Favorite Coaster Company

[G-forcejunky2005]

I know I had a similar topic to this before, but I just wanted to ask my question in a poll.........

[DejaVu The Ride]

B&M would be the best out of the list you have. But you forgot a good one. S&S Arrow.(Gotta love many of their rides too.)

[sixflagsguy5]

B&M. I like wood coasters the most, but i also think that B&M coasters are in a close second.

[DejaVuGurl1203]

Vekoma.

No, just kidding. B&M are the best definitely, Intamin comes in a close second.

[The Beast]

Ok, I really don't want to vote for B&M even though I love their coasters, they tend to repeat themselves a bit too much. Now this may be a contradiction, but I would vote for Arrow if it was up there. Even though they are bankrupt and now with S&S, I think they have enough coasters around to validate a spot on the list. Ok enough ranting...

[SFGAMkid]

B&M, although I do agree with The Beast, as the coasters all become pretty repitious after awhile, but at least they're reliable! Some park just has to ask them to build yet another new custom design ride.

[Shockwave8802]

B&M just does things right the FIRST time, not like vekoma where 2 rides down the line they still have problems.

[DejaVu The Ride]

B&M, although I do agree with The Beast, as the coasters all become pretty repitious after awhile, but at least they're reliable! Some park just has to ask them to build yet another new custom design ride.

Thank God for Tivoli Gardens(Demon), Knotts Berry Farm(Silver Bullet), and Dorney Park(Hydra: The Revenge) for allowing B&M to show off their new designs for the invert and floorless coaster.

[The Beast]

Yeah I wasn't really commenting on the B&M of late, which I am truly impressed with. Couple years before though the, loop,dive,roll,cobra,interlocking corkscrews sequence got really beat to death.

[w00dland]

You guys act like it was their fault.

I really like the things that come out of S&S/Arrow but then again I've never been on a bad Premeir ride either.

[The Beast]

B&M's fault or not that's how I rate the company. But I do not at all hate B&M especially the way they have started moving along.

[rct2wizard360]

I think Demon (Tivoli Gardens) really got B&M thinking about what they could do with their Floorless design. Silver bullet resurected the lost B&M Invert.

[SfGaMownz]

Probally B&M most of my top 10 is B&M's though they don't have the number 1 on my list that goes to X.....

[sixflagsguy5]

I would vote for CCI, but their are alot of companies that build wooden coasters. Only B&M make Inverted and Stand Up coasters that are worth riding.

[DejaVu The Ride]

Isn't CCI out of business and most of the engineers from CCI went over to form GCI? As I already voted B&M for steel, I would vote GCI for wooden. The ones I have ridden are great and the ones I haven't look incredible.

[The Beast]

CCI pretty much became GCI so I guess you could combine them. They both have similar styles either way.

[FParker185]

CCI went out of business when Denise Dinn and Randy Larrick divorced. All the designers/engineers founded/went to The Gravity Group.

After 1993 GCI and CCI had no relation at all, CCI was founded by Charles Dinn's daughter Desise, GCI was founded my Mike Boodley who used to work for CCI, his only CCI ride was Outlaw at Adventureland before he split. For a long time (he may still) hold the record for the most rides on the Coney Island Cyclone.

Today Denise Dinn heads up the wood coaster division at S&S/Arrow. Mike Boodley basically retired from GCI, but still consults for them.

The CCI designers, Larry Bill, Chad Miller, Korey Kiepert and Michael Graham founded the gravity group who now design Wood Coasters(Hades will be their first) and some other ride related structures(IB's flying scooters lake platform), and they also support most of the old CCI coasters for maintaince (for instance they are adding the 2'nd train and transfer track to Raven this year).

Most of the carpenters from CCI either found work in wood coaster maintaince department at various parks or they left the business and went into more standard carpentry (though a few do freelance Wood Coaster Tracking)

[SammyTheSparerib]

I prefer "Intamin air" to "B&M air." Then again, B&M has never made a bobsled coaster.

[w00dland]

Man that has got to be the biggest case of Roller Coaster drama ever. I never knew there was so much going on in the world of wooden coasters.

[FParker185]

Next up on Jerry Springer...

Wood Coater Builders and the Drag Queen Nazi's that Love Them.

[Ilovthevu']

I chose B&M because of high capacity trains, BTR, IW, SUF, and others in which they have created such as Chang. I would say PTC, but they don't make coasters anymore, and it's not on the list.