turns.
The first launch would start the ride, and riders would go through hills, turns, and inversions. They would go underground and through buildings such as the OCCC and nearby roads. Then, they would be launched into the stratosphere, freefalling back down to Earth, with tractor beams guiding the vehicles to land in the right place.
I thought of this concept in 2016, and it would be a great one. It would knock the socks off every thrill seeker.
It was a concept built in Roller Coaster Tycoon where riders would spiral down the track and slow down the whole time.
The whole trip would take 210 days, and riders would die from starvation (though a man, Prahlad Jani, was claimed to have survived more than 78 years without food), making this the second type of euthanasia coaster.
It would be built in Orlando Skyplex and be the first Polercoaster. It would be 570 feet, making it the tallest roller coaster in the world. It would have 7 inversions, including raven turns, and the steepest drop at 123°. The top speed will only be 65 mph, but that won't keep it from being extremely thrilling.
There would be no over-the-shoulder restraints, just lap bars, to prevent obstructing the view. It's planned to hold 1,000 riders per hour. Design permits and long planning have delayed it several times. If it's made, it will make history in amusement parks as the first Polercoaster in the world. After that, more Polercoasters are planned to be built in other parts of the world.
It would be a virtual reality roller coaster, like SeaWorld's Kraken Unleashed, built at Universal parks.
During the main lift, the scenery in the VR movie would be about riding E.T.'s magical bike up into the air. Once you make it down those turns and drops, the bike flight becomes out-of-control chaos. Twisting over the land, will you land back safely, or are you going to crash? Find out.
It would include a slow lift up, and then fly over the park and go through long corkscrews. It would be built at Seuss Landing at Universal Orlando.
Based on the scene in the adaptation of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, it would delight Dr. Seuss Grinch fans and thrill seekers.
It would be a bobsled coaster at Seuss Landing in Universal Orlando.
It involves riding on a train that looks like his sleigh with a giant Christmas bag on top. They go through a very slow lift, and then the riders would spiral, twist, and turn their way to the bottom of Mt. Crumpit, just like in the story of the Grinch.
If there were a ride at a Six Flags Park or at Movie World in Australia, this would be a good coaster. It would be a virtual reality ride (like Kraken Unleashed at SeaWorld Orlando), and the footage in the VR goggles would be about flying over Pandora. The roller coaster would simulate riding on top of a Banshee.
I know Disney made their Avatar ride, but that's a simulator and not a roller coaster, meaning this ride would be a good idea at the parks mentioned here.
A Sonic-themed coaster at Super Nintendo World at Universal parks where riders go through the worlds Sonic traveled through.
The vehicle carts would be shaped like Sonic the Hedgehog, giving riders an idea of what hitching a ride on Sonic would be like. It would start out with a launch (to simulate Sonic's acceleration) and go through lots of twists, turns, and inversions, just like Sonic's maneuvers. There would be different levels, and each would also include portals.
Alternatively, it could have been a VR coaster, but nowadays, practical immersion is a better idea (including props such as the golden rings). It would be Universal's fastest coaster, beating out the Velocicoaster, given Sonic's speed.
Plus, it would be the first non-mouse coaster to use single vehicle carts at a time. This would be a problem for wait times (leading to virtual queues instead of physical lines), but it's fitting given the Sonic theme. You can't have a train made up of hedgehogs.
It's an individual coaster, meaning the "cars" are not connected together. The "cars" are shaped like Nyan Cat, and you piggyback on them and are launched into the track while the "cars" give off rainbow backlighting like Nyan Cat's rainbow trail. The soundtrack is Nyan Cat's theme song.
It would have been the least articulate idea I could think of. Think about it: 1,000 feet high with a construction crew and equipment building this beast for half a decade. It's as high as the Empire State Building in New York City. How many twists and turns are there? Will it be a mile long? Who knows where it'll be built? Anyways, it may happen in the future or not.
Like Kraken Unleashed, E.T.'s Thrilling Flight, and Avatar Flight of the Banshee, Star Wars Spaceflight would be a VR coaster where riders wear VR goggles and experience scenes in space and Star Wars worlds.
It would include battles and combine them with thrilling moments.
Unlike Hyperspace Mountain in Disneyland Paris, this ride includes VR and shows additional scenes and stories, taking you on a new adventure with each ride (kind of like Star Tours but better).
The track dives down a deep hole, and riders would go down it, never knowing how far they'll go until the track levels out at the bottom.
Then there's a huge lift hill, making riders think there's going to be another drop, but instead, it just leads to the unloading area.
It's inspired by Alice falling down the rabbit hole into Wonderland.
It would be just like in the episode. You would be launched from 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds toward the main lift hill (which is 500 feet tall) and go down the big drop at 200 mph, leading to twists and turns through the "tri-state city" while a Doofenshmirtz animatronic points its laser toward the tracks.
Riders would be thrown off the track into random landmarks depending on the trajectory. Landmarks like Mt. Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, and the Eiffel Tower are great examples. They might or might not get tossed into a plane or a tree. They get flung into space after bouncing off a landmark at hundreds to thousands of miles per hour.
This leads to a big drop, a plunge back to Earth through its atmosphere (which would send the vehicle in flames from atmospheric friction) before landing back into the tri-state area through a vertical brake run that levels out into the unloading area.
It would be built in a city known as the tri-state area, either by the Walt Disney Company or within a currently existing city, with a tri-state Disney park installed.