The thing we all learned from the Little Dipper with a wooden coaster is that you aren't really getting that much. You essentially have to rebuild the ride with a ton of new wood, and you get the train. Instead of getting this ride, I think it's better for an amusement park company to get a brand new wooden roller coaster.
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we look at bay beach saving zippin pippin, and they used completely new wood and PTC trains from a coaster that operated in 2002. They essentially just bought the layout, and everything else was practically new
maxwellt wrote:we look at bay beach saving zippin pippin, and they used completely new wood and PTC trains from a coaster that operated in 2002. They essentially just bought the layout, and everything else was practically new
With a woodie, you basically just get the trains, track, chain lift and braking mechanisms. You're going to have to rebuild the superstructure all over.
Actually the track gets 100% replaced except maybe for the track steel, there's just no way to remove and reassemble it, generally if a ride isn't completely shot some of the structure can be reused.
and yeah, Bay Beach just got the Blueprints for the ride and whatever they could salvage which ended up being nothing except for some signage/memorabilia.
Favorite Wood Coasters: The Voyage, Ravine Flyer II, Thunderhead, Balder Favorite Steel: Steel Vengeance, Expedition GeForce, Olympia Looping Parks visited: 222, Coasters Ridden: Steel: 822, Wood: 178, Total: 1000