				**Top Thrill Dragster**
				    by: Monster_25

	So.....  after about 6 months to a year of silence from the Monster, he rises again with another creation, a monsterous creation that is.  We are talking about the as of April 3rd, 2004, the TALLEST and FASTEST roller coaster in the universe!  It will bring the total count at the M25 Theme Park up to 9 roller coasters!

Top Thrill Dragster....  the name says it all.  Fast, fast, and more fast!!!!  So how FAST does this go?  0 to 120mph in less than 4 seconds.....  And now how exactly TALL is this beast?  Oh....  only 420ft...... (it is termed a "strata-coaster")  110ft TALLER than Millennium Force!  Now you may ask, WHERE is this beast located?  Heh....  right NEXT to Millennium Force at Cedar Point baby!  From the top of the 420ft hill, you are looking 11 stories DOWN on Millennium Force!  Talk about freakin' height!  At the drop, the train drops in a 90 degree drop into a 270 degree spiral.  The drop is a 400ft drop, reaching 120mph for the second time before returning to the station.  Ride duration: 20 seconds.

The lift hill features......  heh, there IS NO lift hill!  Instead it uses a catapult launching system, very much like HyperSonic-XLC, but instead of using an air compression system that HyperSonic uses, Top Thrill Dragster uses a more powerful system which uses hydraulics.  Hydrogen gas is compressed in large chambers via a huge piston and on the otherside of the piston is large quantities of oil, pumped from a nearby reservoir.  When the hydrogen is free to expand after being compressed, the hydrogen gas pushes on the piston which in turn pushes the oil and the oil pushes on an object at the end that connects the cable mechanism which a catapult is connected to the cable and the catapult launches the train.  Now that's a large sum of force that can propel a heavy train from 0 to 120mph in less than 4 seconds!

Now all of this is available for MTM2!  After personally riding Top Thrill Dragster myself in the summer of 2003, I thought due to the physics that the ride does, I can't even DREAM of having a truck perform like that.  So the result was the 270 degree spiral drop being omitted from the MTM2 version of Top Thrill Dragster which really isn't a big deal.  One lap around Top Thrill Dragster is very short, just like the ride duration is so 8 laps on this baby is a piece of cake.

Now we get to the ugly part about this track.  At night, the station and hill glow at night on the ride so I threw that feature for this track as well and I used a pretty good sum of "headlights" and I had to eliminate a few to avoid the "Too Many Headlights" crash.  However, 8 players with their headlights on may still crash the game so I will ask for everyone's cooperation to please turn off their headlights during rain, dusk, night, and pitch black races, where the lights do turn on.  Another smudge on this otherwise perfect masterpiece, is that the AI are completely lost on the 420ft hill.  I tried my best to make them complete the hill but they simply do not want to cooperate so I scrapped the AI.  On the bright side, this is a great track to set fast laps.  My personal best is 33 seconds as of writing this readme.

Other than that, I hope you guys enjoy this beast!  =D
Keep on rollercoastin'!
-Monster_25™

Features:
Custom texture coaster track made by: Monster_25.
Custom billboards by Monster_25
Custom sounds by Monster_25
The catapult launching system which launches you from 0 to 120mph in less than 4 seconds

Note: You may NOT use the Top Thrill Dragster textures or
modify or re-duplicate this track in ANY way without my 
permission.  Thank You and have a safe and fun ride on
the world's tallest and fastest Top Thrill Dragster!

All other models and textures not made by Monster_25 are property of their respective authors.  Credits are listed at the bottom of this readme.
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					****WARNING****
Remember to turn OFF your headlights during night or rainy races to avoid the "Too Many Headlights" crash.

				       ****Suggestion****
Due to the shear amount of "trains" on Top Thrill Dragster, I suggest you download some sort of Fix.pod or Fixmore3.pod to eliminate the train horns.
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Some fast facts about the Top Thrill Dragster:
-As of 4-3-2004, Top Thrill Dragster is the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.
-Height of lift hill: 420ft
-400ft drop
-Angle of ascent: 90 degrees
-Angle of descent: 90 degrees
-Angle of Twist on Descent: 270 degrees (this feature is not available on this track.)
-Top Speed: 120mph (However, I personally saw it clocked at 128mph when I was there and that was with people on board too!)
-Track length: 2,800ft
-Investment: $25 million  
-Firsts for Top Thrill Dragster: First roller coaster EVER to top 400 feet
				 First coaster EVER to reach speeds of 120 mph
				 First “strata-coaster” built on planet Earth

-CEDAR POINT HAS HELD THE TITLE OF WORLD'S TALLEST ROLLER COASTER FOUR TIMES! 
Gemini (125 feet, 4 inches)
Magnum XL-200 (205 feet)
Millennium Force (310 feet)
Top Thrill Dragster (420 feet)

Credits:
Models used in Top Thrill Dragster:
-Modified tires used as the Top Thrill Dragster's hill lights: Drive2Survive
-Yellow barriers used as the Top Thrill Dragster's 420ft hill support beams: Sir James
-Crowd waiting in line for Top Thrill Dragster: Winterkill
-Top Thrill Dragster's animated Start Draglight: Malibu350
If I missed anyone or any of this is incorrect, please tell me and I will happily change them.

Beta Testers:
Bimmer (Thanks for the compliment!  =D)
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