Worst coaster investments?
- Any Vekoma Boomerang or SLC ever built.
- Celebration City's Miler built Jack Rabbit
- Adventureland's CCI built Underground
- Adventureland's OH Hopkins built Dragon
- SFMM's Intamin built Superman: the Escape
- Knott's Berry Farm's Togo built Windjammer
That's enough for now
-'Playa
NOTE: Severe fecal impaction may render the above words highly debatable.
All of the records it had are now being broken in New Jersey. And as each new season dawns it's going to be forgotten a little more, (even though you can see it's bright yellow paint from five miles away.)
Don't get me wrong I've ridden it many times, and have been thrilled every time, but that 25 mill. could've been put to so much more at CP. But hey, that my opinion.
I, for one, can't wait for the Italian Job to open...looks awesome to me!
Guests stand in awe at [TTD]
Isn't that the truth. My nephew refused to ride anything more interesting than CCMR during his time spent with us there last year, but practically drooled just watching TTD fire. He (somewhat surprisingly) volunteered that he *really* wanted to go back to CP with us this summer and that he'd spent the whole winter thinking about TTD. (!)
Although it's not at any amusement park, MY worst coaster investment was the K'Nex roller coaster. The instructions were crap, making it a chore to build. And once it was built, the stupid car never had enough speed to make it all the way around the track. After doing a little research online, I found that many other people also had problems getting it to go around and the best solution is to buy a second K'Nex roller coaster and use the parts to increase the height of the hill. HAH!
But since that was never supposed to go to a specific park, what about that one SW project at Alton from Arrow that was never built and eventually turned into Nemesis? Didn't Alton put a lot of money into it and the pipeline concept really never got out of Arrow's testing process? And of course, then they had to spend the money on Nemesis, although that one probably counts as one of the BEST coaster investements.
Oh and for that witty comeback:
Iron Dragon's a bad investment because it's at Cedar Point and it's not Son of Beast! I mean come on, you couldn't see that one on your own? What's wrong with you people?!?
Beast Tamer said:
Like i said earlier when you are the best people take shots at you. SoB are like the yankees, the ride or team that you love to hate cause they are that damn good!
Yup. You have us all figured out. There's a couple dozen people here who refuse to ride (or rarely ride) SOB because they secretly like it.
It was so obvious.
Might I direct you to the single most respected wooden coaster poll done today.
I'll even simplify the numbers for you.
In 2004, there were 433 voters ranking a total of 176 wooden roller coasters. The average voter in the poll has ridden more than 33 wooden roller coasters.
Son Of Beast placed at #167 - 9 away from being deemed the worst wooden coaster in the world. In fact, it has never placed higher than #131. There is not another wooden coaster in existence built in the last 5 years that has ranked as low as consistently.
Everyone's opinion is valid. You like the ride. Goodie for you. The masses hate it. Enthusiasts hate it so much that they called it one of the 10 worst wooden coasters on Earth in 2004.
...but you're right - they all secretly love it...the bastards.
makel said:
Scream, X - Six Flags Magic Mountain.Okay, fine, Six Flags Magic Mountain PERIOD. A perfectly good waste of good amusement park land potential!
How can you think that? Have you ever been there?
Let me guess....you are 12 years old and a Cedar Point fan?
Much like DB Hurricane, the success of the ride financially depends more on getting butts INTO the park rather than ON the ride. Yes, DBH is an *infinitely* better ride, but most of the people at Boomers! wouldn't know it cuz they don't ride....they're there for the arcade instead of a waterpark (hmmmmm, LOL), but the wooden coaster DOES bring people in....by the buttload!
Mean Streak- come on it's been there almost 15 years. I'm sure they have more than recouped their investment
TTD- will be pulling in guests for years to come no matter how many Kingda Kas open
Iron Dragon- see Mean Streak
My choices
Deja Vu- any one of them but especially the Georgia model. Any bets on how long before these rides are put on the ride rotation program or retired
Wind Jammer- any ride that sits on valueble land without operating then is destroyed without any compensation is a bad investment
Drachen Fire- same as Wind Jammmer and its real estate still isn't making that park money hint hint nice quiet kiddie area Busch hint hint
As for a woodie where Disaster Transport is, the only clone that needs to be there is a modern version of their old Cyclone that once stood in the area. Wouldn't that be neat to see an older park like that go back into its history and bring a coaster back to life
Fun, albeit short, experience for the rider. Terrible investment, dead track, major structural repairs, downtime from hell.... etc. etc. etc. for the park. I can't think of a bigger money loser for a park, personally.
The Flying Turns makes all the right people wet - Gonch
DF was a bad investment because it stood there inoperable for years. It was designed and built, redesigned, and then closed-THEN it had to be removed; all of which needed funded. What a shame to, because I realy liked it.
SOB was a pretty bad investment, because for a new, record-breaking coaster, it doesn't have the fans PKI intended. It's not a huge draw for the park like they wanted it to be. My favorite park builds america's least favorite coaster; how ironic.
I calling for an all out kiddie area, bigger than land of dragons, maybe themed to the Grimm fairy tales or something. A kiddie coaster would be nice too since Busch Gardens doesn't have one
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