Keep in mind he's ranking the actual design and uniqueness of each coaster and not the actual ranking of how good it is. His RMC coasters ranked in America is a completely different order.
Video idea: Make another ranking video of coasters with a common name. This one being all coasters themed to races, for example, Windjammer surf racers, racer at Kings Island, West Coast Racers, rewind racers, etc.
Got a chance to ride X2 this past week, and I can't fathom what people must've thought of it upon its release. It harnesses all of the typical fears people have of roller coasters, magnifies them, and burns every unique ride element into your memory. Stellar coaster.
I still don't understand why design wise x2 is higher up than eejanaika which supposedly has slightly more insane elements and a smoother execution to boot. I get that concept was groundbreaking but I would still think design wise how it operates (if it is rough vs not) would come into play too
100% agree about X. I get that a lot of people prefer Steel Vengeance, Iron Gwazi, Zadra or Lightning Rod. But if you are looking at the design and from a creativity and ambition standpoint then there is no contest. X was possibly the craziest coaster ever designed when viewed by comparing a coaster to its predecessors and X2 remains one of the craziest and best coasters on earth. I only wish Arrow had survived their own monster because I can't imagine how cool their projects would have become if they'd had enough time to go through their own computerized renaissance like Vekoma has.
@@AirtimeThrills Isn't it interesting how there's only 3 4D coasters of its kind out in the world to this day? I don't count the Batman 4D clones. I guess the 4D coasters are just too expensive and amusement parks don't want to take risks on them. I agree with you that X2 is definitely the X factor when it comes to ranking Magic Mountain against other parks.
Just because there was so much to work with and i havent seen people say it blew them away even though it wqs great, granted i havent seen too many people who have ridden it
@@zacg_ John A. Miller. Werner Stengel. Alan Schilke. All of them were major influences on the development of the roller coaster for different reasons. I think they all deserve recognition.
If I could name an Alan Schilke-deigned roller coaster that had a quarry wall to play with, I'd have two nickels. That might actually be a lot in this case, but its still interesting that it happened twice
If I remember correctly, Alan was the one who came up with the Idea of independently spinning the seats for a 4D coaster. It's a crazy engineering problem with a fascinating solution in the second pair of running rails. It would be cool to have a fly-on-the-wall view of that first conversation...
I didnt see anything that showed that he worked on WWGLC, even though it is his layout. I think his final coaster was Iron Gwazi. I did have to piece together multiple sources to get this complete list
Great video! Now that he's retired, I look back and think that given how good Tennessee Tornado, Road Runner Express, and X2 were, if parks would have been willing to just take a chance on Arrow or S&S (instead of the usual players), he might have a legacy of twice the quantity. It's a shame that such a long period of Alan's career (a man of such incredible talent) was wasted waiting for a projects.
I am so glad to see X2 in your #1 position. It is just about my favorite thing in the whole entire world! So excited b/c I am going to SFMM next week. I am introducing my new bestie to the park for his first time... and I cannot wait to share X2 with him! We call it roller coaster therapy and I am super excited to have a super session next week! Thanks for this compilation of the creator of my favorite thing in the world. What an awesome creator he is! TY and super thanks to Alan Schilke!! 🎢
This might sound crazy, but Dinoconda is even better than Eejanaika. The extra row and smaller size makes it tear through it’s layout even faster. And it’s smoother.
I hardly ever disagree with you about coaster stuff, so I'm pretty sure after you ride Jersey Devil you'll change your ranking. I thought I would hate it. Especially after waiting almost 2 hours. I couldn't stop smiling when I rode it though
It confuses me how one man can work for so many different manufacturers and parks. I always assumed that the ride companies designed their own rides in collaboration with the park, but apparently not? Can someone explain how this works? Am I being dumb?
From what Wikipedia says, he worked at Arrow, designing some coasters for parks who bought coasters from arrow. He did this until arrow's bankruptcy. Then, when S&S bought arrow's assets, schilke designed coasters for them for a couple years until he created his own company called Ride Centerline LLC. He worked with companies (RMC) to design and engineer coasters from there.
Dont forget...hes may be retired but he's still the creator of the S&S Axis coaster according to the patents. Maybe not a layout but its his baby in part.
I could have sworn that Schilke designed Lightning Run, had to google it. It just screams Schilke, but owell. Good job Joe Draves! One of my favorite non-inverting coasters, by far! (Makes sense, they worked together at Ride Centerline)
I’m so dumb I was engaged to a girl that was from Boston and I just now realized why the ride is called “wicked cyclone” because it’s “wicked awesome” as she would say lol
Amazing video, as always, content is always top notch and I appreciate, as always, the time and effort you put into the research and and commentary on everyone of your videos. Kings island history especially. Have been going the for 38 years and everything in your 5 part documentary were spot on. Keep up your phenomenal videos! Can't get enough!
Tennessee Tornado was the biggest surprise for me on a roller coaster (until Verbolten many years later). We did that small drop and I was thinking, that's it? And then BOOM, you plummet down into that tunnel and get a flash of the camera before you do those massive series of loops. I was next to my brother and I was still pretty young. I expected a mine train, I got a literal tornado.
Alan Schilke is by far my favorite designer. He has designed all of my favorite coasters, especially at Cedar Point. When making coasters in Planet Coaster or No Limits 2 I try and think like he would.
You should ride the jersey devil after 12-1pm on a hot day. The ride speeds up a lot and the elements feel perfectly timed when its running faster. The tilted air time hills are amazing and the drop after being pushed off by the lift chain is nuts!
Wicked Cyclone, I am still wrapping my mind around how Alan was able to put so much into such a tiny footprint. Honestly one of my favorite rides I look forward to every summer when I go to my local Six Flags. I have so many good memories on that ride.
Schilke was a pioneer for sure, but no where near the goat compared to Werner Stengel. Almost every B&M and Intamin from the 90s-mid 2000s, including Millennium, Maverick, El Toro, Montu, Hulk, Superman the Ride, and many more
Bra. I rods Avalanche back in 2009, when it was called Hellcat! Staying low to the ground, the airtime was extremely forceful and blissful. Banked turns. It rode really fast, a lot like Maverick feels faster than 70 while hugging low to the ground. Hellcat should’ve been called Bullet the way it sped around its oval track. Like a roulette wheel. I thought Hellcat was the best ride on my trip - ahead of Hades. And four years ago, despite its demise, I considered Hellcat for my #14 spot.
We need to normalize the airtime thrills Wicked/Twisted/Cyclone bias here though. Anything with any of those words gains +5 spots for his ranking above where they actually should be (other than Twisted Timbers). And if it's a combination (Wicked or Twisted Cyclone) then it's +10 from where it belongs. And maybe White Cyclone losing the word Cyclone forces him to remove -5 spots from that.
Twisted Timbers needs more love. Basic yes. But perfect as well. No filler. Does everything perfectly! Try drawing a circle free hand. It’s harder than you’d think. That’s Twisted Timbers. Pure perfection with little to nothing to work from other than talent.
I love being with someone who kind of knows coasters but isnt really a thoosie and you go to like....Six Flags New England. You ride Wicked Cyclone and youre like "hey, you know that amazing coaster we just rode? The same jerk designed that stupid thing(Joker) on the other side of the park!"
Having ridden both, imo Hakugei >>> Untamed. Hakugei is far too low on this list in my opinion; I'd have it closer to Iron Gwazi than below Twisted Cyclone.
Bro I love this concept for a video but man twisted cyclone over wildfire and like ten others? X2 over dinaconda and eejainika? The bullet coasters at the bottom??? Hakugei at 18? This felt like a troll video lol
If it was just a vote on riding, I would give it to Steel Vengeance, but as a design X is superior. Both are genius as are Alan Schilke . I still feel like SV is his masterpiece only because he and RMC took such an awful turd and made it so amazing.
Agree with your opinions, now a days people are always chasing “bigger and better” and don’t appreciate things for what they are and how they came to be, it’s always someone getting on rides analyzing everything about it to get off and say “ well this one is better because” or vice versa and never appreciate the ride for what it is
i am not getting how u came up with your ranking tbh... u put x or x2 first because it was a huge innovation but its flawed in desgin compared to dinoconda and eejanaika and yet put new texas giant lower then any other rmc its design bascialy changed the whole industry... like u even say u are ranking based on desgin then it makes even less sense... so by your logic new texas giant should be 1st on this list no?
He kind of looks like Aaron Rodgers if he wanted to be an engineer
To me he looks like a guy who played for a prog rock band in the 80s.
@@StamfordBridgeGeddy Lee?
@@connorauman6735 A bit of that, yeah.
He does!!
Definitely Rodgers vibes if he was 20 yrs older
Hakugei at 18th is wild its definitely a top tier RMC
Keep in mind he's ranking the actual design and uniqueness of each coaster and not the actual ranking of how good it is. His RMC coasters ranked in America is a completely different order.
hakugei 18 is craazy
I can’t see that pic of him in the intro without laughing. Gets me every time
which one
Facts bro😂😂😂
Video idea: Make another ranking video of coasters with a common name. This one being all coasters themed to races, for example, Windjammer surf racers, racer at Kings Island, West Coast Racers, rewind racers, etc.
I second this
Me 3
This kind of ranking just stopped making sense after goliath, batman and superman. I like this idea though
He does this! He's got all the superman rides and others all with the same names and he ranks them
I’d love to see the Ron Toomer version of this video.
Same with a Werner Stengel video.
Tennessee Tornado… the one where Arrow said “Screw it, let’s put in ALL the elements!”
It’s one of the only coasters to make me grey out
Got a chance to ride X2 this past week, and I can't fathom what people must've thought of it upon its release. It harnesses all of the typical fears people have of roller coasters, magnifies them, and burns every unique ride element into your memory. Stellar coaster.
I still don't understand why design wise x2 is higher up than eejanaika which supposedly has slightly more insane elements and a smoother execution to boot. I get that concept was groundbreaking but I would still think design wise how it operates (if it is rough vs not) would come into play too
10 seconds and i already know this will be a banger video
100% agree about X. I get that a lot of people prefer Steel Vengeance, Iron Gwazi, Zadra or Lightning Rod. But if you are looking at the design and from a creativity and ambition standpoint then there is no contest. X was possibly the craziest coaster ever designed when viewed by comparing a coaster to its predecessors and X2 remains one of the craziest and best coasters on earth.
I only wish Arrow had survived their own monster because I can't imagine how cool their projects would have become if they'd had enough time to go through their own computerized renaissance like Vekoma has.
I absolutely think X was the craziest coaster ever designed. Especially at the time when there was nothing even remotely like it
X2 is a no-brainer for number 1.
@@AirtimeThrills Isn't it interesting how there's only 3 4D coasters of its kind out in the world to this day? I don't count the Batman 4D clones.
I guess the 4D coasters are just too expensive and amusement parks don't want to take risks on them.
I agree with you that X2 is definitely the X factor when it comes to ranking Magic Mountain against other parks.
Hakugei only on 18 is a crime
FRR 😭
Yeah if he rode it, it would not be there.
Just because there was so much to work with and i havent seen people say it blew them away even though it wqs great, granted i havent seen too many people who have ridden it
Really? A lot of people say Hakugei is one of the best RMCs ever made.
Also Eejanika’s ranking is just sad, putting Chaser above it.
He is TRULY the goat of coaster designers
He's my personal favorite but I think that Werner Stengel is objectively the more impactful and accomplished designer.
@@zacg_ John A. Miller. Werner Stengel. Alan Schilke. All of them were major influences on the development of the roller coaster for different reasons. I think they all deserve recognition.
If I could name an Alan Schilke-deigned roller coaster that had a quarry wall to play with, I'd have two nickels. That might actually be a lot in this case, but its still interesting that it happened twice
I love this so much.
Iron Gwazi taking the old structures of the two original sides and making one massive hyper rmc makes it personally the best rmc design
Nope... you are wrong.
Its definitely the most creative RMC design
@@VelvetteSimp Nope.
@askjeevescosby2928 then what is?
@@VelvetteSimp nothing
Twisted Cyclone over Hakugei and Wildfire? Lol
Anyone who knows their coaster history knows what this man did for the amusement industry. Always innovating ahead of time
Adding to his cool factor: His mullet when discussing X
If I remember correctly, Alan was the one who came up with the Idea of independently spinning the seats for a 4D coaster. It's a crazy engineering problem with a fascinating solution in the second pair of running rails. It would be cool to have a fly-on-the-wall view of that first conversation...
No Wonder Woman Flight of Courage but you have Jersey Devil?
I didnt see anything that showed that he worked on WWGLC, even though it is his layout. I think his final coaster was Iron Gwazi. I did have to piece together multiple sources to get this complete list
Great video! Now that he's retired, I look back and think that given how good Tennessee Tornado, Road Runner Express, and X2 were, if parks would have been willing to just take a chance on Arrow or S&S (instead of the usual players), he might have a legacy of twice the quantity. It's a shame that such a long period of Alan's career (a man of such incredible talent) was wasted waiting for a projects.
I am so glad to see X2 in your #1 position. It is just about my favorite thing in the whole entire world! So excited b/c I am going to SFMM next week. I am introducing my new bestie to the park for his first time... and I cannot wait to share X2 with him! We call it roller coaster therapy and I am super excited to have a super session next week! Thanks for this compilation of the creator of my favorite thing in the world. What an awesome creator he is! TY and super thanks to Alan Schilke!! 🎢
You are the goat of coaster videos
X2 and SteVe are my top 2 overall, though I'm never sure which is at the top. Thanks again for making a great video!
not a mad man, a smart man!)
Yes but if you’ve ridden X2 or steel vengeance you understand he is a madman
Great video! A lot of fantastic coasters! I enjoyed watching!
This might sound crazy, but Dinoconda is even better than Eejanaika. The extra row and smaller size makes it tear through it’s layout even faster. And it’s smoother.
Good to know
Hi Airtime Thrills
Hi Dude channel16
I hardly ever disagree with you about coaster stuff, so I'm pretty sure after you ride Jersey Devil you'll change your ranking. I thought I would hate it. Especially after waiting almost 2 hours. I couldn't stop smiling when I rode it though
It confuses me how one man can work for so many different manufacturers and parks. I always assumed that the ride companies designed their own rides in collaboration with the park, but apparently not? Can someone explain how this works? Am I being dumb?
From what Wikipedia says, he worked at Arrow, designing some coasters for parks who bought coasters from arrow. He did this until arrow's bankruptcy. Then, when S&S bought arrow's assets, schilke designed coasters for them for a couple years until he created his own company called Ride Centerline LLC. He worked with companies (RMC) to design and engineer coasters from there.
@@plighting_engineerd thanks for the summary. Schilke is definitely one of the outliers in this sense
Do all these coasters, but make it a “by the numbers”
Hakugei at #18 is absolutely criminal as someone who has been on it.
Different rides on different days. And differing of opinions. Not criminal at all.
He ranked these based off of innovation
He's ranking it based on design or layout.
Dont forget...hes may be retired but he's still the creator of the S&S Axis coaster according to the patents. Maybe not a layout but its his baby in part.
Don’t sleep on Falken!! It’s rough as hell on some of the turns but it has great airtime throughout! Actually one of my favorite coasters in Denmark.
Now you made me even sadder that it was closed for me
@@AirtimeThrills I just bring a little sadness wherever I go.
Twisted Cyclone over Hakugei and Wild Fire is crazy 😂😂
Lol #24 is the only coaster I was sure I was going to die on
'Going out on a LIM' fantastic pun 🫡
Yes i totally meant to do that.......
I could have sworn that Schilke designed Lightning Run, had to google it. It just screams Schilke, but owell. Good job Joe Draves! One of my favorite non-inverting coasters, by far! (Makes sense, they worked together at Ride Centerline)
Joe Draves definitely has some funky cool designs himself
I’m so dumb I was engaged to a girl that was from Boston and I just now realized why the ride is called “wicked cyclone” because it’s “wicked awesome” as she would say lol
Wait he retired!? I thought he just left RMC... wtf now we'll never get a 800 foot tall coaster with 50 inversions!
I rode Eejanaika 9 times this week, the layout is perfect in my opinion
Alan is imo the best coaster designer ever, what a legendary man!
Stengel >>>>
I would suggest a Werner Stengal version of this video, but you'd probably need at least 10 parts.
Amazing video, as always, content is always top notch and I appreciate, as always, the time and effort you put into the research and and commentary on everyone of your videos. Kings island history especially. Have been going the for 38 years and everything in your 5 part documentary were spot on. Keep up your phenomenal videos! Can't get enough!
Thanks for the kind words and for watching the doc!
If you haven't done a video likes this already, could you do a "Most ridden rollercoaster from each major manufacturer"?
The order in your list is seriously flawed. But thanks for making an effort. Interesting takes, for sure. And good info.
I am officially going to holiday world for the first time later this month!
It was always going to be between X/X2 and Steel Vengeance but X put Alan Schilke on the map.
Me: "please don't put timberhawk too low"
*Timberhawk is the worst on the list*
Me: "oh come on!!"
Alan Schilke is the goat for making X2
Tennessee Tornado was the biggest surprise for me on a roller coaster (until Verbolten many years later). We did that small drop and I was thinking, that's it? And then BOOM, you plummet down into that tunnel and get a flash of the camera before you do those massive series of loops. I was next to my brother and I was still pretty young. I expected a mine train, I got a literal tornado.
I guess that makes SFFT the park with the most Schilke credits?
4 Schilke monsters lol
Definitely seems like it
Great video!
I get to ride steel vengeance in 2 weeks and im so hyped. Might become my number 1.
A coaster like that open for only 4 days? An absolute tragedy
I think there was some sort of explosion in the launch mechanism, a few people got injured and they never reopened it after that.
The Ron Toomer of our generation
I love when you use this background music!!!!
this is a banger.
now let’s watch the video!
#1: Steel Vengeance
X2 at 1 as it should be!
Does this make SV your favorite RMC? Or how do you feel about ArieForce One and Wildcat’s Revenge which were done after he retired?
He considers wildcat a mid tier rmc and arieforce is in his top 10. And yes steve is his favorite rmc and number 1 coaster overall.
Arieforce one is close but steve is the goat
It is so bizarre to me that the guy responsible for so many of RMC's greatest hits also came up with Straight Track: The Ride over at the Nurburgring.
Alan Schilke is by far my favorite designer. He has designed all of my favorite coasters, especially at Cedar Point. When making coasters in Planet Coaster or No Limits 2 I try and think like he would.
ridiculous? How is untamed under medusa, twisted timbers, WICKED CYCLONE? Storm chaser? Outlaw run? bro smokes sum crazy sh before recording
Ey bro don’t be dissing wicked cyclone that coaster is sacred
@@Funkylittleguy27 i just rode it and i can agree it’s good but i think untamed would be way better
You should ride the jersey devil after 12-1pm on a hot day. The ride speeds up a lot and the elements feel perfectly timed when its running faster. The tilted air time hills are amazing and the drop after being pushed off by the lift chain is nuts!
AWESOME VIDEO! Did not know he made all these amazing top tier rides! Thank you!
This video was so needed
Just making sure that Wicked Cyclone was top three.... all right sir carry on
Wicked Cyclone, I am still wrapping my mind around how Alan was able to put so much into such a tiny footprint. Honestly one of my favorite rides I look forward to every summer when I go to my local Six Flags. I have so many good memories on that ride.
I grew up about 15 minutes from Clementon Park and rode that woodie a ton of times as kid. Had no idea Alan Schilke designed it.
after watching the whole video all i gotta say is i want Draves to get his hands on American Eagle and see another dueling RMC
Got to mention the genius of Anton Schwarzkopf...could he be the GOAT? Will Schilke's be as smooth as a Schwarzkopf coaster in 25 years?
Schilke was a pioneer for sure, but no where near the goat compared to Werner Stengel. Almost every B&M and Intamin from the 90s-mid 2000s, including Millennium, Maverick, El Toro, Montu, Hulk, Superman the Ride, and many more
Wicked Cyclone is running absolutely insane this year. Even the third lap is trying to rip you out of your seat,
Bra. I rods Avalanche back in 2009, when it was called Hellcat! Staying low to the ground, the airtime was extremely forceful and blissful. Banked turns. It rode really fast, a lot like Maverick feels faster than 70 while hugging low to the ground. Hellcat should’ve been called Bullet the way it sped around its oval track. Like a roulette wheel. I thought Hellcat was the best ride on my trip - ahead of Hades. And four years ago, despite its demise, I considered Hellcat for my #14 spot.
We need to normalize the airtime thrills Wicked/Twisted/Cyclone bias here though. Anything with any of those words gains +5 spots for his ranking above where they actually should be (other than Twisted Timbers). And if it's a combination (Wicked or Twisted Cyclone) then it's +10 from where it belongs. And maybe White Cyclone losing the word Cyclone forces him to remove -5 spots from that.
Twisted Timbers needs more love. Basic yes. But perfect as well. No filler. Does everything perfectly!
Try drawing a circle free hand. It’s harder than you’d think. That’s Twisted Timbers. Pure perfection with little to nothing to work from other than talent.
I love being with someone who kind of knows coasters but isnt really a thoosie and you go to like....Six Flags New England. You ride Wicked Cyclone and youre like "hey, you know that amazing coaster we just rode? The same jerk designed that stupid thing(Joker) on the other side of the park!"
Great video.
Having ridden both, imo Hakugei >>> Untamed. Hakugei is far too low on this list in my opinion; I'd have it closer to Iron Gwazi than below Twisted Cyclone.
Wow! Thanks for shedding light on this legendary designer! He gave the world so many gems!
Bro I love this concept for a video but man twisted cyclone over wildfire and like ten others? X2 over dinaconda and eejainika? The bullet coasters at the bottom??? Hakugei at 18? This felt like a troll video lol
If it was just a vote on riding, I would give it to Steel Vengeance, but as a design X is superior. Both are genius as are Alan Schilke . I still feel like SV is his masterpiece only because he and RMC took such an awful turd and made it so amazing.
It’s not an airtime thrills video without glazing steel vengeance (rightfully so) or bashing Goliath
I’m interested in how many of these rides are on your top 50. Alan Schilke has seriously made some incredible coasters
Trust me dude: Hakugei should be higher on this list. It’s incredible. I’m excited to see what you think when you ride it next year.
I've been on only a handful of these. It looks like I need to add more of them to my bucket list.
Agree with your opinions, now a days people are always chasing “bigger and better” and don’t appreciate things for what they are and how they came to be, it’s always someone getting on rides analyzing everything about it to get off and say “ well this one is better because” or vice versa and never appreciate the ride for what it is
Wicked Cyclone is the only head scratcher here, I’d say it’s about 10 or so spots too high. The rest I totally agree with!
I've said this before but I think you should do a mount Everest of coaster designers Or a top 10
11:52 S&S or Vekoma should bring the 4th digalmantinal coaster
i am not getting how u came up with your ranking tbh... u put x or x2 first because it was a huge innovation but its flawed in desgin compared to dinoconda and eejanaika and yet put new texas giant lower then any other rmc its design bascialy changed the whole industry... like u even say u are ranking based on desgin then it makes even less sense... so by your logic new texas giant should be 1st on this list no?
Noob question here:
What's the best way to keep track of my credit count??
I really miss Avalanche. That ride beat you to hell and back but it was worth every bruise.
Alan has forgotten more about coasters then Chris will ever know. (No offense)
Based, so glad he didn’t design septic tanks for playgrounds, so little kids can take shits!
Just a cuestion. How is x2 the better coaster when steel veangence is you’r number one coaster?
7:22 doesn’t Twisted Cyclone at SFOG have a twisted drop
I can understand that you placed wildfire that low, but if you ride it on a hot and sunny day, the speed in the second part of the layout is insane.
i know that hakugei ranking is gonna have people upset. i dont care either way im just happy to get more airtime thrills content
The Nurburgring coaster was only open for 4 days? Rip