Wooden Roller Coaster
A wooden roller coaster or woodie is most often classified as a roller coaster with laminated steel running rails overlaid upon a wooden track. Occasionally, the structure may be made out of a steel lattice or truss, but the ride remains classified as a wooden roller coaster due to the track design. Due to the limits of wood, wooden roller coasters in general do not have inversions (when the coaster goes upside down), steep drops, or extremely banked turns (overbanked turns). However, there are exceptions; Son of Beast at Kings Island has a 214 foot high drop and originally had a 90 foot tall loop until the end of the 2006 season, although the loop had metal supports. Other special cases are Hades at Mount Olympus Water and Theme Park in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, featuring a double-track tunnel and a 90 degree banked turn, The Voyage at Holiday World (an example of a wooden roller coaster with a steel structure for supports) featuring three separate 90 degree banked turns, Ravine Flyer II at Waldameer Park which has a 90 degree turn, and T Express at Everland in South Korea with a 77 degree drop. Modern Wooden coasters typically sport Philadelphia Toboggan Company manufactured trains for vehicles.

Jupiter
Jupiter, built from 60,000 Norway spruces in 1992, is the first wooden roller coaster at Centleisure Kijima Kogen Park, Beppu, Oita, Japan. It has a magnificent beauty.

Jupiter (Koshi Woods)
 
White Cyclone
White Cyclone is a wooden roller coaster at Nagashima Spa Land in Mie Prefecture, Japan. At 1,700 meters in length, White Cyclone is the fourth longest wooden roller coaster in the world, and is the longest wooden roller coaster outside of the United States. Despite its length, White Cyclone is still considerably shorter than the 2,479 meter Steel Dragon 2000, the world's longest steel roller coaster, which is also at Nagashima Spa Land. In addition to being the fourth longest wooden roller coaster, White Cyclone is the ninth tallest wooden roller coaster in the world, and the third tallest wooden roller coaster outside the United States. A single ride on the White Cyclone costs 1,000 yen, and the ride is restricted to those individuals above 4 feet, 3 inches in height; and those individuals under 54 years of age.

White Cyclone (Koshi Woods)
 
Before the construction of White Cyclone in 1995, there had previously been only two wooden roller coasters ever constructed in Japan. These coasters, Jupiter and White Canyon, were erected in 1992 and 1994 respectively-after height restrictions on wooden structures were relaxed by the Japanese government. The roller coasters Jupiter, White Canyon, and White Cyclone remain three of only five operating wooden roller coasters in Japan, and of only ten operating wooden roller coasters in Asia.

White Cyclone is constructed out of enough Alaskan timber to construct nearly a thousand homes. The ride is particularly fast for a wooden roller coaster and it incorporates many standard elements such as helices, large drops and smaller bunny hills. The coaster incorporates an out-and-back design and uses cars manufactured by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company.

Pictures Provider: Qiu Zuochun (Koshi Woods)
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