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12.146.117.128 11:45, 2 October 2007 (UTC) El Toro (Spanish for "The Bull") is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure. It opened to the public June 11, 2006. It was designed by Intamin AG of Switzerland. It has the steepest drop of any wooden roller coaster in the world, at 76 degrees. It is the third tallest (188 ft) and third fastest (70 MPH) wooden roller coaster in the world. It is also the first wooden roller coaster to use a cable lift hill instead of the traditional chain lift. Because of the extreme negative g-forces (airtime) on the ride, the lap-bar restraints are very tight, causing some problems for older and larger riders. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1383 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: El Toro (roller coaster) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ...
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The ride
El Toro's entrance, 2 weeks before opening, according to the sign. Once the first car of the train is past the catch-car, the cable begins moving and the catch-car locks onto the first car. As soon as the entire train is on the lift, the cable accelerates to its full speed of 13.5 MPH. At this speed, it takes about 15 seconds for the train to reach the top of the lift. The cable slows down slightly as the train crests the lift, but this is barely noticeable on the ride. The cable continues to pull the train until the entire train is over the top of the lift. Image File history File linksMetadata El_Toro_entrance. ...
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After cresting the top of the lift (in which some airtime could be felt before the lift was slowed down in 2007), the train briefly travels forward and makes a sharp 180 degree turn as it quickly picks up speed. It then drops 176 ft at a 76 degree angle. The train reaches 70mph; however, according to some ride operators the ride runs faster than it should, around 75mph. Some people say that it feels like the train is being dragged down the first drop. The drop is noted as one of the best drops on any coaster because of its pull and feeling of the world dropping-out from beneath the rider. The drop is experienced very differently in each row because of the length of the train. In the front row, you'll hang over the drop for quite a long time, the train only starting to really pick up speed when the front row is almost at the steepest part of the drop. In the back row, the train will be picking-up speed as soon as you reach the end of the turn before the drop, resulting in strong ejector air that's sustained almost all the way down the drop.
El Toro On Its' Second Drop In The Area Where The "Weightlessness" Occurs As the train reaches the bottom of the drop it comes close to the track above it creating a headchopper-effect. It then speeds up and over a 112ft. hill where riders experience strong extreme air-time. After going down the hill riders have their picture taken and then go up and crest a 100ft. hill, once again with strong ejector air. As it comes out of the hill more headchoppers are speedily passed as it the shoots up an 82ft. hill, giving less intense ejector airtime. The train speeds into a sharp 180 degree downward-banked turn and up another banked turn and then drops, this time riders experience floater airtime. The train goes through more headchoppers and a small 2nd hill that speeds past the station and the lakeside. The ride then makes another turn and up a smaller hill over Rolling Thunder. After coming down the drop, the ride snakes through twists and turns through Rolling Thunder's infield. After coming out of the twister section, the train slows down as it moves through small S turn hills and into the brake run. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 2. ...
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A headchopper on El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ (center of picture) A headchopper is any point on a roller coaster where the support structure of the ride comes very close to the passengers heads, or at least appears to. ...
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Construction El Toro is very different from a traditional wooden roller coaster because it is a prefabricated wooden roller coaster. This means that instead of trackers 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 ever be achieved by hand. The track is also made so that it snaps together like Lego pieces and is made of more layers of wood that are tightly bonded together instead of nailed together by hand like a traditional wooden roller coaster. This has three major benefits, two being to the park and the other being to the riders. The "Plug and Play" aspect of the coaster speeds construction of the coaster 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 manhours spent on the construction. The riders benefit from a coaster, that while being wooden, is as smooth as steel. Some roller coaster enthusiasts may find that aspect to take away from the ride since it would not have the same character as a traditional wooden roller coaster. Others appreciate its incredible airtime. El Toro is the first Intamin AG "Plug and Play" wooden roller coaster in the United States. The other two are Colossos at Heide Park in Germany and Balder at Liseberg in Sweden. The Texas Giant, a large wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, TX Thunderbird in the PowerPark amusement park A wooden roller coaster or woodie is most often classified as a roller coaster with laminated steel running rails overlayed upon a wooden track. ...
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El Toro's station, formerly used for Viper El Toro has several similarities to Viper, the coaster that it replaced. The most obvious similarity is that El Toro uses Viper's station, the only part of Viper that was not torn down. The station previously held two Viper trains at once, with a loading platform in the front and an unloading platform in the rear. The ramp that was previously Viper's main exit is now used only for wheelchair access, as El Toro has a new exit on the other side of the station. During El Toro's construction, the station was gutted and an entirely new platform built. Like El Toro, Viper turned left out of the station before the lift hill and turned left at the top of the lift before the first drop. El Toro's entrance uses an iron arch that is very similar to the one used for Viper's entrance, but a good deal wider. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1542 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): El Toro (roller coaster) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner...
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El Toro's on-ride camera is located at the bottom of the second drop. It takes a single, vertically oriented picture of each of the 6 cars. Riders intending to purchase their photo are advised to sit in the front row of any car. It sometimes flashes when a train is on the lift, probably to warm up. An on-ride camera is a camera mounted along side the track of a roller coaster (or a similar ride) that automatically photographs all of the riders on passing trains. ...
El Toro is most known for its constant speed which hardly slows down, its very steep first drop, the cable lift, smoothness, headchoppers, and its intense sensations of ejector airtime.
El Toro normally remains open in the rain (but not during a thunderstorm). However, intense or sustained rainfall can get the drive tires before the station wet enough that a train approaching the station will sometimes slip over them, causing the ride to shut itself down for safety reasons. While this situation is normally resolved in a matter of minutes, the guests on the train approaching the station will be stuck in the rain until the train in the station can be dispatched and their train advanced into the station. A thunderstorm, also called an electrical storm or lightning storm, is a form of weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its attendant thunder produced from a cumulonimbus cloud. ...
Drive tire along the brake run of the Shockwave roller coaster. ...
Trains and station
 Looking out the back of the station. From top to bottom: The turn into the crossover, the headchopper at the bottom of the first drop, and train B on the storage track. El Toro has two trains, each seating 36 passengers (3 rows of 2 passengers per car, 6 cars per train), the second longest trains in the park. El Toro has a capacity of 1500 guests per hour, 100 more than Kingda Ka. The trains are simply known as "Train A" (light brown) and "Train B" (dark brown), although they have been nicknamed "Jorge" (Train A) and "Hector" (Train B) by the ride operators. The trains have padded "wings" at shoulder level to prevent riders from being thrown too far to the side in the final twister section. These wings were originally made of plastic, but were replaced by much stronger metal ones after several of them broke in the middle of El Toro's opening season. A pair of the original plastic wings can still be found on the test seat. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 1677 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): El Toro (roller coaster) Headchopper (coaster element) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital...
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El Toro's restraints are very sensitive, which can sometimes result in a car (or sometimes the entire train) being unlocked and re-checked because one of the restraints was not down far enough to allow the train to be dispatched. When El Toro first opened, this resulted in very long dispatch intervals, sometimes up to 5 minutes. This situation has improved greatly over time; it is now common for each train to be dispatched less than half a minute after the other train finishes its circuit. when four ride attendants are available to check the trains, each train will usually be dispatched before the other train finishes its circuit.
El Toro's U-shaped lapbar restraints (a safer design than Intamin's usual T-shaped restraints) use a hydraulic locking system, which means they can be pushed down to any position, where they will stay. A ratchet-based restraint, in contrast, only locks at each notch and will often be too loose or uncomfortably tight. It also utilizes magnetic brakes - the brake fins are mounted to the underside of the train and the braking magnets are mounted to the track.
El Toro is unusual in that, because of space restrictions, it does not have a garage for its trains. Instead, it has a single open-air storage track, and the other train is stored in the station or brake run. When on the storage track, the train rests on its upstop wheels (the wheels that run under the track to keep it from flying off) rather than its main wheels. This allows for easier maintenance of the main wheels.
Height Restriction Notes Despite predictions by some park employees that the height restriction would be 54 inches, Six Flags, Intamin, and the state of New Jersey determined that the height restrictions would be 48 inches. This comes as no surprise because virtually every wooden roller coaster has a height restriction of no higher than 48 inches (some even lower). The only restriction on a wooden roller coaster of 54 inches and higher is on Cyclone at Six Flags New England and Cyclone at Astroland. However, the Giant Dipper at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and the J2 at Clementon Park have a height restriction of 50 inches, and Twister II at Elitch Gardens as well as Thunderbolt at Kennywood have a height requirement of 52 inches. Cyclone is a wooden roller coaster currently located at Six Flags New England. ...
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Test seat
 The test seat's restraints, in the highest position that will allow the train to be dispatched. El Toro recently received a test seat, located in the entrance plaza, a welcome addition because of the restraint system's sensitivity to "guests of exceptional size", now referred to as "guests of unique body shapes" due to political correctness. The test seat (which is actually two seats) is an exact replica of the front row of one of the cars. It has fully functional, hydraulic-locking restraints, identical to those on the trains. the seats of El Toro were not designed to support guests with waists greater than 36 inches, while with most other rides guests with waists 42 inches and up are put into a special seat which El Toro does not have. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1704x2272, 2387 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): El Toro (roller coaster) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner...
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In addition to the lapbar restraints, the test seat includes the seatbelts used on the ride. When fastened, they must be pulled tight enough so that the yellow line is visible. If they cannot be pulled this tight, the guest will not be able to ride.
The instruction sign above the test seat has a mistake on it. It says "The yellow stitch in the must be pulled through the buckle and be visible in order to ride", which should read "The yellow stitch in the seat belt must be pulled through the buckle and be visible in order to ride".
Awards
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External links - Six Flags Great Adventure El Toro ride page
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