Steel Vengeance vs Twisted Timbers

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

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

Steel Vengeance is a hybrid IBox Track (Mean Streak conversion) coaster at Cedar Point, US, built by Rocky Mountain Construction. Twisted Timbers is a hybrid IBox Track (Hurler conversion) coaster at Kings Dominion, 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 — 2018 and 2018 — so they were competing for the same riders when they opened.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to Steel Vengeance at 205 ft against 111 ft — nearly double.
• Speed goes to Steel Vengeance at 74 mph against 54 mph — a long way clear.
• Steel Vengeance takes Inversions 4 to 3.
• Throughput goes to Steel Vengeance at 1,200 rph against 1,150 rph — ahead by a whisker.
• Build Cost goes to Steel Vengeance at 20 $m against 12 $m — nearly double.
• Both opened in 2018, which makes Vintage a dead heat.