Why No More Flight of Fears?

BB Speed, Neither B&M nor Intamin design their coasters, In most cases it's Werner Stengal who designs them and also in many cases designs the track and trains that are to be used.

He has designed many a brilliant coaster but also he has come up with some stuff that hasn't been very successfull. (SOB) Although I find it to be ok and far less rough than mean streak is one.

Both B&M, Intamin and other companies use him and some others that are lesser known.

Chuck

See I'm never sure about that... for instance I know Gerstlauer usually creates their own rough layouts and sends them to Stengel for him to make them work (or at least that's what they did on Typhoon & their new mouse at Wild und Freizeitpark Klotten). I think it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer & ride to ride, and I'd be careful about saying that Stengel designs all B&M and Intamin rides. He certainly does all of the engineering related designing of rides, but in terms of layouts, I'm 99% sure that he doesn't do all of them. He does some, perhaps even most, but not all. For instance, Nemesis @ Alton... I believe that layout was designed primarily by John Wardley, with the engineering of it done by Stengel. We may just have different definitions of designing coasters though... mine is whoever is responsible for the layout, while yours may be the guy that takes that layout and makes it and the rest of the ride work. Either way... that makes the difference between a Premier, B&M, & Intamin spaghetti bowl even smaller.

- BB

You can see some of Stengel's work here http://members.aol.com/rcstengel/
and here
http://www.coasterforce.com/info/designers/stengel.php