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I think you have an exceptionally low tolerance for that compared to other people, then. We need not get our knickers in a twist everytime someone has a different opinion or a different way of doing things.

Maverick - Cedar Point Millennium Force - Cedar Point Top Thrill Dragster - Cedar Point Wicked Twister - Cedar Point Disaster Transport (defunct) - Cedar Point Cheetah Hunt - Busch Gardens Tampa

There's absolutely nothing rude about what I said. At minimum, I'm not throwing around petty insults. Yes, I'm aware those other rides got RMC'd. What I'm saying is if you want to give RMC treatment to a ride that hasn't received it yet, look for the one that should get it the most, and I...

If roller coasters stats don't matter to people in the roller coaster community or anyone else, then why are there multiple websites that contain databases for those stats? Yeah, I get that the nothing beats traveling to a ride and experiencing it firsthand, but stats for key technical features...

Those other roller coasters you mentioned are not in my post because they do not go faster than 100 kph and are/or not older than 15 years, as I specified. Also, if you observe carefully, I did not bring any score calculations into the conversation. It is pure raw data only that I am talking...

I'd say start with looking at all of the old tech wooden roller coasters (rough riders without new things like Topper Track, Timberliner Trains, etc.) that are 15 years old or more (that seems to be the average age for a roller coaster) and go 100 kph (~62.14 mph) or faster. There are six...

Per my Steam Railroad Rankings spreadsheet, the RH&D is the top-scoring stand-alone miniature steam railway. It looks impressive from videos and it's especially interesting that it's considered a public railway that actually transports people from place to place. The most interesting aspect...

The concept of having a real live-steam train ride in an amusement park, and miniature ones made for amusement parks specifically, have been around since at least the late 1800s. The concept of having a full-size one in a park started to become a trend in the late 1950s after Disneyland opened...

I attached a handy chart showing just the opening date scores (oldest on the left; newest on the right). I'm approaching roller coasters the same way one would approach cars in terms of how old or new they are, where the ones that are very old historical antiques or the brand-new...

Here are the stats I have for those: Name Opening Date Height (ft.) Length (ft.) Speed (mph) Inversions Ride Comfort Ranking Dinoconda 04/29/2012 226.38 3,444.88 78.29 3.00 9.83 8.20 X² 01/12/2002 175.00 3,610.00 76.00 2.00 9.38 6.57 The opening date is a factor for the...

Thanks for the input, Hyde! I only took one class on statistics in college and I don't remember any of it, and with all of this stuff I'm doing, I wish I did. It would be great to collaborate at some point later to improve the calculations. For now, here are the current standard deviation...

...and here's what my spreadsheet says about Hersheypark. Skyrush is a family coaster? Yeah, nah.

For reference, since it's being discussed in depth, I decided to see what my roller coaster spreadsheet currently has to say about Busch Gardens Tampa (my home park). Cheetah Hunt is definitely not as high-scoring as the B&Ms, but it's a high-scorer nonetheless (BTW, that nice well-rounded...

Well, I do have entries for 2,820 separate roller coasters (2,857 if you count twin roller coasters as two and triplet roller coasters as three), which I've compiled over the course of almost seven years. This does not include the data for the 400+ steam railroads and 300+ classic carousels I...

That is indeed the ultimate determination on whether a roller coaster is "family friendly:" whether the whole family, including little kids, can ride it together in the first place. A good runner-up would be the coaster's max speed. On my spreadsheet, I was irked by the lack of consistency...

A large-scale indoor amusement park...in Central Florida. The heat and humidity during Summer here can be brutal, so a large park that's 100% shaded and air-conditioned would be a Godsend.

Outdoor living history museums often have things like steam trains and carousels (which Greenfield Village and Crossroads Village both have), which in a way makes them resemble theme parks. Greenfield Village was the primary source of inspiration for putting the Main Street, USA section in...

I have a setup in place that considers outliers in the data when calculating the scores. If a piece of data is 5 standard deviations above or below the mean or more, it gets capped. Currently, for the height, the point at which 5 standard deviations is reached is ~299.93 feet. Kingda Ka...

You lost me at that point. A roller coaster going 60 mph is not a family coaster. Anyway, rating roller coasters based on stats isn't perfect, but they are a strong "forecast" for how good they are.

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