Montu vs Patriot

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

Montu sweeps every comparable stat. There is no line on the card where Patriot is the better pick, so the only way this duel turns is on who calls the stat.

Montu is a steel Inverted Coaster coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, US, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. Patriot is a steel Inverted Coaster coaster at Worlds of Fun, US, built by Bolliger & Mabillard.

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

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 Montu at 150 ft against 149 ft — all but dead level.
• Speed splits them not at all: both read 60 mph.
• Montu takes Inversions 7 to 4.
• Throughput goes to Montu at 1,710 rph against 1,160 rph — a long way clear.
• Build Cost goes to Montu at 20 $m against 14 $m — a long way clear.
• 10 years separate them, and because Vintage rewards age it is Montu (1996) that banks the point, not Patriot (2006).