Since a lot of people are calling Avatar a coaster, and a lot of people feel differently, I figured we'd take it to a vote.

Yes, I say it is because it runs on a track and correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe it uses the power to get started but afterwards it just coasts.

I figure if we count launched coasters, than why not count the DiskO. Basically the same principal. A ride like Blazing Furry at Dollywood is even considered a coaster and it moves for the majority of the time by traction wheels.

The ride is powered the whole time I believe, hence why diskos lost their coaster status on rcdb. Avatar: not a coaster but great none the less.

Yes, I agree. Since they are powered the entire time, they are not roller coasters in the true sence. While the ride is assisted by gravity some, the traction wheel still is powering the ride for the entire cycle.

Thanks for clearing that up guys, I didn't know if it was powered the whole time or not.

IT would have to be coaster even though it doesn't complete a full circuit and it has a track AND Face/Off doesnt make a full circuit but it's still a coaster soooo....

^If you read the before posts, it has been mentioned that the ride is powered by electricity along its track not gravity. According to rcdb this is not listed as a coaster, nor are any diskos. If a disko is considered a coaster, then Lazytownsporticopters can be considered a coaster. However, they are not. Avatar is a fun thrill ride similar to a coaster but not a coaster.

Funny, I voted yes, and then read the replies. Obviously, this is not a coaster since it never "coasts".

Avatar is an amazing ride - but it is a powered tracked flat ride.

Face/Off is a coaster because it uses power to give it gravitational potential - but that potential is released while it COASTS. In my definition a tracked ride that uses power only to reach a maximum height from where it coasts under the power of gravity - is a roller coaster.

If you think about it all coasters are doing is taking the long route in falling from the top of the lift back to the station. Its like in Toy Story - "falling with style".

Sure it is a coaster it runs a track, who cares how it runs or when power is used, I think it is a coaster because it changes speeds and has thrilling drops and dips. The sky tours maintains the same speed and just isn't thrilling, maybe others don't count is as a coaster, thats fine, but in my book it is a coaster

Sure it is a coaster it runs a track, who cares how it runs or when power is used, I think it is a coaster because it changes speeds and has thrilling drops and dips. The sky tours maintains the same speed and just isn't thrilling, maybe others don't count is as a coaster, thats fine, but in my book it is a coaster

So, do you consider log flumes coasters?

How about turnpike rides that go up and down hills?

--The Interpeter, stirring the pot

Sure it is a coaster it runs a track, who cares how it runs or when power is used, I think it is a coaster because it changes speeds and has thrilling drops and dips.  The sky tours maintains the same speed and just isn't thrilling, maybe others don't count is as a coaster, thats fine, but in my book it is a coaster

By following the deifiniton of what a "roller coaster" is, you will find that avatar is in fact not a coaster but a powered flat ride. If you consider it a coaster by your own definition I assume you follow your own self published dictionary. That is why you work in games, not the rides department.

So by your defination Scooby Doo and the haunted castle is an indoor roller coaster.

Avatar is as much a roller coaster as Viking Fury is.

Klockster, according to this guy, anything can qualify a rollercoaster, so do I get credit for using a tred mill or each time a drive a differnt car?

Apparently. You know Congo Falls counts too.

And truthfully - Drop Zone really is more of a coaster than Avatar is. In fact Drop Zone and Face/Off are about equally coasteresque. Why is Drop Zone not a coaster and Face/Off is? Just a judegement call.

If you told me Drop Zone was a coaster - I would be like - ok I give you that. But Avatar most definately is not a coaster...

If Avatar is a coaster, why isn't Lassie?

--The Interpreter, somewhat seriously

Come on now interperter, scotish slang and famous tv animals cant be rollercoasters, geeze.

Come on now interperter, scotish slang and famous tv animals cant be rollercoasters, geeze.

Even if it's Snoopy?

Are you trying to say that Avatar is a highlander?

Well, it IS mounted on land and it does go somewhat high!

Seriously,

Avatar has a lot coaster features and a lot of dark ride features. Honestly its a judgement call. True Websters definition it is not a coaster, but it is pretty darn fun. So give yourself a halfa coaster ride everytime you ride it.

That is why you work in games, not the rides department.

Woo there buddy don't start bashing the games department, call me stupid for my definition of a coaster that is your opinion I don't care

But games department requires a bunch of people and business skills, sure on the guests side it looks like and easy job, but get on that microphone for 4 straight hours on a slow morning and see how the job really is.

My department has nothing to do with my opinions either, I could be in rides and have the same opinion.

Remember I didn't say that my definition is right, this is just MY opinion on coasters.

Wow, the polls are close. Great poll! IMHO I think it is a coaster. Just looking at it, it has the features of a coaster. Also saying that it is called a Zamperla Skater Coaster 36. The Zamperla Website even calls it a coaster. Look at the PDF here.

Personally I could see avatar being a coaster but I cannot se the Disko being a coaster. Because of this I dont count any of these zamperla rides to be coasters. In the last issue of ACE news there was article about survivor the ride at PGA and ACE interviewed a representative from Zamperla and according to that person, Zamperla does not consider their rides of this type to be actual roller coasters, just rides that coast on a track. ACE doesnt believe it to be a coaster because of the whole self propelled thing, and that counting one would mean counting all the intamin skate board things and all the disk-os. Personally I dont count it in my track record.

Also if we're going to get technical, since coaster's are summer versions of the russian ice slides, then the hill that I go slead riding down in the winter is also a coaster. And lets not forget about Perfect North Slopes, they have about 25 coasters there to ride. Or perhaps Scrappy Doo's slide/Flying Carpets at KI, I could add that to my track record. Or maybe the jungle gym slide at my old elementary school, thats a coaster isnt it. And what about that thing that you run at, jump and grab onto overhead and you slide along the rail. And speaking of rails, what about the hand rail at friday's that I slid down on my butt, isnt that a coaster too. I guess technically I've ridden about 1000 coasters. When I go down the elevator ill have to count that too.

A steep, sharply curving elevated railway with small open passenger cars that is operated at high speeds as a ride, especially in an amusement park.

This is from dictionary.com the way I see it by this Avatar is a coaster

Without any coasting, there is no rollerCOASTER.

does it really matter?

cant we get all just get along?

^No, it really doesn't matter. However, the poll was asking if you think that Avatar is a coaster or not.