If you want to build a fast roller coaster, be expected to pay more for how fast you want it to go. Those were super advanced in their day, and people thought it couldn’t get any better than that. Back in 1927, Switchback Railway in Coney Island was built “with $175,000 ($2.3 million in 2014 dollars), the coaster was 25 cents to ride and saw nearly 1,400 riders an hour at its peak operation” (Crockett). Roller coasters have gotten super expensive to build. The bigger and more advanced a roller coaster is, the more money it costs to build. The ride goes both forwards and backwards, and has a set design like no other. What made it so expensive was its track system. The price of this very advanced ride: $100 million dollars! And the thing is, it’s a pretty average coaster. But roller coasters like Kingda Ka, in New Jersey, cost about $25 million dollars! That is a lot of money isn’t it? But that’s not even the craziest it gets! Expedition Everest in Disney World’s Animal Kingdom takes the top spot for the most expensive roller coaster: “Walt Disney World in Florida made the 2011 Guinness World Records for most expensive roller coaster, a title which hasn’t yet been broken” (Morrow). For example, roller coasters like the ones that you see in small theme parks or malls cost about $1-2 million.
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Roller coasters are fun, am I right? But have you ever wondered how much it costs to build one? In this blog post, you will finally find out! Price ranges vary when it comes to how big or small a roller coaster is.