hyyyper - Those drops arent that up and down. Trust me. Ive been on two or three of their rides with those steep swooping drops and they just dont give the same steepness feeling that the straighter drops do. Plus, its somewhat of an illusion.
Every other drop though on Troy is fairly standard GCI - which is fine by me, their rides rock. But they try to stay as far away from steep straight drops as possible - its their motto.
Do a comparison using the model + animation and compare to Troy. There are at least 2 or 3 places where BB comes over a hill and dives pretty steep.
Lately however, and I love this, TGG rides are featuring wicked twists and turns normally characteristic of GCI while maintaining the straight, steep drops with loads of airtime. Theyve almost taken the best of both worlds and then what you get is what theyve put out.
GCI on the other hand has started to add some solo hills in their later designs but still hold true to their motto that twists and turns are better than drops.
But their twisting drops are more of an illusion. Id say the degree of steepness is more around 55 when you cut out the banking and the turning.
http://www.rcdb.com/ig3660.htm?picture=13
Thats probably one of their steepest to date and that looks to be in the 60 range. But notice, the drop degrees are never that severe and to play with their motto they NEVER release angles for anything. Ive never seen them actually officially say this drop is 60 degrees or etc. Always the number of crossovers, turns and some special aspect of the ride.