Least Favorite Coaster Trains

[Hutch]

I recently started a topic about everyone's favorite and most comfortable coaster trains. Now it's time for everyone to share their least favorite.

For the most uncomfortable I'll have to go with any Arrow Looper. You have no leg room and if you don't put on the OTSR right you can easily get your arms stuck with only your hands free to move.

I'm not sure what the least appealing coaster is, but if I had to choose one I might go with any Vekoma SLC. This one's a tough one for me and I can't really think of anything else.

For just sheer annoyance, Kinda Ka's trains, mainly because of the OTSR. I also don't like Mine Train coasters that use giant freaking locomotives that block the view from everyone.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

We JUST had this topic that was started like a week ago and it was made by you. You wrote "best" but many people posted their worst in that topic too.

 

[madhjsp]

^ Really? Where?

I agree that Arrow trains are definitely uncomfortable & claustrophobic due to lack of elbow and leg room, unless you are sitting in the very front row. Yet somehow they really add to the experience for me. What I love most about Arrow loopers is the throwback feel.. it just wouldn't feel right to ride in a sleek, modernized train on a track design that Ron Toomer came up with by literally just bending wires around.

Offhand, the only train design I can think of among rides I've done that has memorably detracted from my experience on the ride is Skyrush's, but then again that's really just a restraint issue & should be fixed by now.

 

[caffeine_demon]

We JUST had this topic that was started like a week ago and it was made by you. You wrote "best" but many people posted their worst in that topic too.

I just looked through that thread, and found NOONE mentioned their worst!

anyway - klondike gold mine at funland - legroom so tight, I had my bum about 2 inches off the seat all ride!

 

[Scott88]

Colossus at Thorpe Park, such a struggle to get in and out of them, and I find when I am sat down they are really uncomfortable.

 

[Mike]

I'll also go for Colossus for the worst designed trains. They're just such an effort to get into and out of, you can barely fit between the gap of the restraint and the seat in front, the leg room they give you when sitting down is pathetic, and the restraints feel really heavy.

 

[mistermister]

There are a lot of smaller rides that seem to have somewhat painful cars, like Goofy's barnstormer at magic kingdom. The seats can single handedly give you scoliosis. Also the Backlot stunt coaster at KD has really small completely plastic cars that can slam you against the sides pretty easily

 

[Auraofshadows]

Definitely has to be the stand up trains for Shockwave at Drayton Manor. They are a nuisance to get on. The restraints are uncomfortable and not to mention the seats lock in some awkward positions, such as being too low down or too high up.

 

[marc]

Eurofighter trains, they just cause so much pain.

 

[Edward M]

I hate Kingda Ka's trains for one reason. PAIN!!! :evil:

 

[Nemesis of oblivion]

Any Vekoma train really :| Heading banging of a life time!

 

[Jake]

 

[andrus]

^I quite like the GIB trains. Sure they're bulky, but they're one of the most comfortable and most spacious otsr trains I've ever had the pleasure to ride!!

My worst goes to Gerstlauer otsr, way to tight and realy uncomfortable! >< Some Intamins strangely suffers from this too while others are just fine :? Eg iSpeed is perfectly fine while I305 is terrbile. How much I adore that ride I still have to admit that the restraints are some of the worst, all to small and probably made for midgets or something..

 

[Hyde]

Gerstlauer Wooden Coaster Trains, the evil twin of GCI Millennium Flyers.

 

[ATTACKHAMMER]

Euro Coasters trains... Horrific

 

[fefa]

Eurofighter's - they simply spoil the whole experience

 

[furie]

Nah, the square track does that - blaming the trains is like shooting the messenger

Colossus for me too. Those trains are so difficult to get in and out of and horribly cramped when you are in them.

 

[Hyde]

^ Oooo! I'll just on that band wagon and add the Xcelerator trains. Very cramped seating compared to TTD the following year.

http://www.coastergallery.com/ga/Xcelerator01.jpg

 

[Mike]

The Xcelerator trains are completely incomparable to Colossus' trains, ESPECIALLY when talking about how cramped the seats are!

 

[theRock-steel]

The top two on my list would have to be the Zamperlas on their flying Volares
and the Vekomas on their Flying Dutchman.

http://rcdb.com/2516.htm?p=9307

http://rcdb.com/3793.htm?p=19652

The first involves pure pain all over, the second involves lying on your back for what seems like forever
until your brain feels like its going to explode.