Theme Park Discussion / Wooden rollercoasters 2.0

Woodies were never really meant to go over 100 feet. If you disagree with this, look at the ACE classic woodens. Once the mega-woodies came along, for example, Texas Giant and Mean Streak, the image of wood coasters was ruined. I'm glad they're improving.

GCI will still be around for a while making good coasters.

Steel coasters were probably "never meant" to go over 100 mpf and 400 feet in the air. Its just advances in modern technology.

-Josh

So long as my homepark (Lagoon) keeps their 1921 John A. Miller woodie, I don't care what other parks do. There's nothing like riding old wood. *childish snicker*

Pushing the envelope on woodie design doesn't bother me, just so long as the old classics aren't destroyed in the meantime. Lagoon replaces a section or 2 of their coaster every year. It's a maintenance nightmare I'm sure, but they seem to appreciate the classic coaster for what it adds to the park.

Woodies were never really meant to go over 100 feet. If you disagree with this, look at the ACE classic woodens. Once the mega-woodies came along, for example, Texas Giant and Mean Streak, the image of wood coasters was ruined. I'm glad they're improving.

Don't diss mean streak, that's one of my favorite coasters. Over time things improve. They get bigger and better then ever before. I really like wooden roller coasters, so as long as parks keep building them everything's good. At cedar point there is another wooden roller coaster named blue streak. It is a perfect example of a classic woodie. Having a giant like mean streak in the same park doesnt make riding blue streak any less fun than it was before mean streak was built