Sandusky - Cedar Point pushed the limits on roller coaster design. The Millennium Force broke ten world records when it debuted in 2000. The impressive Millennium Force is a steel roller coaster for which a new term was invented. This "Giga-coaster" was the first full-circuit (vs. shuttle coasters that stay on the chain or cog after they leave the lift hill) to reach more than 300-feet in altitude. Millennium Force has an "out-and-back" ( high altitude first drop with plenty of smaller hills that give you feelings of weightlessness - known as airtime - as you ride back to the starting point) layout that does not have any inversions (points where the coaster is upside down) but includes over-banked turns (during the curve the roller coaster tilts 90 degrees or more left or right).
Millennium Forces's lift-hill has an altitude of 310-feet and parallels Lake Erie. Millennium Force is 6,595-feet long and includes hills of 310-feet, 182-feet, and 169-feet. Millennium Force has a stomach stealing 300-foot drop, at a near vertical 80 degree angle, two dark tunnels, and three over-banked turns.
Since its debut in 2000 Millennium Force has consistently been voted the number one steel roller coaster in the world. Millennium Force has a ride duration of two minutes and twenty seconds. Millennium Forces top speed is 93 miles-per-hour, two of Millennium Forces three over-banked turns are 122-degrees and the other is 112-degrees. Millennium Force is the first roller coaster to use an elevator-cable system to lift the trains up the 310-foot lift-hill. See also, www.cedarpoint.com.
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