Intamin

**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: **INT**ernational **AM**usement **IN**stallations. They distribute about 5-7 roller coasters from their workshops every year.

The first roller coaster they built was The Jr. Gemini (new name Wilderness Run) at Cedar Point in 1979. After that, they installed a total of 181 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 First coaster to go  || 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|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  when first opened||
|2000|First Giga Coaster (over 300 ft) First coaster to drop  || Millennium Force || Cedar Point || * First complete circuit coaster to stand over 300 ft (310 ft) * Drop is exactly|||||
|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  and||
|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||
|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  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||
|2011|First ZacSpin built in the USA|Green Lantern: First Flight|Six Flags Magic Mountain|||

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (company)

- **name**: Intamin
- **location city**: Wollerau
- **location country**: Switzerland
- **industry**: Manufacturing
- **products**: Amusement rides, roller coasters, transportation
- **divisions**: Intamin Amusement Rides
Intamin Transportation