This may be a really elementary question, but can someone explain to me what the difference is between a "spinning coaster" and a "spinning wild mouse coaster"? RCDB describes the new coater at SFGAM (Ragin' Cajun') as a wild mouse, but it doesn't describe the new coaster at WOF as a wild mouse. Is it just track design or is there something else? I think Lagoon in Utah also has a "spinning coaster" and I think there are at least a couple in Britain at Chessington and Alton Towers, but I haven't had a chance to get to any of those parks for a while. This place seems like the place where you might find someone who might know. Thank you.

Well by RCT definitions a spinning coaster is not always a wild mouse. It can be a larger steel coaster that has trains with cars that spin. To be a wild mouse it has to have very tight turns and usually has the familiar wild mouse layout (lift, curves, few drops, brakes).

Gerstauler defines theirs as particularly a coaster, not a mouse. So any Gerstauler spinning coaster put in will look very much like a mouse but be called a coaster.
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Spinning Dragons is no way a mouse coaster. It has one little mouse element but that's it. Spinning Dragons is more twisted and has hops, helixs and wide turns.[URL=http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery2572.htm?Picture=1]See here![/URL]

I always just considered a mouse coaster to be one with tight turns and trains that are composed of one car.

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most spining coasters are small, and so most are wild mouse type. But there are a few "normal" rides, but these are tiny.