Jarrett
Most Obnoxious Member 2016
Which coaster do you believe best represents the decade it was built in or around? Like, you look at the coaster for what it is, how it's themed, the building style of its infrastructure, and think, "that's the most [decade] coaster ever." Which coaster invokes that reaction for its particular decade?
1970's: SooperDooperLooper- Ah, a classic 70's Schwarzkopf. The truss-style loop support, retro station, gross and yet still fab name, and the ride's logo probably make this the most seventies coaster ever.
1980's: Magnum XL-200- Who doesn't love the best Arrow ever made? The cheesy futuristic trains, station, digital alarm clock font on the concrete photo booth, shaky Arrow goodness, and scaffold supports are so eighties it isn't even funny. Not to mention that beach with the coaster, hotel, and Soak City in the background looks like the perfect place to shoot a scene for a bad high school flick.
1990's: Flight of Fear- Pretty sure the entirety of this ride was designed using Windows NT. That cheesy queue line video, the bad Independence Day ripoff theming, the dusty old equipment featuring tons of cathode tube screens in the queue (fun fact: one of which is an old Paramount-era season pass scanner), all leading up to a nineties LIM launch (possibly one of the biggest coaster innovations of that time period).
2000's: Millennium Force- This was the most 2000's coaster ever before it was even built simply because of the horridly crude 3D announcement video. The cheesy sci-fi station (echoing the same thing going on across the peninsula but two decades later), the station music, the DJ booth in the queue, it's easily the best representative of the past decade. Not to mention it was a key part of Intamin's rise to power that lasted over pretty much the entire decade, with them being arguably the best manufacturer of coasters during those ten years.
2010's: Full Throttle- Ah, the **** bag themed coaster at Six Flags Tragic Mountain. While I think the best representative for our current time period would probably be an RMC or a wing coaster, this was a pioneer in volley launching coasters which has gone into use in both Premier Sky Rocket II models and launched El Locos like Gale Force. But the thing that secures this coaster's spot is that it's simply themed to the idiotic stuff kids these days are into. The brash, bold, obnoxious, **** measuring contest-esque dubstep and lights ride plaza should be your first warning, but you see the giant jumbo-tron of people doing dangerous things, YOLO announcement video, satin chrome trains, and unnecessary "don't sue me if your fat arse falls out" seatbelts have probably secured this coaster as the best representative of the 2010's. Luckily, even though kids these days are apparently "2 legit 2 quit," this kind of idiotic behavior seems to be less common anymore, so an RMC that represents the times better could come along and take this away from this amazing yet tacky Premier.
1970's: SooperDooperLooper- Ah, a classic 70's Schwarzkopf. The truss-style loop support, retro station, gross and yet still fab name, and the ride's logo probably make this the most seventies coaster ever.
1980's: Magnum XL-200- Who doesn't love the best Arrow ever made? The cheesy futuristic trains, station, digital alarm clock font on the concrete photo booth, shaky Arrow goodness, and scaffold supports are so eighties it isn't even funny. Not to mention that beach with the coaster, hotel, and Soak City in the background looks like the perfect place to shoot a scene for a bad high school flick.
1990's: Flight of Fear- Pretty sure the entirety of this ride was designed using Windows NT. That cheesy queue line video, the bad Independence Day ripoff theming, the dusty old equipment featuring tons of cathode tube screens in the queue (fun fact: one of which is an old Paramount-era season pass scanner), all leading up to a nineties LIM launch (possibly one of the biggest coaster innovations of that time period).
2000's: Millennium Force- This was the most 2000's coaster ever before it was even built simply because of the horridly crude 3D announcement video. The cheesy sci-fi station (echoing the same thing going on across the peninsula but two decades later), the station music, the DJ booth in the queue, it's easily the best representative of the past decade. Not to mention it was a key part of Intamin's rise to power that lasted over pretty much the entire decade, with them being arguably the best manufacturer of coasters during those ten years.
2010's: Full Throttle- Ah, the **** bag themed coaster at Six Flags Tragic Mountain. While I think the best representative for our current time period would probably be an RMC or a wing coaster, this was a pioneer in volley launching coasters which has gone into use in both Premier Sky Rocket II models and launched El Locos like Gale Force. But the thing that secures this coaster's spot is that it's simply themed to the idiotic stuff kids these days are into. The brash, bold, obnoxious, **** measuring contest-esque dubstep and lights ride plaza should be your first warning, but you see the giant jumbo-tron of people doing dangerous things, YOLO announcement video, satin chrome trains, and unnecessary "don't sue me if your fat arse falls out" seatbelts have probably secured this coaster as the best representative of the 2010's. Luckily, even though kids these days are apparently "2 legit 2 quit," this kind of idiotic behavior seems to be less common anymore, so an RMC that represents the times better could come along and take this away from this amazing yet tacky Premier.
