The World's Gerstlauer Infinity Coasters - By The Numbers
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- Gerstlauer introduced the Infinity Coaster in 2013 and 12 have been built around the world. Today's let's break them down - by the numbers.
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Just to let you know the Mack Hyper at Thorpe Park is confirmed and under construction. Not sure you were aware given your comment about anticipated rides in the UK
I made this video about a month ago when I don't think it was confirmed yet
It was confirmed in November
@@AirtimeThrills It was confirmed just over four months ago
@@William_Does_Coasters2255 The manufacturer wasn't officially confirmed until a few weeks back, we all just kinda knew it was gonna be Mack tho
I know, I’ve been following the development of the ride for months!
Infinity Coasters are very versatile - I've been on Karacho, Kärnan, Fury, Gold Rush and the Smiler and enjoyed everyone of them. I will be happy if there are more of these rides in the future 👍🏻
As a Brit, I obviously saw #1 coming so no real surprises here. I wouldn’t say the Smiler feels poorly paced riding it, because it takes most of its elements fast and it’s inversions are intentionally divided across the 2 lift hills, but at the same time it’s unlike anything else on the list so the score makes sense! Also it ironically has the best airtime in the country right in the middle of its layout underneath the theming structure (although our country lacks airtime and desperately needs a airtime machine so it’s not really a accomplishment). I wish more Infinity coasters had airtime elements, I’ve only ridden Smiler and Hangtime and the airtime hills are nice surprises on both, they compliment the more insane manoeuvres well.
Great list! Fury is definitely the coaster I want to ride the most out of these, although it’s purely because of that gimmick.
The best air in the country is on the double down of the Grand National...
Happy to be a proud operator at the 6th best paced Gerstlauer Infinity Coaster 😂💪💪
The Smiler is so much fun, and can’t believe it’s 10 years old this year. Time flies when you’re not having eh?
It's impossible that 2013 was 10 years ago
i really enjoy smiler but i have one complaint when exiting the cobra roll it has a bad jolt
It’s funny being an a coaster enthusiast and a aviation enthusiast seeing a ride themed to the Pitts Special a plane notorious for being a stunt plane and a plane that probably spends more time flying upside down than right side up has a coaster with no inversions 😂
Thanks for clarifying what pitts special is, i had no idea
I just had a video idea: “Vekoma Boomerangs-By the Numbers.” Maybe for early April? 😉
That sounds nauseating even as a joke lol
Karnen is probably my biggest bucket list Gerstlauer. It looks absolutely nuts.
My absolute nr. 1
The pre show is even better than the ride lol
@@stonie13 No, just the ride itself is very intense and has good airtime moments. But the theming, the preshows, the atmosphere and the amazing soundtrack makes it for me one of the best rollercoasters in the world. A massive full package ride.
Never heard of Fury before. Sounds awesome. I would love to see a video on the top ten coasters that would be the best / worst to have that forwards / backwards gimmick on.
Such an underrated model
Didn’t know hangtime was the shortest infinity coaster. I still think of it as a moderately long ride
I mean it was crapes right where a boomerang used to be
Can you do all of Energylandias coasters next
That actually is on my list for my next by the numbers video
I've ridden Karacho and Schwur des Kärnan and both are among the best roller coasters in Europe with their varied and intense ride. The only downside of this model is its limited capacity. That's why the coasters are also more suitable for medium-sized parks. But in such parks they are the absolute highlight.
These coasters are so neat looking and fun.
Smiler only having 3500ish feet of track still blows my mind
Mystic is really underrated, featuring both airtime, hangtime and a snappy dive loop
Right when I seen The Monster I literally screamed THATS AT MY HOME PARK! Super happy that The Monster made it
Props to your pronunciation of Slagharen! I almost assumed Gold Rush to be last, since it's a really short ride. That launch sequence must really add a lot, especially with the dive loop stall.
Also LOL that 620m height XD
I think I grabbed a review of it from Coaster Bot to see how it should be pronounced...tried my best lol
Gold Rush is a very underrated ride - it offers great theming, strong hangtime and a short, but sweet layout!
@@BassGuitarSlide disagree on the theming, but the ride is great aye!!
I'm curious to know if you considered adding vertical lift hills as prime ride time. Obviously, that would kill pacing, but those vertical lifts are sometimes the most memorable element of the ride.
True, but I didn't. But they could be considered prime ride time, just would murder the pacing
I love this series!
If you ever go to the UK for coasters, obviously go to Alton Towers and Thorpe Park, but also Blackpool Pleasure Beach for ICON, possibly Drayton Manor for whatever their new for 2024 coaster is (probably an Axis from my point of view), and Flamingo Land. Flamingo Land is the most underrated park, definitely in the UK, better than Pleasure Beach and has Sik (one of the best in the UK) with 3 amazing supporting coasters (smooth and forceful custom SLC (I think it pulls the same forces as Black Mamba), Clone of Steel Hawg, and by far the best Vekoma Booster Bike except for TRON (I prefer this to Leviathan at Canada's Wonderland)), best S&S drop tower, soaking water ride, epic zoo, and more. BTW, I had a better ady there than at Alton Towers (without Sik) last year and it was so good that I'm going again this year. This park gets almost no international attention but it is absolutely amazing!
I was looking into a uk trip before deciding to go with the coaster crew on their Norden adventure. Drayton wasnt really on my radar but alton, thorpe, blackpool, chessington, and flamingo land for sure
Yes! He does my suggestion! I was the one who suggested eurofighters and infinity coasters back when you started this series.
Eurofighters is coming soon also
@@AirtimeThrills 🔥
I would definitly call it fastest paced for these types of rides, some of the elements are better when takan slower forthings like hangtime.
4:30 Sheesh man that's a tall coaster (look at the meter stat) anyway, love your videos Chris.
Looks like he accidentally put the length stat instead of the height stat.
I really do watch these back for mistakes but some still slip thru when theres 10000 numbers involved
I was suprised so much when I saw hangtime at last
Kärnarn is an amazing coaster. I have been on it for the first time like a week ago and it’s sooo awesome. Yeah sure it only has one I version but the rest does make up for it.
I was surprised that Karacho had the worst pacing
Thorpe is getting that mack hyper. And I'm just saying this is definetly going to be the best coaster in the country and probably the best hyper ever to exsist. Imagine steel curtain and steel vengeance combined, the wild airtime and elements from Steve and the intimidating and whippy inversions from curtain
Interesting by the numbers video but I love it!
Madagascar mad pursuit absolutely slaps.
Smiler is a complete outlier in that pacing really doesn't matter for a complete ride package, as it's still best in the UK to most thoosie's eyes!
Sam yeah very true on the 1st day of Festival of Thrills Smiler Takeover both me and Coaster Chicken ridden smiler until the queue line closed at 5pm
@@DavesAdventures Ahh lucky fella! Single rider has made it so much better, although I really expected more out of Smiler Take Over tbh
Watching this video and staring at hang time on my break 😆
Hang time is also a very short footprint on a very small plot of land.
This is a VERY unique video...
thorpe park is getting project exodus so excited im shocked that the uk hasn't gotten any more infinity coasters they are very versatile and cnan be compact perfect for blackpool and thorpe
I'm also quite surprised gerstlauer didn't use a zero g roll on the smiler it would've been great break from all the dive loops and corkscrews
MMM Vortex replacement smells so good
Daym fury second?? Didn't expect that one there (also the only one I've ridden out of all of em sinds it's in my home park xD)
Karnin will definitely win everything but the ride time which I’m guessing will go to the smiler
Are you nostradamus?
I have a chaotic video idea, ranking all of the models by a manufacturer by the numbers. For example every B&M ride made and compare the stats etc. 😂😂
IMO: vertical lift hills are fun, scary, and unlike regular lift hills should be counted as part of prime ride time!
I get that. Talk about crushing pacing tho 😅
I spotted a conversion error in the gold rush section. 108,3 ft is not 620 m. If it were 620 m, that would mean the ride would be 2034 feet tall. It accidentally shows the track length as the height.
Yeah those typos slip thru even during the final run through
Very cool video with all the facts and comparisons.
But I think saying "Schwur des Kärnan" has just 53 seconds of ride time is a little off because the ride is in fact made up of several parts that really matter to the overall experience. But yes I know it fits your definition of the ride-time.
That's definitely true, those "non-prime-ride-elements" are tough to quantify for a video like this
Damn! I can't believe that Gold Rush's height is 620 metres😱
Uuhh I’d double check that mate, I don’t think that’s correct🤔💭.
Project Exodus (the Mack Hyper) has been approved for Thorpe Park, they are already working on groundwork stuff.
Based off what you said about #3 and #1, you could do a top 20 bucket list video. Unless that already exists.
Ive got videos that pretty much cover it, the latest one being coasters that should be in my top 25
i didnt know that gold rush is the world's tallest coaster
Madagascar Mad Pursuit is a seriously fun ride.
The smiler may only be 53mph but it feels way faster when you ride it
4:12
“This may be halfway around the world…”
Us Dutch people: …
I currently have one operating in one of my fictitious Six Flags parks.
Hangtime (apparently, I got the name from the Knotts version) is taller than Karnan at 223 feet tall and longer than Karnan at 4100 feet in length. However, its 75 mph top speed makes it lag behind Karnan, but only by a few mph. In terms of pacing, it's definitely not the best, but it's something... right?
Chris, can you rank your favorite country songs and country/western themed coasters?
Been on the smiler it’s fun when it says you get marmalised you really do
I live 50 kilometers from Slagharen, so I've ridden Goldrush the most, but Fury is much more fun! Also Slagharen only has 2 roller coasters, while Bobbejaanland has way more, while themed to the wild west as well ;-) I will experience Karacho next year, when we go to Europapark, Holidaypark and Tripsdrill!
Greetings from the Netherlands...
Suggestion: The height/speed records by the numbers
F.Y.I they've stopped with the voting system on Fury since Covid. You instead pick which direction you want to go in while in the queue line.
Also surprised it ranked so high in ride time since it's never felt like a long ride to me.
The system with two line is almost from the beginning and not related to covid.
In one queue you go always forward. In the other line the voting system is still available. But in practice mostly a backward line.
It felt a short ride by the pacing. But you have a triple launch and the spike at the end that counts as ride time.
Few errors in the video
Pits Special is 100ft longer
Goldrush isnt 620m tall
I swear I watch these back for errors
I keep hearing these have low enough capacity that it's unlikely we'll get one at Cedar Point, but would it really hurt them to put in a 250+ foot Infinity with a 135 degree drop and 15+ inversions weaving in and around Millennium Force? That's all I'm asking, not much really.
Sounds fair to me
They could get a Mack Hyper, or Vekoma. Those have good capacity.
kärnan build different indeed
I can’t wait for him to shit on defiance for having about 12 seconds of ride time in the inevitable Eurofighter edition
I think Cedar Point should replace Corkscrew with a Gerstlauer Infinity Coaster. You could still have the double corkscrew over the Midway.
You’re in luck, Thorpe Park is getting a Mack Hyper. Jack Silkstone confirmed on his video that Mack is the manufacturer building Thorpe parks project Exodus hyper coaster.
Finally UK gets a coaster like this
Oh wow, never realised Fury is the 2nd longest infinity coaster. i've always find this ride too short when i come off.
Gold Rush Slagharen 620 metres, that’s #1 spot for sure 😂😂
make it happen Gerstlauer
Soooo. Construction update on Palindrone . I live by COTA, went by there last Sunday . All there is right now is a pile of lift hill track sitting in the parking lot . I wouldn’t bet on this for 2023. No construction is going on anywhere out there .
Was Kärnan´s Lift Hill Party Trick left in for the prime ridetime? It feels like that should hurt the pacing a good bit. Or is that ride really that much faster that it makes up for it on the track?
It wasn’t in . Otherwise the prime ride time would have been over 2 min
@@stonie13 That´s what I thought. Maybe it´s just me, but I feel like that a slow Show scene like this that happens while you are in the train should count a prime ride time, mainly because it will hurt the overall pacing and it is IMO part of the overall experience.
Yeah stuff like that is hard to factor in. If anything i would have to add just a couple more seconds
I was gonna say TMT Shellraiser until I remembered it only has one car, so it's not considered to be an Infinity coaster. My favourite coasters in England are Icon and The Smiler, but the Mach Rides coaster opening next at Thorpe park will probably beat both of them, including my third favourite coaster in the U.K. in the same park: Swarm. I consider Smiler to be one of the top 26 coasters I've ridden out of 133 in total. In conclusion: The Smiler is in the top 20% of coasters I've ridden, and it's my favourite coaster at Alton Towers: my favourite amusement in England AFTER Blackpool Pleasure Beach (because Blackpool is so inexpensive and easy to get the best rides for the lowest prices)
Yeah shellraiser is a very very large Eurofighter. Ill get to that in a couple months
Will Palindrome at COTAland be open while cars are on the track? If so, this is a game-changer. As someone whose been to many NASCAR events, the sound of a NASCAR speeding by is legit LOUD and TERRIFYING in a good way. If you're on the stall over the track, you will be shook.
Other than Pitts Special and Chance Toboggans, are there any coasters with a vertical lift followed by a non-vertical drop?
Hollywood rip ride rocket comes to mind
Its rare, Mystery Mine's first lift does this, also Smiler
4:44
Slight mistake with Gold Rush’s height…
Gerstlauer in my opinion has a mixed review from me. I like them, but their coasters do lack in some type of force. Granted, the only ones I rode are hangtime, mystery mine and firechaser, but I think the main reason im not a fan is because ngl some of them are forceless. I hope to get to ride Monster at Adventureland this year but ehhh
I have never been a big fan of Gerstlauer, but Shellraiser and Monster are amazing
The good ones are all in Europe lol
Do they not build Clones? It seems like the perfect model for such a thing And custom layouts would be much more expensive I would think
For eurofighters yes, for infinity coasters they all look custom
9:28 "There are only two in the US" since you included Palindrome there's three.
Right well 2 that ive ridden
Hey just rode tron in the night!
That sounds awesome
@@AirtimeThrills it was my first time. I was dissatisfied with the length, but other than that it was an amazing experience.
3:16 👀 lol
Schwur des Kärnan is 73 meters (239,5 ft) tall only the first drop is 68 meters
Gold Rush's Height is scaring me😧
Hang Time is actually a Gerstlauer Dive Coaster.
Could someone tell me the difference between this and the Euro-fighter? Thanks
I pretty much summed it up in the first few seconds of the video, as far as I can tell and what I have read, the Infinity coaster is just capable of longer trains even though some of them still only have 2 rows
THIS WAS RELEASED 24 MINUTES AGO!
Why is the roller coaster with all first place and only third?
The list is in order of prime ride time. Karnan is 1st in everything except prime ride time. It's third by prime ride time.
Prime ride time is the length of the ride in seconds, excluding lift hills and final break runs. Meanwhile, Length is the length of the ride in feet, or meters, excluding lift hills, final break runs and the station. Pacing = Length ÷ Prime Ride Time.
Hang time is the only one I've ridden and the first drop kind of killed it for me. It was still fun, but the way you crawl over the drop was really anticlimactic.
Yeah id rather they just toss you over
Gold rush 620m tall?
HeLLo
I dont understand how your stats work out for sorting these.
If #1 has #9, 9, 2, and 10, shouldnt it be Way behind Monster at #7?
They're just sorted by ride time
Funny how gold rush is 620 Meter hight
hey airtime thrill why are do you hate frontier city
2:22 I think you mean 100 feet lol
lol yeah not 1000. too many numbers fry my brain
I’m telling y’all. Nothing will be open at cotaland this year. I’ll drive by there today to see if they’ve done anything but it doesn’t look at all like anything is being built. Them saying they will build 26 coasters in one year and yet pushing that back year after year is as austin as it gets,
Yeah not long after i made this they said it would be 2024 til anything opened there
@@AirtimeThrills they’ve barely put out public advertising in the area either and when I tell people it’s happening they just tell me they haven’t seen anything about it. Also with nascar Moto gp and f1 I’ve always wondered how and the heck are they gonna fit that many people there ar once plus run a theme park
Lol you made a little mistake saying Gold Rush is over half a kilometer tall :p
COTALand being at a racetrack and its coaster having the slowest top speed feels...wrong.
6:45 It's pronounced "Yunker"
I actually watched a review to see if it was Junker or Yunker and it said Junker, but that could have been wrong also lol
You forgot impulse
That would be a zierer tower coaster
Impulse is a Zierer
The joke is they're (zeirer tower and gerslauer infinity/eurofighter) practically the same
It’s called: ‘powerpark’ not powerland.
9:47 not to be that guy but this just looks goofy
They're called infinity coasters, but they don't last for eternity. That's false advertising gerstlauer smh
Gerstlauer >>>>>>> B&M
An idea instead of Pythagorean Theorem just watch a pov and time it it would be easier I assume