Junior Coaster

The Junior Coaster is the one coaster children are tall enough to ride: every other coaster type is off limits to kids, and families with children mostly look for rides the whole group can go on. That makes it the coaster that brings families to the station, where the bigger types send them past.

It is also the cheapest coaster to build and to run, with the lowest height limit of all. It can use tight turns, which let a whole layout fold into a small plot. Keep its ratings gentle: guests who don’t like intensity won’t ride a coaster above their comfort level, however exciting it is.

In Park Baron the Junior Coaster can rise 29 m above the ground under its track. It can build tight turns, but not steep slopes, loops and corkscrews and vertical drops and top hats. Its trains run 4 cars of 2 seats, 8 riders a train, and its station is 4 to 6 tiles long. Track costs $45 a piece and the station $700; it costs $400 a month to run, and guests pay $2 a ride by default. The type adds 0.30 excitement to whatever the track earns, and its rolling friction is 0.014. Children are tall enough to ride it. It is free to build.

Its showpiece design, Rainbow Runner, climbs 11 m, reaches 54 km/h and pulls 2.6 g, with 0 inversions over 209 m of track and a 27-second ride. It rates 4.04 excitement, 3.30 intensity and 1.77 nausea, costs $4,003 and fills 19 × 21 tiles.