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Hypercoaster
A hypercoaster is any roller coaster with a height or drop measuring greater than . The term was first coined by Arrow Dynamics and Cedar Point with the release of the world's first hypercoaster, the Magnum XL-200, in 1989. Other roller coaster manufacturers later developed their own models: Intamin officially call theirs "Mega Coasters", and Bolliger & Mabillard refer to theirs as "Hyper Coasters". Roller coasters that broke the became known as "giga coasters", while those that broke the became known as "strata coasters".

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