Wood or Steel?

[ParkTrips]

If I were to rank wood and steel on the same list, #1-4 would be wooden, so I guess I pick "good wood"

[yankees15]

I prefer steel to wood coasters because they can do so much more. They are for the most part taller and faster, can go upside down, launch, provide airtime just like woddies, and most importantly are smoother.

[commander jigga]

I prefer steel rollercoasters much more than wood. Woodies are rough....well.....so are vekoma steels , but B&M steels are beautiful.

[arlen23]

I like wooden because it feels good for some reason, And collosus answers that

[knottslover77]

Wood! GhostRider Rocks!, only in 1/28 seats though, In that seat it's smooth and you get the most airtime (backcar, row 1, seat 2).

 

 

 

--Jay

[thomas2]

For me there isn't really a better one. Wood is great for it's "out-of-control" feeling and most woodies also have an interesting layout. Steel is great for it's inversions and there are alot more possebilities with steel: heigher, faster, launched, etc...

 

So there isn't really a winner for me.

[Satoshi]

sure i prefer wood coz i gotta get shaken.

 

umm... looks regina's startin' to show its age so that i got to find

it so rough in the last car. i've got whiplash when i kept bangin' my head in the tight turn like s bend.

[Jonathan]

With the exception of hypercoasters, I get bored with steel coasters rather quickly. A good woodie on the other hand, I never get bored of. Jumboshrimp, I hope you will forgive me for quoting your post, but I just could not help myself. I'm not trying to call you out or anything; I just found it really interesting how different our opinions are. Many of the reasons you do not like wooden coasters are the reasons I love them!

 

This is a no-brainer. Steel wins 100% for me. Sure, wooden coasters may be fun, but they all seem the same, and are hardly ever original in appearance.

 

To me, a lot of steel coasters seem the same, and I quickly tire of the same inversions and sensations.

 

Wood is imperfect, which means you rarely ever get smooth airtime.

Wood looses speed much faster than steel, so manufacturers have to resort to cheap tricks that involve banking turns incorrectly, in an a feeble attempt to keep you interested.

 

I would probably put those two things on my list of reasons why I love woodies (reworded of course).

 

Wooden coasters, once again, require a lot of maintenance.

 

To me, the wooden coaster is like an artform. I can appreciate a great wooden coaster that much more knowing how much care goes into it.

 

Wooden coasters come in one style.... Sit down.

Steel coasters come in many, many styles, including sitting, inverted, floorless, flying, and 4D.

 

Wooden coasters come in many styles, including twisters, out and backs, terrain, and racing.

 

Because, every good thing about a wooden coaster can be done with a steel coaster, it will cost less to mantain, look nicer, last longer, and can be perfected in design based on the improved techniques used to build steel coasters.

 

I have been on many steel coasters, and none have ever been able to duplicate the experience of a great wooden coaster.

 

Again, I am not trying to start an argument with you, but I read your post realized it was a perfect setup to what I was already going to write. Oh yeah, if you couldn't tell, my vote is wood.

[Reon]

To me, steel coasters are very gimmicy. They may have inversions, or insane heights, but who cares? After you've done enough inversions, each one seems the same. Woodies on the other hand are all unique. Never the same sensation twice. Who cares if it hurts a bit? Arent rollercoasters supposed to be wild? If that's the case, then walking away from a smooth steel ride is like saying that the coaster hasn't done it's job. Plus, Cyclops is a woodie. I rest my case.

 

Jared "I'd ride Cyclops over most steel coasters any day"Becker

[knottslover77]

^I agree all the way.

 

 

--Jay

[coasterguy618]

For me there isn't really a better one. Wood is great for it's "out-of-control" feeling and most woodies also have an interesting layout. Steel is great for it's inversions and there are alot more possebilities with steel: heigher, faster, launched, etc...

 

So there isn't really a winner for me.

 

I totally agree with you.

[asr]

Wood all the way. The way the structure shakes, the look and sound, no steel coaster can beat a good woodie. Airtime is better on woodies (Single-position lapbars/lapbars with an inch of clearance + extreme airtime = more fun then any airtime steel coaster) and inversions are very boring if theres no positive Gs, (except Zero-G rolls with their spectacular floater air).

 

Did i mention I like wooden coasters better then steel ones?

[benzo41190]

I agree with everything said above me!

 

See, wooden coasters have a personality. They get angry in the how weather. They get fast of out of control in the rain. And the wear that happens to them is like real life. People get injurys, people get angry, people get tired.....its all what gives wooden coasters there personality.

 

A steel coaster will gives the same ride many times before it changes...and by that time, its closed down.

[SonOfBeastSucks]

Asian woodies are my favorite.

[Blazen_AZN]

^ No Comment.

[Rollerholden]

^^ Eww

 

Anyways, I still like steel more.

None of the woodies I've ridden were too "enjoyable".

[absolutace]

steel is better any day!

 

 

you classic lovers have to let go and get yourself on the new rides. they are much better, bigger, and smoother.

 

rougher rides are more fun! all steel coasters you get the same ride

[easytoremember]

I know. Close your eyes on any beemer floorless. I bet it would be hard to tell the difference unless you have the layout memorized

[TexTitan01]

I'm a woodie man.

 

IMO, wooden coasters have more personality. Like no 2 rides can be EXACTLY the same, like you may bump one way a little harder, or you may experience more airtime on a turn on one ride than on the next depending on the woods bend. With steel coasters, its all the same, year after year. Welded steel doesnt age and change as much as nailed in wood. If you ask me rides that are a bit rough and tumble, the more the merrier.

 

Long live GCI

 

Love live Gravity Group

 

Long Live PTC

 

LONG LIVE WOODIES!

[QueerRudie]

Since I'm a big fan of pozGs, I find that most wooden coasters don't cut the mustard for me- but there are a few exceptions to this rule-

 

Wild One, SFA (Before it was neutered into oblivion)

HersheyPark Wildcat and Lightning Racer (Wildcat moreso, esp. in the front seats)

SOB at PKI (I must be in the few minority on this one- for obvious reasons!)

 

But for me, it's the G's, G's, G's. The majority of my 'top 20 list' is composed of steel-

 

Schwartzkopf MindBenders- SFOG and West Edmonton Mall. The obvious choices for me. I'd never experienced 'hard-core' riding until spring break 1995 and a very VERY long trip to Canada to give WEM's MindBender a ride (or 36) SFOG Mindbender is much milder than that, but a good and reliable ride with some very nice G's at the bottom of the Inclined Helix element.

Thriller/Texas Tornado/Zonga/???? (Formerly of SFMW) Zonga was GREAT. Other than those very painful deathmachine cars (Did TOGO influence Weiland Schwartzkopf or something?)

ShockWave (SFOT)- Back-to-Back blackout Gs on a fantastic ride with great speed. Nuff' said.

Loch Ness Monster, BGTOC (BGW, BGE). Daddy's Beautiful Girl. The love of my life. My #1 ride. The front seat, right side. Good lateral toss at the top of the turn into the first inversion and before the trim station at the top of the second major drop. Nice STRONG G's in the entry and exit of the inversions. Long, cool, dark tunnel. Use of Terrain. Two Lifts. SMOOTH AS SILK. (No Joke, I actually picked my college based on its proximity to BGW.)

 

So, I guess that makes me a steel man. But in all reality, my preference is for whatever ride I'm on at the moment, unless it's a TOGO.

[kennywood!007]

Steel. Woodens coasters are great and so much fun. But steel has much more variety. For example. Some are more to the inversions side, some speed (launch), hyper. Plus you have inverted, floorless, stand-up, hyper, looping. Wooden coasters just have their own type. But, even though I picked, IMO I think they cannot be compared.

[Calaway Park]

Since I'm a big fan of pozGs, I find that most wooden coasters don't cut the mustard for me- but there are a few exceptions to this rule-

 

Wild One, SFA (Before it was neutered into oblivion)

HersheyPark Wildcat and Lightning Racer (Wildcat moreso, esp. in the front seats)

SOB at PKI (I must be in the few minority on this one- for obvious reasons!)

 

But for me, it's the G's, G's, G's. The majority of my 'top 20 list' is composed of steel-

 

Schwartzkopf MindBenders- SFOG and West Edmonton Mall. The obvious choices for me. I'd never experienced 'hard-core' riding until spring break 1995 and a very VERY long trip to Canada to give WEM's MindBender a ride (or 36) SFOG Mindbender is much milder than that, but a good and reliable ride with some very nice G's at the bottom of the Inclined Helix element.

Thriller/Texas Tornado/Zonga/???? (Formerly of SFMW) Zonga was GREAT. Other than those very painful deathmachine cars (Did TOGO influence Weiland Schwartzkopf or something?)

ShockWave (SFOT)- Back-to-Back blackout Gs on a fantastic ride with great speed. Nuff' said.

Loch Ness Monster, BGTOC (BGW, BGE). Daddy's Beautiful Girl. The love of my life. My #1 ride. The front seat, right side. Good lateral toss at the top of the turn into the first inversion and before the trim station at the top of the second major drop. Nice STRONG G's in the entry and exit of the inversions. Long, cool, dark tunnel. Use of Terrain. Two Lifts. SMOOTH AS SILK. (No Joke, I actually picked my college based on its proximity to BGW.)

 

So, I guess that makes me a steel man. But in all reality, my preference is for whatever ride I'm on at the moment, unless it's a TOGO.

 

OMG Someone other than me LOVES the Canadian Mindbender!! Also, the one at SFOG has a space in the name, IE Mind Bender acording to RCDB. Haha, I've heard so many stories about people blacking out on the third loop and not remembering half the ride hahahahahaah!

 

Anyway, I've never ridden a woodie (shame on me) so i guess steel is my choice.

[Cressie2]

I have got to say steel,wooden ones am good because they have a story and are fun and dont have really closed in restraints BUT there rough.Steels can be really high(even can woodies though)and have really good speed and there is many types of steel when theirs only a thew types of woodies.STEEL ALL THE WAY

[mf_4_lyf3]

well i would have to go woth wood (no pun intended)

 

my fav woodies are the

viper sfgam

texas giant SFOT

american eagle

 

in not saing that steels are bad im just saing that i perfer some woodies

[SonOfBeastSucks]

Since I'm a big fan of pozGs, I find that most wooden coasters don't cut the mustard for me- but there are a few exceptions to this rule-

 

SOB at PKI

 

That is all.