The Voyage vs Thunderbolt

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 takes it 4–1, and the 1 Thunderbolt does win is the whole of its case.

The Voyage is a wooden Wooden Terrain Coaster coaster at Holiday World, US, built by The Gravity Group. Thunderbolt is a wooden Terrain wooden coaster coaster at Kennywood, US, built by Andy Vettel / Kennywood in-house (1968 rebuild of the 1924 Miller Pippin).

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

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

Stat by stat

• Height goes to The Voyage at 159 ft against 70 ft — more than double.
• Speed goes to The Voyage at 67 mph against 55 mph — well clear.
• Inversions splits them not at all: both read 0.
• Throughput goes to The Voyage at 1,200 rph against 850 rph — a long way clear.
• Build Cost goes to The Voyage at 8.5 $m against 0.5 $m — in another class entirely.
• 38 years separate them, and because Vintage rewards age it is Thunderbolt (1968) that banks the point, not The Voyage (2006).