B&M Sitdowns Going Extinct?

I compared WildFire to Batman Knight Flight and found that I had more dangling space with WildFire than I did with Batman. I also found that Wildfire was a smoother ride and better than Batman.

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I rode Wildfire for the first time this weekend and I loved it. I was under the impression that it was considered a floorless (so was one of the ride ops).

2nd gerneration sit down sounds kind of dumb.

i dont think that its so much of parks not wanting a B&M sit down per say, but a sit down looper period......i mean only one was built last year, but it was intamin cause they can build more than 10 inversions in a relativly small area for a price cheaper then a 5 inversion B&M small sized sit down.

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Lone Star Thrills said:
i think the reasoning is no park has ordered one, ever think about that? if a park wants one, they will get one.

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Why gosh..................NO, LoneStarThrills, I hadn't thought of that! I guess that's why I said this is my original post:

Are parks no longer interested in regular steel loopers?

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CoasterBill42 said:

Another thing, Wildfire is no where near "old fashoined". Where did you get that from?

When I used the term "old-fashioned", I guess I should have used the word "traditional" instead. I mean a regular steel sitdown coaster that doesn't involve being floorless or launched, but has the traditional cars and traditional lift hill.

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TrBiggar said:

And how are they extinct?

I didn't say they were extinct. I was posing a question in a forum asking for feedback as to whether people felt they were going extinct. I thought that would have been made clear by the "?" after the title instead of a "!"

I apologize to anyone I offended or if I sounded b*tchy, but jeez......Sometimes it seems like I'm communicating with a pack of wolves waiting for the kill!

*** This post was edited by Lallen on 6/26/2002. ***

Having read Lallen's last reply it seems that no-one really reads this forum but sees two words and replies. As for the B&M Sit Down I don't think there will be many more unless a version can be offered with the Clamshell restraints. The floorless coaster has really taken the market away from them as they are similar designs. Depends how it goes in tyhe future as some parks may still want one, which B&M with then obviously make if it is wanted.

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