Create-a-Coaster is a unique toy for adolescents and adults. It provide them with the ability to design and modify a realistic wooden roller coaster. This advanced to is unmatched by any that exists on the market today. While it may seem similar to some roller coaster modeling kits that have already been created, no other roller coaster kit this realistic allows the user to design the ride. The only restictions are the number of pieces and your own imagination!
In adition to fostering imagination and teaching about the design process, Create-a-Coaster will help its users learn about conservation of energy. Through trial and error, customers will learn that the car can only go uphill when either the force of the chain in applied, or when it already has enough kinetic energy. The car itself will speed up and slow down as energy alternates between kinetic and potential energy.
This toy is made for middle school students to adults. A large range of people will enjoy putting the pieces together to assemble a working roller coaster. The best part of Create-a-Coaster is how versatile it is. Any flat piece can be converted to an incline by adding one of the triangular supports, in this way, the user can create inclines of any size, especially if they fabricate their own surface for the ride.
While this toy would be very costly, many people would pay a lot of money to own it. The set will include many copies of the four different track pieces, the starting piece, an adjustable chain with a motor, the support pieces, and the cars. The fact that so few pieces are required will help with mass production of the product and will save on the total cost, but the toy will still be fairly expensive. The Create-a-Coaster is made for older users, so there shouldn't be any safety hazzards associated with misuse, and assuming that people are using it as intended, it should be fairly durable as well.