CoasterCrazy Tournament! (east) ROUND 2! (pg2)

Might as well do two at a time, otherwise this could take a while.[approve]

The second bracket:

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As with the other topic, you have 48 hours from this post to place your votes! Again, reply to this topic in this format (my votes as an example again):

1.Boulder Dash
2.Blue Streak
3.Ravine Flyer II
4.El Toro
5.Thunderhead
6.Cheetah
7.Comet
8.Great White

1. BDash
2. TBolt
3. Beast
4. El Toro
5. Thunderhead
6. Hurricane
7. Comet
8. Great White

1. BDash
2. TBolt
3. Ravine Flyer II
4. Phoenix
5. Thunderhead
6. Hurricane
7. Cyclone
8. Hellcat

1.Rampage
2.Blue Streak
3.Beast
4.El Toro
5.Racer
6.Hurricane
7.Comet
8.HellCat

[A7]

1.Boulder Dash
2.Blue Streak
3.Ravine Flyer II
4.Phoenix
5.Thunderhead
6.Hurricane
7.Cyclone
8.HellCat

[slosprint]

1. BDash
2. TBolt
3. Ravine Flier II
4. Phoenix (El Toro is not wooden, I don't care what anyone may say. Also, Phoenix has more and better airtime. Horray for buzzbars!)
5. Thunderhead
6. Hurricane
7. Comet
8. HellCat

[yoshifreak]

1.Boulder Dash
2.Blue Streak
3.Ravine Flyer II
4.El Toro (pre-engineered wood is still wood)
5.Thunderhead
6.Cheetah
7.Cyclone
8.Great White

[AyTrane]

1. Rampage
2. Thunderbolt
3. Beast
4. Phoenix
5. Thunderhead
6. Hurricane
7. Comet
8. Hell Cat

1. Boulder Dash
2. Thunderbolt
3. Ravine Flyer II (sorry, Beast, hopefully we can still be friends...)
4. Pheonix
5. Thunderhead
6. DB Hurricane
7. GE Comet
8. Hell Cat

1. Boulder Dash
2. Thunderbolt
3. Ravine Flyer II
4. El Toro
5. Thundrrhead
6. DB Hurricane
7. Comet
8. Great White

1. Boulder Dash
2. Thunderbolt
3. RF II
4. Phoenix
5. Thunderhead
6. DB Hurricane
7. Cyclone
8. Great White

Slosprint, you're an idiot lol. The ride has tracks made of wood with a steel plate ontop, just like most every other wooden coaster, therefore it is a wooden coaster. Use your brain.

Boulder Dash
Thunderbolt
Ravine Flyer
El Toro
Thunderhead
Cheetah
Cyclone
Hellcat

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by slosprint

El Toro is not wooden

Could you then please enlighten me and tell me what material you see in this picture:
http://rcdb.com/3183.htm?p=13856

Is it perhaps cotton with a braided wooden texture on it, or paper-mache?

I had thought they used that composite stuff similar to what gets used on decks now?

And for me personally, the wheel material and how the train tracks has the most weight in determining that. I've yet to ride El Toro or any prefabs so I'm not going to come out and say they aren't wood.....but the wheel arrangement and tracking is a huge part of it for me.

I believe it's regular wood, just cut differently. I haven't heard anything about composites...if that was the case, you might have an argument.

Wheel material and tracking has never had an effect on the naming convention. Just because you think it tracks like a steel ride doesn't mean it is one. You can't just start making up stuff yourself because it suits you and hope it has merit...unless of course, you're rob alvey and you have a cult of idiots following you.

hyyyper...is it paper mache'? Not sure. Is that a trick question?

When it comes to my own track record and ranking I can do what ever I want. If I think the tracking means it can't be ranked with traditional wood coasters, then so be it. As I said I've yet to ride it, and until then I reserve my judgment, but in my opinion there is more to a wood coaster than just the tracking material that gives it it's wood character.

[AyTrane]

The track is composite, very similar to the decking material.

Yeah, I just checked Intamins site, and they describe it as a wood veneer, which means the wood aspect of the track is basically for aesthetics.

A timber scaffold forms the substructure of this very special wooden roller coaster, incorporating a track made of industrially pre-machined and precisely finished wood veneer.

Originally posted by AyTrane

The track is composite, very similar to the decking material.

I'm actually using something similar on the backyard coaster I'm building:

^ Fail.

Anyways about the pre-fab track you could of just googled the patent for it lol

1. A wooden rail for a ride, comprising a number of layers of individual wood members, bonded to each other and milled to a precise rail form in accordance with a roller coaster design, and a connection element mounted to the precise rail form for mounting the rail to a rail support and the connection element includes a U-shaped portion for receiving the rail support.

2. The wooden rail of claim 1, wherein the individual layers are arranged in one or more planes, at least one of which is parallel to the rail plane.

3. A wooden rail for a ride, comprising a number of layers of individual wood members, bonded with glue to each other to form an oversized package, from which is milled a precise rail form in accordance with a roller coaster design, and wherein the precise rail form includes a plurality of layers bonded together to form a core, and one or more further layers bonded to each of a top and a side of the core.

4. The wooden rail of claim 3, wherein the individual layers are treated with a wood preservative either before or after bonding.

5. The wooden rail of claim 3, wherein the bonded and milled layers are treated with a wood preservative.

6. The wooden rail of claim 3, wherein at least an uppermost layer, which forms a bearing surface of the rail, consists of hardwood.

7. The wooden rail of claim 3, wherein at least an uppermost layer, which forms a bearing surface of the rail, consists of a hardened material.

8. The wooden rail of claim 3, further comprising steel sheets mounted to the rail in the precise rail form, and the precise rail form having one or more joints being provided in at least one end of the precise rail form.

9. A method for mounting a wooden rail on a rail support, fixed to a trestle of the ride, comprising providing a wooden rail as set forth in claim 3, and securing the rail to said rail support.

10. The wooden rail of claim 3, wherein the wood members are selected from the group including planks, boards, laminated wood veneer, and particle board wood.

11. The wooden rail of claim 3, wherein the individual layers are arranged in one or more planes, at least one of which is perpendicular to the rail plane.

Originally posted by fear the four

^ Fail.

How? I'd like to see you do better...

[slosprint]

I think you either have to make the rails thicker or the supports closer apart... They look like they wouldn't support the weight of the car without coming disattatched from the supports.

It's not finished...

Originally posted by Jonny Richey

Originally posted by fear the four

^ Fail.

How? I'd like to see you do better...

I'm to busy to build a 8 foot roller coaster on my patio.

exactly...