Le Monstre
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Le Monstre is a wooden roller coaster
at La Ronde
amusement park in Montreal
, Canada
. Le Monstre is the largest wooden roller coaster in Canada and is also the tallest two-track wooden roller coaster in the world.
Being only 39.9 metres (130.9 ft) tall, it does not surpass the height of one of the newest attraction at La Ronde, The Goliath
, but is still taller than all of their other roller coasters. Le Monstre includes a hard first drop, a helix, and airtime hills, and has a top speed of 59.7 miles per hour (96.1 km/h).
The first track of the ride opened in 1985, but a second track was built for the 1986 season. This newer track does not run parallel to the first, and instead gives a different ride experience. La Ronde once replaced the seats for new seats with safety belts, but were removed to classic bars at the request of riders. The seats have one lapbar for each row, as well as an individual seatbelt that attaches to the seat divider instead of the seat. This allows riders to "float" during airtime because the seatbelt does not come down to the seat even when fully tightened.
Wooden roller coaster
A wooden roller coaster is most often classified as a roller coaster with laminated steel running rails overlaid upon a wooden track. Occasionally, the structure may be made out of a steel lattice or truss, but the ride remains classified as a wooden roller coaster due to the track design...
at La Ronde
La Ronde (amusement park)
La Ronde is an amusement park in Montreal, owned and operated by Six Flags. It is the largest in the province of Quebec and the second largest in Canada after Canada's Wonderland, with about 2.5 million guests in 2006...
amusement park in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Le Monstre is the largest wooden roller coaster in Canada and is also the tallest two-track wooden roller coaster in the world.
Being only 39.9 metres (130.9 ft) tall, it does not surpass the height of one of the newest attraction at La Ronde, The Goliath
The Goliath
Goliath is a roller coaster at La Ronde in Montreal, Quebec. It was designed by Bolliger & Mabillard. It was the largest, tallest, and fastest roller coaster in Canada...
, but is still taller than all of their other roller coasters. Le Monstre includes a hard first drop, a helix, and airtime hills, and has a top speed of 59.7 miles per hour (96.1 km/h).
The first track of the ride opened in 1985, but a second track was built for the 1986 season. This newer track does not run parallel to the first, and instead gives a different ride experience. La Ronde once replaced the seats for new seats with safety belts, but were removed to classic bars at the request of riders. The seats have one lapbar for each row, as well as an individual seatbelt that attaches to the seat divider instead of the seat. This allows riders to "float" during airtime because the seatbelt does not come down to the seat even when fully tightened.