Will we see other inversions on wooden coasters so

Well, last year SOB opened as the
only looping wooden coaster in a century to feature a vertical loop (been reading my Guide to Ride 2000 ;)). Do you think we'll see other inversions on wooden coasters soon, like maybe a corkscrew? I was just thinking about that last night as I was reading up on SOB. I wonder what it would be like to navigate a corkscrew on a wooden coaster. Probably pretty painful. What does everyone else think? Will we see corkscrews and other inversions on wooden coasters in the future? Peace. :)

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Lets hope not to see any of those, 1 looping woodie in the world is bad enough. It's just not a very good idea. It isn't really a smart idea. Woodies are all about airtime and crazy turns. Leave the inversions to steel coasters.

I don't think of it as a bad idea or "ruining" the coaster...I just think of it as a wooden coaster PLUS a loop...it only adds, it can't subtract.

But, I think it won't happen ever again....it's just too impractical and confusing for the GP.

As long as I never live to see a wooden mega looper I'll be satisfied. 2 or 3 are the max # of inversions that I consider to be reasonable for a wooden coaster.
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"We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say eckyeckyeckyeckypakungloopoingengzourjin." "Ni"

Call me a purist, but...

Hopefully SOB will be a "one and only". When I first heard this was being planned I thought "This sounds like a gimick." I'm still thinking that.

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"That wheel needs fixed... This thing is a piece of junk..."
- Unknown ride op on Williams Grove Cyclone

I just don't think wooden coasters should have loops. Wood coasters aren't about inversions -- they're about good drops, great air, and a track layout that has you guessing at least part of the way through the ride. I'll leave the loops and corkscrews to the steel coasters.

I don't mind the loop on Sonny... heck, it saves the ride. The rest of it did nothing for me.

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Jeff
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1 inversion is fine.... even though I have never been on SOB, I am sure that steel loops and wooden loops feel very different.

Plus just the fact that the wooden loops look like they do is enough to scare some people.

However, if we EVER start to see OSTR's on wooden coasters, I'll kill myself. (well, not really) :)
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May 5th, Gurnee, Illinois, "I'm sprinting for V2"

well with the success of Intamin's wooden coaster Colosso I am sure well see atleast another woody with inversions.

If wooden coasters wasn't meant to have loops why were they trying so hard to perfect it way back in the 20's It was b/c the tecnology they had back then wouldn't let them. Now we have the tecnology so it can be done, it has been done,it will be done again. I don't think any of you have rode SOB b/c if you have SOB's loop is not like any steel loop you've every been through. It is was more fun the you average smooth steel coaster loop. It's fast fun intense and with lapbars only like some people have said SOB would be nothing without that huge drop and that huge intense loop. I just can't wait to see an Intamin hyper woody mega looper that would be great lol.

I think we'll see bigger and badder loops, but nothing else. Hey, did anyone forget about the other 7,000+ft. of SOB? It's all good. The loop with the lap bar is very awesome.

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nah

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I think that it was a neat idea that didn't materialize. I think that woodies should be the way they are. I didn't ride SOB but i think that it looks awesome. Even without the loop.

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RCman4

I doubt we will see it anytime soon for 2 reasons. 1 is the fact that Son of Beast wasn't successfull (not how it should have been). 2 is the fact that this coaster was designed and built by Paramount Parks, and not by a company like GCI or CCI.

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"I traded my soul for a ride on Millennium Force"
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I think ninety degree or overbanked turns would be cool

If anyone has ridden SOB, they know it has one of the best and smoothest loops anywhere. I really liked the entire ride, especially the drop and loop, but I wish they would have made just one of the helixes and added at least 2 big airtime hills. I think thia would have really puahed it to the top. It's still a fave anyway. Very intense. Put your hands up. (I've never had pain on it, so I don't know where a lot of people are coming from) I still have no clue whether more people like Sonny or hate it. On the Internet Wooden Coaster Poll 2000, it was rated towards the bottom(slightly above the other big woodies gone bad-MS, Rattler, Hercules) but on Screamscape and ThrillRide it was at the very top of the lists. I guess we'll have to see on Monday. (Got any hints Jeff ;)) I'll actually predict it will win. It was probobly the most ridden and probobly more rated excellent where the rest were above average. I don't know. It would probobly win the worst new woodie too if that was a category. :( No one appreciates a try to develop a new element. It all has to just be a gimmick(I don't think so).

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StarCoasters said:
"I doubt we will see it anytime soon for 2 reasons. 1 is the fact that Son of Beast wasn't successfull (not how it should have been). 2 is the fact that this coaster was designed and built by Paramount Parks, and not by a company like GCI or CCI.

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The main reason it wasn't successful is because of its current problems with the overall roughness and poor wood/maintaince quality. The ride appeared to age many years in one season, which explains why they had (or still have) that lawsuit with the company that built their coaster.

If the effort, time, and right company made that coaster over again... sayyyy... as a clone... then it'd be more popular than any coaster because the experience would be much more pleasant. You can enjoy the free falls, air-time, negative G's, and the loop without any rough unnecessary jerking of the coaster!!

My point? The loop isn't a gimmick. It's a new element that can be incorporated into a FEW future wooden coasters, but the coaster itself has to be built right by the right people with the proper wood & upkeep. Otherwise...

It'll face a similar fate