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[Trcoaster]

Working with B&M coasters (or any steel coasters) are kinda hard. The RCT versions can't do half the things real world steel coasters can do.

Superman is built in an akward triangle shape, it can't be reproduced in RCT 2 without it looking funny or too off. Just my opinion, by the way.

I haven't got to look at the Comet recreation yet, but it looks great from the screen shot.

[Steve Franks]

Superman and AIR are noted on my list of suggestions. TRcoaster is right though. So many really neat coasters are not workable in RCT. Those crazy diagonals greater or less than 45 degrees can easily kill off a great project.

I think I did a fairly good job in recreating B&M's Raptor and Top Gun, but when studying the video of a B&M ride, they are so smooth and so graceful in their transitions, it only causes me to shake my head in admiration.

[Turbo]

Wow, three coasters in one pack Steve! You've excelled yourself.

[tpa5]

Another great Track Pack Steve. You never cease to amaze me for I have tried numerous times to re-create a coaster without much success. But then I don't have the resources (or know how to get them) to research them like you do. As always I love your highly detailed park and coaster history and have added them to my notebook (by the way, I'm going to have to get a bigger notebook -- and I couldn't be happier!). This notebook is more valuable to me than all the coaster books I've bought. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! I really appreciate all the time and effort you put in to making your re-creations. I KNOW it's a lot of hard work. THANKS AGAIN!

[Steve Franks]

Tpa5 has the right idea.

If you print out all the doc files from each coaster (52 so far), along with a preview screenshot, and place it all into a looseleaf, it will create a very informative and interesting book on roller coasters. I have 40 more old packs to go.

And thanks for the kind words about the pack and its contents. The thrust of my packs are to educate, entertain and provide a genuinely worthwhile recreation.

[Steve Franks]

Wow, three coasters in one pack Steve! You've excelled yourself.

It was my original intention to just do Comet at Crystal Beach, but there was so much information on the coaster from its present sojourn at Great Escape that I decided to create the coaster sporting both stations.

Once my blood was up I went back to research the Giant. That led me to locating its original layout. Now I was hot to go on and stumbled onto a partial shot of the Beach's old wooden mouse that led to much additional research to get the track correct. (Old Wild Mouse rides hold great fascination for me.) By this time, I'd have cut off my little toe to get enough data to actually pull off recreating Backety Back Railway! It was one of the most unique coasters of its day.

[Woodpecker]

I've been impressed at what you have done with the Crystal Beach Cyclone and other Traver coasters, especially when I rode them in RCT3! What about the Riverview Bobs? I've yet to find an RCT recreation on the Internet, and I hear it was one of the best coasters ever built, yet pictures are few and far between. That is, unless you have the book Harry G. Traver: Legends of Terror, which I do not.

Harold.

P.S. How do you dump tracks on the site like you have with your track packs? I've got a few cracking coasters (one of which is fast, tight, intense and very popular) and it would be interesting to see what people post about them.

[Mkyslpknt]

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