Colossus is a roller coaster at Thorpe Park. Colossus was the world's first roller coaster with ten inversions; another, called the Tenth Ring Roller Coaster, was later built at Chimelong Paradise in Guangzhou, China, and is in fact an exact replica of Colossus, just painted different colours. http://rcdb.com/id3475.htm Colossus is also the world's first roller coaster with four heartline twists in a row. Also this was the first roller coaster to feature Intamin's new stadium style seating outside their mega coaster style cars.
Colossus is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. When it opened in June of 1978, it was the tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster in the world, and the first roller coaster in the world with two drops in excess of 100-feet. Colossus features two identical side-by-side tracks.
Colossus is the name of an inverted roller coaster that opened at Lagoon Amusement Park in Utah in 1983. It sends the riders 87 feet high up the lift hill then a smooth right turn then a fast plummet to the ground then through two loop-da-loops then two helix turns, one through the first loop, and the other to the rest of the track until it goes back into the station.