General Chat / Parks Across the Globe!

What's your favorite theme park? Personally, I have two favorites. My home park, SFOT-It has a great, beautiful atmoshere, with thrilling roller coasters, flat rides, and rides for kids. Also, my other favorite, is IOA- I love Incredible Hulk, Dueling Dragons, and other rides. It's awesome all around. And I love Fright Nights (in all parks).

Disneyland.

How could you not include Disney?

^Good ass question... i guess we've been n00bed!

Cedar Point All the way!
Closely followed by PKI though

Walibi Lorraine? Seriously?

Anyways, mine would be Europa Park. IOA is pretty cool though.

I have a soft spot for Epcot

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I really like Cedar Point, Hersheypark and Indiana Beach. They're my favorites however I haven't been to many parks (only 7) so I don't feel that I have the expearence to say.

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Islands of Adventure is the best theme park in the world by a LONGSHOT.

The Atmosphere of that park is just fucking incredible. It beats Disney in all aspects: food, atmosphere, rides, themeing, you name it.

I would give anything to live near that park.

Islands of Adventure is the best theme park in the world by a LONGSHOT.

The Atmosphere of that park is just fucking incredible. It beats Disney in all aspects: food, atmosphere, rides, themeing, you name it.

I would give anything to live near that park.

No it doesn't!
IOA is close but still not quite Disney. Hulk and Dueling Dragons are both completely unthemed outside the stations and trains, and Dueling Dragons runs around next to a maintenance lot and a big stupid-looking wall. Disney would never pull that shit. And the food sucks, except maybe that fancypants place in the rock mountain there. IOA is close but not quite at Disney-level. And probably never will be. Still a damn fun place though.

I agree with Jellybones, here. Islands of Adventure is absolutely kickass, but Disney is just in a leauge of it's own. Oh, and about that restaraunt in the rock mountain (Mythos), it really is the best place ever. If you ever visit IOA, eat there. It's amazing.

Jo, in my opinion Paramount's Great America is the worst park around here. Basically Demon is the only coaster there with a ride time (that's minus the lift hill) of over 40 seconds, I would estimate. Vortex seriously takes probably about 30 seconds from top of lift hill to final brakes. And Grizzly is the worst coaster that I have ever ridden in my life bar none.

Anyway enough with the negative stuff. For sheer innovation I am in constant admiration of Korakuen in Japan. Europa Park seems pretty awesome except they now have like 3 identical Mack water coasters. I'm sure IOA is up there in terms of innovation, but have I missed something big or is the park today almost exactly the same as it was in 1999? Perhaps Kennywood is also a candidate for using the hillsides so well back in the 1920s and continuing to do so today.

You know what sucks - ?

Australia doesn't have a single good ride here. Ok, we have a standard Vekoma SLC at Warner Bros. Movie World, which has been advertised to DEATH as being the BEST coaster in the country... makes me wanna cry. Apparently, we're getting an Intamin Accelerator coaster, but it doesn't even reach the 200ft mark in height, which is dissapointing...

Jo, in my opinion Paramount's Great America is the worst park around here. Basically Demon is the only coaster there with a ride time (that's minus the lift hill) of over 40 seconds, I would estimate. Vortex seriously takes probably about 30 seconds from top of lift hill to final brakes. And Grizzly is the worst coaster that I have ever ridden in my life bar none.

Anyway enough with the negative stuff. For sheer innovation I am in constant admiration of Korakuen in Japan. Europa Park seems pretty awesome except they now have like 3 identical Mack water coasters. I'm sure IOA is up there in terms of innovation, but have I missed something big or is the park today almost exactly the same as it was in 1999? Perhaps Kennywood is also a candidate for using the hillsides so well back in the 1920s and continuing to do so today.

I agree, PGA is pretty mediocre compared to most parks. It's too bad that they got rid of Stealth, which was, IMO, their second best coaster (and it still wasn't that great). I really like Top Gun though.

Korakeun is now called LaQua. It looks pretty cool, but I doubt it's as good as most Disney parks, IOA, or Europa Park. Thunder Dolphin and Geopanic do look awesome though.

Europa Park only has two Mack water coasters. And they are pretty different, since one is more of a coaster/water ride, and the other is more like a shoot-the-chutes type thing. And it makes sense that they built it, since the park is owned by Mack, and they use it to display their rides. I don't know why they still haven't made a Fun Coaster there though.

IOA has added a tea cup ride. And a Vekoma Rollerskater.

I stand corrected, in approximately 77 different ways.

I stand corrected, in approximately 77 different ways.

No, approximately 76.

I went to Six Flags St. Louis today. It was fun, I guess...

But I like Busch Gardens the best as far as chain parks go. IOA is right up there. I'd take a good atmosphere with great rides over incredible atmosphere with kiddie rides (generalization, don't get pissed off), or lots of rides and little if any atmosphere.

I dunno, this is a pretty tough decision. I like different parks for different reasons. For example, Islands of Adventure is a cool park, because it has some okay rides and really nice themeing. On the other hand, I enjoy Six Flags Magic Mountain because it has a ton of kickass rides. I'm easily pleased when it comes to amusement parks.

If I had to choose though, I might go with any Busch Park...um, BGW, BGT, SWO, SWSD..something like that. The quality is just really outstanding there. Also, BGW has the best frozen lemonade ever.

And you what else about IOA. there aren't nearly enough rides. it opened with way too few, and they've added what? a teacup ride in some obscure corner of the park? its easy to see everything important by the afternoon.

Granted, I haven't been to many amusement parks, but I would place BGW at the top of my list. The atmosphere and quality of the rides (rather than quantity) really set the bar high. I wish the west coast had a Busch Gardens park...one can only hope.

The only US parks that I can see giving BGW a run for the money would be BGT (been to a LONG time ago), Disneyland/World (I have yet to go to land...and been a LONG time since I've been to World), CP (have yet to go there), and IoA (have yet to go there).

I want to go to CP so bad. I always wanter to ride TTD, and millenium force.

You're on crack if you think IOA doesn't theme rides well. Disney themes their coasters well because their coasters are TINY. Hulk is themed well anyways, and its easily 3 times the size of any Disney coaster. Dueling Dragons is well themed too. Look at Dudley Doright's Ripsaw Falls -> that ride is themed better than any disney ride, as well as the Jurrassic Park Ride and Spiderman. And the Dr. Suess area is ABSOLUTELY incredible. The only thing that rivals IOA for themeing that comes from Disney World would be Tower of Terror, Splash Mountain, or Thunder Mountain. And maybe Pirates of the Carribean and the Haunted House, if you want to go to that type of ride.

IOA is just simply unstoppable.

Oh and thinking a Six Flags park has a great atmosphere is just a joke.