Riding Against Reality. Imagine this: You’re at Six Flags Great Adventure located in Jackson, New Jersey. You are in the loading station for Kingda Ka, the tallest coaster at 456 feet, the train rolls out of the station then slowly reaches a complete stop. Then in the course of only 3.5 seconds, you accelerate from 0 miles per hour, to a whopping 128 miles per hour! You then climb the massive Tophat, you don't stop at the top. You instantly get whipped back down four-hundred feet. After slamming on the brakes, you spend the next while just taking in what you just experienced. Roller coasters give you a break from reality. When you are at a theme park, the only thoughts you have are about what rides to ride next, what you should skip for the day, and how the previous rides were truly fun. You never spend the time at a park worrying about taxes or your money are anything, you get a chance to take a …show more content…
There is a load of people that build up the culture of thrill riding. The community can be categorized into many groups or classifications that are commonly used. First of all, you have the coaster chain CEO, the park managers, the engineers, the manufacturers, and the construction team. The CEO of the park, if it's a coaster chain like Six Flags, describes to the local park management what ride is best to construct in the park, or at least what type of ride, the park management adds more to the design, then they send it to the engineers. The engineers then build up the final track layout, put up the supports, and manage the ride to prep it for manufacturing, the manufacturers then construct the parts out of wood or steel, next they send it to the construction team, located right by the park, they then spend the next couple months laying out the supports and building up the track, piece