Theme Park Discussion / Top 10 roller coasters!

whats your top ten?

1. Superman Krypton Coaster, Six Flags Fiesta Texas
2. Millennium Force, Cedar Point
3. Superman: Ride of Steel, Six Flags America
4. Incredible Hulk Coaster, Islands of Adventure
5. Mr. Freeze, Six Flags Over Texas
6. Roar, Six Flags America
7. Maverick, Cedar Point
8. Raptor, Cedar Point
9. Titan, Six Flags Over Texas
10. Renegade, Valleyfair!

i've been 85 coasters, so its really hard to pick 10 coasters i really liked

I also loved

Thunderhead, Tennessee Tornado, Wild Thing, Raging Bull, Texas Giant, Texas Cyclone, Dueling Dragons. Poltergiest, and a couple others i can't remember right now.

1. Raven, Holiday World
2. Thunderhead, Dollywood
3. Manhattan Express, New York New York Hotel & Casino
4. Voyage, Holiday World
5. California Screamin, Disney's California Adventure
6. Tennessee Tornado, Dollywood
7. Canyon Blaster, Circus Circus Hotel & Casino
8. Legend, Holiday World
9. Mulholland Madness, Disney's California Adventure
10. High Miller, San Diego County Fair

Wow, that was harder than I thought it would be.

^ You seriously have Raven over Voyage? Wow... never thought I'd see that. Interesting taste.

Anyway, I break up my list into 15 steel coasters and 10 wooden. The two types cannot be combined, imo.

Steel:
1. Millennium Force (CP)
2. Top Thrill Dragster (CP)
3. Goliath (SFOG)
4. Storm Runner (Hershey)
5. Montu (BGA)
6. Maverick (CP
7. Dominator (Geauga)
8. Alpengeist (BGE)
9. Raptor (CP)
10. Top Gun: The Jet Coaster (Carowinds)
11. Kumba (BGA)
12. Talon (Dorney)
13. MindBender (SFOG)
14. Mystery Mine (DW)
15. Volcano: The Blast Coaster (KD)

Wooden:
1. Voyage (HW)
2. Thunderhead (DW)
3. Kentucky Rumbler (BB)
4. Lightning Racer (HP)
5. Beast (KI)
6. Phoenix (Knoebels)
7. Legend (HW)
8. Raven (HW)
9. Wildcat (HP)
10. Rampage (AA)

(Out of 172 coasters)

Out of about 80...

1. El Toro-Six Flags Great Adventure
2. Magnum XL 200-Cedar Point
3. Millennium Force-Cedar Point
4. Storm Runner-Hersheypark
5. Top Thrill Dragster-Cedar Point
6. Alpengeist-Busch Gardens Europe
7. Apollo's Chariot-Busch Gardens Europe
8. Cyclone-Coney Island
9. Wildcat-Hersheypark
10. Vortex-Canada's Wonderland

Edited by zburns999, 03 September 2007 - 02:18 PM.

Hah, I can only think of 5 atm.
1.Shikria - Bush Gardens Tampa Bay
2.Steel Force (back seat) - Dorney Park
3.Dueling Dragons - Island of Adventures
4.Nitro - Six Flags Great Adventure
5.Apollo's Chariot - Busch Gardens Virginia

I am rating coasters just by the fun factor and often fun is because of going to parks with friends, meeting people etc.

1. Troy - great layout, nice talk to all the GCII people, great ride in the rain with Mr. Hain Jr.
2. Goliath (WW)- first big coaster, Stengel Dive rocks, 8 rides in a row with normal line being 30mins ()
3. Black Mamba - first public rider front row left, great interaction with theming, riding in darkness is great
4. Colossos (HP) - poor woodie, but a lot of fun on the 5th birthday party
5. Big Apple (Plohn) - 60 coaster fans riding kiddie coasters; great fun
6. Temple of the Nighthawk - eating, drinking, riding with santa claus caps on, fun, fun, fun
7. G'sengte Sau - one hour ERT + getting a wheel + lifthill walk ok ...
8. Boomerang (Toverland) - Vekoma guessing how to bank a coaster can be funny
9. some wild mouse on a local fair - riding with open restraints can be quite interesting
10. Riolraat (Hellendoorn) - great queue line, nice theming

Yes, I am a fan of small Coasters.

lets see...

1. Ninja @ Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, California
2. Roar @ Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, California
3. Medusa @ Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, California
4. Montu @ Busch Gardens, Tampa Bay, Florida
5. The Incredible Hulk @ Islands of Adventure, Orlando, Florida
6. Batman @ Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, California
7. Fire and Ice @ Islands of Adventure, Orlando, Florida
8. Gwazi @ Busch Gardens, Tampa Bay, Florida
9. Ghost Rider @ Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, California
10. Xcelerator @ Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, California
11. Mystery Of The Giza Connection @ Cydonia City, Grand Canyon, USA

I'm currently in more of a wooden coaster mood, though I tried to include the same number of both. The order is fairly arbitrary, especially since some of them probably wouldn't rank as highly if I rode them now. It's really more of a favorites list than a ranking. I could probably fit about 10 more on there that I like about as well.

1. Boulderdash @ Lake Compounce
2. Hades @ Mt. Olympus
3. Talon @ Dorney Park
4. Lightning Racer @ Hershey Park
5. Euro Mir @ Europa Park
6. Tatsu @ Six Flags Magic Mountain
7. Cyclops @ Mt. Olympus
8. Wild Thing @ Valleyfair
9. Roar @ Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
10. Medusa @ Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

The others that didn't make it this time: Renegade @ Valleyfair, X @ SFMM, Wildcat @ Hershey Park, Cyclone @ Coney Island, Ghostrider @ KBF, Phantom's Revenge @ Kennywood, Katun @ Mirabilandia, California Screamin' @ DCA, Space Mountain @ DLCA, Superman Krypton Coaster @ SFFT, Tremors @ Silverwood, Avalanche @ Timber Falls.

Top Ten Wood:

1. El Toro
2. Boulderdash
3. Lightning Racer
4. Roar (DK)
5. Wildcat (HP)
6. Comet (HP)
7. Thunder Road (Forwards(Carowinds))
8. Rolling Thunder
9. Gwazi
10. Hurler (Carowinds)

Top Ten Steel:
1. Nitro
2. Millennium Force
3. Storm Runner
4. SheiKra
5. Montu
6. Top Gun- The Jet Coaster (Carowinds)
7. California Screamin'
8. Expedition Everest
9. Rock'n'Roller Coaster
10. Great Bear

1. Air
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2. Nemesis
3. Goliath (Walibi World)
4. Black Mamba
5. Troy
6. Formule X
7. Rita QOS
8. Oblivion
9. Xpress
10. Alpina Bahn

Steel
1. Katun (Mirabilandia)
2. Expedition GeForce (Holiday Park)
3. Batman la Fuga (Parque Warner Madrid)
4. Black Mamba (Phantasialand)
5. Turbine (Walibi Belgium)
6. Dragon Khan (Port Aventura)
7. Goliath (Walibi World)
8. Winja's Fear (Phantasialand)
9. Vogel Rok (Efteling)
10. Wild Train (Erlebnispark Strasswalchen)

Wooden
1. Troy (Toverland)
2. Stampida (Blue) (Port Aventura)
3. Stampida (Red) (Port Aventura)
4. Colossos (Heide Park)
5. Loup Garou (Walibi Belgium)
6. Robin Hood (Walibi World)
7. Pegasus (Efteling)
8. Hochschaubahn (Prater)
9. Bandit (Movie Park Germany)
10. Tomahawk (Port Aventura)

Yes, I LOVE B&M Inverts ;P

@Magnus: It's GCI, not GCII
@CP: Great Ava and Sig

"MFG"

so hard to decide...

1. Dueling Dragons @ Island of Adventure
2. X @ SFMM
3. Goliath @ SFMM
4. Dragon Khan @ Port Aventura
5. Incredible Hulk @ Islands of Adventure
6. Kraken @ Sea World Orlando
7. Nemesis @ Alton Towers
8. Montu @ Busch Gardens Tampa
9. Riddler's Revenge @ SFMM
10. Air @ Alton Towers
11. Nemesis: Inferno @ Thorpe Park
12. Batman @ SFMM
13. Rita: Queen of Speed @ Alton Towers
14. Stealth @ Thorpe Park
15. Stampida @ Port Aventura
16. Kumba @ Busch Gardens Tampa
17. Gwazi @ Busch Gardens Tampa
18. Oblivion @ Alton Towers
19. Shockwave @ Drayton Manor Park
20. Space Mountain (old) @ Disneyland / Supersonic Odyssey @ Cosmos World Kuala Lumpur


I've been thinking of doing a series of topics each week where you guys vote for your favourite coaster of each type (ie. Inverted Coaster) and then see which coaster wins in each type, similar to one that was done at RCT Station.

a. Would that be a good idea?
b. If so, then what would we do about clone coasters (for example, would Batman count as all Batmans, or would there be Batman from each park)
c. Should I have it as a poll with selected rides, or just have an open vote with me counting the posts?

@5Dave: Actually, it is GCII.

^as far as I know, the company is called Great Coasters International, or not?

@ Metropole: a: yeah b: for each park (theming plays a role) c: poll
But what do you do if a new ride opens? A new poll every year?

"MFG"

Great Coasters International, Inc. So you're both right. And I noticed that if I go on Thunderbird, I'll have been on every other GCI,I coaster listed on wikipedia. Or more likely, Thunderhead on rcdb.com.
a. Sure
b. I'd just do them all as one, but I don't really care.
c. Maybe have nominations, but it should be a poll

woops late post

Edited by JJ, 07 September 2007 - 04:52 PM.

@CP: Great Ava and Sig

Yeah, I have been wondering about that...
Have you actually been on it or are you just interested in it?

Nope, never been on it, although it looks to me like the best B&M coaster in the world and is currently set as #2 on my most want to ride list.

Great Coasters International, Inc. So you're both right. And I noticed that if I go on Thunderbird, I'll have been on every other GCI,I coaster listed on wikipedia. Or more likely, Thunderhead on rcdb.com.

Have you been to Toverland already? You should have told me. I would have been there for sure.

Apart from that it is GCII. The company itself is calling itself GCII, their shirts say GCII, they say GCII when talking to them, ...
Well I guess both is sort of right, as most other companys don't care about the I from Inc., but it always seemed appropriate to me to use the abbreviation the company is using.


@Metro:
Problem will be that europeans vote for their coasters, americans for the american coasters. Better have a topic with people voting. So we can see where they are coming from and maybe understand their voting better.

Magnus

Cool, ill take into account what people have said and start organising it. Going to Barcelona for a few days tomorrow so won't be back til thursday (going to Port Aventura, woot). Will have the first poll up fri or sat probably.

Bye