Best Compact Coasters

[simon8899]

A picture speaks for itself....

5 loops and up to 5.2 G in 86x38 meters....

[Condor]

End of discussion.

 

In all seriousness, I too will go Anton and say Scorpion at Busch Gardens Tampa.

[boardwalkbullet91507]

Iron Shark and the Boardwalk Bullet are excellent compact coasters. The billet has some awesome speed and the Iron Shark is just intense right out of the station.

[154bmag]

Apocalypse is my favorite compact

 

To quote Angry Gumball "Never underestimate the power of the GCI"

[australianalex]

No Eurofighter love? Any Eurofighter is a fun little tiny coaster.

I love Eurofighters, but the only ones I've been on are Saw the Ride and Speed No Limits and neither are very compact.

[beatle11]

B&M Batman clones are pretty awesome.

[Oryp]

I always love a Premier spaghetti bowl, and Rock n Roller Coaster is a good compact one too. Also, Dare Devil Dive is a great ride in a tiny footprint.

 

Those new GCI coasters, Big Fun and BackTrack need to be built!

[andybarnes84]

B&M Batman clones are pretty awesome.

 

Agreed, brilliant compact layout and pacing.

[larrygator]

Dragons Fury

[caffeine_demon]

Blackpool's wild mouse

Blackpool revolution

formule 1 at parc st paul - http://rcdb.com/2664.htm (A crazy slam into your seatbar moment)

maurer spinners (particularly spinball and sc2000s)

rita

intamin mega lites

as others have said - batman clones

[rcdude]

I generally don't think of wood coasters as compact, but if I had to pick one it would be American Thunder. For steel coasters, I'd say B&M's more compact designs (Batman, Superman, and smaller custom layout coasters) as well as Premier's LIM spagetti bowl coasters and Vekoma's Giant Inverted Boomerang. For traveling coasters, Schwarzkopf wins, but ignoring his designs Maurer Sohne's Xtended SC 2000 is probably the best.

[bill_s]

One quite compact coaster I don't think anyone's mentioned yet is Fahrenheit. I wasn't that impressed with the ride compared to anything else at Hershey, but wow is it crammed in there. It could be put many places where it would be impressive.

 

Batman is kind of compact but has that part sticking out. May have worked as a space-saver in its first installation but not necessarily in general. SLCs seem more a true compact coaster, cramming as much as possible into a rectangular footprint. Batman I've only ridden twice, first I was inexperienced and was blown away, 2nd I had one of those center rear seats and thought it sucked, so no real opinion. SLCs I used to love and consider a classic design (sorry!).

 

Of more truly compact coasters, Jet Star delivered the goods.

[jray21]

My top picks are:

 

Intamin Mega-Lites - Absolutely incredible coaster in a relatively small area.

Olympia Looping - It's a five loop traveling coaster!

Wooden Warrior - A lot of fun for a small ride!

[Mr Stratosphere]

I would have to say Mr. Freeze, the Batman Clones, and I actually do like Fahrenheit at Hersheypark

[matteocrepaldi]

I think S&S El Locos are pretty cool!

[gerstlaueringvar]

Mega-Lite: I guess no explanation is needed

Poltergeist: intense and out of control.

Batman clones: forceful all the way to the end.

X-Flight: While I'm not a wing rider fan, this one is a nice compact coaster.

Whizzer: Uncle Anton goodness!

[willthegolfer]

Sfgam Goliath, SFDK Superman, iSpeed.

[BigBomer]

Based off of personal experience I can say the Batman Clones, Mr. Freeze Clones, and the Premier Spaghetti Bowl coasters are pretty fun. If I were to judge them off their looks the S&S El Loco's look pretty cool and most Eurofighters for that matter.

[A.J.]

Sfgam Goliath

I don't know, I really wouldn't call the "tallest, fastest and steepest" wooden coaster in the world "compact"...

[GoBears]

Deja Vu, Viper, and Batman TR (all at SFGAm) are among my favorite compact coasters. I'm sure Goliath will be up there after it opens this spring. I guess I could also throw in American Thunder.

[coasterbill]

The definition of "compact" is getting looser and looser as this thread progresses but I'll go with Flight of Fear.

[FaithPlus1]

Sfgam Goliath

 

Lets go ahead and add El Toro and Outlaw Run while we are at it!

[GoBears]

Sfgam Goliath

I don't know, I really wouldn't call the "tallest, fastest and steepest" wooden coaster in the world "compact"...

 

Have you seen the layout of Goliath? Not only is the plot of land nearly as narrow as the width of Spacely's Sprocket Rockets, but it isn't all that long either. In fact, the length of the land that's it's going on (including the removal of part of Picnic Grove) is about the same length as the BTR clones. I would consider Goliath more of a compact coaster.

[mike541x]

Scorpion at BGT is one of my favorite compacts.

[rctneil]

Blackpool's Wild Mouse is an amazing but quite brutal a times ride and is extremely compact.

 

I always thought that, excluding the first drop and turn, Knightmare at Camelot was a lot of coaster packed into a small area.