Planet Coaster College - Schwarzkopf Looping Coaster (S.L.V.) Tutorial

The Schwarzkopf looping coaster - only de facto a distinct roller coaster type, but very recognizable thanks to its signature "cone plug" track style - is a true classic within the industry. In-game, you can find it as the S.L.V. coaster from the Magnificent Rides Collection. It's the first coaster in history to have a vertical loop as we know them now, a pioneer in smooth heartline shaping, and a gamechanger as far as travelling coasters go. In this video I''ll show you how you can get build a typical compact Schwarzkopf layout, with its quick transitions, tight helices and characteristic loops. Also, I added a timelapse to show the custom support building process needed to make a believably transportable coaster.
You can find more information about Schwarzkopf here:
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A small correction: the element is called a vertical 'loop', not a 'looping'. I think saying 'looping' so much as well as the fact that it's called a 'looping' in Dutch made me mix up the two terms, sorry.
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About Planet Coaster College: PCC is a series of video guides in which I cover many aspects of making realistic and creative parks in Planet Coaster. One of my goals with the series is to make a video explaining each of the coaster types avaliable and show you how to build them, but there will also be some videos about elements of theme parks and the game in general, such as buildings and scenery. Overall, the series is directed toward already seasoned players of the games, though I do sprinkle tips that may be useful for beginners too.

[@Oliver_T_03]

People always rank Arrow over Schwarzkopf due to their innovation. But lets be honest, Arrow could never build smooth, intense and compact roller coasters like Schwarzkopf did

[@Silvarret]

Agreed!

[@user-yn1bd4yf3h]

XplosiveGamer105 I completely agree. I haven't done any coasters form either manufacturer but I am more excited for Olympia Looping than Carolina Cyclone for example

[@OhKnow379]

Arrow has made some pre smooth coasters tho

[@yimmydotjpg3494]

But they made magnum, x2 and... uh...

[@plshelpme78]

@@yimmydotjpg3494 Gemini, Tennessee Tornado, Loch-Ness Monster, The Bat, Vortex, Viper, Thunderation, Desperado, etc.

[@paullucas3174]

Of course silvarette has already mastered this, as well as the whole rest of planet coaster 🤩🤩

[@jappie.]

Unlike me😔

[@ShadowSTI]

Those small cross ties that are on the track are meant for maintenance, making it able for people to clip in fall arrest harnesses so they can walk the whole track and inspect the more steeper parts of the layout. Used to work the mind bender in Canada and seen this first hand.

[@NALTOHQ]

That’s awesome

[@ryanstrembicki5234]

The only Schwarzkopf I have been on is Scorpion at Busch Gardens Tampa and I love it so much. That thing packs a punch and it's so intense while being the size if not smaller than most family coasters.

[@dreamershavemorefun]

Good ole Scorpion, that was my first coaster I was maybe 5-6 years old and I remember being so scared I wouldn't get back on it for a good 8-10 years afterwards, agree with the intensity, for such a small coaster it packs a brutal punch lol

[@Stagnant_Gravy]

Ryan Strembicki I’ve been on Scorpion and Supper Dooper Looper. So I’ve been on a newer one and one of the original ones. They are all very good

[@magreen311]

I've only been on Sooper Dooper Looper, I was shocked by the intensity of the loop

[@tigersfan8459]

Me: Im gonna make a cool looking coaster with the right amount of inversions and airtime moments, and its gonna be all green! Final test: Excitement- 5.79; Fear-4.47; Nausea- .71 Me: Ooookkkkkkk, did I do something wrong? Silvaret: Ok, you gotta do this, and this, and some of these aaaannnddddd done! Final Product: All green, no smoothing needed, perfect in everything. Me: Bruh, how?!? No hate, love your work, and your soothing voice :)

[@scottmahaffey9350]

I suffer from anxiety and somehow your voice and your videos relax me even on bad days. Thank you so much for making these relaxing educating videos.

[@howenator]

Do a Mack launch Planet Coaster College.

[@Dukhanstmichmal]

Thats going to be a hard one since Mack has very unique designs for their Megacoasters and Launched Coasters - Flash is a out-and-back Hypercoaster, Helix is a twisty inversion monster, Icon is a low winding ride with snappy transitions, DC Rivals has a non inverting loop, twisted drop and a helix and Copperhead Strike has circular tight loops, a jojo roll and an airtime hill in the middle of the second launch... There is not really one type of layout they stick with.

[@therideanalyst6794]

​@@Dukhanstmichmal That doesn't necessarily mean he HAS to make anything exactly similar to Mack's designs. When you make a coaster, you just use appropriate elements in a layout that you see fit, not an exact kind of layout with a planned sequence of inversions and transitions. You could make a hyper coaster with a bunch of bank turns and vertical loops with airtime moments in between and call it a Mack coaster, as they can combine elements from different models to different layouts. That's how we have the creative coasters and concepts of today, as being confined to a list of elements isn't very unique.

[@Dukhanstmichmal]

@@therideanalyst6794 Yea sure but until now this "mini series" has been about showcasing the most traditional and iconic elements of certain coaster types. The only thing I'm saying is that the Mack Mega has so many completely different designs that it's going to be hard to figure out wich ones can be considered iconic. The only one I could think of would be the zero-g / heartline rolls of blue fire, helix, icon and flash. Anyways - as a huge Mack fan myself I'm already looking forward to what Silvarret is going to come up with for the Vector :)

[@RellikInProfile]

Tower of Terror at now defunct British park Camelot was my first loop. I still remember vividly the castle piece that housed the loop.

[@KingRCT3]

Wew, a 47 minute long Planet Coaster College, it's Christmas already! (well, it kinda is) Thanks for the (multiple) shoutout, that was very kind of you and I always have a blast doing some research. ... But you also know me and how I like nit-picking, so here we go. =D 4:00 I don't know if it's one of the most common travelling coaster. They still are really large coasters, so they are not suitable for smaller fairgrounds. I think Pinfari Big Apple and Zyclon are far more common, as well as Reverchon Crazy Mouse. But as a thrill, inverting coaster, yeah they were probably the go-to. 6:11 About the shuttle mode, I'm glad you're mentioning Shuttle Loop but unfortunately those are not really doable in Planet Coaster as Frontier didn't implement a proper launch mechanism. Instead, they based the shuttle mode on the one and only Wiener Looping/Bullet which works differently. 7:22 / 38:12 The small ties of the first track type are DEFINITELY for employees and not for stress purposes. They are significantly too small for that - compare them to the regular ties, they are insubstantial (IRL even more than in Planco). 30:12 That's a nice statement, and that's because Schwarzkopf rides are mostly geometric desings. Concentric circles, straight lines, etc. Olympia Looping, being one of the later design is a bit more fluid, but it's just some smoothed lead-in and out and helixes with varying radius. And that wonky first loop, haha. B&M coasters, 2000's Intamin and RMC are also relying on geometric curves. I think the smoothness of Schwarzkopf rides are thanks to the high manufacturing quality (track bending). The ride centerline was also very good for its time but a bit rough around the edges (as you said it was manually calculated). Also, back then they used more steel than nowaday as it was cheaper - resulting in a more sturdy track. 34:59 That was the favorite coaster of Werner Stengel to design the supports for, not Anton. Anyway, thanks again for these amazing video, the work and passion you put into those is tredemendous!

[@KingRCT3]

(Also I don't think Schwarzkopf are any different when it comes to have brakes not on an incline. Other manufacturers do too - basically when you have transport wheels. And the curved lift (which you can't do with a chain in Planco btw) appear not to be a constant radius, but is like horizontally squiched, at least on Olympia Looping)

[@StefsEngineering]

I've been on the "looping star" and later "thunder loop" in Slagharen many times. Such a smooth ride even in it's last years, at almost 30 years old it could still beat a lot of new coasters from a ride comfort point of view. Also the only one I've been on that has an inversion and just a lap bar. It's now rebuild and put to use on cyprus

[@grimlockfoc117]

This video is on point, my local park has a Schwarzkopf called Colossus:The Fire Dragon, it's a double looping coaster with the track that runs between the loops, the smaller two circle figure eight design. Everything you said about these coasters fits it to a T.

[@NALTOHQ]

Your local park? So that’s Lagoon then? That’s awesome! Wish we had a park as cool as them as a local one. All I got is Six Flags New England and Edaville.

[@nfcoasterferg]

Schawzkopf is still my favorite coaster designer. All his coasters are now 30-40 years old but they all run great. He was a genius. His loop supports for the traveling models were actually designed to be large tanks that could be filled with water. This would keep the track and the loops weighed down when the coaster was built on site. Then, when the coaster was disassembled for transport, the tanks were drained to lighten the travelling load. Genius!

[@kinnetik100]

My first ever roller coaster was Shwarzkopf's Mindbender in Edmonton, Canada. I believe it was the largest ride this company built, and one of the last to be designed by Anton. Still the best coaster I've ever been on. The G-force in the loops is absolutely insane, and the first drop is completely exhilarating. This video made me so nostalgic. I have so much love and respect for this company.

[@darrenk.2389]

Schwartzkopf loopers are awesome! Who agrees?

[@StitchUpGaming]

HydroPenguin yup

[@luuk777w]

Been on the Olympia Looping today and it was really awesome! Great ride!

[@hoosiercoasterfan2655]

All American Triple Loop just opened at my home park (Indiana Beach), which is the Schwarzkopf Dreier Looping that traveled around the German fair circuit, and was moved around from park to park. It is crazy intense, compact, and kinda violent (in a good way), I’m glad that there’s now something like it in the states, especially at a park like Indiana Beach which already had a Schwarzkopf traveling coaster.

[@michaelbates2284]

I like how you really go in depth with the way the real ones are built when you design these

[@Silvanus_]

this is the second tutorial i've watched of yours making a roller-coaster in planet coaster and it's literally so entertaining omg. i have planet coaster, but right now i don't intend on recreating any of the coasters you've made i just oddly enjoy watching you make roller-coasters.

[@YannisGoedermans]

My first ever looping coaster was indeed a Schwarzkopf Looping Star in Bobbejaanland when I was 5 years old.

[@ZoniesCoasters]

I thought coaster college was dead lol. We need a giavanola hyper coaster college because I'm tired of seeing all those B&M layouts with the wrong trains..

[@zachcoastercrazy4032]

The Giga Coaster might work, but I don't know.

[@sir_voldemott]

The giga ones are used for B&M hypers and Gigas

[@sir_voldemott]

Rage

[@brandicunningham7243]

It remind me of a coaster in Canada called the Mindbender in Alberta, Edmonton's West Edmonton Mall.. I grew up near Edmonton and this coaster definitely is very similar to it! Nice work Silvarret of course~ Bedankt!

[@edannelson8471]

“Mindbender” in Edmonton is very much an indoor Schwarzkopf coaster. 38.7 m (127 ft) drop and reached a top speed of 96.5 km/h (60.0 mph). It’s the largest indoor triple looping coaster with a G-force of 5.2

[@IlikeTitanic]

At the end you said that you thought we might have fallen asleep watching this video, but actually i couldn't stop watching it. The way you build and create stuff, as well as how informed and literate you are about what you talk about is a good incentive to keep watching these stuff over and over again. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledges and your creations

[@ryans413]

Same style coaster they have at West Edmonton mall in Canada. It has two big drops. First drop you go down come back up through a block section down through the first two loops back up to a block section down to the last loop over to a downward helix back to the station. It is fun for sure good coaster.l

[@ryans413]

Sorry in my comment I said downward helix it's a upward helix

[@imaginationsquare]

Schwarzkopf Shuttle Loops (Psyké Underground in Walibi België) is and stays one of my favorite roller coasters of all time!

[@wiekvanvenetie3797]

Ive got one of these schwarzkopf (Non looping) coasters as a completely functional 1:87 scale model. Its the most mesmerizing thing to watch ever. It also breaks every 3 rounds lol.

[@matsui90]

I enjoyed the double goodbye at the end ;)

[@Stev51]

"A little bit painful, and a little bit weird... but really that's what these coasters are all about." Thanks for the great vid Silv :)

[@asmylia9880]

Here in Hamburg, the Olympia always got a place in the heart of our city. It basically became something of a part of Hamburgs cultural history.

[@JSchaffer214]

My first looping coaster (1996) was a Schwarzkopf (The Mindbender in Six Flags over Georgia) and it's still one of my favorites to this day. The Mindbender has aged very well and is nothing spectacular by today's standards but is just a ton of pure fun.

[@lololol7538]

Why is my fave part the loops they look so cool

[@PhenomAnon08]

You absolutely nailed it. My local theme park has a Schwarzkopf and it was my first coaster with an inversion.

[@StitchUpGaming]

Planet Coaster College is THE most amazing series. So helpful. Also that is a mighty fine Schwartzkopf coaster 👍👍

[@ViLSuzerix]

this coaster is nostalgic roller coaster tycoon showed me this first

[@YannisGoedermans]

Yes! Finally another Planet Coaster College!

[@quinlanroche342]

I have to agree about revolution at six flags magic mountain. Riding it at night through the trees made it one of my favorites at the park

[@Dex02]

Couldn't help but notice a missing cut on the outro haha 47:27

[@Silvarret]

I finished this at 4am, please forgive me haha

[@haze_productions9715]

It's official. This is the best coaster type in game for me.

[@Matt-cr4fr]

silvarett i know this is a month old vid but to a parkitect college series id love it

[@morgastic23]

Silv you NEED to bring back more PCC, I wasn't falling asleep at all and watching you explain how to set up the ride to imitate other coasters of its type was really cool

[@argonaut640]

I remember riding Mind Bender at Six Flags Over Georgia and not really thinking it would be much. 'Twas surprising when I found out how smooth it was compared to my expectations.

[@MrPureBasic]

Yup, because these early Schwartkopf were designed with Stengel, and Intamin was behind. The Schwartzkopf coasters actually went rougher after the 70's.

[@kneecaps2000]

I have never played and I enjoyed this. Love the detail

[@joeeeee256]

I know they're super flexible, but I'd love to see you do a Mack 'Megacoaster' video :)

[@ClockworkNinja24]

Part of me is glad this is an option and part of me is dreading having to remake my looping star with the new track. Great video

[@B4T4LI4]

Pro tip!: You can get the block brakes under the lift-hill pretty easily by actually using the lift-hill itself. Simply remove 2 parts of your lift-hill and start building again on either of those broken off sides. Work your way to the preferred height of your block section and plan out where you want it to connect to the rest of your layout. Remove any unnecessary track pieces and reconnect your lift-hill. And voilà! Hope you learned something from this.

[@Abdulaziz_Aleid]

Amazing , thanks of the tutorial, please do a MACK tutorial next

[@KeystoneState]

“Extra Off Topic” is why we love your channel.. :)

[@willdenoble1898]

I already watched this, but I missed the part where you said they named it for you! That’s awesome silv!

[@TheSourPretzL]

Welcome Back, Planco College! Also they need to make the station thinner because Schwarzkopf's I remember riding like Bullet are less wide of a station, planet coasters are way to wide so I can accurately recreated those rides.. :/ but I'm so happy we have this ride in-game! :D (Edit) This also reminds me a 2 looping version of Magnum Force from Flamingo land, now somewhere in mexico.

[@KajTaotsu]

Just rode SixFlagsOverTexas' Shockwave yesterday, it's a favorite classic of mine at the park. It uses a box-trestle style track type that I honestly cant find on any other schwarzkopf designs except for maybe Mindbender in SixFlagsOverGeorgia over on RCDB. Everything else uses the 3-tubular or flat trestle styles. Makes me wonder about why they chose it for those particular coasters. Great video and coaster as always, thank you for the tutorial!

[@Silvarret]

Thank you! Judging by the year these coasters we're built, I think perhaps Schwarzkopf just hadn't invented or perfected the cone-plug track yet.

[@Tom-ov4lb]

Please please please put this on the workshop!!

[@imaginox9]

Funnily enough you mentioned my younger brother's and my father's very first inverting coaster: Psyke Underground at Walibi Belgium (my brother rode it as Psyke Underground, my dad as its original form: Sirocco), nice :)

[@Silvarret]

Great coaster!

[@LewisRiverman]

This is just amazing. I love the layout support work very much. Probably one of the best Schwarzkopf Coaster on Planet Coaster. The first helix is insane but I remember that Olympia Looping did also have very strong pos g-forces. Sometimes even 5! I think that the loopings are located on a wagon or water basins. Overall great video! I watched it completely.

[@benjamin507]

Can you do a tutorial on a Intamin prototype wing? I would love to see that

[@mouhw]

This really is my favourite coaster, I was always going to ride it on the Oktoberfest and tried for Days to exactly recreate it on rct3 🥰🥰

[@cameron3320]

Silvarret: *Lets the world know about the 4m method Silvarret 6 months later: *Doesn’t use 4m method

[@Silvarret]

It's too time-consuming to use for every coaster, honestly - and when it comes to Schwarzkopf specifically, I feel like it's more realistic without the 4m method.

[@derpsmash9741]

My first loop was a Schwarzkopf shuttle - Montezooma's Revenge at Knotts Berry Farm. Still love it!

[@leanen6424]

Extra ties are afaik mostly to secure workers in heights, smaller coasters, stationary ones or near terrain (like lbb) do not need that necessarily.

[@CamGold]

cant wait for a pov and the workshop link, great job, love this coaster

[@AxolotelPlays]

11:00 You talked about the Hearthling there. I just watched the Schwarzkopf dokumentary and he literatly talked about the hearthling. He told something about motorcylist moving their bodys previously befor turning into a curve. Schwarzkopf and his Team was realy like the foundation of the modern days Coaster Industry for this thinking alone!

[@LiamLlamaEVEC]

Hi Silv, I'm glad to see this series come back. I appreciated your dedication to explain the importance of Mr. Schwarzkopf's work. You did a really good job showing how to build a looping star model, but I think you could also make a blueprint on the workshop for a shuttle looper. I have yet to find one that's any good on the workshop, and although they are simple, I can never build the flywheel/ wheightdrop structure right.

[@GianniTheodoor]

it's not vertical looping, it's vertical loop-dee-loop

[@swurv.5055]

this is just mindbender

[@Slyser85]

Please .. Please Blueprint this Coaster!

[@RichTapestry]

Seconded!

[@user-nx7hf8tw9h]

Yes please!!

[@modelrollercoasters]

Yes, please. This is a GREAT layout, true to Schwarzkopf.

[@user-hb2ne3oc6f]

Yesssss, fianlly more planet coaster collage!

[@ChristianHansard]

The Shock Wave at Six Flags (TX) is still my favorite coaster ever.

[@nickdoesthing584]

Man, I need this game. My old home park was Six Flags Astroworld. It was home to both a Looping Star, (Viper) and an amazing shuttle loop called Greezed Lightnin'. Time to save up for a decent pc so that I can remake Astroworld. Oh, and the park at the end had a painful SLC too...yep.

[@josephhobbs6436]

If you look up lagoon park in Utah they have one of these coasters and it’s called colossus. It is a fun ride very forceful and is a unique ride.

[@matthijsblomjous3671]

this looks so cool

[@itsthatnerdyintrovert4446]

my favorite Schwarzkopf Looping Coaster is the Mindbender. There are two of them. six flags over Georgia and in west edmonton MALL. the mall one is my favorite. (Only one i've seen and soon will be riding.

[@samcmusic3031]

The only one I’ve ridden was Jetliner at Grona Lund and I loved it. And I’d consider Schwarzkopf to be the European Arrow

[@Silvarret]

I rode Jetliner too! Love it. Gröna Lund in general is a really cool park, great atmosphere.

[@StarlightEquinox]

This is simply glorious

[@carlitoon9451]

If I where able to bring just ONE type of roller coaster back into building them it would be this one. Should have made this coaster a blueprint awesome ride! :)

[@tumbleweed8342]

I was thinking about building these

[@weirdbrick4212]

immediately reminded me of 5 loops at octoberfest, munich

[@Stephenp503]

My favorite roller coaster in Texas is Shockwave at Six Flags Over Texas. It is made by Schwartzcaf. I rode it 8 times in one day.

[@kofi4759]

silv learns everything so fast... he is the true.... planet coaster god also, was knightmare at Camelot a Schwarzkopf?

[@user-hb2ne3oc6f]

yes it was

[@coasterwaffle9623]

Mack coaster (vector)tutorial

[@Thirteen-zn4nk]

could you do a Vekoma SLC on planet coaster college

[@SynthieFreak]

If you had added 3 more loopings, I'd have felt the Olympia-Looping. Your creation feels very close to it.

[@smith9808]

Been playing a lot of RCT2 on my IPad. It’s funny then coming to view this and see how far PC games have come visually. Probably in 15 years il be playing this on it too lol

[@howenator]

Please do a Mack rides planet coaster college.

[@r32fan92]

My first vertical loop was ‘revolution’ at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. I have never ridden a Schwarzkopf coaster

[@asmylia9880]

I know the Olympia one and saw them thousands of times live!

[@poolcoasterguy]

I'm not sure of their purpose either but those small ties between the regular ones are exclusive to the traveling models I believe. Also leisbergbanan was built by zeirer but just designed by Schwartzkopf as he was working for zeirer at the time

[@supersluggz]

The 5 looping one is at the Oktoberfest in Munich

[@oakleymartindale4694]

Hi Silvarret. I was just wondering if you could do an inverted coaster tutorial as your next planet coaster collage episode as i wish to build that as my next coaster in my theme park but i have not acquired the correct skill to do so.

[@tangleidk]

I love this ride model. My only complaint is I wish it had the mind bender from over the Georgia track.

[@swenwestenenk]

And now I miss the loopingstar in slagharen 😭😭

[@sachalikescoaster7717]

Compact fun and intense that's how you describe a Schwarzkopf coaster

[@disneysydneyresortvirtual9264]

Well i actually haven't done a proper silvarett coaster yet only mack ones since the dlc came out,but this video was fun to watch and reminded me soo much of Olympia Looping, now i guess i'll have to try to make one too xd. BTW a mack mega coaster college should be the next one right?

[@psychic2you]

I didn't knew Turbine name changed into Psyké underground. Yes i'm from Belgium, and yes I've experienced this coaster. I love it as well (just dislike the queing time though). I wanted to recreate that ride, but I can't since we don't have a booster start.

[@DavincstyleGames]

Prachtig werk weer! Good job!

[@starlordmixtape1576]

It will always be "Great American Revolution" 🎢 to me, I rode it on July 4, 1976 at Magic Mountain, which was not Six Flags yet.

[@pinkchckn]

5:06 hey, I've been on that coaster.. and that beast behind it :)

[@CoasterB]

I believe Anton worked with Werner Stengel from Germany who designed the banking of roads on autobahn exits etc and he designed the banking and transitions for the Schwarzkopf coasters, but correct me if I’m wrong

[@LucasNinoMusic]

This isn’t on the MacBook version, what version of planet coaster is it on?

[@Ejector_Thrills]

omg yeah! I just realised this was named after you!

[@Marselo34]

2:49 actually my first coaster with inversions was an inverted coaster at SeaWorld San Antonio

[@bcgamers6824]

Track 1 is for when the track tends to move like loops and sharp turns is what it would be used on

[@dorth09]

Schwarzkopf has heartlining on the newer coasters. They were the first to use it

[@carlo_4428]

My favorite shuttle coaster is Mindbender at six flags over Georgia.