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This Roller Coaster Simulator Lets Users Draw Their Own Track Layout and Instantly Ride It The ROCO turns anyone into a coaster designer and subjects them to their own stomach-churning creations.

Some Hackaday readers and writers can identify the components, so we think his coaster model belongs here. Like many folks in this field, he’s built K’nex models to get a handle on construction.

As he plummeted through the air, he was filled not with terror, but with wonder.

The roller coaster promises to deliver the excitement, speed and adrenaline of high-performance racing, according to the park. It boasts its first launch reaches 74 mph, the second 101 mph and the ...

Roller coaster technology has come quite a long way from its humble origins. Many coasters in the early 1900s utilized wooden frames that were incapable of loops and other more complex rail ...