Twisted Timbers - Alan Schilke interview Kings Dominion 

Mitchell Ries gwazi is too deteriorated

Zonies Coasters are you sure? I've been to Bush gardens recently and I didn't see any rotten wood?

GABRIEL Sarriera yeah I'm sure and it's not something you just look at and see

Not going to happen, Floridas temperatures are too hot for wooden coasters, RMCing a closed wooden coaster wont help that one bit.

Twisted Twins at Kentucky Kingdom sat even longer than Gwazi, and they made it work. Try again.

There's no guarantee that Carowinds Hurler will be RMC'd. In fact, it may just stay for years to come. It is in better shape than Kings Dominion Hurler ever was.

ThatOneSycoKing - I feel like the soundtrack X2 really makes the ride, without that build up it’s just not the same. You can’t really hear the soundtrack on the rest of the ride, so for that it doesn’t really add much to, but the build up going up the lift (and as you start the drop) is about all you need. ❤️ X2

Ron Toomer was never #1 in my book. Even for what he did for the industry, just about every single one of his coasters he designed are garbage rides with poor transitions, cookie cutter elements and badly designed elements.

Eh... I would at least give him some credit. I mean he did pretty much invent the modern Steel roller coaster... although to be fair his rides are really poor by today's standards.

You have to start somewhere, Foam Labs! When rides such as Loch Ness Monster, Gemini, Big Bad Wolf, and the Great American Scream Machine opened, they were state-of-the-art. Nobody built rides quite as daring as they did back then. I'm going to guess that you're not old enough to remember how big of a deal they were when they opened. Trust me, Ron Toomer was basically #1 back then and nobody was complaining. That's like saying that John A. Miller isn't one of the best coaster engineers of all time. His rides don't compare to what is produced nowadays, but you cannot hold them to the same standards. Also, you're exaggerating the flaws of the old Arrow coasters. B&M has recycled plenty of elements, for example. It made them easier, quicker, and cheaper to make.

Let’s also not forget that Arrow designed in an age before computer design existed (or at least before it was any good) they reused elements because even to change a vertical loop, they would have to re-engineer it to make it any bigger, which took months; months that weren’t had with the high demand for arrow coasters (yes, they were actually in high demand, and for quite some time). I’m not saying they're without flaws, especially by today standards (at the same time though, you can’t really hold them to today’s standards) but without them, who knows what the industry would look like today. They were pinnacle helping it grow, and even did a number on shaping it (Magnum XL-200 was originally only supposed to be 185 feet instead of the now 205, which Arrow convinced Cedar point to raise it to, Who knows if we would even be at 200 feet now if it wasn’t for them). Like it or not, the coaster industry is what it is largely thanks to Arrow, and anyone that doesn’t at least appreciate their massive contribution to it doesn’t even deserve to know the joy of riding coasters. ACE made a documentary on Arrow and their history/contributions, it'd do you good to give that a watch.

@@SonicAndShadowFTW because of the technology of the time.

Theme Park Lost164 ur a bot

Well, just cause he designs coasters doesn’t mean he’s a coaster enthusiast (verbiage wise) in a video I was just watching he also said *the* colossus and *the* cyclone. I love the guy, but it still hurts 😩

yeah you're right at the end of the day if you're the one building these things, you're an honorary highly ranked coaster enthusiast no matter what you say lol