Chinese manufacturers are so obsessed with knocking off designs, they even knockoff knockoff designs of Western rides... *Next we'll see a knockoff of a knockoff of a knockoff of an SLC.*
Central Intelligence Agency But when the track design and layout of a coaster is an obvious (but usually poor) attempt to recreate an original design from another manufacturer, it’s definitely a knockoff. These Chinese versions of Vekoma SLCs for example are definitely deliberate, so I would personally consider them to be knockoffs.
All the knock-offs are of coaster types that have already been built in China, as basically all trade secrets and patents are laid bare in the process. There are currently no IBox or any other type of RMC coasters in China, thus they can't do it quite yet. Vekoma sells their coasters outside of North America (but RMC still makes those), but I would imagine RMC is very hesitant to have one of their unique ride types built in China. They're big, but they're not as big as other manufactures, so it would hurt them a lot worse.
I designed Christmas ornaments for about 8 years. I went to chins to approve prototypes, and advise the factories twice every year. The Chinese factory would copy the prototype EXACTLY, down to tiny flaws that happened by accident,after the item was done. I submitted a sewn fabric example that Thad gotten snagged on something,and the sample I received also had a snagged thread! The factory worked it’s collective ass off to copy EVERY detail, right or wrong. The Chinese can make perfect copies, but they can’t innovate to save their souls!
Chinese people have been responsible for an incredible number of important inventions. Don't mistake "their current government rewards copying" with "cannot innovate".
If they innovate, the CCP pretty much kills the company and probably the CEO who allowed it. You don't do what you want or innovate in such an authoritarian state.
@@RemixedVoice Steel is easy to test for quality. With a Chinese designed coaster that's made in China the steel quality is the _least_ of your concern.
Oh, they were the ones behind the wonderwinder? I was on the TPR fourms around that time. We were stunned by how strange that transition looked, for a Chinese company it was a new low!
MCC: "Can I copy your homework?" Arrow/Vokoma: "ok, but don't make it too obvious" MCC: "say no more" *puff... they gone rougher than the original design*
I hope this isnt a strange comment but i think you could make an interesting "what really happened" video on the mindbender at west edmonton mall. It crashed and killed a couple people and id be super interested to know what happened since im from here and still havent been able to figure it out
@@SMEARGLEX75 I feel like they are gonna be a passive colonization Hitler. Idk if that made sense but they are doing bad things but hiding them. Just look at what they do to ppl of faith! Absolutely horrible
Hey, seeing as I can't think of a specific Chinese manufacturer to ask for next, could you maybe think about expanding this series to other non-Chinese manufacturers, whether "discount" or not? Obviously there wouldn't be as much making fun of them knocking off other companies, but still, a history of weird companies such as Fabbri (those of the infamous Astral model), Togo, Pinfari or others would be interesting.
It literaly makes me sick. Why cant they just make original things. If they inspired something from another manufacture its okay. But why do they need to copy everything!
In 2014 they crated a new inversion. The wonderwinder. About two thirds of a vertical loop followed by a very loose corkscrew, connected by a very short section of track that kinks upward slightly.
So weird. Their corkscrews look like Arrow coasters, while their vertical loops are Swhartztcoft. Looks like someone took a Looping Star and a Arrow Corkscrew and mixed up the parts.
Next flat ride of the week: evolution and the giant version of it... (sometimes known as: imperator) Spoilers: The giant evolution is probably the largest portable flat ride EVER!
Welp, two months after this was released, was surfing RCDB and noticed that both MCC knockoff SLCs are now permanently closed, as of 4/25/2020. They were too bad even for China!
Maybe a weird question but would you ride these coasters as an rollercoaster enthusiast. Like I am an aviation geek and I would love to fly an old soviet aircraft or a newer chinese aircraft but would you ride these coasters as a rollercoaster enthusiast just for the thrill?
Wow, some of those transitions are as bad as the ones I made first starting out in Planet Coaster. I wonder if they've killed as many test riders with excessive G-force as I have. :P
Sounds like me when playing RCT... I take an existing ride, change an element or two or add another inversion... then wonder why the Intensity rating is now Ultra-Extreme...
The Vekoma situation was a bit different. Arrow partnered up with Vekoma to be their European equivelant, so they taught them how to make their track. But instead of following the partnership, Vekoma took the track design and started to make their own coasters out of it.
And since there are quite a few Vekomas in China, there are a few parks who let manufacturers look at their Vekoma rides and directly copy them for a price. A bit shady but anyway.
Plus that type of central tube and square track holder you see on vekoma and arrow are much cheaper than something like the square box running B&M track
In spanish language, we call the roller coasters: "montaña rusa". So the perfect translation to english would be "Russian Mountain". But, WTF RUSSIAN MOUNTAINS, COMUNISM AND ROLLER COASTERS?!?!?
Actually the reason why it's called a Russian Mountain is because the early predecessor to what we think of a roller coaster was an attraction that would take riders up a lift hill and down a "mountain" like a bobsled which were at the time called Russian Mountains
They have also made some roller coasters that are butter smooth. In regards to knockoffs, at one time, when America was developing, Americans stole intellectual property. Charles Dickens visited America and went to bookstores where he saw his books on the shelves by publishers he had never heard of.
So do you think that because they've made a few things that aren't deathtraps the cashgrab deathtraps should be ignored? Honestly I'm trying to figure what youre gettng at here, because if you think China and America are comparable in terms of knockoffs because a book was plagiarized in the 1800s idk what to tell you. I can see you live in China though, surely I'm not talking to someone with any bias
