An upcoming Japanese theme park ride will soon become the world's steepest rollercoaster with a 141-foot drop and 121 degree freefall.
[partner id="wireduk"]The Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park will open a new ride -- the Takabisha (or "dominant," in English) -- in July 2011, according to The Daily Mail. It will have 0.6 miles of track, seven major twists and that stomach-churning plummet.
White-knuckle riders will be hurtled around the track at 62 miles per hour, meaning that the ride, and the views of the nearby Mount Fuji, will last just 112 seconds. They'll also experience a split second of weightlessness as they nosedive down the mountainous drop.
The current world leader in stomach-flipping drops is the Mumbo Jumbo coaster, which opened two years ago at Flamingo Land in North Yorkshire, England. The most-sheer angle on the ride is a perilous 112 degrees.
Fuji-Q is well known for racking up records with new rides. The Fujiyama and Dodonpa were the tallest and fastest coasters upon construction, and the Eejanaika is the fastest fourth-dimension rollercoaster in the world. Disappointingly, that just means the seats spin around a bit. Boo.
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