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Is The Smiler a Eurofighter?

Is The Smiler a Eurofighter?

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 22.6%

  • No

    Votes: 23 43.4%

  • Kind of but not really

    Votes: 18 34.0%
  • Total voters
    53
Gavin

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Since it's clear that the forums will imminently be filling up with "Smiler Vs Saw Vs Nemesis Vs Air Vs Swarm Vs Superspeed Coolcool Bear" and "Which is better: second car front row left or second car front row right?" topics, I thought I'd get one in early before we get sick of them. I say "we" when I mean "I"; most of you plebs lap that **** up.

Ever since we found out, despite desperate grabs at anything to suggest otherwise, that Alton's new coaster would be a Gerstlauer creation, it has constantly been compared to Saw and discussed in the same terms as a Eurofighter. But is it?

Yes, there's a vertical lift, but no beyond-vertical drop.
Yes, there's a twisting layout with inversions, but way more so than any other Gerstlauer coaster.
Yes, the cars are similar, but is this coaster similar enough given that it's not a single car?

Personally, I've never looked at this as a Eurofighter. For me, a Eurofighter means the single car, vertical lift, beyond vertical drop combo that we all know and love.

Gerstlauer's own website seems to agree with me, but it also doesn't mention The Smiler at all yet, so will they change their definition of what a Eurofighter is or create a new category?

http://www.gerstlauer-rides.de/products/roller-coasters/euro-fighter-en-US/

So, go on, fight it out bitches!
 
Looks like it'll ride fairly similarly to one, but I wouldn't call this a Eurofighter. Multiple cars, no vertical drop.. this is a new category of ride from Gerstlauer.
 
Know what you mean and I said this at the start.

For me no its not a Euro Fighter as there is no vertical drop.

Not really looking at the trains as B&M run different trains on some of their DM's.
 
I don't count it as a Eurofighter in my opinion a Eurofighter must have a vertical drop and the standard Eurofighter trains.
 
Superspeed Coolcool Bear sounds like my sort of ride.

I'd say a Eurofighter is defined by the vertical lift and beyond/vertical drop element.
 
^I discovered the name - it was just down as unknown before I went - which is probably the greatest achievement of my life. It's closed now unfortunately, and due to that fact I'm now going to say it was the best coaster ever.
 
The cars don't look right, it has a non-vertical lift, and no beyond vertical drop. As such, I do not think that it fits the actual definition of a Eurofighter.
 
Kind of but not really.

It's obviously descended from Eurofighter lineage, but I think the train is a big factor. If they'd strung a pair of old style EF trains together with a tow bar/linkage, then I think I would consider this an Eurofighter, but as it is four, single-row cars I think that makes it different enough to be considered something different. Personally, it inverts on the post-lift drops, so to me that IS a more than vertical drop, even if it looks different.
 
It's not a Eurofighter, for the reasons mentioned above. I'm not sure what you'd call The Smiler really...maybe we have a new Gerstlauer coaster type?
 
Nah. I don't think it's a Eurofighter either. Whilst it holds similar traits to the EF's, there's too many variants to class it as the same model.
 
Wait? Is it confirmed a Gerstlauer? :p

It's not a Eurofighter until Gerstlauer eventually get around to updating their website to say that it is a version of Eurofighter.

So probably next year we'll find out the truth, but I'm willing to bet a bag of jelly babies that it is listed a Eurofighter in the end.
 
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