Just because it spins doesn't mean it HAS to be a mouse...

A mouse, or a spinning mouse, only has flat turns. Absolutely no banking.

If there is banking to be found, it's not a (spinning) mouse, then it's a (spinning) coaster.

That's why Maurer named their product "Spinning Coaster"...and not mouse.

But Arrow mice also have banked turns after the switchbacks on top...still a mouse?

OMG I have a new sig!!!

I haven't searched against this myself, but does this definition work?

Mouse Coaster-A coaster with a series of unbanked "switchback" turns , with no helices.

Pretty sure something will defy that though.

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According to test the nation my IQ is 120.

Stupid reverse images.

Wow, this thread has REALLY went full circle. Started out OT, went to off topic, went to debate, went to arguing with nate, went to blaming Jeff for everything, now its actually back to the topic at hand. Yup, definitly off season posting going on here.

Fact: TeknoScorpion generally has nothing better to do than suck up to 90% of Coasterbuzz.

-Nate

Fact: It. Was. A. Joke. Jeez, nate, if you had a personality somewhere, it might be useful to find it and put it on.

Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, I'm on vacation, its the offseason, I don't feel like a drive to Fl or Cali, so, yes, I don't have anything better than to suck up to 99.98% of coasterbuzz. I see no reason to suck up to your .01% or to mOOSH's .01%;) *** Edited 3/6/2004 6:01:14 PM UTC by TeknoScorpion***

Scream Machine said:
LOL! Jeff. By the way, what is RRC?

That would be rec.roller-coaster, which unforuntaley draws a majority of the trolls out there in la-la land.

-Tina

I really don't think there's going to be a good definition for mouse, just as there'll never be a good definition for coaster (S:TE, drop towers) or inversions (overbanked turns, V2.1).

S:TE could qualify as a mouse under a lot of these definitions (single car trains, no banking) and Vild Svenet (sp?) is walking the line too. Some of the newere Mauher Sohne (sp?) "mice" are also walking the line.

Hobbes: "What's the point of attaching a number to everything you do?"
Calvin: "If your numbers go up, it means you're having more fun."

You know, I swore I heard "Twoink, twoink, twoink" and saw large, snouted pink animals flying in 'V' formation Sunday.

Then I checked this thread and saw why. Did the unfunniest man of all CBuzz post something that made me laugh?

-CO

(Note: "Unfunny" is distinctly different from "humorless due to massive fecal impaction featuring multiple undigested Twinkies")

NOTE: Severe fecal impaction may render the above words highly debatable.

Edit: Due to being an unfunny post, I have decided to delete this post so as not to actually have to fall over dead, or worse, be handcuffed to nate for 4 hours... *** Edited 3/8/2004 10:25:14 PM UTC by TeknoScorpion***

See, you just ruined it. Close examinations are for CSI crime scenes, plane crashes and other things that--like you--are so very morbid and gruesome in their unfunniness!

I take it all back...unless of course, you promise to actually fall over dead. Or queue up for TTD on a rainy day handcuffed to Nate. Take your pick.

-CO

NOTE: Severe fecal impaction may render the above words highly debatable.

I guess some stars were aligned in the universe somewhere, it was a passing moment, never to be repeated again in my lifetime. Sorry!

Legendary said:
But Arrow mice also have banked turns after the switchbacks on top...still a mouse?

From MiA's website....Mad Mouse, it's the "X" of mice coasters, featuring BANKED turns....;)

I consider it a mouse it it *does* feature unbanked turns, and some coasters I call mice even have had helices...but much like the "is it a coaster" debate, we'd never get everyone to agree what MAKES a coaster a mouse...

Mice have little two person cars with loose suspensions that allow them to lean to the outside of the flat turns. Anything else is a rat. ;)

Heya guys

Sorry to bring this back from the dead but i have to lol :)

2) Vekoma's ride will likely never sell for the same reasons described above.

Just to point out one has already been sold to a park in the UK called Pleasurewood Hills. So its now a false opinion. :S

Cool. So an inverting 'family' ride will sell. It has a corkscrew and a horseshoe turn. I wonder what the height requirement will be?

coasterimage - lordgonchar

aaaAAArgh!!! if it cracks your ribs and calls itself 'Wild Mouse' at Blackpool Pleasure Beach then consider it done - anything else is just an imitation LOL

Seriously, Wild Mouse/Mice never felt like a family ride to me - they always were the coasters that scared that crap outta me and they still do. 'Mice' nowadays have many more brakes than they used to have...

-Jim

Heya.

Me again. Cant think why i didnt think of this before... Heres some pictures of a Wild Mouse coaster in japan. Classed as a family ride by the park yet it has a vertical loop.

http://ft.digital-coaster.com/mouse01.jpg

http://ft.digital-coaster.com/mouse02.jpg

http://ft.digital-coaster.com/mouse03.jpg

Uploaded just for you guys :) and proof that the market exists i believe. The ride is at Tobu Zoo in Japan and has at least 1 clone (at Something Jungle Park (ill let you know when the RCDB gets back online tonight) *** Edited 3/13/2004 10:21:39 PM UTC by roomraider***

That's a pretty cool looking ride.

coasterimage - lordgonchar