Planet Coaster College - Wooden Coaster Tutorial 

agreed I was just about to write this after hearing him saying the loop was brutal I'm like what I got livid lol he giving false information and they took down the loop because they made the trains lighter and slowed downed the train resulting in the train not being able to successfully go through the loop.

panacoaster Yep, it's a myth that I've been hearing a lot ever since the ride was closed. Living near the park, I had the opportunity to ride Son of Beast over 50 times and I can tell you the problem with that ride was never the loop. It was the incredibily shaky bowl sections especially the first one. The loop was the smoothest part of the ride. I think that myth is the reason why we haven't seen any looping wooden rollercoasters since, outside of the RMC's which don't have looping inversions and aren't traditional woodies. We may never see a traditional woodie looping coaster again I fear because the RMC's are so good and a park would rather just make one of those because it is perceived as safer by the public and no park wants their new ride to be compared to Son of Beast.

Nit Picker I glad you brought this up, I have ridden Son of a Beast and the loop was smooth as glass...now that first helix was quite brutal and made the ride not enjoyable, but that first drop was amazing!

Ah, thanks. Then I suppose it may also be a problem of public perception that 6/4-seater woodies can't invert. I still see many people being strangely worried that lapbars aren't a proper protection on inverting coasters, along with the awful Son of Beast history. Just the read the Wiki, looks like I've helped a stubborn legend of the brutal loop; sorry about that.

Silvarret. When Son of Beast opened, it had custom built trains, not PTC's (6/4 seaters). It's a misperception that coasters aren't safe with just lap bars...insurance companies and law makers made it an issue...in my opinion. Especially in sue happy USA, where I live. I love your work, keep up! I will add, I do not believe there has been a wooden coaster with PTC's that inverted.

Wow, that's a great idea Airboss, it will be a good tool for somewhat accurate visual representations. :)

COASTER BOT Coaster bot? You watch Silv? Dude I low both of halls vids

COASTER BOT hey, I know you! I would love to see you or Taylor do a pc series! Please do, that would be epic!

COASTER BOT make a series :)

YOU OWN THIS CHANNEL!!!

You're going to have to wait a few years for him to build his first coaster...

YES YES YES

he already did?

Silvarret and Jonny5 are both fun to watch since I don't have the game or a good enough video card to run it.

NEDERLAND!!!

Seggins Productions Just as soon as he gets a physics degree that is...

Many people can create really good Roller Coasters in "Planet Coaster" like Silvarret does, but that doesnt really mean that they will be able to design and lead a roller coaster project in real. Because there are a lot of more values to consider, when you are designing a roller coaster, than you are able to define and get while you are building one in "Planet Coaster". "Planet Coaster" seems indeed very complex when you are looking at it with a simplistic view, but in comparison to the requirements of the reality, it is very simple structured actually. Which doesnt mean that the game is bad. Its a really good game, but it doesnt reflect the process of designing a roller coaster in reality. Eventually only from the "appearance" perspective, but thats it.

The industry has computer programs which do all that math and physics crap for the designers. It kills me every time I am reminded that Ron Toomer didn't ride roller coasters because of his severe motion sickness. Be like a gourmet chef who only eats fast food.

Maybe, but this is just a game

Emoticons yes it would

Oh yes

I know I'm late, but the no lat gforce in NL2 is really nice. (But Planet Coaster is better.

TheRealSweedie It always made my chest hurt. Like I had the wind knocked out of me.

A friend of mine and I rode this and each had problems, his back, my headache. Son of Beast was awful, and it somewhat marred the experience of us riding Beast for the first time ever later that day.

Yeah for sure, it was definitely a ride to end the day with, lol

Then you haven't been on the steel coaster at the New York New York in Vegas. An absolute travesty of coaster creation. Uncomfortable plastic seats, For a steel coaster the turns were horribly jagged and not smooth, and at the end of it my back and neck ached. Not to mention the sleazy asking price of like $6 USD, around $12 AUD. Worst coaster I had been on next to Ninja during my theme park tour of the US.

$6?? Try 12.50 USD. I live here, that shit is priiiiiiicey. (And only 44 seconds for a ride.)

Thank you! We recorded the episode earlier today, it'll release this saturday! - stay tuned ;D

Great! Nice to hear, i can't wait ;-) best master-builder-team on planet (rudi is missing tho ^^)

Uthris ayyyyyyy

Thank you! I spent way too much time on it, I regret it now but I'm glad at least some appreciated it. Spent a long time looking for sound effects for it though, wish I had the brilliant idea of adding a school bell to it. That's great.

Always can add things in the future! Look forward for more. Do you plan on only doing coaster concepts? Or will it diverge into general park layouts? As we your students need some sort of course book maybe to read? Will there be homework? Can I have an A?

Uthris Haha I'm not sure about your later questions, but I'll do some scenery and park layout stuff too. or whatever's requested, really. Actually, yeah - your homework is coming up with whatever you have difficulties with and letting me know! :p

Thank you! Good point, I'll take that for some future tutorials. Car count should be a thing anyway for these tutorials - most coasters have their usual car count set in stone, it's very awkward to see people make e.g. floorless coasters with 3 cars a train.

Son of Beast used Gerstlauer trains which pretty much were a carbon copy of the PTC's.

Nit Picker The 6 seat trains were made by Premier, the 4 seat trains that were used after the loop was removed were Gerstlauer trains.

Thanks, I'll do that for sure. Classic wooden coasters are similar enough, but I'll definitely want to point out what makes some B&M's for instance special.

amit banai I'm probably the only one who gets that reference.

Or maybe not!

amit banai karate kid reference lol

I dont live in china, because.. reeeaaaassoooonnsss

Sorry guys, I need to wax this old mans car, I’ll be back shortly in 2025 if we aren’t dead.

RC Higgins how does one acquire a piece of Son of Beast?

HR yeah me i’m intrigued

Poop in a bucket I'm a collector so I'm really curious if I can still get that because I want it so bad

I haven't got a chance to play planet coaster but in rct3, the way around that was to tell the coaster to wait for a full load and set the min waiting time the coaster departed from the station higher so the coaster would sit in the station longer so by the time it reaches the top of the lift hill, the second coaster will reach the block section. This won't work until the ride is opened to the peeps, but it did work.

Many coasters in real life have a mid-course-brake-run, which in and of itself is a block brake. This provides a "safety net" in the middle of the track for a train to stop if there's an issue near the station. The general rule of thumb is that you want at least one more set of block brakes than there are number of trains on your track. Keep in mind, that both the station and the chain lift act as a block brake. So just by starting your coaster and building a chain lift, you've already made two block sections. But that usually isn't enough to support two coasters. If your train stops at the top of the chain lift, it's most likely because you still have a train waiting in the station. The system looks at the "block" section ahead of the top of the chain lift and sees that the very next block (the train station) is not clear. Therefore, the train won't leave the top of the chain lift until the train from the station departs. And the station train won't depart until the chain lift is clear. See what's happening? Your coasters will be forever locked in an epic limbo of infinity and you'll make headlines for your guests having the longest time spent on a roller coaster. By putting in either a mid-course-brake run (made out of block brakes, not trim brakes), and/or having a final block brake section just before the station, you are splitting up these long expanses of track into smaller "block" sections. As long as the next "block" section is clear, your train will advance through it. Many coasters can support three or more trains, as long as they have enough block sections to support it. In addition, realistic coasters need to pass an E-test. What this means is that if a coaster does have to make an emergency stop at any block brake, once released, a combination of the block brake speed and gravity can get the train all the way back to the station. This is why many mid-course-brake-runs are at an elevated height, so as to allow gravity (in the event of a complete E-stop) to still get the coaster home. Sorry for the long post, but I hope this helps.

+Strazman That was a very good explanation! :)