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Colossos (Heide Park)

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Park section
  
Main Street

Opening date
  
April 13, 2001

Manufacturer
  
Intamin

Height
  
60 m

Opened
  
13 April 2001

Status
  
Under Refurbishment

Type
  
Wood

Designer
  
Werner Stengel

Max speed
  
109 km/h

Park
  
Heide Park

Colossos (Heide Park)

Address
  
Heide Park 1, 29614 Soltau, Germany

Similar
  
Krake, Scream, Big Loop, Flug der Dämonen, Expedition GeForce

Colossos is a wooden roller coaster at Heide Park in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. Unlike traditional wooden roller coasters, Colossos was prefabricated, meaning the track was laser cut in a factory to achieve a higher degree of precision. The sections were designed to snap together like Lego pieces. Some of the wooden planks were tightly bonded together in multiple layers instead of being traditionally nailed together by hand.

The "Plug and Play" aspect of the coaster sped up construction and lowered building costs by reducing the amount of labor required. Three other prefabricated wooden roller coasters have since been built: Balder at Liseberg, El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure, and T Express at Everland in South Korea.

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Colossos (Heide Park) Wikipedia