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Tanks4me
Eine Liebe, Zwei Pistolen
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 Posted - 07/13/2010 : 10:14:49 PM
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This might actually be very useful for all of those people that are new to coasters. It's a one stop shop for all terminologies, acronyms, inside jokes, coaster companies, coaster types, elements, coaster construction, and coaster designers. I'm finishing up C right now.
If anyone has any ideas for A, B, and C that I haven't yet thought of, could you please give suggestions?
For inside jokes and acronyms, there will be separate sections in the back reserved for those.
A:
Acceleration G's
Accelerator (also known as "Rocket Coaster")
ACE Coaster Classic
ACE Roller Coaster Landmark
Airtime
Arrow Dynamics
American Coaster Enthusiasts
Anton Schwarzkopf
B:
Banking
Batter Brace
Bent
Bent Post
Batwing
Bolliger and Mabillard
Boomerang
Brake Run
Butterfly Loop
C:
Caripro
Cedar Fair
Cobra Roll
Corkscrew
Cord
Cross Brace
Cross Tie
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"Life is like a roller coaster. You have your ups and downs, you feel out of control, but I will take the pencil and protractor to orchestrate my own journey." - Myself
PS: I took the picture that's currently in my avatar. |
Edited by - Tanks4me on 07/13/2010 10:24:14 PM
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Jcoasters
I'm a banana....
216 Posts
USA
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Posted - 07/13/2010 : 10:39:05 PM
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A: awesome
B: brake run
That's all I have for now :/ |
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Phil
Site admin
3600 Posts
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Posted - 07/13/2010 : 10:48:16 PM
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Phil Nguyen | CoasterFuel Administrator
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Xepher_24
Regular Member
94 Posts
Philippines
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Posted - 07/16/2010 : 03:35:26 AM
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Trackwalker
Regular Member
51 Posts
USA
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Posted - 07/16/2010 : 10:46:38 PM
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Attendant = A person who helps with the loading of the train, checks lap bars, helps with lost articles, a person who helps the operator. etc.
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Xepher_24
Regular Member
94 Posts
Philippines
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Posted - 07/17/2010 : 08:17:44 AM
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A - Anti-rollback device - A long device which consists of hook-like elements that run along the track of the lift hill that prevents the train from rlling back into the station if in case the chain breaks.
- Responsible for the "click-clack" sound that the train makes in the lift hill.
C - Cutback - The primitive version of the overbanked turn
- an inversion similar to a corkscrew but exits in the same direction it entered.
- Chain - It pulls the train at to the top of the lift hill. |
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Tanks4me
Eine Liebe, Zwei Pistolen
1775 Posts
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Posted - 07/26/2010 : 4:18:14 PM
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This is my current list so far:
A:
-ABC Rides
-Acceleration G's
-Accelerator
-ACE Coaster Classic
-ACE Roller Coaster Landmark
-Air Gate
-Airtime
-Alan Herschell Company
-American Coaster Enthusiasts
-Angle of Descent
-Anti-Rollback Device
-Anton Schwarzkopf
-Arrow Dynamics
B:
-Banking
-Batter Brace
-Batwing
-Bench: The Ride
-Bench Seat
-Bent
-Bent Post
-Bill Cobb
-Block
-Block Section
-Bobsled Coaster
-Bogey
-Bolliger & Mabillard
-Boomerang
-Bowtie
-Bradley and Kaye
-Brake Fin
-Brake Run
-Brakeman
-Bunny Hop
-Butterfly Loop
C:[/c]
-Cable Lift
-Caliper
-Camel Toe
-Camelback
-Catch Car
-Car
-Caripro
-Cedar Fair
-Chance/Morgan, Inc.
-Charlie Dinn
-Claude Mabillard
-Clothoid Loop
-Coaster Works, Inc.
-Cobra Roll
-Corkscrew
-Cord
-Credit
-Credit Count
-Credit Whore
-Cross Brace
-Cross Tie
-Crossover
-Custom Coasters International
-Cutback
D:
-Denise Dinn-Larrick
-Dennis McNulty
-**** Kinzel
-Dinn Corporation
-Dive Loop
-Dive Machine
-Double Dip
-Double Looper
-Double Out and Back
-Double Up
-Dueling Coaster
E:
-E&F Miler Industries
-Ejector Airtime
-Electromagnet
-Element
-Elevated Curve
-Elevator Lift
-Eli Bridge Company
-Emergency Stop
-Enclosed Coaster
-Enthusiast
-Euro Fighter
-European Coaster Club
-Eyerly Aircraft Company
F:
-Fabbri Group
-Fajume
-Family Coaster
-Fan Turn
-Fin Brake
-Flat Ride
-Flat Spin
-Floater Airtime
-Flyby
-Flying Coaster
-Flying Dutchman
-Flying Snake Dive
-Flywheel Launch
G:
-G-Forces
-General Public
-Gerstlauer Amusement Rides GmbH
-Giga Coaster
-Giovanola
-Golden Horse
-Gravity Group
-Great Coasters International
[b]H:
-Hairtime
-Harry C. Baker
-Harry G. Traver
-Heartline
-Heartline Roll
-Helix
-Hybrid Coaster
-Hydraulic Launch
-Hybrid Coaster
I am done with A - F. I am accepting anything from G - K at this time. I will accept anything except for specific roller coasters (too numerous to bother), specific amusement parks (same reason), and deliberately slanderous jokes (I'm trying to keep this professional.) If the numbers stay consistent, it looks like I'll probably get to 300 - 400 definitions by the time I finish Z.
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"Life is like a roller coaster. You have your ups and downs, you feel out of control, but I will take the pencil and protractor to orchestrate my own journey." - Myself
PS: I took the picture that's currently in my avatar. |
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Jcoasters
I'm a banana....
216 Posts
USA
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Posted - 07/26/2010 : 5:30:35 PM
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Companies:
- Golden Horse
- Hopkins
- Ikeda Works
- Ing,-Buro Stengal
- Intamin AG (make sure to put the fact that Intamin stands for International Amusemant Industries)
- International Amusemant Devices, Inc.
- International Coasters, Inc.
- KumbaK "The Amusemant Engineers"
Statuses:
- In operation
- In storage
Category:
- Brakeman
- Dual station
- Enclosed
- Family
- Floorless
- Hybrid (steel structure)
- Hybrid (wooden structure)
- Indoor
- Kiddie
- Fourth Demention
- Flying
- Inverted
- Bobsled
Propaltion:
- Commutator
- Compressed Air Launch
- Electric Spiral Lift
- Elevator Lift
- Flywheel Launch
- Hot rail
- Hydraulic Lauch
Layout:
- Big Apple/Wacky Worm
- Cyclone
- Double Figure Eight
- Double out and back
- Figure Eight
- Jungle Mouse
Element:
- Batwing
- Bent Cuban Eight
- Block Break
- Bowtie
- Cutback
- Cuban Eight
- Diving Turn
- Double Corkscrew
- Double Down/Double Dip
- Double Up
- Double Heartline Roll
- Double In-Line Twist
- Flying Snake Dive
- Heartline Roll
- Helix
- Hill
- Horshew
- Immelmann
- Inclined Dive loop
- Inclined Loop/Oblique Loop
- In-Line Twist
- Inside Raven Turn
- Interlocking Corkscrews
Restraint:
- Headrest
- Individual Hydraulic Lap Bar
- Individual Ratcheting Lap Bar
Person:
- Adolph Heinrich
- Andy Vettel
- Bill Davis
- Charlie Dinn
- Clair Hain
- Curtis D. Summers
- Dennis McNulty
- Don Rosser
- Harry C. Baker
- Harry G. Traver
- John A. Miller
- John C. Allen
- Herbert Paul Shmeck
- John Pierce
Oh, and Tanks. I know that a lot of these are from earlier latters, but before you finish your Glossary, be sure to put those in
- Jimmy
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Jcoasters
I'm a banana....
216 Posts
USA
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Posted - 07/26/2010 : 5:35:56 PM
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Oh, and Tanks:
-Camel Toe (origianaly posted by Tanksforme)
Umm....... Are you sure your talking about coasters?!? XD |
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Tanks4me
Eine Liebe, Zwei Pistolen
1775 Posts
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Posted - 07/26/2010 : 6:57:47 PM
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It's an inside joke on themeparkreview... They take pictures of camel toes (real ones) and say "Camel toe".
Also, please look at my list... about half of the ones you suggested are already in there. |
"Life is like a roller coaster. You have your ups and downs, you feel out of control, but I will take the pencil and protractor to orchestrate my own journey." - Myself
PS: I took the picture that's currently in my avatar. |
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Jcoasters
I'm a banana....
216 Posts
USA
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Posted - 07/26/2010 : 8:05:05 PM
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yeah, sorry about that tanks.
So, in parks TPR forces women to show her parts, then takes pictures, then says Camel Toe out loud??? XD |
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Tanks4me
Eine Liebe, Zwei Pistolen
1775 Posts
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Posted - 07/26/2010 : 8:12:05 PM
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"Life is like a roller coaster. You have your ups and downs, you feel out of control, but I will take the pencil and protractor to orchestrate my own journey." - Myself
PS: I took the picture that's currently in my avatar. |
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Brandon4579
CTFxC Army Member # 27430
1242 Posts
USA
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Posted - 07/26/2010 : 11:32:27 PM
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F:
- Fan Curve - A turn on a wooden coaster designed with a sweeping curve from the entrance to the exit of the turn. Fan curves are usually used to describe a change of direction of less than 90-degrees and turn is used to describe a change of direction of 90-degrees or more
- Fixed Lapbar - A restraint on a coaster train that a rider sits under that locks in a designated position and does not adjust.
- Floorless coaster - A coaster without a floor (duh)
- Flywheel Launch
- Flying Turns - The original term used to describe a bobsled roller coaster. Flying Turns was a wooden coaster with a trough that a train descended in. There is no track so the train is free to move within the U-shaped trough.
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- Guide Wheels - These are a set of wheels that guides the train in turns and prevents the train from falling off the rail or track. Guide wheels are attached to the underside of the car or train and run along the inside or outside of the track.
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- Headrest - Headrests are a part of the design of a coaster seat. This device is added to some coasters for rider safety to prevent whiplash.
- Hypercoaster - A term used to describe a steel roller coaster designed for speed and airtime. Hypercoasters have large drops for speed, have no inversions and have plenty of camelbacks, bunny hops or speed bumps for airtime.
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- Immelman - A term used by Bolliger and Mabillard to describe their Diving Loop on inverted roller coasters. This element was named for an airplane manuever invented by a German pilot in World War II.
- Incline Loop - A term used by Bolliger and Mabillard used to describe a vertical loop which is angled at an elevation of sharply less than 90-degrees.
- Individual Lapbar - A restraint designed for an individual rider. The lapbar restraint will lock into position directly across the riders lap, securing the rider for the duration of the ride.
- Indoor Roller Coaster - An indoor roller coaster operates inside a building, such as an indoor amusement park, mall or other venue.
- nversion - A term used to describe any portion of a roller coaster track that turns the riders upside down.
- Inverted Roller Coaster - A roller coaster with trains suspended beneath the track above. The first Inverted Roller Coaster was Batman The Ride at Six Flags Great America (1992) and designed by Bolliger and Mabillard. Vekoma followed with its version of the Inverted Roller Coaster, but instead calls it a Suspended Looping Coaster.
- Interlocking Loops - Two vertical loops that are interlocked or are connected like links on a chain. The Lochness Monster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg was the first roller coaster to feature Interlocking Loops.
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- Jet Star - A production-model steel roller coaster with a twister layout designed by Anton Schwarzkopf. There are several variations of this type of Schwarzkopf coaster, which are called Jet Star, Jet Star II, and Jumbo Jet.
- Junior Coaster - A term also used to describe a kiddie coaster or a simple roller coaster designed especially for children.
P.S. Hybrid coaster is in there twice. |
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Tanks4me
Eine Liebe, Zwei Pistolen
1775 Posts
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Posted - 07/30/2010 : 1:51:44 PM
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"Life is like a roller coaster. You have your ups and downs, you feel out of control, but I will take the pencil and protractor to orchestrate my own journey." - Myself
PS: I took the picture that's currently in my avatar. |
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Tanks4me
Eine Liebe, Zwei Pistolen
1775 Posts
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Posted - 08/01/2010 : 12:34:22 PM
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The list is finished! (However, I'm not done actually writing the definitions. I'm over half done with that.)
There's even a section dedicated to acronyms commonly used, and I will eventually put in a guide on how to identify each company's roller coasters.
However, I'm also putting in a section that has a list of websites. So far, I only have the following:
amusementgraffixintl.com/forums
coasterfuel.com
coastercrazy.com
coasterforce.com
coastersandmore.de
rcdb.com
ridesdb.com
thrillnetwork.com
themeparkreview.com
theparks.it
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"Life is like a roller coaster. You have your ups and downs, you feel out of control, but I will take the pencil and protractor to orchestrate my own journey." - Myself
PS: I took the picture that's currently in my avatar. |
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Brandon4579
CTFxC Army Member # 27430
1242 Posts
USA
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Posted - 08/01/2010 : 6:35:57 PM
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L:
-Lapbar - A type of restraint that secures the rider by placing a bar across the passengers lap. Lapbars are the most common form of restraint used on amusement park rides. A Lapbar restraint can be designed to secure an individual rider or multiple riders.
-Lateral G's - Forces experienced on a roller coaster that pull your body to the side of the car. The lateral forces are found in flat turns, and on some helix turns. The less banking in the turn the more intense the lateral forces will be.
-Lifthill - The section of the coaster that contains some device or mechanism that pulls or pushes the roller coaster train up a hill. The majority of lifthills uses a chain connected to a motor that pulls the train to the top. Some roller coasters contain multiple lifthills and the lifthill may be midcourse or at the end of the circuit.
-LIM or Linear Induction Motor - A magnetic motor commonly used to launch a roller coaster train along or up a section of steel track. LSM or Linear Synchronous Motors are the same idea, but the technology used to propel the train is different.
-Looping Corkscrew - A type of roller coaster that features a vertical loop and a corkscrew.
-LSM or Linear Synchronous Motor - A method used to launch or accelerate a roller coaster train along a straight section of track of hill. This technology used magnetic electrical waves to attract and repel magnets mounted on the underside of the train.
-Loading Platform - The part of the station where the riders board the roller coaster train.
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-Manual Brake - A hand operated brake requiring a human to operate that slows or stops a roller coaster train. Many classic wooden roller coasters have manual brake systems, but in recent years they're becoming rare as parks replace the manual brakes with computerized brake systems.
-Mine Train - A genre of early steel roller coasters with a layout that features fast, quick turns, drops and helix turns. Many are themed after a runaway mine train.
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-Negative G's - Negative G's generate airtime or the sensation of floating while on a roller coaster. Negative G's are usually found on a roller coaster at the top of a hill when the riders body is accelerated upwards.
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-Out and Back - A term used to describe a type of layout on a roller coaster. An out and back roller coaster layout is where the train leaves the station and heads out to a point where there is a turnaround to send the train back to the station. Sometimes variations can be found like an L-layout out and back where the turnaround is not the only curve in the roller coaster. Some out and back coasters like Shivering Timbers at Michigan's Adventure will have a helix at the end of the layout, but still maintain a correct out and back layout.
-Oval Track - A roller coaster track layout that forms an oval shape, which is a very common layout for junior roller coasters.
-Over-The-Shoulder Restraint (OTSR) - A device that goes over the riders shoulders to restrain and protect them while riding a roller coaster. Most looping roller coasters like Viper at Six Flags Magic Mountain have over-the-shoulder restraints.
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-Partially Enclosed - A roller coaster where only a portion of the track is within an enclosed structure or building.
-Point of View (POV) - The roller coaster experience as seen from the rider's point of view. This term is often used with video footage or animations to describe the type of footage. POV footage is taken on the ride, generally in the first or last rows and shows the what the rider experience is like on the ride.
-Positive G's - Gravitational forces that pull you downward that are often found in inversions, highly-banked, high speed turns and at the bottom of hills. Positive G-forces are when the gravitational force exceeds 1 G giving you the sensation of feeling heavier than you actually are. |
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