Now granted, I realize that Sky Princess is not a scream machine, but I would call it more of a smaller wood coaster than anything else (certainly NOT a kiddie coaster).
Looking things up on the RCDB, they define a kiddie coaster as a coaster designed soley for kids, and I knoe that often times adults are not permitted to ride (either by park regulations or by the fact that the trains are too small to accomodate adults).
They also refer to Family coasters on the RCDB as a coaster that is designed primarily for kids, but that adults can comfortably ride also.
I would consider Sky Princess a family coaster except for the fact that those little coasters like its neighboring Joust and other small steel coasters of that design are called Family.
The term Junior coaster I see applied to some coasters, but all seem to be much smaller than Sky Princess's 2000+ foot length.
I guess my question is...
What is the most accepted deffinition of a Kiddie Coaster, Family Coaster, and Junior coaster, and would Sky Princess fall into any of these three categories, or would it be considered a smaller wooden coaster that is designed wigh "families" in mind?
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I guess my question really comes down to "Family", and when does a coaster stop being a Family coaster and becomes a smaller standard coaster? I do agree that Dutchwonderland's Joust could be called a family coaster, but on the same token I wonder if Sky Princess should be in that same cagegory? Granted, the Princess is small compared to most wooden coasters, but then again it is large compared to what has come to be know as Family coasters.
I suppose that is my actual question.
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"I wasn't always this cynical, but then I started kindergarden..."
Thats strange, less intense? I'd say for a small, slower coaster, it packs quite the punch. If it had OTSRs, it would have headbanging worse that Shockwave (SFGAm). How is that not intense?
But really, what I belive to be a family/junior/kiddie/normal/what-ever-you-want-call-it coaster is what ever the person categorizing it belives it is. I know it's strange, if you thought MF was a kiddie coaster, it would be, to you. If that doesn't work good enough for you, do the 2nd best thing. The manufacurer's designation. If you can't figure out what that is, the next step is... use RCDB's information!
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*** This post was edited by TrBiggar on 11/17/2001. ***
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