Colossus vs Wicker Man

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

Colossus takes it 5–1, and the 1 Wicker Man does win is the whole of its case.

Colossus is a steel 10-Inversion Coaster coaster at Thorpe Park, GB, built by Intamin. Wicker Man is a wooden Wooden coaster with fire-effect pass-throughs coaster at Alton Towers, GB, built by Great Coasters International.

Both are in GB, which puts them in the same conversation for anyone planning a trip there.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to Colossus at 98 ft against 72 ft — a long way clear.
• Speed goes to Colossus at 45 mph against 43 mph — ahead by a whisker.
• Colossus inverts 10 times against nothing at all from Wicker Man — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to Colossus at 1,300 rph against 952 rph — a long way clear.
• Build Cost goes to Wicker Man at 21.3 $m against 20.3 $m — ahead by a whisker.
• 16 years separate them, and because Vintage rewards age it is Colossus (2002) that banks the point, not Wicker Man (2018).