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Frankenstein: The Ride - Round 241 Winner

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Round 241 Winner

Congratulations to Terry Inferno's Frankenstein: The Ride, the latest winner of RCTgo's Build It Competiton! Frankenstein: The Ride beat the other three entries with 19 votes and 48% of the vote.


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In November 1994, a film adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was released, grossing over 100 million US dollars at the box office. These profits inspired Brookwood executives to release their own Frankenstein adaptation in the form of a roller coaster in the hopes that they too would receive an equally massive payout. What they hadn't realized was that, while film is practically limitless in what it can convey and can be enjoyed no matter what part of the world the viewer is in, roller coasters tend to stay in one place--so much so that people sometimes confuse them with rocks, and vice-versa--and the experience is generally limited to a train running along a predetermined track. While the staff contemplated building their tribute in the form of a dark ride instead, the CEO walked slowly around the table, slapped each executive upside the head, and remarked to each of them individually, "Nobody profits from dark rides!" in the same "What do we look like, Disneyland?" tone each time. After a violent yet strangely motivational filibuster, it was decided unanimously that the Frankenstein homage would take the form of a roller coaster, and it was subsequently determined that the best way to salute the iconic monster was to construct the most massive roller coaster ever built.

Construction on this behemoth of a ride started in late 1995. The crew hired by the park worked for six straight weeks, but management found this very peculiar, as no materials had yet been acquired to construct it. It was discovered after the sixth week that the crew had spent the entire time driving heavy machinery around and taking coffee breaks with hard hats on, so the executives picked up the crew and their 200-foot-tall mobile cranes with their bare hands, threw them out through the park entrance, and yelled in unison, with their fists shaking victoriously, "And stay out!" The CEO expressed his disappointment to the rest of the team that the crew he hired didn't supply him with a roller coaster, failing to acknowledge that he didn't pay the aforementioned crew by the hour or at all. Construction was therefore delayed until they could find someone willing to work within the park's budget, which at the time was about ten thousand US dollars below zero. While they were unable to find a willing construction crew by mid 1996, they were able to earn some extra cash by founding an alternative business called Brookwood Organic Produce and Bank Robbers, which turned profits by growing and selling organic produce and robbing banks. In 1997, after amassing over ten million dollars, or "ten rocks" for those racketeering enthusiasts out there, management decided that, due to the recent success of Dorney Park's new hypercoaster, Steel Force, they would hire D.H. Morgan Manufacturing to build the colossal beast. The CEO submitted his design for an 8,133-foot-long roller coaster, to which D.H. Morgan himself replied in beautiful calligraphy that a coaster of that magnitude, which included a 306-foot drop and a maximum speed of around 95 MPH, would cost closer to 50 million US dollars to build due to geographical and socioeconomic hazards. The CEO of Brookwood Gardens realized that there was no way their recent business venture, abbreviated and generally referred to as BOP 'n' BR, could amass any more lucre to fund this gargantuan project, especially since the robbers from the BR department, who had run out of banks to rob, became bored and began to steal organic produce from the OP department, rendering both sections useless, so he gave up on Morgan and sought alternative methods for erecting the new coaster. Not wanting to put a record-breaking design to waste, D.H. Morgan Manufacturing built the CEO's coaster in Japan instead, originally marketing it as "The CEO's Revenge" but later settling on "Steel Dragon 2000". The CEO was still credited, but he accidentally signed the blueprint "Steve Okamoto", which was coincidentally the name of the engineer who constructed Steel Force, instead of his own name, so to this day, people believe that the two roller coasters were built by the same individual.

After yet another year of delayed construction, the CEO finally figured out that the only way to construct his masterpiece was to harvest the remains of dead roller coasters and attempt to "bring them back to life" by assembling them all into one enormous monster of a roller coaster. He spent his entire 10-million-dollar budget on paying every employee he could to collect as many old roller coaster track and support pieces from around the world. He incentivized them by rewarding the employee who gathered the most scrap metal with free donuts for life, with each of the top ten employees receiving a free autographed picture of the roller coaster upon its completion. Not surprisingly, the donut winner was from the bank robber department, as were seven of the other top ten; the other two places were awarded to a ride mechanic who specialized in stealing tools and a crafty organic farmer known for smuggling roma tomatoes. The 77 employees involved in this operation didn't acquire enough rusty track in their allotted three-month period to build the largest, tallest, or fastest roller coaster in the world, but they did manage to scavenge enough old steel to build one 7,363 feet long and 215 feet high, which, by its opening in 1999, was still the second-longest roller coaster in the world and, with a top speed of 85 MPH, was the fastest continuous-circuit roller coaster at the time and still holds the speed record in the state of Oklahoma. It still fell 79 feet short of being the longest roller coaster in the world, which at the time was The Ultimate in Lightwater Valley, but since "Frankie" was twice as tall and nearly twice as fast, it was marketed as "The World's Largest Roller Coaster Worth Riding".

Since the track and supports were made entirely from old, recycled steel and brought back to life using lightning and Tesla coils, Frankenstein: The Ride's status as the world's first and only undead coaster transformed it into Brookwood Gardens' most popular ride of all time, and the rating given by the Second Installment of Roller Coaster Tabulators--RCT2 for short--ranks as the highest in the park's history. Even though the coaster itself was built by the Brookwood Corporation, the trains were supplied by D.H. Morgan. As was customary for Morgan with handwritten letters, the company sent two free roller coaster trains to Brookwood Gardens, which are still used to this day, along with a third train stolen from Steel Force by the bank robbing team to maximize capacity; they also stole half a train from Mamba, split it up, and added one car to the end of each Frankentrain. To this day, neither park suspects a thing, and since each of the purloined cars was repainted to match the Frankentrains, should they ever get wise, they don't have a case.


Votes cast:
Frankenstein: The Ride - 19 votes
Grizzly - 15 votes
Pink or Alive - 1 vote
Typhoon - 5 votes
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#2
Congratulations Terry.
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#3
Congratulations once more, Terry!
Resuming regularly scheduled programming!
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#4
Congratulations Terry Inferno!
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#5
Congratulations Terry! This was an obvious win and I'm happy with that!

Also, I don't know how Grizzly got so many votes. Again, this was not a very good RCT3 track in my opinion.
Trying to make an inspiring park or coaster.
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Thank you everyone for giving Brookwood Gardens one final victory before its full release!
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Nicer job Mr. Inferno!
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