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How do you like your wooden coasters?

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Honestly, it really pisses me off on YouTube, or from people I know, how much I hear "X" was to rough! Or how they hate wooden coasters because they are rough. So now we have these wooden coasters that are so smooth they might as well be steel, or woodies have been modified (like Wildcat at Hershey or the infamous "Rattler at Fiesta Texas) I mean back in the 1920's and 30's coasters actually killed people!

Personally, I like my wooden coasters smaller (85 - 100ish feet, 50ish mph range) and rough opposed to these 70+ mph smooth ones.
How about you?
 
El Toro is my favourite wooden coaster as of right now, alongside Shivering Timbers, so I'd say anywhere between smooth and a bit bumpy. I don't like them too rough, but I hear Voyage takes quite the toll, so I'll have to see how I feel after that one.
 
Well El Toro is my number no.1 coaster so I guess bigger and smooth.

Sadly all the other woodies I've been on were quite rough and not very enjoyable such as Rolling Thunder, Stampida, Coaster Express and Tomahawk (Well I don't really remember Tomahawk).

I really like wooden coasters and I loved Stampida pre-Kumbak days, so I don't mind a bit of roughness as long as it's not bloody painful and the whole train just shakes violently throughout the track.
 
Can we have big and rough? Something like Gwazi. Yeah go on it twice in a row and you fell on the edge of losing your head but its still fun.
 
Somewhere in the middle, the bumpyness and 'this-is-about-to-colaplse' feeling is part of the fun, but obviosly, there is a point where it goes too far and it hurts too much, but I am more towards the smaller and bumpier side.

Grand National+back seat+no seatbelt+VERY loose restraint=Oww+Wow, with Wow>Oww!
 
There is a point where a wooden coaster is so rough that it becomes unenjoyable. Smooth coasters are always nice, but I certainly don't mind a shaky and bumpy wooden coaster, as long as it's not painful.
 
Just something with loads of hilarious airtime like Grand National.

Gwazi is fun but a bit too forceful to be absolutely laugh-out-loud enjoyable like Nash is.
 
SnooSnoo said:
I like it in the middle of "<img>" and "El Toro."

So.. Boulder Dash.

Yay!
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And Ravine Flyer II, which falls into the same area as Boulder Dash, just not half as insane.

And the most perfect woodie as far as pure airtime goes is Phoenix.
 
my favourite ride at canads wonderland is a wooden ride its called canadas mine buster.
 
Woodies are meant to be rough and out of control.
If that wasn't a disable effect then everybody would build in steel.

Simple as that....
 
I like my woodies to be a tad rough, for that "out of control felling," but I cant stand woodies to be so rough that you can feel the whole structure shake and move. For example, Thunderhead, or Bolder Dash are perfect wooden coasters, because they are a tad rough so you get that feeling of being out of control, but yet the layouts are so forcefully that they deliver satisfaction that just cant be matched.
 
F.A.S.T. said:
Woodies are meant to be rough and out of control.
If that wasn't a disable effect then everybody would build in steel.

Simple as that....
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Depends on how rough though.. being murdered never feels good.
 
SnooSnoo said:
Depends on how rough though.. being murdered never feels good.
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No kidding, that is why over the recent years Great American Scream Machine (SFOG) has fallen from 5th on my list of woodies to 15th, because the coaster has gotten so freaking rough. That coaster needs major renovations.
 
I like my woodies small, compact and pretty rough, not rough to the point of PAIN. But Grand National roughness if you know what i mean.
 
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