Area served Worldwide Owner Michael Black Headquarters Atlanta Type of business Private company | Products Wooden Roller Coasters Website www.rcca.com Founded 1979 | |
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Key people Michael Black
Stephen Black | ||
The roller coasters of the roller coaster corporation of america
Roller Coaster Corporation of America (abbreviated RCCA) is an amusement ride manufacturer based in the United States. The company's first major project was the Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in 1992, while their most famous coaster was the Son of Beast at Kings Island, the world's tallest and first looping wooden coaster when it opened in 2000.
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History
The Roller Coaster Corporation of America was established in 1979, but the president Michael Black had worked on wooden coaster construction projects before, like the Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags Over Georgia in 1973, with his father Marvin Black and brother Stephen Black. The company prided itself in their manufacturing technique, which involved pre-manufacturing sections of the wooden structure and track at facilities off-site and then assembling on-site. This reduced what could otherwise be a year long construction project to around 6 months. In 1992, under the name Roller Coaster Corporation of Texas, they built the Rattler for Six Flags Fiesta Texas, which opened as the tallest, fastest, and steepest wooden coaster in the world. However, the RCCA faced criticism for rushing through testing, and the ride's high forces led to numerous injuries during the first year of operation.
In 1997, the RCCA was approached by Paramount Kings Island to create the world's first wooden hyper coaster. The result of 3 years of planning and construction was Son of Beast, which opened in May 2000. While reviews were initially positive, the ride deteriorated over the first year, leading to a lawsuit from Kings Island against the RCCA and some of their contractors for shoddy design and insufficient supports. In response, the RCCA claimed that Kings Island had dismissed the company before construction was completed to save money and filed their own suit.
The RCCA built a handful of other coasters in the early 2000s, the most recent being Coaster Express at Parque Warner Madrid in 2002. Since then, they have not built any more coasters, and it is unknown if the company still operates.
Installations
Roller Coaster Corporation of America has built 10 coasters across the world. Two are now defunct (Son of Beast and White Canyon) and one has been completely re-done by Rocky Mountain Construction (Rattler).