The height of terror: Thrill seekers plummet 141ft on world's steepest roller coaster drop
Last updated at 3:01 PM on 8th July 2011
It’s a theme park ride with not only attitude – but altitude.
So it was with some trepidation that thrill seekers embarked on the first public test of the terrifyingly Takabisha, the world’s steepest roller coaster.
Screams of delight and fright echoed though Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park, in the shadow of Mount Fuji in Japan, as riders plummeted 141ft in a single vertical drop.
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Don't look down: The Takabisha ride in Japan with a 141ft drop is the world steepest roller coaster
Thrill: A mixture of smiles and grimaces of the first members of the public to test the Takabisha
But there is little time to enjoy the view of snow-capped mountain as the ride lasts just 112 seconds .
The nerve-jangling plunge comes amid seven stomach-flipping twists over nearly two miles of track.
The ride's designers have called in adjudicators from the Guinness Book of World Records, which ratified that the drop, involving a 121-degree freefall, is the steepest on any attraction anywhere in the world.
Takabisha, which translates as 'dominant' in English, relies on a combination of gravity and a set of linear motors on the cars.
These accelerate the coaster to speeds of 100kmph.
Stomach-flipping: The ride, at the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park, goes down at a 120-degree angle
Beautiful backdrop: But Mount Fuji will be hard to see amid the maze of seven vertigo-inducing twists
Screams galore: Riders react in terror - but the scariest part of the ride, which fully opens on July 16, is still ahead
Riders experience weightlessness as they 'nosedive' down the sharp incline, before later being plunged into darkness.
Costing an eye-watering 3billion yen (around £23million) to build, Takabisha will grab the title of 'ride with the steepest incline' from a British attraction, Mumbo Jumbo at Flamingoland in the UK.
The popular Yorkshire theme park has held the record since July 2009.
Mumbo Jumbo, which cost £5million to design and build, has an incline of 112 degrees and puts riders under a force of 4Gs, similar to those experienced by fighter pilots.
Fuji-Q is no stranger to records - this will be the 14th Guinness-recognised mark set by the park.
Blink and you'll miss it: The ride lasts 112 seconds
Record: Theme park boss Koichiro Horiuchi, left, receives a Guinness World Record certificate
However, when it comes to speed, the world's fastest rollercoaster is still Formula Rossa, which can be found at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi.
This speeds riders around its tracks at 150mph.
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