Dragon Khan vs Silver Star

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

Silver Star takes it 4–2, and the 2 Dragon Khan does win are the whole of its case.

Dragon Khan is a steel Sitting Looping Coaster coaster at PortAventura Park, ES, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. Silver Star is a steel Hyper Coaster coaster at Europa-Park, DE, built by Bolliger & Mabillard.

They come from the same drawing office: Bolliger & Mabillard. 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 Silver Star at 240 ft against 148 ft — nearly double.
• Speed goes to Silver Star at 79 mph against 65 mph — well clear.
• Dragon Khan inverts 8 times against nothing at all from Silver Star — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to Silver Star at 1,750 rph against 1,200 rph — a long way clear.
• Build Cost goes to Silver Star at 12 $m against 8 $m — a long way clear.
• Vintage is reversed, so Dragon Khan's 1995 takes it from Silver Star's 2002 — 7 years in it.