RCCGB rate Voyage as "Steel Coaster"

That's right folks. After a recent ERS (ride session) at Holiday World,
several members of The Roller Coaster Club of Great Britain voiced their
opinion that while The Voyage was a great coaster, that it clearly did not
qualify as a "Wooden coaster" due to the steel support structure.

I thought it sounded nitpicky, myself. Do you agree?

On Jun 3, 11:25 pm, "Bill Buckley"
<w.buckl...@verizon.forgetaboutit.com> wrote:
> That's right folks. After a recent ERS (ride session) at Holiday World,
> several members of The Roller Coaster Club of Great Britain voiced their
> opinion that while The Voyage was a great coaster, that it clearly did not
> qualify as a "Wooden coaster" due to the steel support structure.
>
> I thought it sounded nitpicky, myself. Do you agree?

Those silly Brits! ;)

Ken

> That's right folks. After a recent ERS (ride session) at Holiday World,
> several members of The Roller Coaster Club of Great Britain voiced their
> opinion that while The Voyage was a great coaster, that it clearly did not
> qualify as a "Wooden coaster" due to the steel support structure.
>
> I thought it sounded nitpicky, myself. Do you agree?

Do they consider Gemini to be a wooden coaster?

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On Jun 3, 11:25 pm, "Bill Buckley"
<w.buckl...@verizon.forgetaboutit.com> wrote:
> That's right folks. After a recent ERS (ride session) at Holiday World,
> several members of The Roller Coaster Club of Great Britain voiced their
> opinion that while The Voyage was a great coaster, that it clearly did not
> qualify as a "Wooden coaster" due to the steel support structure.
>
> I thought it sounded nitpicky, myself. Do you agree?

Sigh.. another batch of twits.

Does this mean the Silver Bullet at Martins Fantasy Island is a "steel
coaster"? What about the Coney Island Cyclone? That right there is a
combination of steel and wooden supports. I don't count the materials
used to support the trackwork of a coaster. I only look at what the
track is mostly composed of.

RC!

>>That's right folks. After a recent ERS (ride session) at Holiday World,
>>several members of The Roller Coaster Club of Great Britain voiced their
>>opinion that while The Voyage was a great coaster, that it clearly did not
>>qualify as a "Wooden coaster" due to the steel support structure.
>>
>>I thought it sounded nitpicky, myself. Do you agree?
>
> As far as I'm concerned right now, if it has wood track it's a wood
> coaster. (I won't make up my mind about El Toro til I finally ride it
> this summer, everybody says it doesn't feel like a wood coaster.

Feel be damned. It's steel wheels on wooden trackbed on wooden structure.
It's a damned wooden coaster.

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> Feel be damned. It's steel wheels on wooden trackbed on wooden structure.
> It's a damned wooden coaster.
> -Wolf

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't El Toro (and Balder, etc.) have
poly wheels? I would assume that this would contribute to the steel
feel to the ride.

Jeff

Bill Buckley wrote:
> That's right folks. After a recent ERS (ride session) at Holiday
> World, several members of The Roller Coaster Club of Great Britain
> voiced their opinion that while The Voyage was a great coaster, that
> it clearly did not qualify as a "Wooden coaster" due to the steel
> support structure.

By that logic, Gemini at Cedar Point is a wooden coaster. It's the track
that matters, and the folks of RCCGB should be well aware of that.

> Now Colossos and El Toro I *can* imagine...
>
> (And before that stirs up some controversy (!) I recognise the Intamin
> plug'n play coasters as a new type that can't be classed as woodie or
> steelie. They're made of wood, so they're definitely wooden coasters, but
> it's not *traditional* woodie construction, which is how we usually define
> what a "woodie" is.)

Is Leap-the-Dips not a woodie?

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