Colossus vs Stealth

Vintage is the reversed stat — the older ride wins. Every number here is the same one printed on the card; see /methodology for how Build Cost and Throughput are sourced.

The verdict

Honours end even at 3–3, which is the awkward kind of matchup: whoever calls the stat decides the round.

Colossus is a steel 10-Inversion Coaster coaster at Thorpe Park, GB, built by Intamin. Stealth is a steel Accelerator Coaster coaster at Thorpe Park, GB, built by Intamin.

Both live at Thorpe Park, so this is a comparison you can settle on foot in an afternoon — and one the park itself has to answer every time someone asks which to queue for first.

They come from the same drawing office: Intamin. That makes the gaps below a question of brief and budget rather than engineering house style.

Both are steel-track, so nothing here is the usual steel-versus-wood argument in disguise.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to Stealth at 205 ft against 98 ft — more than double.
• Speed goes to Stealth at 80 mph against 45 mph — nearly double.
• Colossus inverts 10 times against nothing at all from Stealth — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to Colossus at 1,300 rph against 1,000 rph — well clear.
• Build Cost goes to Stealth at 22.1 $m against 20.3 $m — clearly ahead.
• Vintage is reversed, so Colossus's 2002 takes it from Stealth's 2006 — 4 years in it.