New red B&M track at Clermont in Ohio...

[TB305]

The Hungarian Horntail is nothing without it's Chinese Fireball.

Actually, it is something without Chinese Fireball: a fully independent roller coaster who don't need no Hungarian Horntail.

 

If you tore down HH, you would still call Chinese Fireball a coaster, yes? And if you tore down CF, you would still call Hungarian Horntail a coaster, correct? Then that means both are independent roller coasters, and count as 2.

[chknwing]

so carowinds demolished 2 wooden coasters in Thunder Road and not just 1

[TB305]

so carowinds demolished 2 wooden coasters in Thunder Road and not just 1

I guess technically yes, but Thunder Road's tracks are structurally dependent on each other, and is marketed under one name all the time. Whereas HH and CF have different names and totally different structures.

[RCT3Bross]

The Hungarian Horntail is nothing without it's Chinese Fireball.

Actually, it is something without Chinese Fireball: a fully independent roller coaster who don't need no Hungarian Horntail.

 

If you tore down HH, you would still call Chinese Fireball a coaster, yes? And if you tore down CF, you would still call Hungarian Horntail a coaster, correct? Then that means both are independent roller coasters, and count as 2.

Okay I have no intention to go to far form the main topic at hand here, so this is the last I say about this:

I never said they aren't separate coasters, in fact I admitted it right in the start. What I meant there was that the lay-outs where designed to be together, take one out and you have an odd lay-out left. That is what I meant with HH and CF being nothing without each other, they need each other to complete them self. I mean I never ridden one of them, but I read a lot that people say the ride is practically dead now that it doesn't duel anymore, Imagen if they take one out forever, that leaves a bigger hole then now.

 

Oh and the park still sells it as one experience under the name: Dragon Challenge, that story whise had to give each coaster its own name.

[BeansproutMidget]

So, B&M's installing their 100th coaster. Don't know when, maybe it happened already and we didn't notice. And now we're trying to figure out if a coaster counts as two different ones.

 

Can't we happy that B&M reached 100 coasters that are all (kinda) still operating?

 

(But, on the topic of whether Dragon CHallenge is one coaster or two, I'm in the 'two coaster' camp. If Universal let them duel, then, I guess I could call it one coaster, but with them not dueling any more, they're two coasters sharing the same name.)

[Dom497]

so carowinds demolished 2 wooden coasters in Thunder Road and not just 1

I guess technically yes, but Thunder Road's tracks are structurally dependent on each other, and is marketed under one name all the time. Whereas HH and CF have different names and totally different structures.

 

Dragon Challenge's lift hills share supports.

[JonnyRCT3]

This whole "100th coaster" argument is quite silly. Every racing/dueling coaster is considered one. You can count each side as a separate credit if you wish, but the entire coaster is still one. Gemini has two separate tracks that differ in many ways, but I still consider it as a single coaster. Other dual/racing coasters may differ to a more extreme degree, but it still doesn't change the fact that it is a single attraction, with two key features.