A.J.

Obviously any coaster that is now defunct would be great for a video. But I'll also agree with Andy in that I'd love some Nautic Jet video.

Hooray for Barry! You did great! Fenix is excellent. Even having never been to Toverland before, I could tell how well their transformation was going. Dwervelwind kicks butt as well.

This is apparently an image from Friday, but also apparently right as the beaches opened, some are reporting that things have calmed down a bit since then.

I tend to agree with you - the summer season is up in the air but I can see seasonal parks being open for their Halloween and Christmas events.

Kraken is great. The cobra roll is snappy and the zero-G is really fun in the back.

While I do agree that the parks will reopen later rather than sooner, there's also the possibility that they will open earlier and are not expecting enough attendance to justify the additional staffing for Fast Lane.

The foam was changed to something a little softer, and the lap restraint now pops up a little bit once you're stopped on the final brakes.

For what it's worth, Switchback placed at #39 wooden coaster on the TPR Coaster Poll this year, so Dorney Park's new coaster should be great indeed.

Orange County here in Florida is also expecting that restrictions won't be eased until early June.

I don't even think it will be a money thing - it will be a paranoia thing. When the parks re-open around here you'll get three groups of people going - A) the people who are desperate for their vacation and will experience it by any means necessary; B) the enthusiasts and passholders like us who also want to go back but understand the risks involved; and C) the silly "the virus doesn't affect me" people who still physically go to church every week or defy stay-at-home orders in other ways. All the "normal" people, though? I bet that they're going to be thinking twice about putting themselves or their families at risk by going to any large gathering - including amusement parks, theaters, cinemas, concerts, city parks, conventions - until there is an effective treatment or vaccine. We still don't know if people can contract it again after having previously recovered.

B&M really just makes too many consistently good coasters. It certainly isn't a bad reflection on Mako. For what it's worth, Monster and Mako are only separated by half a percentage point in terms of comparison wins. In fact, the top 53 coasters, all the way down to Leviathan, achieved win percentages of 90 percent or more. That means that each of those coasters won 90 or more percent of the head-to-head comparisons they were placed in on people's ballots.

Let's go by manufacturers first, shall we? Top 10 from each coming up! 2019 Top 10 B&M Coasters 1. Fury 325 - Carowinds 2. Flying Dinosaur - Universal Studios Japan 3. Shambhala - PortAventura Park 4. Nemesis - Alton Towers 5. Pyrenees - Parque Espana Shima Spain Village 6. Katun - Mirabilandia 7. Nitro - Six Flags Great Adventure 8. Montu - Busch Gardens Tampa 9. Kumba - Busch Gardens Tampa 10. Monster - Walygator Parc 2019 Top 10 Gerstlauer Coasters 1. Schwur des Kärnan - Hansa Park 2. Fury - Bobbejaanland 3. Monster - Adventureland (Iowa) 4. Gold Rush - Attractiepark Slagharen 5. Fluch von Novgorod - Hansa Park 6. Smiler - Alton Towers 7. HangTime - Knott's Berry Farm 8. Takabisha - Fuji-Q Highland 9. Karacho - Erlebnispark Tripsdrill 10. Madagascar Mad Pursuit - Motiongate 2019 Top 10 Intamin Coasters 1. Expedition GeForce - Holiday Park 2. Maverick - Cedar Point 3. El Toro - Six Flags Great Adventure 4. Skyrush - Hersheypark 5. Taron - Phantasialand 6. Intimidator 305 - Kings Dominion 7. Millennium Force - Cedar Point 8. Mega Lite Coasters - various parks 9. T Express - Everland 10. Goliath - Walibi Holland 2019 Top 10 Mack Coasters 1. DC Rivals Hypercoaster - Warner Bros. Movie World 2. Helix - Liseberg 3. Icon - Blackpool Pleasure Beach 4. Lost Gravity - Walibi Holland 5. Alpina Blitz - Nigloland 6. Time Traveler - Silver Dollar City 7. Copperhead Strike - Carowinds 8. Star Trek Operation Enterprise - Movie Park Germany 9. Blue Fire coasters - various parks 10. Space Fantasy The Ride - Universal Studios Japan 2019 Top 5 Vekoma Coasters 1. Lech Coaster - Legendia 2. Space Warp coasters - various parks 3. Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars - Hong Kong Disneyland 4. Tron Lightcycle Power Run - Shanghai Disneyland 5. Expedition Everest - Disney's Animal Kingdom And, for giggles, of these five manufacturers, the numbers of steel coasters in the top 100: B&M - 35 Intamin - 23 (plus 4 wooden coasters) Mack - 8 Gerstlauer - 6 Vekoma - 4

You got it! 2019 Top 15 Wooden Coasters running PTC trains 1. Phoenix - Knoebels Amusement Park & Resort 2. Voyage - Holiday World & Splashin' Safari 3. Boulder Dash - Lake Compounce 4. Ravine Flyer II - Waldameer Water World 5. Wooden Coaster Fireball - Happy Valley Shanghai 6. Shivering Timbers - Michigan's Adventure 7. Tremors - Silverwood Theme Park 8. Comet - Great Escape 9. Rampage - Alabama Splash Adventure 10. Beast - Kings Island 11. Raven - Holiday World & Splashin' Safari 12. Legend - Holiday World & Splashin' Safari 13. Boardwalk Bullet - Kemah Boardwalk 14. Twister - Knoebels Amusement Park & Resort 15. Timber Terror - Silverwood Theme Park

You are not the first person to report this problem, we're looking into it.

Okay, as requested by Andy (and with some creative license by myself), here are the top 25 steel and top 25 wooden coasters organized by ridership. They're in order, but I won't give the exact numbers; I'll round down. 300 riders or more Millennium Force 200-299 riders El Toro (Six Flags Great Adventure), Maverick 150-199 riders Fury 325, GhostRider, Intimidator 305, Phoenix (Knoebels), Skyrush, Steel Vengeance, Twisted Colossus, Voyage 100-149 riders Goliath (Six Flags Great America), Lightning Rod, Mystic Timbers, Superman the Ride, Wicked Cyclone 90-99 riders Boulder Dash, New Texas Giant, Outlaw Run, Storm Chaser, Twisted Timbers 80-89 riders Intamin Mega Lite coasters (combined), Ravine Flyer II, Taron 70-79 riders Wodan Timbur Coaster 60-69 riders Balder, Expedition GeForce, Gold Striker, Goliath (Walibi Holland), Helix, Mine Blower, Prowler, Shivering Timbers 50-59 riders Renegade, Troy, Twisted Cyclone 30-39 riders Flying Dinosaur, Wildfire (Kolmarden) 20-29 riders Coaster (Playland), RailBlazer, Tremors, Untamed (Walibi Holland), Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster 12-19 riders (12 is minimum for ranking) Cu Chulainn, Colossos Kampf der Giganten, DC Rivals Hypercoaster, Lech Coaster, Medusa Steel Coaster, T Express, Wooden Coaster Fireball

We'll look into it. We had over 50 riders for Wildcat, so there's definitely a consensus. A roller coaster could be low-ranked for various reasons outside of outright roughness - for example, it could just be boring for most riders. I haven't ridden it myself so I don't know.

Thanks for the compliments, but this was a team effort - with Robb leading the charge and Chase doing a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff to make the poll work the way it does. Noted! We'll look into it, it might be analyzing the top 50 in order of ridership or something. We can't say with certainty where they would rank unless they have the ridership. Based on our current projections, Zadra would have placed in the top 25, and Maxx Force in the top 100 for sure. I'd file it under being "just a new coaster" as opposed to "the coaster everyone's been waiting for" that is Steel Vengeance. I anticipate it and Steel Curtain will get rankings on the 2021 poll at the latest. We can't do that, because of the low ridership, it's tough to get an estimate / projection apart from "top XX". We'd rather cut them off completely than include something that might come across as inaccurate. It's unfortunate because a lot of those coasters, especially some of the newer rides in China, have been extremely well-received. In some cases, Wooden Coaster A would be ranked above Wooden Coaster B in the wooden poll, but it would be the other way around on the combined poll, if that makes sense. We didn't want any ambiguity there. We included the "hyper space warp" variant found at several Fantawild parks with the launched one this year. Right now, anyway, we believe that the difference between the "normal" and "hyper" variants is not really more significant than, say, Mind Eraser vs Blue Tornado (with the bonus helix). Those are both SLCs, these are both space warps.

While I personally adore Untamed and put it at my own #2, I suspect there's a bit of "new hotness" hype going on. However, more than half the people that rode it ranked it in their top 3, with the vast majority ranking it in their top 10. Once that new Raptor Track coaster gets built at that water park, Wonder Woman and RailBlazer will no longer be ranked and the clones will get a singular entry. That will open up two more spots for top 25 coasters as well. We had a few people rank it relatively low, but their ballots check out. Different strokes for different blokes! The highest rated inverted coaster was Nemesis at #28, followed by Pyrenees at #41, Katun at #42, and Montu at #45.

The top steel coasters got a little bit of a shakeup this year because we put the "clone" protocol into effect in full, which changed how the Mega Lite coasters were treated. All three 2019 Rocky Mountain coasters had an overwhelmingly good response - Zadra and Hakugei would have both placed above Untamed had they received enough riders. Hakugei was close but Zadra had a ways to go there. Beast placed at #31 this year.

The TPR 2019 Coaster Poll Results are in! https://coasterpoll.com/ The Theme Park Review Coaster Poll is an ongoing effort by myself (A.J.), Chase (Comeagain?) and Robb (robbalvey). We're continuing to work hard to develop THE definitive annual ranking of the world's roller coasters! The reason why this poll exists is because the Mitch Hawker poll, which was considered by many to be the quintessential roller coaster poll for nearly 20 years, had kind of fallen into a black hole leaving few polls or awards that exist that we would put real faith into the results. This year, we had over seven hundred people submit ballots! We would like to thank everyone who took the time to submit one - you're helping fulfill the poll's mission! The way Mitch’s poll worked is that instead of being a “popularity contest” of “he who gets the most votes wins”, it actually ranked and weighted people’s real life riding experience against each other. It took into account how many coasters you’ve ridden and how those rankings compare against others with similar experiences. It also meant that no matter if you’ve ridden 50 or 500 coasters, the results were “fair and balanced.” Due to confusion in last year's poll, we will NOT be running a "combined" set of results. Wooden and steel coasters are being ranked separately this year! As a refresher, these are the rules: To qualify for the poll, a coaster has to be the size of a wild mouse or larger, with a select few exceptions To qualify for the poll, a coaster has to both have operated for the majority of the previous season (2019) AND be scheduled to have opened during the current season (2020, though current world events may have prevented this). To receive a numbered ranking, a coaster must have been marked "ridden" and ranked by at least 12 (twelve) people; any with less than that are given a provisional ranking and not included in the "top" lists Individual installations of roller coaster clones (Vekoma SLC, Mack Blue Fire, etc) do NOT count in rankings; Instead, their votes are all averaged together, and they are ranked as a single entry; A clone is defined as any coaster with three near-identical installations or more Any coaster that is standing but not operating (SBNO) is not ranked Are you excited yet? Here come the results! 2019 Top 25 Wooden Roller Coasters 1. Lightning Rod - Dollywood 2. El Toro - Six Flags Great Adventure 3. Outlaw Run - Silver Dollar City 4. Wildfire - Kolmården 5. T Express - Everland 6. Phoenix - Knoebels Amusement Park and Resort (+1) 7. Voyage - Holiday World & Splashin' Safari (-1) 8. Boulder Dash - Lake Compounce 9. Colossos Kampf der Giganten - Heide Park Resort (returned from SBNO) 10. Balder - Liseberg 11. Coaster - Playland (at the PNE) 12. Ravine Flyer II - Waldameer Water World (+1) 13. Goliath - Six Flags Great America (-1) 14. Wooden Coaster Fireball - Happy Valley Shanghai 15. Mystic Timbers - Kings Island (+2) 16. Shivering Timbers - Michigan's Adventure (+8) 17. Mine Blower - Fun Spot Kissimmee (-1) 18. Renegade - Valleyfair (+3) 19. Tremors - Silverwood (+4) 20. Gold Striker - California's Great America (-1) 21. GhostRider - Knott's Berry Farm (new to top 25) 22. Troy - Toverland (-2) 23. Prowler - Worlds of Fun (new to top 25) 24. Wodan Timbur Coaster - Europa Park (new to top 25) 25. Cú Chulainn - Tayto Park (new to top 25) 2019 Top 25 Steel Roller Coasters 1. Untamed - Walibi Holland (new for 2019) 2. Steel Vengeance - Cedar Point (-1) 3. Expedition GeForce - Holiday Park (+1) 4. Maverick - Cedar Point (-2) 5. Medusa Steel Coaster - Six Flags Mexico 6. Twisted Timbers - Kings Dominion (-3) 7. Skyrush - Hersheypark (+4) 8. Taron - Phantasialand (+7) 9. DC Rivals Hypercoaster - Warner Bros. Movie World 10. Helix - Liseberg (+4) 11. Fury 325 - Carowinds (+1) 12. Twisted Colossus - Six Flags Magic Mountain (-2) 13. Intimidator 305 - Kings Dominion (-7) 14. Millennium Force - Cedar Point (-1) 15. RailBlazer - California's Great America (+5) 16. Intamin Mega Lite coasters - various parks (-8) 17. Flying Dinosaur - Universal Studios Japan (new to top 25) 18. Lech Coaster - Legendia (new to top 25) 19. Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster - Six Flags Fiesta Texas (+5) 20. Twisted Cyclone - Six Flags Over Georgia (-4) 21. Wicked Cyclone - Six Flags New England (new to top 25) 22. Storm Chaser - Kentucky Kingdom (-3) 23. Goliath - Walibi Holland (-2) 24. New Texas Giant - Six Flags Over Texas (+1) 25. Superman the Ride - Six Flags New England (-8) 2019 10 Worst Wooden Roller Coasters 10. Tomahawk - PortAventura Park 9. Ghoster Coaster - Canada's Wonderland 8. Wildcat - Lake Compounce 7. Predator - Darien Lake 6. Little Dipper - Six Flags Great America 5. Underground - Adventureland (Iowa) 4. Grizzly - California's Great America 3. Anaconda - Walygator Parc 2. Coaster Express - Parque Warner Madrid 1. Bandit - Movie Park Germany 2019 10 Worst Steel Roller Coasters, all things considered 10. Comet - Walygator Parc 9. Tulireki - Linnanmaki 8. Canyon Blaster - Great Escape 7. Arrow Dynamics Loop & Corkscrew coasters - various parks 6. Dragon - Adventureland (Iowa) 5. Goudurix - Parc Asterix 4. Vekoma Corkscrew with Bayerncurve coasters - various parks 3. Zamperla Volare coasters - various parks 2. Big Apple Coaster - New York New York Hotel and Casino 1. Cobra - Tivoli Friheden 2019 10 Worst Steel Roller Coasters, not including clones 10. X / The Walking Dead The Ride - Thorpe Park 9. Ninja - Six Flags St. Louis 8. Master Thai - Mirabilandia 7. Comet - Walygator Parc 6. Tulireki - Linnanmaki 5. Canyon Blaster - Great Escape 4. Dragon - Adventureland (Iowa) 3. Goudurix - Parc Asterix 2. Big Apple Coaster - New York New York Hotel and Casino 1. Cobra - Tivoli Friheden Thanks again to anyone and everyone who took the time to vote in the 2019 poll. Look out for myself and Chase to keep the thread going with fun, interesting, and random stats! As always, please comment / post if you have any questions, and we can't wait to do this again next year! Some notable coasters that did not receive a rank due to low ridership, in alphabetical order: Dinoconda, Dauling Dragon, Dueling Dragons (China), Dynamite, Euro-Star, Falcon, Fjord Flying Dragon, Flying Wing Coaster, Gravity Max, Hakugei, Junker, Maxx Force, Mindbender (Galaxyland), Mystic, Oscar's Wacky Taxi, Python in Bamboo Forest, Roar-O-Saurus, Soaring with Dragon, Steel Curtain, Steel Dolphin, Taiga, Timber, Wood Coaster (Knight Valley), Wood Express, Zadra If you want to see any of these coasters ranked on the poll, be sure to go out and ride them! See the full wood results here! See the full steel results here! Want more? Check out the following "top lists" throughout the thread! Top 25 coasters organized by ridership Top 15 wooden coasters running PTC trains What additional fun and interesting "top" lists do you want to see? Leave a post!

Some Disney fan sites are reporting that Disney has told cast members to continue to stay home based on Orange County's mandate... I'm surprised Disney hasn't made a formal announcement yet as well.

Oh my goodness you caught that near-miss. I literally had no idea.

Anyone have any Bamboo? I'm starting to get DIY recipes that use it and I haven't gotten any Nook Miles islands that have it.

A.J. here! SW-8292-0136-2627 Town: Gosselynne Fruit: Apple

I knew they looked familiar. They're pretty much two-car Cannibal trains. Fascinating.