Spain's Ferrari Land Tops Out the World's 5th Tallest Roller Coaster

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Ferrari Land, being built adjacent to Spain's PortAventura Theme Park, reached an exciting milestone this past week when they topped out their new Intamin launched coaster.  The new ride is now the 5th tallest roller coaster on the planet, standing 367 feet tall.

PortAventura released these photos of the tallest pieces going into place.  As you can well see, this ride is very similar to Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster and Six Flags Great Adventure's Kingda Ka in design.

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The support tower for this ride is a bit different though, featuring a more angled back support that makes the tower narrower as it goes up.  The work crews assembled the highest piece on the ground before using a pair of massive cranes to slowly lift it into place - you can see that taking place in this photo.

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This rather stunning photo shows the top structure in place, and also gives a great feel for how tall the roller coaster is.  PortAventura can be seen in the background, including another tall roller coaster, a B&M hyper ride named Shambhala that stands 249 feet tall.  This view also gives a nice progress update on the rest of Ferrari Land, which will function as a separately gated park.  Plenty of the Italian themed buildings are starting to go up, and you can see sections of the elaborate go-kart track being formed on the bottom left.  The park will also have two free fall towers that are not yet installed.

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This last photo shows the very top of the support tower with Ferrari Land and PortAventura flags on it.  That must have been quite a view for the works on top of that crane!

For more information on the new ride and the rest of Ferrari Land and PortAventura, check out the park's website.