Psyclone, a Wooden Roller Coaster Designed By Frederick Church in Planet Coaster 2 (Massive WiP)

Frederick Church was known for being very innovative in his designs. While most of the coasters built in the 1920s had simple out & back layouts, Frederick Churches coasters had more compact twister layouts with tighter turns. He also designed a new type of coaster train known as the Bobs trains, these trains had single row cars that made it easier to navigate the twisted layouts. Three Church designed rides still operate today, including the Giant Dipper's at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and Belmont Park, as well as Dragon Coaster at Playland in Rye New York. Mike Boodley was fascinated with Churches designs, and wanted to modernize them. After working for a couple legacy wooden coaster manufactures like the Dinn Corporation and Custom Coasters International (CCI), as well as creating his prototype coaster (Outlaw at Adventureland in Iowa), Boodley founded his own company Great Coasters International (GCI) in 1994. GCI is known for wooden roller coasters with crazy, out of control twister layouts that have many quick pops of airtime. In the late 90s GCI developed trains inspired by Churches Bobs trains. The new Millennium Flyer trains were better at navigating GCIs twister layouts than the 2 bench PTC trains the company used for their early coasters, these trains have been used for every GCI coaster built since 1999. Some Famous examples of GCI coasters are Thunderhead at Dollywood, and Mystic Timbers at Kings Island (The latter of which is one of my favorite wooden roller coasters I've ridden). For this project, I took massive inspiration from the long defunct Airplane Coaster at Rye Playland.