Why there's no Vertical Loop for Wooden Coasters? We had it on Son of Beast and it shouldn't be excluded. It's part of the recent roller coaster history!
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You actually can build one if you disable track limits, but it won't have a spine unless you custom build it.
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Let's be honest Son of beast as a whole was a costly failure for kings Island and a loop isn't typically something you see on wooden coasters. In fact son of beast had to have its loop removed because it wouldn't work properly. However if we could do it in planet coaster 2 and make it rideable that would be incredible
The loop was removed because they changed the trains and the new ones wouldn't be able to make the full circuit if the loop stayed. I rode it both with original trains and the loop and the new trains without the loop. The former was a much better ride experience for me with the loop and hated that they altered it after an incident. It was still a fairly rough ride after the change as the second incident that ended up dooming the coaster proves, but wooden coasters are inherently rough. I personally never had any issues with all the times I rode it and I do miss the experience it gave but things change. Still, Son of Beast shows a wooden hyper coaster could operate and I would love to be able to create something similar in PlanCo 2.
I think you can make a wooden hyper but if it's going to have a loop is has to be custom I guess
No, that's not the story, the loop wasn't removed because it wouldn't work properly. It worked fine since the opening in 2000.
First there was the support crack accident because the trains were too heavy (and wooden of poor quality), then they changed to lighter trains. After that, the new trains couldn't complete the loop because they were too light, so they removed the loop. Even with new lighter trains couldn't handle the coaster roughness (which continued to injure passengers). So, they decide to demolish the coaster.
Either way it was definitely a sad end to an iconic coaster that a lot of people didn't get to experience