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El Toro is a Wooden Roller Coaster currently under construction (as of April 2006) at Six Flags Great Adventure . It was designed by Intamin AG of Switzerland . It will have the steepest drop of any wooden roller coaster in the world, at 76 degrees. It is the third tallest (188 ft) and will be the third fastest (70 MPH) wooden roller coaster in the world. It will also be the first wooden roller coaster to use a Cable Lift Hill instead of the traditional Chain Lift . This gigantic wooden coaster is scheduled to open on Memorial Day , May 30 , 2006 . El Toro is the second steepest roller coaster in the park, even steeper than Nitro 's 66 degrees. The steepest is, of course, the vertically-ascending and descending Kingda Ka . El Toro is much different than a traditional Wooden Roller Coaster because of the fact that 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. The track also 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 less manhours spent on the construction. The riders benefit from a coaster, that while being wooden, is near steel smooth. Some roller coaster enthusiast may find that aspect to take away from the ride since it would not have the same character as a traditional wooden roller coaster though. El Toro will be 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 El Toro will be the main attraction of a new Spanish-themed section, Plaza Del Carnaval. It will utilize Viper 's station, and some of the track will be located in Rolling Thunder 's infield. El Toro will have two Trains , each seating 36 passengers (3 rows of 2 passengers per car, 6 cars per train). El Toro will have a capacity of 1500 guests per hour, 100 more than Kingda Ka . EXTERNAL LINKS
El Toro Construction Tour Pictures
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