adsyrah said:
Dagan said:
LordOfDarkness said:
In the video attached to the metro news article it is described as being 'World First'...
To be fair, I feel Towers have diluted the phrase "Worlds First" these days to pretty just mean stuff like "The worlds first ride to be placed on the site of a ride called the Black Hole"
It's just a nice buzz phrase to use in marketing that doesn't really have to mean much, but sounds great.
What makes you say that? I don't think they've banded the phrase "world first" around when they've not meant it. Air was maybe a bit of a stretch as there was already a flying coaster built, but Oblivion and Thirteen were very much world firsts.
Oblivion was the first use of the phrase, and rightly so. It feels that the phrase worked as a marketing phrase they decided to use it as much as they can.
Okay, so the phrase has technically only been used to promote 4 products.
Oblivion - Okay, I'll give you that one. It was very much a first.
Air - Was the "worlds first" by a specific manufacturer, but for the general public with no knowledge of rides outside of the UK, it was used to make them think it was the first ride like this ever.
Th13teen - Yes it did feature the worlds first piece of track that dropped. And yes, I agree it was a technical marvel. But I felt they overused the "Worlds First" phrase and had included the element purely so they could use those buzz words in marketing.
The Smiler - Well, we shall see. This ride might shoot me down. I personally feel there won't be any special track elements, but rather will just have a few more inversions that were hidden from the plan. So it will be the WORLDS FIRST ride with X amount of inversions.
But we shall see. I truely feel that Oblvion was the only true Worlds First and the other uses of the saying were just marketing buzz.
Maybe it's because the whole 13 marketing left a sour taste with all of us.
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