2010: Year of the new coaster Styles

[Brtnboarder495]

Intamin is trying out a more cost-effective track structure on their new rides for 2010, such as Intimidator 305 and F1. B&M is trying out it's slightly modified track structure and new stadium style seats (different from those even in recent years) that are comparable to Intamin's hyper trains.

My question is, what do you like better or prefer? I love Intamin's current track style, but I like B&M's new hyper train style.

[gouldy]

I love the quad rail Intamin track, only time will tell if the new track spine actually becomes their standard track, or whether we're just seeing it on these larger scale rides for a reason other than cost effectiveness.

I like the new B&M hyper trains, they look like they offer a much better view of the ride from every seat than with the previous trains, if you sat in the middle two seats on any row other than the front, you could only see upwards.

My thoughts are exactly the same as Gouldy's

i dont like the new B&M hyper trains, i prefer the old ones as the train is shorter and it just looks alot neeter. the new trains look too spaced out.

intamin track styles are very cool but i dont think this is about cost efectivness but more about the style of ride and train there carrying

I'm not a fan of the new B&M trains, I reckon they should be the old style. Although I can't say for ride experience. What's changed about the B&M track?

The new B&M Trains are FANTASTIC! The major reason has nothing to do with the seating arrangement but the fact the trains are WAY longer than the old ones. This provides a wider range of G forces from front to back (making the middle of the train really blah...) but the front and back on Diamondback was WAY more forceful than Nitro ever was.

Regardless how they look, if you rode an old one then a new one, if you like your coasters to run better with more change in forces - the new ones kill.

There's no school, like the old school.

I myself don't prefer the look of the newer styles. The older stuff looks a lot sleeker, like the B&M hyper trains. Plus, with the 4 abreast seating, you feel essentially the same force.

The newer Intamin styles are okay with me, but I still like the older track a lot better.

Who cares how the new B&M trains look they ride way better. Diamondback is easily the best B&M hyper I've been on, I really don't care about the Intamin track as long as it doesn't change the ride in any way.

From experience, the new B&M hyper trains are FAR superior to their old ones.

I would probably assume that the new B&M Style trains would offer a much better ride experience. A longer train means a larger variety of G Forces from the front to the back of the train. I am also a pretty big fan of this new Intamin style track (quad rail). It looks pretty amazing to me, but I am not a huge fan of the giant truss track/two support method. It's a nice idea to cut back on costs with the economy the way it is, but I still have my doubts about it.

Going back to the B&M Trains, my only gripe are the new Intimadator Trains that are going to Kings Dominion. EW THOSE ARE UGLY. I do feel like these new trains offer a much better, and smoother ride experience, but I have never been on one so I cannot judge. I also think that the trains running around on the track looks perty sexy to me, rather than the 4 across seats. Hopefully i'll be able to get myself onto DB or Intimadator sometime soon. Never been on a B&M Mega. I iz a B&M Mega virgin. Ew.

Well, neither one of these changes is praticularly shocking if you ask me. They're pretty minimal in the big picture, so I wouldn't go calling those two responsible for 2010 being "Year of the new coaster styles". Also, I don't think anyone can really judge untill we've tried out one of Intamin's new track.