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".