Frequently Asked Questions

What is an Alternative Experience?

LogRide’s goal has always been to help theme park fans track the attractions they’ve experienced. But what happens when an attraction receives a limited-time change or overlay? How do you classify an attraction that receives a Virtual Reality package? Or an attraction that gets temporarily modified for the Christmas season? In the past, LogRide has […]

Manufacturer Names

As amusement manufacturers grow, merge, revamp, or cease to exist, a problem emerges concerning which company name (or version of the company name) we assign to their respective attractions. Here is LogRide’s current rule for assigning manufacturers- For each attraction, the Manufacturer will be the manufacturing company’s name as it would have appeared when the […]

What is a ScoreCard?

ScoreCard is the LogRide terminology for a method of tracking the number of points achieved during an interactive attraction. Often these attractions contain a “shooting” element where guests aim at physical or virtual targets and receive points based on the tagets hit. Photo by Kevin Simpson

Attraction Types

Since LogRide’s conception, classifying attractions has proved to be a useful organization tool. Although fans have various opinions on how attractions should be classified, the LogRide team has developed a series of standards to help keep our attraction listings consistent. We’ve included parts of our standards below to help users understand LogRide’s classification process. Roller […]

Unaccepted Sources

The LogRide Research Team attempts to verify each piece of information added to our database. Much like an academic research paper, our team records the sources . We encourage users to submit a source alongside their modification or new attraction requests. However, there are guidelines prohibiting what we can accept as a valid source. Other […]

B&M Hyper vs. Giga Coasters

Requests to change Bolliger and Mabillard (B&M) Hyper Coaster models to “Giga Coaster” may be denied due to B&M’s model classification. Looking at B&M’s website, any coaster who’s height reaches between 300ft and 399ft is listed as a “Hyper Coaster” model. LogRide strives to keep it’s data as accurate as possible and will update this […]

LogRide’s Research Group

All of LogRide’s data is carefully maintained by a volunteer group of passionate theme park fans and historians. The Research Group has access to LogRide’s document library and opportunities to collaborate with parks, manufacturers, and other industry sources from around the world.

Who built and maintains LogRide?

LogRide was built by a small team of theme park fans in 2018. Our data is maintained by a group of volunteer researchers and is continually expanding thanks to the contributions of thousands of theme park fans from around the world.

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