Giga Coaster

The Giga Coaster is a large, expensive roller coaster type introduced in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 that can provide extreme excitement and long rides.
==Overview==
The giga coaster is a type of steel coaster designed to allow the first drop to range from 300 to 399 feet (400 feet or higher is classified as a strata coaster, while 200 to 299 is a hyper coaster). A differing feature of the giga coaster is the cable lift, as opposed to the chain lift that is common to most coasters. A major advantage to the cable lift is the fact that it can transport the train on hills that range up to 60 degrees, allowing for a taller hill in a shorter distance. It also travels quicker, at 15 mph (24 km/h). Two disadvantages of the cable lift are that it can only be used straight after the station and that it can only accomodate one train at a time. The giga coaster is extremely easy to get over 7-8 excitement on, and 9 is not uncommon either. Building one of these in your park is a very good idea.
===Special Track Sections===
*Cable lift
*Large helix
*Small helix
*Banked curves up to 90 degrees (RCT3 only)
*Booster (RCTC and OpenRCT2 only; requires the "Enable all drawable track pieces" cheat since v0.4.16)
*Launched Lift Hill (OpenRCT2 since v0.4.5; requires the "Enable all drawable track pieces" cheat since v0.4.16)
===Constraints===
*Maximum track slope - 90 degrees (OpenRCT2 only, if an available train allows it; otherwise 60 degrees)
*Maximum height above ground - 85 units (425 ft; 127.5 m)
===Vehicles===
===Ride rating penalties===
Ride stat 	Requirement 	Ratings affected
Highest drop height 	12 m (39 ft) 	Excitement: 50%Intensity: 50%Nausea: 50%
Max. speed 	35 km/h (22 mph)	Excitement: 50%Intensity: 50%Nausea: 50%
Max. negative vertical Gs	0.40 g 	Excitement: 50%Intensity: 50%Nausea: 50%
Drops 	2 	Excitement: 50%Intensity: 50%Nausea: 50%
===Pre-built designs===
====RollerCoaster Tycoon 2====
=====Build menu only=====
*Goliath
*Ice Chaser
*Neptune's Knot
*Velocerator
=====Scenarios=====
*Goliath (Six Flags Holland)
====RollerCoaster Tycoon 3====
=====Scenarios=====
*The Avenger (The Money Pit)
===Other Information===
*The Giga Coaster received a large number of new track pieces in the v0.4.7 release of OpenRCT2, including diagonal sloped turns (banked and unbanked), vertical loops, half loops in all three possible sizes (small, medium, large), corkscrews, barrel rolls, quarter loops, and zero-G rolls.
**While these track pieces are only accessible via the "Enable all drawable track pieces" cheat for the Giga Coaster (except for the diagonal sloped turns, which are available by default), they would eventually be usable by default, alongside the booster and launched lift hill pieces, for the LSM Launched Roller Coaster, which was added in the v0.4.16 release and uses the same track style as the Giga Coaster.
*The Yellow Taxi Trains from the Wacky Worlds expansion have several quirks:
**As the Yellow Taxi Trains are completely enclosed, using them on a Giga Coaster track design will cause it to be treated as an indoor ride, subsequently resulting in a constant flow of riders even during rainy weather.
**They lack banked sloped turn sprites but have sprites for vertical loops and corkscrews. As they have the exact same number of sprites as the trains for the Corkscrew Roller Coaster, the Yellow Taxi Trains may have originally been designed for the Corkscrew Roller Coaster.
**They lack the ability to provide extra excitement from 'air time' due to the presence of shoulder restraints. This makes getting higher excitement ratings more difficult when these trains are used.
**Their length can range from two to seven cars per train, resulting in a lower overall capacity.
==In Real Life==
The Giga Coaster is built by Intamin. There are only two offical giga coasters made by Intamin (both in the US). Although the name in RCT is Giga Coaster, it bears a resemblance to Intamin's Mega Coaster cars and track (which are also used on their Giga Coasters). There are eight Giga/Mega coasters in the world built from 1999 onwards (the first was Bizarro in Six Flags New England, Formerly Superman: Ride of Steel). Seven of these coasters were built from 1999 until 2003 and the eighth wasn't built until 2010. In 2000, Millennium Force was the first Giga Coaster to be built. Project 305 (formerly named Intimidator 305) is the newest Intamin Giga/Mega coaster but features a different train design from the other seven. The ride features over the shoulder restraints and the train is themed to a stock-car. The Giga coaster was featured in RCT2 in Six Flags Holland (Goliath). Interestingly, the in-game rendition of the ride has been scaled down from its height of 47 m (153 ft) to 37 m (120 ft).
The launched lift hill track piece for the Giga Coaster in OpenRCT2 is inspired by Maverick, an Intamin LSM Launch Coaster at Cedar Point.
==Gallery==
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