El Toro (Freizeitpark Plohn)
| El Toro | |
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| Freizeitpark Plohn | |
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| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | April 10, 2009 |
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| Type | Wood |
| Manufacturer | Great Coasters International |
| Height | 81 ft (25 m) |
| Drop | 71 ft (22 m) |
| Length | 2,379 ft (725 m) |
| Speed | 46 mph (74 km/h) |
| Inversions | 0 |
| Trains | Single train with 12 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in a single row for a total of 24 riders per train. |
| El Toro at RCDB Pictures of El Toro at RCDB |
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El Toro is a wooden roller coaster at Freizeitpark Plohn in Germany. This is the third roller coaster built by Great Coasters International in Europe, after Thunderbird at PowerPark in Finland and Troy at Toverland in the Netherlands. It cost 5.1 million EUR and was by the European Regional Development Fund.
Contents
Ride
The ride has a length of 2,379 feet and a height of 80.6 feet. The trains have a top speed of 45.6 miles per hour. They pass through two tunnels under a Log flume.
Train
El Toro has one train of twelve cars. Passengers are placed two in a row for a total of twenty-four passengers per train. It features GCI's Millennium Flyer trains.
Rankings
| Golden Ticket Awards: Top wood Roller Coasters | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |||||||||||||
| Ranking | 35[1] | 34[2] | 23[3] | 29[4] | 37[5] | |||||||||||||
| Mitch Hawker's Best Roller Coaster Poll: Best wood-Tracked Roller Coaster[6] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ranking | 20 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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