jokerman said:
The difference is that people have heard of wooden coasters, but probably will not of heard of airtime. If you havn't heard of somehting then you can't want it.
So when a the first roller coaster launch was built, or a new type of gimmick was installed on a ride that no one but the designers had ever imagined being put on a ride, you would say that everyone would completely ignore it because they'd never heard of it before?
That's like, completely the opposite of what actually happens, else why do designers constantly want to come up with new designs?
I see what you are saying though, wooden coasters have airtime but no one calls it airtime, they just think of it as what wooden coasters do, and if a steel coaster doesn't have loops, they are disappointed because it doesn't do what it was meant to do. Is that right?
If so, I still think that steel airtime would be popular to an extent, but since they don't really have any new gimmicks, the GP might not see them as entirely so exciting, so it's a valid point, but if it's true it means that we'd see no more steel airtime machines, whereas there are still more B+M hypercoasters and intamin mega lites being constructed over the world, so the public does see something in them.