Worst coaster investments?

Well its true, just ask crazy horse, he was with me when we rode it. I saw his bloody knees and he had to carry me off the platform because I could not move my back. That ride hurt me that much.

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DisasterAmy63 said:
Well its true, just ask crazy horse, he was with me when we rode it. I saw his bloody knees and he had to carry me off the platform because I could not move my back. That ride hurt me that much.

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how could that be????????????????

Because as much as I love coasters I would enjoy the wood used to build SOB more if it was still in a forrest! ;)

Seriously, do you think it was a good investment? Why?

As I've stated before, I don't HATE Sonnie. But it's definately in the bottom 50% of the woodies I've ridden. But I do truly believe that the money spent on it, and the continual rehabs that occur every offseason, was, in retrospect, a poor decision. They went for the huge hit and missed, just like the Deja Vus to a lesser degree.

Ok ok let's have a little fun here, people...based on my history here on this board, someone guess which coaster I'm going to bash and put in here as one of if not THE WORST investments this park has ever made! Someone guess...

I would have to say the worst investment that I have ridden would be viper at SFGAventure... lol thank god its SBNO!!

seeing how my home park is PKI I would agree taht SOB is a rough wooden... but I still ride it and I still enjoy it as long as I am not in the back multiple times

I think Steel Dragon 2000 is the worst investement

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RamblinWreck said:
How did it improve the park's future performance? The park's attendance hasn't improved over the past few years has it?

Go ahead smartass, get me

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It did increase the parks value at least, and you can't base that just yet, its still a great park, it wouldn't be much of a park if those coasters hadn't given Geauga Lake (six flags at the time) some air time on TLC (BNF) was aired on "Best coasters" plus the parkl has a great future *looks into crystal ball* You might as well join Beast Tamer who dislikes all the best coasters! ;)

Viper at SFGAdv actually was an ok ride when it opened. SF GAdv just let it turn into a huge pile of smelly snake manure....

This award definitely should go to the south american coaster that was built with no electrical system.

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UBRhino said:
Viper right?

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Ding Ding Ding! You are correct!

Sylvester Marty McBean (or whatever it's called) at Universal Islands of Adventure - OK, it's not a coaster, but Universal invested a lot of money to build the monorail, station, and Dr. Seuss theming, but it never operated.

Steel Dragon 2000 at Nagashima Spa Land - a multi-million-dollar record breaking coaster SBNO. It's just sad.

Pteranodon Flyers at Universal Islands of Adventure - Lack of capacity on this coaster has caused Universal no end of grief. Too many children and their parents go through hideously long waits for a mediocre ride. It's a shame so many people have such a bad experience at an otherwise great park.

Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon at the Great Escape - Six Flags paid to move this coaster 4 times. For what? It has a capacity of less than 200 riders per hour, and it's definitely no Space Mountain.

How about "Crazy Fat Japanese Wrestler in Diaper" *?

I hear that ride sucked majorly. (just ask Nate K. :))

lata, jeremy

(* that's LoCoSuMo in case you didnt get it)

^^^ *Shakes head and walks away, then realizes that was pretty damn good. LOL

:)

Anyone remember The Bat at Kings Island? The coaster operated for a mere 2 years before being "removed... due to numerous problems" (From rcdb)

I don't remember much about the ride other than everyone complaining how the ride was always broken down. Did anyone here ever get to actually ride the ride, and was it good?

However, I don't know if that's the WORST investment ever. At the very least, in its defense, it was a prototype coaster and paved the way for other suspended rollercoasters

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CoasterFamily said:
I think the worst is still Cedar Point's Avalanche Run.

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No, the worst was putting even more money into it, as you mentioned. What an eyesore that thing is. If Dick Kinzel really wants to go out with a bang, then tear that damn thing down and put something special there!

What? And destroy the world's tallest, fastest, darkest, fakest half-working effect-having kiddie coaster? Perish the thought!

-'Playa

(seriously, CBaby and Da Midget LOVED it at 5)

If Dick Kinzel really wants to go out with a bang, then tear that damn thing down and put something special there!

Rebuild the CP Cyclone!

What about that crazy coaster in Austrailia The Orphan Rocker. Thats a huge waste they've been working on it since 1988.

Didn't Kinzel say something like, "if we ever have that decision to make, we'll just tear it down and build another coaster." The interview went on to say that he knows that was the biggest mistake CF has made in coaster selection at CP. However, I can't remember if it was Discovery, Learning or Travel Channel that I saw it on.

The sad thing is, my 9 year old niece loves DT and will stand in line hours to ride it. But, if it leaves, I'm sure she'll find another fave. And as Jeff says, "something special," no place I'd rather see than a boardwalk style woodie, right on the lake. Similar to Thunderhead, continuing the lashing cries of "The most twisted wooden coaster on the planet." *** Edited 4/13/2005 3:15:20 PM UTC by Woody***

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DC2Beltz3 said:
It did increase the parks value at least, and you can't base that just yet, its still a great park, it wouldn't be much of a park if those coasters hadn't given Geauga Lake (six flags at the time) some air time on TLC (BNF) was aired on "Best coasters" plus the parkl has a great future *looks into crystal ball* You might as well join Beast Tamer who dislikes all the best coasters! ;)

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How many operating coasters don't increase the parks value? I dont know if we are talking about the same park, but I didnt go last year, so it may be a great park now. Then again, if its so good, why did it fail to draw 1 million last year? Just a few questions, and again, the coasters individually were ok, just the lump investment was bad. Maybe if they spaced them out over a 5 year period they could have built up better...

I can agree with the "upgrade" to Disaster Trnasport. I would rather have a bobsled coaster outside than in that building. 'Playa was dead on in his analysis.

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TeknoScorpion said:
I personally think that Hypersonic (and I've yet to ride, so I don't hate it or anything) wasn't the best investment in the park because it had bad reliability and had to have major work done to the trains, and it's capacity sucks.

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Hypersonic gets my vote. The ride has gotten brand new seats three times, new trains twice, major track & break overhauls, an outrageous maintainance budget, and to top it off low capacity because they can only run two trains at once, not four, and they wasted money on a dual station for nothing. Wow.

I heard that some parts of the ride needs new cement every night, but that's just a rumor.