Toledo Blade Article

Well one thing is for sure, everyone on this site WOULD be calling it a coaster...

List of people who call S:TE a coaster: ACE, Guiness, most coaster enthusiests.

List of people who don't call S:TE a coaster:  CP fans.

Just because S:TE is taller, doesn't mean it is better, if that's what you're worried about.  Millennium Force is 100X better of a coaster than S:TE is, this coming from a SFMM home-parker.

I don't think it's fair to say that CP fans don't call Superman a coaster. Look at this thread... there aren't many that don't. Most of us could care less, especially considering that we don't generally get out to SoCal very often.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

I could care less as well, my deal is just we need a real definition of a coaster ya know?  I probably will never get to MM anyway so what diff does it make.  My whole point was that if S:TE is a coaster 1st gen freefalls should be coasters as well wghich we all know would make no difference in the coaster wars anyway because both CP and MM have one.  Like I said up above its all semantics and opinion.

My take on it is this...

 

Who cares? (Well, other than you guys! ;))I don't loose sleep over it... I don't wake up screaming "Oh my God! There are more coasters at Six Flags!!!!!" I'm not that fanatical.

 

There are little qwerks about almost every coaster that could allow debate wether it is or is not a coaster if I were to go by your arguments... I'm not saying you guys shouldn't debate it, I'm just saying that for me, it's not really worth the time or energy to do it...

It's the off season what else do we have to do? ;)

From Webster's New World College Dictionary 3rd Edition:

roller coaster an amusement ride in which small, open cars move on tracks that dip and curve sharply

I think that gives some clarification. But then again who desides what counts as a dip or curve? The going up on Superman could be called curve.