ACE Steel Coaster Classics

"Amusment Today's Golden Ticket (Best Steel Roller Coaster)-Magnum XL 200 1989-2000 (yes I said 2000 MF didnt make it till 2001"

Since the Golden Tickets have been around, according to the AT website, since 1998, I have a hard time calling that a decade. In addition, they have the most mysterious mythodology available. They say it is voted on by "a core group of experienced enthusiasts" and give readers little-to-no more information than this. I have a hard time seeing how this award makes the Magnum the number one coaster in the world, it is just a favorite among enthusiasts. The only other large poll of people before that was done by Inside Track. The reputation of Wyatt and his Ruben-esque tendencies seem to leave the validition of the Inside Track Reader's Poll in the toilet.

Adam

Hey! My girlfriend is borderline "Ruben-esque". Watch what you're saying!

Oh...not *that* Ruben...

Well then... CARRY ON;)

lata, jeremy

--who notes that coaster polls as a whole are rubbish and should be treated as such

jeremy, I would HOPE that your gf doesn't have *those* Ruben-esque qualities...;)

I don't think ACE should allow ACE coaster classics be steel coasters yet. However, just last year didn't ACE started a historical status system in which it will pick three coasters each year that made the most significent influence to our industry? Revolution at SFMM was one of them. I believe the other one was the CI Cycone. There's still one more. Wasn't it the Matternhorn bobsled coaster at Disneyland in CA?

When did Maggie make the cover of Time Magazine? I tried searching for it but came up empty.

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Intamin Fan said:
We all know why ACE doesn't like seat dividers and ratcheting lap bars.

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LOL....that was wrong
go sit in the corner and think about what you've done young man :)

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Coaster Ken said:
just last year didn't ACE started a historical status system in which it will pick three coasters each year that made the most significent influence to our industry? Revolution at SFMM was one of them.

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I remember the announcement about the ACE historic recognition honorees too...but couldn't find anything about it on the ACE website. I'm surprised no one mentioned it right away. And yes, Revolution was one of the honorees...like the true dork that I have become I made my friend take a picture of me with the plaque. :)

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UpsideDawnGrrl

If you are going to add classic steel coasters to the list then you can't just make the one's that are bigger and better then the rest....Just remember that Cedar Point's Corkcrew was the first to include three inversions, but does that make it a classic?

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-Dueling Dragons '02
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I also have a pic of that plaque dawn, but I didn't want to break the camera or anything, so I kept my mug out of the frame...;)
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Jamin Bohl said:
... you can't just make the one's that are bigger and better then the rest....Just remember that Cedar Point's Corkcrew was the first to include three inversions, but does that make it a classic?

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Actually, I would consider Corkscrew a classic much more than I would Magnum or MF.

As others have referred to, breaking a height marker based on measuring units is absurd. Why does 200' matter more than 164' or 217'? It's just an arbitrary number, and if you use the metric system like everyone else in the world, it wouldn't even be an even number.

I think the standard Arrow looping corkscrew ride is much more of a classic, and much more important to the development of coasters today.

Without the research and developments put in to coasters like Corkscrew, there wouldn't be bigger ones like Magnum. That's why Corkscrew would get my vote.

It's not that I have anything against Magnum or MF, I just don't particularly consider them classics. My favorite rides ever have been on Montu at BGT and Phantom's Revenge at Kennywood. They're absolutely my favorites. Neither of them, however, would I consider a "classic."

I think some people confuse "classic" with "fun."

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Actually Magnum is significant but not for breaking any height barriers. Before Magnum steal was basically looping coasters and mine trains, Gemini is an anomilie. Anyway Magnum took a genre that was exclusive to woodies and made it a standard for steel. Magnum began the trend of Hypercoasters everywhere. It's significance lies in that.

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Da Poodle

Coming in 2003-The Spawn Of Magnum!

My list of classics whould include:

Mindbender (SFOG), Shockwave (SFOT), Revolution (SFMM). Without those... say goodbye to the Intamin hypers.

Matterhorn (DL) (we'd be stuck with square track noisy/violent coasters otherwise).

Ripper (somewhere in the northwest I guess!) and Tiggrr (IB) for being Jet Star that still run like their first day.

Big Thunder Mountain at DL (first coaster to include any kind of magnets to propel a train.)

Space Mountain at WDW (First computer controlled coaster).

Corkscrew (Silverwood). The first modern looping coaster, need anything more?

That whould be it for now. There aren't based on height, speed, lenght, etc. But on what they brought to the whole coaster idea. For the two Jet Star, because they prove something: restraints are for the most part, to keep fools in.