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Steel vs Wood

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Steel vs Wood

Steel Rollercoasters
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Wooden Rollercoasters
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Steel vs Wood

Postby Simba » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:23 pm

The age long battle between Steel rollercoasters and Wood rollercoasters.
For me they both have their good points and also their bad points.
To start with Steel coasters can do amazing and jaw-dropping inversions and have good layouts, but prehaps less charector or soul as Woodie has.
The negative side about steel rollercoasters is smoothness with the exception of B&M which age well and remain smooth most other manufactured coasters by other companies let the steel coasts down in my opinion.

Now onto the Woodie, I personally have not yet been a wooden rollercoaster. But I believe Wooden rollercoasters do have a certain charector or soul which Steel rollercoasters will never really completly get. Woodies are normally coasters with great airtime hills, which is normally what is great and key to a successfull rollercoaster. The negative side of wooden rollercoasters is that most of the trains don't look that appealing, and unless it is a hybrid it will never be able to do Inversions without some steel support added to the structure.

But I think in this poll the Steel coaster gets my vote.

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Re: Steel vs Wood

Postby Thekingin64 » Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:32 pm

Has to be steel. Wooden coasters are amazing but at the minute aren't a very flexible design. You can do so much more on a steel coaster that you can't do on a wooden.

Saying that, if you built a steel coaster with exactly the same layout as a wooden, it just wouldn't be the same. Woodens do have a certain character which make them amazing to ride.
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Re: Steel vs Wood

Postby Dalek Sec » Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:21 pm

For me it has to be Steel aswell, both Simba and Thekingin64 have made very good points, but for me I love insane inversions which wooden rollercoasters will never really cope with.
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Re: Steel vs Wood

Postby Kumali » Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:12 pm

While I absolutely love Wooden coasters, Steel coasters can do so much that woodens couldn't dream of doing, even with RMCs help.

To prove, anyone now of a wooden version of Kingda Ka opening soon? Thought not.
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Re: Steel vs Wood

Postby Eclipse » Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:51 am

Even though I agree with everyone that Steel coasters can do more than wooden rollercoasters, I personally prefer a Wooden coaster over steel coasters, because you don't get fancy inversion elements (Excluding hybrid type coasters like Iron Rattler and Outlaw Run), you just get a great classic feel everytime you ride them.
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Re: Steel vs Wood

Postby Simba » Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:40 am

Thanks Eclipse for sharing your favourite type, I was beginning to think no one on here preferred wooden coasters over steel ones.

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Re: Steel vs Wood

Postby Thekingin64 » Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:25 pm

It is very close for me. It just steel is a lot more flexible for layouts.

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