rides with the biggest Impact

I think it is the racer at pki because it is the ride that started the second golden age of coasters.


*** This post was edited by coastersrz on 4/30/2001. ***

I better go ahead and say Magnum even though a 200' coaster was bound to come anyway. Stop looking foolish. Stand up and get your lips off the ground. ;)

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The First and Only Gigabuzzer bigger than Millie, rising Faster than Maggie, and pulls more BS than MS ever will!!!

Magnum of coarse.

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Revolution

Some of my picks:

The Bat
The Raven
B:TR
FoF
The Racer
The Beast
Maggie

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I have to say Magnum.

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I was going to say Disneyland's Matterhorn Bobsled (being the first of the modern tubular steel tracked coaters), but as someone said about Magnum and the 200' barrier, the same could have be said about the Matterhorn... someone would have probably invented the tubular track at some point in time.

I never even thought about the Racer at King's Island, but Coastersrz is correct... that started the "second golden age." With out that, who knows... the recent wooden coasters that we have seen may have never come to be... and the existing coasters at that time may not have remained... nor would have the few classics that have been moved from defunct parks.

On the other hand, there is the old Coney Island Cyclone. It has set the bar for what a wooden coaster should be... many copies have been attempted, but none of them have come to match this 1927 classic.

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I think that latley, Milenium Force. Remember when it was announced? It blew us all away. And it started the era of the giga coaster, Batman also started a wave of the greatest coasters. But when you try to remember when MF opened you were mezmorized and scared out of your pants. That is what i think.
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I still think Kumba ushered in the age of big boy loopers.

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I am 99% sure that the tallest steel coaster without inversions in the US prior to the Magnum was the Mine Train that sits right next to it, Gemini. It took eleven years to build one taller that lacked inversions. In the next 11 years after Magnum just think how many taller, faster, steeper "Hyper's" were built.

How can it NOT BE...Magnum at CP?
For CENTURIES roller coasters where being built and SLOWLY being built higher...Magnum took the "highest coaster" from around 155-160ft to 201ft...Quite a jump...and then in the next 11 years coasters have gone over the 300 mark...So centuries to go 200 feet...11 years to add another 100 feet and reach the 300 foot mark..all because the Magnum had the guts to go first:)

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Craig the Coaster Freak said:
"I still think Kumba ushered in the age of big boy loopers.

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Even with larger loopers, such as PKI's Vortex being built many years before hand?


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Definatly the original Switchback Railway at Coney Island. The Coaster that started it all. Also, I would have to say Racer@PKI and the old Knott's Corkscrew that is in Idaho now. :)

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It's gotta be Revolution. The name speaks for itself. A coaster with a vertical loop? Crazy in its time, folks...

I think Batman at SFGAm might have had the largest impact. The first inverted roller coaster ever, I mean it opened up a whole new world of design. Magnum was tall, and still kicks butt, but it didn't open as many doors as Batman did. Batman brought about a entirely new way of designing, whereas Magnum just made it higher, and used the same out and back formula. It was just an out and back on steroids! Seriously, how many different inverts do we see now and in how many different layouts?

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"Help! Help! I'm being repressed!" *** This post was edited by staticman00 on 4/27/2001. ***

I don't think their is just one coater. But here's a list of the Top 10 that I feel are the most influential. In no particular order.

1.Batman
2.Magnum
3.Millennium Force
4.Revolution
5.Coney Island Cyclone
6.Superman The Escape
7.The Bat
8.Corkscrew (The original at Knott's)
9.Kumba
10.Steel Phantom

the BAT as an influential coaster!?!

How is that? Has anyone here ever road the Bat? HOw popular are suspended coasters? I strongly disagree that the Bat was an influential coaster. COnsider Switchback Railway, Magnum, Racer, Batman. The Bat doesn't even come close to the impact that any of these coasters have had.

How is the revolution more influential than Knotts' Corkscrew?

Steel Phantom? It's been redesigned. How influential is that?

What coasters have been influenced by Kumba? maybe wildfire and Tennessee Tornado.

Many of theses coasters were fine coasters, but being a good coaster doesn't make it influential.

How about PKI's standup? It's had alot more influence on coasters than the bat.

In 1988 a little coaster opened at SFGAM as the tallest - fastest - most inverted coaster in the world. Rather than MAGNUM egniting the coaster age. I feel that SHOCKWAVE lit up the coaster age.

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Mauchunk Senic Railroad for starters. The original.:)

The CI Cyclone, CI switchback railroad, B:TR, Sky Pirncess(first CCI) and Disney's Matterhorn bobsleds are all also very important.

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PointMan said:
"How is the revolution more influential than Knotts' Corkscrew?"

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Corkscrew was the first inversion on a steel coaster, but it's very different from a verticle loop. The verticle loop became the "must have" element on every steel coater for a long time after this, and it's still a mainstay of today's loopers. Parks don't compete for the record of highest corkscrew. It's the highest, largest, or most verticle loops that really tend to get people going...