If you could modify one part of any ride...

[Vekoma Fan Boy]

I searched for this and found nothing, so i'm sorry if this has come up.

 

 

If you could modify ONE part of any roller coaster what part and what would you do to it?

 

 

If it were up to me i would either bank the station fly-through at 60* to the rider's right side to make it even more intense, or i would get rid of the "MidCourse megatrim" on Pepsi Max Big One and turn it into another hill.

[Movieguy]

Just one part, huh?....hmmmmm...

 

I guess I'd take off the trim brake on Mean Streak's first hill.

[Calvin]

^Of course, by doing so you would effectively shorten Mean Streak's life by about 40 years.

 

I would make the first "airtime" hill on Milennium Force shorter.

[rbpia]

I would change the "This ride will not open today sign" on - okay pick your Six Flags coaster.

 

rbpia

"3 years of season passes before I finally got 1 lap on Deja Vu' at SFGam"

[Nrthwnd]

I would turn the two-car bobsleds in the Matterhorn at DL, back into the single car sleds that they originally were. I remember riding them at age ten, and as a first time, big coaster experience....awesome!

 

[CoasterFanatic]

Remove the seatbelts from the Kennywood Racer.

 

Like it didn't load/unload slow enough.

[Scaparri]

I'd take off the trim after the helix on Goliath at SFOG.

[Movieguy]

^Of course, by doing so you would effectively shorten Mean Streak's life by about 40 years.

 

Well, think about this...would you rather it spent a long life as a neutered woodie, or shorter life as the wild coaster it used to be, without trims?

 

The brightest star burns twice as brightly.

 

 

 

[Vekoma Fan Boy]

You guys can list multiple rides ya know.

[FlyingScooter]

Just one part, huh?....hmmmmm...

 

I guess I'd take off the trim brake on Mean Streak's first hill.

 

I agree, even if it does mean increasing the maintanance cost of it!

 

I'd like to increase the height of Flying Scooters, giving them like a 150 swing and massive air.

[CoasterExpert13]

I'd modify the 2nd drop on Phantom's Revenge, to make it stretch to 285-ft. instead of the 235-ft. it is now, making it faster...but unfortunatly shorer of a ride because of the speed.

[niiicolaaah]

I'd remove the seatbelts from Rollercoaster at BPB

 

Bulldoze Tomb Raider at PCW (Technically that's only one modification! )

 

Get rid of PMBO's 2 mph helix of doom

 

Give Hydra a vertical loop

[ECZenith]

Give Tatsu a tunnel for the element between the horseshoe and the overbanked turn, would just make it that much sweeter.

[tngdiablo]

 

Give Hydra a vertical loop

 

EDIT: Give Hydra some forces!

 

Make Kingda Ka the same experience regardless of train position, like TTD.

 

Give El Toro buzzbars!

 

Tear down all Top Spin rides! Damn nutcrunchers.

[smells_like_team_disney]

-Remove the OTSR on Revolution.

 

-Remodify the double-dip on Colossus to its former glory.

 

-Remove the trims on Cali Screamin'.

 

-REPAINT NINJA!

 

As far as Ghostrider at Knott's is concerned, no ONE thing can fix it. That pile of wood needs A LOT done to it in order to ride the way it used to.

[Vekoma Fan Boy]

^You copuld just say retrack it. (pull up all track wood laminations and replacew them)

[smells_like_team_disney]

^Man, why you gotta rain on my parade? If I wanna be over dramatic, I'm gonna be over dramatic, damn it!

[Millenium Man]

I would Take Revolution's OTSR's off, put Colossus' double-dip back in, and take the trim brakes off Mean Streak's first drop.

[RNRC]

I would make a few more BIG drops on Tower Of Terror in Orlando.

[Rugged One]

Change any CCI that runs G-trains to PTCs.

[timetrial3141592]

Hmmm...

 

Take the trims off Montu.

Give Gwazi Millennium Flyer trains.

Put back the first drop on Cyclone @ SFNE.

Lighten up on Bad Goliath's MCBR... I can raise my hands in the centrifuge.

Annihilate Psyclone.

Detrim Mean Streak.

Return Zonga to its Thriller layout.

Give Kumba some airtime (other than that, it's perfect).

Annihilate Manhattan Express AND NYNY Hotel and Casino (for buying a TOGO ride.)

SROS @ SFNE: ooh. Needs just a tad more ejector air.

Give forces to Millennium Force.

 

Can't think of any more...

[thomas2]

Get those trims of Silver Star!

[USRoadTripper]

I'd take off the trim after the helix on Goliath at SFOG.

 

You stole my answer.

 

-Julie

[thrillrideseeker]

Well I would...

Take the OSRS of of Kingda Ka and give it T-Bars like Top Thrill Dragster.

Oh and I would bulldoze all wooden roller coasters, but thats just because they are evil.

~Matthew

[willski]

I'd take off the trim after the helix on Goliath at SFOG.

 

 

Why? It doesn't affect the ride at all, it maybe slows the train by 2-3 mph at most.

 

 

Take the freaking trims off Georgia Cyclone, retrack it, and buy new trains. This time around, actually care for the ride so it can remain top 10 in the world instead of slowly sucking more and more.

 

 

Detrim Mindbender. Retrack and reprofile GASM so it actually has airtime instead of boring, low hills. Give Gwazi MFs with the most recent retracking (this past year). Take the retractable (!) seatbelts off the Carowinds woodies. Do something with SheiKra other than floorless trains (add something-no, anything-interesting, the ride is owned by its older siblings). On a similar vein, remove the trims from Montu and let it run like it did years ago (and that includes the MCBR, the ride shouldn't be nearly stalling before the last trench run/corkscrew).

 

 

Retrack Shivering Timbers' turnaround and helix if you feel generous. Get it back to the way it ran pre-Cedar Fair. Remove the trims from Beast and Mean Streak before I go to PKI and CP (again) next year. So what if you have to pay more for maintenance? The rides will be better, pleasing guests, which is pretty much the best way to run a profitable park (coughcough....unlike SFI....coughcough).