New Texas Giant vs Twisted Colossus

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

New Texas Giant shades it 3–2. Close enough that calling the wrong stat hands the round over.

New Texas Giant is a hybrid IBox Track (Texas Giant conversion) coaster at Six Flags Over Texas, US, built by Rocky Mountain Construction. Twisted Colossus is a hybrid IBox Track (Colossus conversion) coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain, US, built by Rocky Mountain Construction.

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

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

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

They are near-contemporaries — 2011 and 2015 — so they were competing for the same riders when they opened.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to New Texas Giant at 153 ft against 121 ft — well clear.
• Speed goes to New Texas Giant at 65 mph against 57 mph — clearly ahead.
• Twisted Colossus inverts 2 times against nothing at all from New Texas Giant — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput splits them not at all: both read 1,400 rph.
• Build Cost goes to Twisted Colossus at 20 $m against 10 $m — more than double.
• Vintage is reversed, so New Texas Giant's 2011 takes it from Twisted Colossus's 2015 — 4 years in it.