Joris en de Draak vs The Voyage

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

The Voyage shades it 3–2. Close enough that calling the wrong stat hands the round over.

Joris en de Draak is a wooden Racing wooden coaster (Water and Fire tracks) coaster at Efteling, NL, built by Great Coasters International. The Voyage is a wooden Wooden Terrain Coaster coaster at Holiday World, US, built by The Gravity Group.

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

They are near-contemporaries — 2006 and 2010 — so they were competing for the same riders when they opened.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to The Voyage at 159 ft against 82 ft — nearly double.
• Speed goes to The Voyage at 67 mph against 47 mph — a long way clear.
• Inversions splits them not at all: both read 0.
• Throughput goes to Joris en de Draak at 1,750 rph against 1,200 rph — a long way clear.
• Build Cost goes to Joris en de Draak at 17.3 $m against 8.5 $m — more than double.
• Vintage is reversed, so The Voyage's 2006 takes it from Joris en de Draak's 2010 — 4 years in it.