When will we next or ever see a wooden inversion?

[Niles]

I was wondering when we last had a wooden inversion and it was back in 2017 with Mine blower, while we have hybrids go upsidedown those inversions are steel and it got me thinking when will we see the next.

Who could build it?

RMC have discontinued their topper track and no longer do a wooden alternative so they are out for now.

GCI have never gone upsidedown and while they will, it will be with titan track, i dont see them doing a full wooden inversion.

This leaves Gravity Group / Gravitykraft / Martin Vleminckx (im not sure the difference in all of these) who as of now have made five between 2013-2017, i guess they are the best option.

I wonder if it was just a fad and now buyers just want a good solid standard wood coaster, if they want something that goes upsidedown and looks wooden they can go RMC hybrid or GCI hybrid with easier to maintain steel inversions.

So when and where do you think we will see the next?

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

Simple answer is whenever the next client asks for it. Long answer is more of a breakdown of what we kind of know.

GCI is good and ready to do inversions and they've definitely been pitching them, and I'd go as far as saying they have an active project right now that'll probably include them. But yea as you've said those elements will presumably be entirely steel.

Gravity Group's breakout of PreCut track is seeing more success right now on refurbishment projects rather than new coasters, but they've also just perfected using it on curved pieces so I'd say the next goalpost is making sure its rated for inversions. PreCut is the future of their woodies and I suspect it would juice up the idea of a looping woodie.

At the end of the day wooden coaster inversions have never fully taken off to begin with, don't think it's ever been a trend and is more reliant on who has what crazy idea. Dorney almost got the shuttle with two inversions, Gravity Group pitched a fully wooden vertical loop for ArieForce One before it went to RMC, who knows.