Royal Oak Intermediate School’s Roller Coaster.



Students at the Royal Oak Intermediate School in Covina, California built this 1/4 scale roller coaster in their gym.

Twenty-four feet tall at its highest point and occupying 10,000 square feet, the fully-functional ride towers over the 135 eighth-graders who are its designers, builders and decorators. Students and four teachers have spent thousands of hours measuring, sawing, constructing, painting and decorating the wooden structure over the last three weeks.

Painted mostly black and decorated with a solar system theme - the planets, the sun, Earth’s moon, Orion’s Nebula, the asteroid belt and a black hole - the roller coaster includes three lifts and drops, an enormous figure eight and a 360-degree loop. The track is 400 feet long, and students estimate that the car will reach a top speed of 35 mph coming down the final and tallest drop.

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Posted on March 17, 2006 at 2:03 am by Alex
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11 comments to "Royal Oak Intermediate School’s Roller Coaster."

  • Blog Jones
    March 17th, 2006 at 6:42 am

    Prediction: Some state regulator will have this shut down inside of a week.

  • Marius Watz
    March 17th, 2006 at 7:54 am

    Another excellent project is the installation “Otto Volante”, by the art group Gelitin. See:
    Link

  • Needcoffee.com
    March 17th, 2006 at 12:17 pm

    Reason #17,514 That Your School Sucked

    You didn’t get to build a roller coaster. Found via Neatorama.
    Update: Doc, Siege, and Tobias have already IMed me about this, so just to clarify–I meant you didn’t get a build a roller coaster legally and with school sanction. Happy now? Jes…

  • Needcoffee.com » Reason #17,514 That Your School Sucked
    March 17th, 2006 at 12:19 pm

    [...] You didn’t get to build a roller coaster. Found via Neatorama. [...]

  • jaxx
    April 6th, 2006 at 7:29 pm

    this is the best thing ever cuz i built it wit my skool!!! woo

  • majeed
    April 23rd, 2006 at 5:10 am

    majeed! it has no tracks!

  • Sabs
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:18 pm

    I think this is just a big waste of time because at school the only reason kids go to oddessey is because of the roller coaster but i think its just a waste of three years. the roller caster is a big sham just forget about it.

  • destinee marquez
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:22 pm

    this rolercoater is just really crappy the school even sucks.

  • arbs
    July 10th, 2007 at 6:19 pm

    uhhhh oddessey kids all say that its boring…and its not even a big deal…its dumb…not exciting…waste of time and resourses

  • megan
    March 9th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    you guys are all wrong this experience is so amaizing im building it right now and personally i love it. its a great experience being in the scizzor lift with your teacher whom you are very close to. its great.

  • jfskjaklkasl
    March 29th, 2008 at 11:59 pm

    omg. wooowwww!get a clue
    its not a real roller coaster that you can ride.
    do you think 135 8th graders could build a safe enough one.and after the show they take it down cuzz its in the school gym which is needed for volleyball, basketball, ect.

    &yes the cart does stay on the track&&&it goes pretty fast.

    oh and all you people trashing it, id like to see you build one.not so easy SOOOO much math :/

    p.s.i built the roller coaster this year [2008]
    and we had a loop and a corkscrew, and the hightest point was 26ft(:

    it sounds corney but it really is a life changing experience.ill remember it FOREVER.!

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