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Oil Derrick (Six Flags Over Texas)

United States

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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The Six Flags Over Texas Oil Derrick is a 300-foot (91 m) tall observation tower and an attraction at the theme park Six Flags Over Texas. Six Flags claims it to be the world's tallest land-based oil derrick (although it is actually not functional as such, and never has been). When the tower opened, it had a twelve-lane slide, attached at the first balcony level (50 ft), on which riders could slide down using burlap bags. With two elevators holding 50 people each, the attraction has a capacity of 2000 riders per hour. The tower served as a replacement for the former Sky Hook attraction.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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