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Zamperla Disk-O not a coaster?

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Someone explain to be why this isn't classified as a roller coaster! It's basically the same design as an Intamin Half-Pipe, and that counts as a roller coaster. Just wondering.
 
It's also literally the same design as a Rockin Tug, but extended, and that's nowhere near a coaster.

I guess you could say it's a matter of perspective, but I'm not sure that's the phrase I'm looking for. Half-pipes and Disk'Os are pretty much the borderline of coaster/flat-ride, with half-pipes barely considered a coaster, and Disk'Os barely considered a flat ride.
 
They're really not the same as half pipes at all.

Half pipes are launched from the bottom and then actually coast up and down the spikes. They're pretty similar to impulse coasters really.

Discos are powered, slowly, all along the course.

If you count impulse coasters and those reverse freefall things as coasters (they clearly are), then you have to really include half pipes.

Discos on the other hand? Just no.
 
The difference with diskos is that they use a tyre on the underside of the car to propell itself along the whole time, but halfpipes use LSMs and actually coast under their own momentum.
 
Cannot be a roller coaster if it doesn't coast.
 
gavin said:
They're really not the same as half pipes at all.

Half pipes are launched from the bottom and then actually coast up and down the spikes. They're pretty similar to impulse coasters really.

Discos are powered, slowly, all along the course.

If you count impulse coasters and those reverse freefall things as coasters (they clearly are), then you have to really include half pipes.

Discos on the other hand? Just no.
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Even if they're powered, they can still be consdiered coasters e.g. flying fish at Thorpe Park, and nonetheless if you go on the Zamperla website they are classified under roller coasters.
 
BenSullivan said:
gavin said:
They're really not the same as half pipes at all.

Half pipes are launched from the bottom and then actually coast up and down the spikes. They're pretty similar to impulse coasters really.

Discos are powered, slowly, all along the course.

If you count impulse coasters and those reverse freefall things as coasters (they clearly are), then you have to really include half pipes.

Discos on the other hand? Just no.
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Even if they're powered, they can still be consdiered coasters e.g. flying fish at Thorpe Park, and nonetheless if you go on the Zamperla website they are classified under roller coasters.
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Yes, but Rockin' Tugs and Discoveries are very similar rides that are also powered along the entire course. If you count the Disk'O as a roller coaster, then you have to count those, which no one does.
 
insanecoastervids said:
No it is not because it is way too small and the vehicles are weird.
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Size and vehicle type are both irrelevant (unless it is fairly obvious that it isn't a coaster. e.g. a KMG Afterburner) when deciding whether something is a cred or not.

1: Does it coaster? If it does then there is a high chance it's a cred, I count the snails at Joy Land as a cred because they totally coaster.

2: What does the manufacture say? No that isn't a parody of The Fox song, if it is listed as a coaster then there is a high chance it is one.
3: It appears on RCDB/Coastercounter

If the case of these they are listed as coasters on the website (http://www.zamperla.com/en/zamperla-det ... ko_coaster) but I don't know anyone who counts them as one. I'm not convinced that they coast and they don't appear on the sites listed in point 3.
Thats how I decided anyway.
 
insanecoastervids said:
No it is not because it is way too small and the vehicles are weird.
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So then Zamperla Gravity Coasters (13 feet tall) and B&M Dive Machines (some of the weirdest vehicles I've ever seen) don't count as coasters because of those reasons?

No, it's just the matter of it doesn't coast and is powered by a drive tire on the underside of the train.
 
If they were to appear on Coaster-Count or RCDB I would happily count them, people have counted a lot worse as creds.
 
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