Still can't beat the all-time coaster gripe of the century:
Gemini at Cedar Point is NOT a wooden coaster.
The Great White at Wildwood New Jersey is NOT a steel coaster.
What I'm getting at is people often don't realize that a coaster's type is determined by the track the trains run on.
Some examples:
Millenium Force, Raptor and Mantis (All at Cedar Point in Ohio) are all Steel coasters. They all run on a steel track.
Meanstreak (Cedar Point), Beast (King's Island) and Son of Beast (King's Island) are all wooden coasters. They all run on wooden a track.
A little more info before I go on.
The Superstructure of a coaster comprises all the components required to support the track - all the columns, trusswork, trestles, towers, and what-have-you.
The track is the component that the train runs on. It is built on top of the Superstructure (well, in the case of steel inversion coasters, that technically not true since the superstructure is built around the track to support it during the inversions).
Though they are two seperate components, just about everyone refers to them as a single unit ("the Roller Coaster").
Back to my "complaint".
The fly in the ointment here is what I call "Hybrids." Hybrids are coasters that comprise one track type, but are built on a different superstructure. The two exmples cited at the top of the post are perfect examples.
Gemini runs on a steel track built on a wooden superstructure.
The Great White runs on a wooden track built on a steel superstructure.
Why on earth couldn't they just build them the traditional way? All this hybrid stuff is too confusing to the general public. However unless your completely coaster-savvy, the general public really won't notice the difference anyway. So we might be able just get away with not telling anyone anything and save everybody alotta grief.