Price! $$$
People cannot go to an amusement park
with out being astonished by the admittance prices.
According to the Six Flags Magic mountain website a day pass
is in upwards of $50+ per person!
However those prices come with good reason. Expedition
Everest, a ride at Disney World was built in 2011 with a
price tag of over 100 million dollars! That's equivalent to
1000 brand new corvette stingrays fully loaded! Now the
average price range is quite large depending on the building
material and its purpose, but we are seeing today that
building the new biggest and baddest engineering feats are
costing a shiny penny.
There are 3 main reasons for these costs
"show factor", design, and materials. The "show
factor," includes all the special effects and mountain
scenery or space station stuff. Depending on how life like
it's desired to be costs for this can run into the millions
before the track is ever made. Next is design, depending on
if you want to make the tallest, fastest, most loops, or
splashes there are a great many things to consider like
passenger safety, structural integrity and materials. With
that material cost plays a huge role especially with so much
force being applied to certain zones the material needs to
be able to hold up without buckling. All things considered
its understandable to see how these can cost so
much.
http://www.therichest.com/luxury/most-expensive/the-10-most-expensive-roller-coasters-in-the-world/?view=all
-Expedition Everest
Here is an Image of Expedition Everest. As you can see the
landscaping is quite surreal to make it feel lifelike.