Wooden Roller facts
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Mean Streak Henry, a man who has ridden the wooden roller coaster "Mean Streak" at Cedar Point 11,290 times in 22 years
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Russian ice slides of the 17th century inspired the modern roller coaster. They were wooden structures often 70-80 ft high with ice frozen over a sloping ramp which stretched out 100s of feet. Riders ploughed into a pile of sand to slow them down.
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Before they invented snow plows, they packed it down with big wooden rollers called a snow pank.
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About Mean Streak Henry - Since 1991, he rode Cedar Point's Mean Streak wooden roller coaster over 16,000 times until its closure in 2016.
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There have been two wooden looping roller coasters in history, one built in 1895 and the other in 2000. Both were removed due to safety issues.
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Russian Mountains" were the predecessors to Roller Coasters. Sleds or wheeled carts went down large hills of snow that were constructed and reinforced with wooden supports, as some were 80ft(24m) tall with 50 degree slopes.
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In 2017, the Golden Ticket awards voted the roller coaster "The Beast" as the 6th best wooden roller coaster in the world. The total number of votes cast for it was 666.
