[ POV ] El Toro Front View "Ride The BULL" Six Flags Great Adventure
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"Ride the bull" Scream Like a Little Girl, Check out this HD POV of the awesome Intamin A.R. woodie at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey. Tell us in the comments if this is your favorite wooden roller coaster.
Height: 181 ft
Drop: 176 ft
Max speed: 70 mph
Inversions: 0
Duration 1:35 min
El Toro is very different from a traditional wooden roller coaster because it uses prefabricated wooden track. It was built and designed by Intamin, who also worked with employees of Rocky Mountain Construction to build the ride. Instead of carpenters cutting, shaping, and laying down the track on site by hand, the track is laser cut in a factory. This means that the track is manufactured to a higher degree of precision than could be achieved by hand. The "Plug and Play" aspect of the coaster speeds its construction, since track does not have to be completely manufactured on site. In addition, because of the speed of construction, the costs of building the coaster are lowered due to fewer man-hours spent on its construction. The riders are subject to a coaster whose track is as smooth as steel. El Toro is the first Intamin "Plug and Play" (Pre-Fab) wooden roller coaster in the United States and one of four in the world. The other three are Colossos at Heide Park in Germany, Balder at Liseberg in Sweden, and T Express at Everland in South Korea. Thanks for watching this on ride POV filmed by The Coaster Views.