So am I supposed to believe that one day some absolutely wild man came up with the idea to put a bunch of people in a cart and send them zooming around loops and dips at dangerous speeds on a rickety track? And people line up for this?
Surely these things cost a ton of money to build and maintain. Who the hell thought this was a good idea???
I think I read somewhere they originated in Russia pre 1900’s. Ice slides that escalated into these monster coasters over time
one of those domino effect oppenheimer slideshows but it ends with the eldritch abomination known as falcon’s flight
The longest, tallest, fastest rollercoaster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFVNGgwZk3c
It’s a demo vid. It’s due to be finished this year.
You’d think it would be hard to make that look boring but those animators damn sure tried.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The legacy lives on in some languages. In Spanish, the word for roller-coaster is montaña rusa, literally a “Russian mountain”
Same in French, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian
Huh, I speak Italian and I’d never wondered what the word for roller-coaster was. Thanks for the info.
Iirc, it’s called American Mountain in Russia lol
I saw that the first ones in the US were to discourage workers from going to brothels???