Poll:Coasters

What is your favourite type of coaster?

I like wooden coasters. But i LOVE steel coaster, especially twisters and floorless coasters.[peakhill]

[gouldy]

Steel for me , there is no votes for wood yet, so obviously IntaminFan397 hasn't seen this topic yet

I think steel is better, but this is maybe a result of the undersupportness of wooden coasters in Germany.

Bino

I prefere Woody it's the best! Intense ,Shaky,fun,air time and so on.......

by the way Bino wanna some german chat ??

[GRIM.657]

steel is so much better, my fravorite steel coasters are X and Milinum Force, they rock! i dont like the roughness of woodies, but i think my favorite woodie would be Twister 2 but it is so rough...

-GRIM

steel!! but wooden rides are awsome too.. but you can just do soo much more with steel

Since when? Tell me 1 thing that wood can't do which steel can.

Well, I prefer wood. I think steel coasters just get old too quickly for me, they just don't do what wood coasters do, all the airtime hills and lateral gs...Woodies are just more intense rides.

i agree with intaminfan, however have you ever seen a wooden coaster do a zero g roll?, besides i think that a steel coaster could be just as insane as a woodie, but i dought it. anyway i think steel is better is better just because.!!!!!!!

[Dirk_Ermen]

steel, if you ride them they can be very smooth. Also you can make loops and other inversions in it.
for only the thing i like about woodies is that you don't have to support them.

Steel for me too. Theres more inversiosn you can do with a steel than a woodie.

The first wooden coaster that i ever rode was the Beast at PKI. it's the best woodie in the world and one of the best coasters in the world. sure, steel is smoother, but since when is smoother better? plus, most woodies just have that "feel" to them. nothing beats a good wood coaster! [pshades]

I look steel coasters more, cause you can make your own supports. Wooden coasters --> I think they're 'easy' because of the supports.

Matt, you can't do more inversions on a steel coaster than a woodie. Give me one reason why woodies can't do anything a steel coaster can. The only reason woodies don't do what steel does because wood is smart enough not to sink down to the steel level and waste a couple hundred feet of track on an inversion, thats why theres more airtime hills on woodies, because woodies do what coasters are supposed to do [:D]

[Dirk_Ermen]

and how about steelies with inversions and air time hills[:D][:P]

There aren't many steelies at all like that, and when there are, the coaster doesn't have many hills, or the hills have no airtime. Take Dueling Dragons for example, Fire has a camelback, with a GREAT opportunity for airtime, and it has positive gs all the way over it [:(]

I prefer steel because you can do much more things with them. But woodies are ok too!

[gouldy]

Originally posted by IntaminFan397

Matt, you can't do more inversions on a steel coaster than a woodie. Give me one reason why woodies can't do anything a steel coaster can.

Think of things like the rotating seats of X, how would you do that on a wooden coaster? lol, also, flying coasters, any kind of twisting inversions e.g zero g rolls, barrel rolls, corkscrews, inline twists, you get the idea. There is your reason [:p]

wood can have rotating seats, just remove the handrails and put on new trains, and maybe make different clearance modifications. Flying coasters would work, the supports just go on either side of you, then below the train, it would hold up easily, and inversions like corkscrews and zero-g roll culd be made, why do you think they can't?

WOODIES ALL THE WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

but really, i suck at making woodies.

we are talking about real coasters, right?

With all coasters, you get EITHER airtime or inversions. With wood, Son of Beast is the only one with a loop, and it has basically NO airtime. All B&M coasters have no airtime, except for Talon which just has a short pop, and even Schwarzkoph, Intamin, Vekoma, and Arrow loopers are all posotive g's. With hypercoasters, you get the airtime but no inversions. As soon as they can make one with both, I will be truly happy. Back on topic, I'm a wood freak. I love the out-of-control feeling, the airtime the laterals, the headchoppers, and the insane sensation of speed. There's nothing I hate worse than a coaster that has great potential that turns out to be over-engineered and has hardly any insane g-forces. Nitro is a perfect example of this, with huge rounded corners and hill bottoms and lightweight airtime rather than floater. Wood doesn't dampen its g-forces like steel does. Wood throws you up, down, sideways, and turns your brain all over the place, where most steel coasters just press you to your seat and flip you upside down. However, if a steel coaster could be made with forces like a woodie, they would be much better. Airtime + inversions = [:)]

Originally posted by cjd

With all coasters, you get EITHER airtime or inversions. With wood, Son of Beast is the only one with a loop, and it has basically NO airtime. All B&M coasters have no airtime, except for Talon which just has a short pop, and even Schwarzkoph, Intamin, Vekoma, and Arrow loopers are all posotive g's. With hypercoasters, you get the airtime but no inversions. As soon as they can make one with both, I will be truly happy. Back on topic, I'm a wood freak. I love the out-of-control feeling, the airtime the laterals, the headchoppers, and the insane sensation of speed. There's nothing I hate worse than a coaster that has great potential that turns out to be over-engineered and has hardly any insane g-forces. Nitro is a perfect example of this, with huge rounded corners and hill bottoms and lightweight airtime rather than floater. Wood doesn't dampen its g-forces like steel does. Wood throws you up, down, sideways, and turns your brain all over the place, where most steel coasters just press you to your seat and flip you upside down. However, if a steel coaster could be made with forces like a woodie, they would be much better. Airtime + inversions = [:)]

Actually, some of the good loopers have some negative g...Volcano, Anaconda, Shockwave, but its no Phoenix airtime [;)]

[coolbeans326]

IF, I thought you were for the classic woodies.

Yeah...um, cjd, you said all B&M coasters have NO airtime....

Well, I think you forgot Raging Bull, Nitro, and Silver Star...and I don't see why you couldn't have airtime and inversions on the same coaster, too...But really, with the normal tracking and trains that wood coasters have, there are just things that you can't do...but that's not really important, because inversions aren't all that special. I'd take great ejector air and lats over inversions any day.