Dave
TS Founding Member
So I was pondering this very topic and thought it might be interesting to consider the reasons why a company may be your favourite manufacturer.
So here's mine...
Gerstleaur
I know in theory all geeks should say B&M, and sure they built lots of coasters in my top list (and Gerstleaur have built one). I'm sure that if you asked me 8 years ago old B&M would have been my answer but recently they just seem so stale and safe.
Intamin have more top 50 coasters (according to Mitch hawker polls) than any coaster, but I always feel that they have great sources for track layout but their material quality seems fairly crap, but to be fair they do innovate.
For me what makes me interested in Gerstleaur is they seem to have some of intamins innovation but their product is more solid. I know UK geeks struggle with this concept due primarily to Saw and now to some extent Smiler, but I genuinely think both those coasters have dodgy ground work to add to their cause. Speed is great fun, and many of their foreign coasters have epic reviews.
Also their family coasters are solid rides, everyone bums Mack youngstars but they tend to be on the RMT scale and not the beastie scale. The only other manufacturer to aim at the child level is Vekoma and its off-the-shelf. Gersts family coaster offers something no other manufacturer does.
Also it's probably one of the youngest manufacturers out there, I just think "give these guys 10 years".
So what's your favourite and why?
So here's mine...
Gerstleaur
I know in theory all geeks should say B&M, and sure they built lots of coasters in my top list (and Gerstleaur have built one). I'm sure that if you asked me 8 years ago old B&M would have been my answer but recently they just seem so stale and safe.
Intamin have more top 50 coasters (according to Mitch hawker polls) than any coaster, but I always feel that they have great sources for track layout but their material quality seems fairly crap, but to be fair they do innovate.
For me what makes me interested in Gerstleaur is they seem to have some of intamins innovation but their product is more solid. I know UK geeks struggle with this concept due primarily to Saw and now to some extent Smiler, but I genuinely think both those coasters have dodgy ground work to add to their cause. Speed is great fun, and many of their foreign coasters have epic reviews.
Also their family coasters are solid rides, everyone bums Mack youngstars but they tend to be on the RMT scale and not the beastie scale. The only other manufacturer to aim at the child level is Vekoma and its off-the-shelf. Gersts family coaster offers something no other manufacturer does.
Also it's probably one of the youngest manufacturers out there, I just think "give these guys 10 years".
So what's your favourite and why?