when did the Tower Of Terror lose its status as the fastest roller coaster in the world?
Tower of Terror II The Tower of Terror II is a steel shuttle roller coaster located at the Dreamworld amusement park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. When the Tower of Terror opened on 23 January 1997, it was the first roller coaster in the world to reach 160.9 km/h speeds making it the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world of its time. The ride is situated on the Dreamworld Tower which also houses The Giant Drop free fall ride. The ride was originally known as the "Tower of Terror" until it was modified and relaunched in September 2010.
Beast (Alton Towers) Alton Beast (later known as New Beast) was a roller coaster at Alton Towers. It first opened in 1988 in the Talbot Street (now Cloud Cuckoo Land) section of the park with the "Alton Mouse", a second-hand wild mouse coaster, and was marketed by the park as the largest coaster in the UK. It was a very popular ride, and it stayed in Talbot Street until 1992, when it was moved to Thunder Valley near the "Thunder Looper" (where the Rollercoaster Restaurant is now) and renamed the "New Beast". In 1994, "Nemesis" opened and the area was changed into Forbidden Valley. The "New Beast" stayed in Forbidden Valley until the end of 1997, when it was removed to make way for "Air", the park's 2002 flying coaster.It was later removed in 1999. It was sent to Divertido in Mexico City as Space Mountain. It was removed when the park closed in 2004. In 2010, the Beast was reopened in Salitre Magico as the Tornado.