Think about this

[Drkstarboard]

Cedar Point built Top Thrill Dragster in 2003. Top Thrill Dragster is 420ft and reaches speeds of 120m.p.h in less then 4 seconds which made Top Thrill Dragster the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. However, in 2005, Kingda Ka debuted as the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world.

Ok, now that I have provided a little background information that everyone already knew, imagine this.

Pretend that no other park in the world wanted to compete with Top Thrill Dragster. Do you think the tallest hight we would see on a roller coaster would be 420ft? Or, do you think that Cedar Point would "compete" with itself and just keep building world record breakers?

Please tell me if you don't understand this, I'll try to reword it if you don't. If you do then obviously post what you think would happen.

[FRD714]

I could see that happening.

But think about this. Do you think every record breaking coaster is going to follow the same mold using rocket coasters instead of coasters with lift hills?

[Trailblazer Tony]

There will always be new coasters, so I would imagine that someone would eventually break that height limit and Cedar Point would be the one to do that.

[twixmix0303]

Right. Eventually, 420 ft. would no longer be special, give it enough time and it would become old. Cedar Point would be forced to compete with itself every once in a while just to keep attendance up.

On the flipside, it's possible that they'd compete not by height, but something else, like length or number of inversions.

[CoasterDude12-2]

I don't think they'd compete with themselves with hieght. But like twix said, I think they'd try to break records in another stat.

[Trailblazer Tony]

^They have before with Top Thrill beating Millennium Force, and that beating Magnum XL-200, and that beating Gemini for height records.

[CoasterDude12-2]

Millenuim Force beat Goliath as the world's tallest coaster. I think a coaster in Japan also was tallest than Magnum. As for Gemini, American Eagle, Shockwave, and a few others were taller than Gemini before Magnum opened.

[Trailblazer Tony]

^I know, what I ment was that each of those four Cedar Point coasters were the worlds tallest coaster when they were built. If you don't believe me, it is on the Cedar Point website. Therefore, I was getting at the fact that they wouldn't hesitate to set a new record, even if no one beat Top Thrill Dragster. Sorry for the confusion.

[The Beast]

^I know, what I ment was that each of those four Cedar Point coasters were the worlds tallest coaster when they were built. If you don't believe me, it is on the Cedar Point website. Therefore, I was getting at the fact that they wouldn't hesitate to set a new record, even if no one beat Top Thrill Dragster. Sorry for the confusion.

Well, Magnum wasn't even the tallest roller coaster in the planet at the time. The tallest complete circuit coaster yes, but Moonsault Scramble was definitely taller than Magnum, and was built in 1983. Cedar Point is notorious for using bad info as advertising for coasters, I believe the sign stating TTD is the tallest coaster in the world is still in front of TTD. That's just shameless.