Jarrett
Most Obnoxious Member 2016
I posted something on Facebook this weekend joking about how kiddie coasters are probably more enjoyable than SLCs to most and that actually yielded some interesting results and opinions, so I thought I'd make a topic.
What I was getting at is that while kiddie creds do absolutely nothing except a few that might have some good or bad spark here and there, a cred that does pretty much nothing except go around in a circle is still better than a full-sized thrill coaster like an SLC, boomerang, or Volare that does something as a coaster but leaves the ride ops scraping you off the seat with a spatula and wheeling you off in a cart to a mass grave somewhere in the park. But do you agree? Would you rather sit on the bench in front of T3 than ride it? Or would you get to a park an hour until close due to traffic and when it comes crunch time pick the boomerang over the Zamperla death machine?
Putting your rankings on a scale, I'd say I rank coasters on a scale of -10 to 10. -10 being the most absolutely dreadful contraption ever devised that should be barred by the UN as an interrogation tactic, 0 being no coaster at all, and 10 being Skyrush. Or is it a scale of 0-10, with 10 being your favorite coaster and 0 being no coaster, and even throwing you through a few inversions beating you up in SAW-like restraints can still earn a coaster some points?
So discuss! Would you rather have a bad, painful coaster than almost no coaster? Or do you love roller coasters to the point that you love every big thrill machine, even if the trains sport a badge of quality that looks suspiciously like a Vekoma/Zamperla/Togo/Golden Horse logo?
What I was getting at is that while kiddie creds do absolutely nothing except a few that might have some good or bad spark here and there, a cred that does pretty much nothing except go around in a circle is still better than a full-sized thrill coaster like an SLC, boomerang, or Volare that does something as a coaster but leaves the ride ops scraping you off the seat with a spatula and wheeling you off in a cart to a mass grave somewhere in the park. But do you agree? Would you rather sit on the bench in front of T3 than ride it? Or would you get to a park an hour until close due to traffic and when it comes crunch time pick the boomerang over the Zamperla death machine?
Putting your rankings on a scale, I'd say I rank coasters on a scale of -10 to 10. -10 being the most absolutely dreadful contraption ever devised that should be barred by the UN as an interrogation tactic, 0 being no coaster at all, and 10 being Skyrush. Or is it a scale of 0-10, with 10 being your favorite coaster and 0 being no coaster, and even throwing you through a few inversions beating you up in SAW-like restraints can still earn a coaster some points?
So discuss! Would you rather have a bad, painful coaster than almost no coaster? Or do you love roller coasters to the point that you love every big thrill machine, even if the trains sport a badge of quality that looks suspiciously like a Vekoma/Zamperla/Togo/Golden Horse logo?
