A.J.

Legoland Florida has announced a brand-new miniature theme park for 2022, themed to Peppa Pig! WORLD’S FIRST PEPPA PIG™ THEME PARK TO OPEN AT LEGOLAND® FLORIDA RESORT IN 2022 Merlin Entertainments Brings Partnership with Hasbro to Life to Create a Playful Place Perfect for a First Theme Park Experience WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (Feb 25, 2021) — Starting in 2022, families will squeal with delight as they jump into the playful world of Peppa Pig for an unforgettable day of adventure at the World’s First Peppa Pig™ Theme Park, only at LEGOLAND® Florida Resort. Designed to be the ultimate day for little ones, this all-new standalone theme park will feature multiple rides, interactive attractions, themed playscapes and water play areas—complete with “muddy puddles” of course—and fun live shows daily, all based on instantly recognizable locations from the globally popular brand. Families will meet Peppa and her friends as they snort, giggle and play to build their family’s first theme park memories together. Rides and attractions details for the new Park will be announced this summer. When Peppa Pig Theme Park opens in 2022, it will be a separately ticketed park. Unlimited Florida sunshine and wonderful weather will allow this new theme park to operate year-round. Annual Passes to Peppa Pig Theme Park will be available as standalone memberships or inclusive passes that will also grant admission to LEGOLAND Theme Park, LEGOLAND Water Park and other regional Merlin Entertainments attractions. Merlin Entertainments, a global leader in location based entertainment with brands including LEGOLAND, Madame Tussauds and SEA LIFE® Aquariums, has an exclusive multi-territory licensing agreement with Hasbro, owner of the Peppa Pig brand, to build and operate the Peppa Pig attractions, targeted at the preschool market, as part of its broader strategy to engage in partnerships with some of the world’s most popular brands. Fans and parents of future “little piggies” can be among the first to hear the big news by signing up for the Peppa Pig Theme Park emails on PeppaPigThemePark.com/Florida

I don't believe this ride is a clone, but Shanghai's is.

Missed out on Big Bad Wolf. Such is life.

Please don't make three separate posts. You can edit your posts, y'know. I've merged them together. As for the change in speed, Lightning Rod was still the #2 overall coaster on the TPR Coaster Poll this year, so who freaking cares? I get flashbacks to when people were complaining about how Skyrush started slowing down as it crested the lift.

While, yes, the rankings are important and make the headlines, I feel that it's the percentage preference that matters more. Medusa Steel Coaster may have dropped to 11 this year but it is still within 1.5 percent of El Toro, the current #1. The top coasters in general are all insanely close to one another, and our poll is but one data point in the coaster-riding universe. It's why some people like to create their ballots in groups or batches. Like you said, the top X number of coasters are essentially on the same tier. I would say that we don't end up in "questionable" coaster territory until well into the 300s.

Deviations in rankings within the Top 25 Coasters' Parks This is a ranking of the parks with coasters in the Top 25, organized by deviation. The deviation is how much the difference is between a park's best coaster and its worst, according to the overall rankings. Keep in mind that a park's "worst" coaster might still be pretty good! Kolmarden is excluded because it only has one rankable coaster on the poll. Walibi Holland - Untamed vs Condor - 97.,55% Everland - T Express vs Rolling X-Train - 92.81% Kentucky Kingdom - Storm Chaser vs T3 - 91.50% Six Flags Mexico - Medusa Steel Coaster vs Batman The Ride - 91.57% Hersheypark - Skyrush vs Sidewinder - 88.45% Six Flags New England - Wicked Cyclone vs Flashback - 88.44% Lake Compounce - Boulder Dash vs Zoomerang - 85.28% Carowinds - Fury 325 vs Carolina Goldrusher - 84.27% Cedar Point - Steel Vengeance vs Cedar Creek Mine Ride - 82.38% Kings Dominion - Twisted Timbers vs Anaconda - 80.98% Phantasisland - Taron vs Temple of the Night Hawk - 76.67% Six Flags Magic Mountain - Twisted Colossus vs Gold Rusher - 72.92% Knoebels Amusement Park and Resort - Phoenix vs Black Diamond - 72.17% Six Flags Great Adventure - El Toro vs Runaway Mine Train - 78.02% Dollywood - Lightning Rod vs Blazing Fury - 68.26% Silver Dollar City - Outlaw Run vs Fire In The Hole - 62.51% Warner Bros. Movie World - DC Rivals Hypercoaster vs Green Lantern Coaster - 50.9% Holiday Park - Expedition GeForce vs Sky Scream - 31.67% Universal Studios Japan - Flying Dinosaur vs Space Fantasy - 24.03% Liseberg - Helix vs Lisebergbanan - 20.57%

It's okay, that's probably been the question that's been asked the most. All traditional wooden coasters have steel running rails - Rocky Mountain Construction basically just says, instead of doing three separate little rails on top of the stack, we're just going to use a single thick steel rail that all the wheels can run on. If Great Coasters were to ever build a coaster completely out of their Titan track system, we would classify it as a Steel coaster alongside the Rocky Mountain I-Box coasters.

The cutoff is there to ensure that there is at least some consensus to a coaster's ranking. As a coaster gains more riders / rankings, its placement each year on the poll should become more and more stable, or "accurate". Likewise, the less riders / rankings a coaster has, the more volatile its rank is from year to year. What affects a particular coaster's placement is how much it is preferred over other coasters on the same ballot, or how other coasters are preferred over it. Everything is totaled up across everyone's ballots, and the more people that end up saying, "I like coaster X more than Playland's Coaster", the lower it goes. It is a bit complicated to explain, but the result is legitimate.

The 2020 coaster poll results are LIVE! Discuss! EDIT: It should be noted that Liseberg was listed as "USA" on the original graphics, this has been fixed. Apologies for this error.

And finally... Everyone's favorite part! 2020 Top 12 Worst Coasters Overall. Coaster Express - Park Warner Madrid Cobra - Tivoli Frieheden Anaconda - Walygator Parc Big Apple Coaster - New York New York Hotel and Casino Rolling X-Train - Everland Bandit - Movie Park Germany Grizzly - California's Great America Zamperla Volare coasters - various parks Goudurix - Parc Astérix Arrow Dynamics Loop & Corkscrew coasters - various parks Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril - Disneyland Paris Ninja - Six Flags St. Louis 2020 Top 10 Worst Wooden Coasters Coaster Express - Parque Warner Madrid Bandit - Movie Park Germany Anaconda - Walygator Parc Underground - Adventureland (Iowa) Little Dipper - Six Flags Great America Grizzly - California's Great America Wildcat - Lake Compounce Ghoster Coaster - Canada's Wonderland Arkansas Twister - Magic Springs & Crystal Falls Coastersaurus - Legoland Florida 2020 Top 13 Worst Steel Coasters Cobra - Tivoli Friheden Rolling X-Train - Everland Big Apple Coaster - New York New York Hotel and Casino Zamperla Volare coasters - various parks Goudurix - Parc Astérix Arrow Dynamics Loop & Corkscrew coasters - various parks Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril - Disneyland Paris Master Thai - Mirabilandia Mad Mouse - Valleyfair Vekoma Tornado coasters - various parks Comet - Walygator Parc Dragon - Ocean Park Western-Expressen - TusenFryd Thanks again to anyone and everyone who took the time to vote in the 2020 poll. Look out for us 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 once everything gets back to normal! What additional fun and interesting "top" lists do you want to see? Leave a post!

2020 Top 25 Overall Coasters DISCLAIMER: Note that these results may not be consistent with the Top 25 wooden and steel coasters - the wooden results only count wooden coasters, and the steel results only count steel coasters. Some steel coasters are preferred over high-ranking wooden coasters, and vice versa. For example, Steel Vengeance was preferred more over Untamed when wooden coasters were taken into consideration, placing it at #3 over Untamed's #4. This is not the only example of this happening. These results are mainly for reference purposes, and as a data point for our poll for aggregators that use combined wooden / steel results, such as The Roller Coaster Index. El Toro - Six Flags Great Adventure Lightning Rod - Dollywood Steel Vengeance - Cedar Point Untamed - Walibi Holland Outlaw Run - Silver Dollar City Maverick - Cedar Point Skyrush - Hersheypark T Express - Everland Twisted Timbers - Kings Dominion Wildfire - Kolmården Wildlife Park Medusa Steel Coaster - Six Flags Mexico Expedition GeForce - Holiday Park Helix - Liseberg Phoenix - Knoebels Amusement Park and Resort DC Rivals Hypercoaster - Warner Bros. Movie World Twisted Colossus - Six Flags Magic Mountain Fury 325 - Carowinds Millennium Force - Cedar Point Taron - Phantasialand Intimidator 305 - Kings Dominion Boulder Dash - Lake Compounce Flying Dinosaur - Universal Studios Japan Wicked Cyclone - Six Flags New England Balder - Liseberg Storm Chaser - Kentucky Kingdom Coasters that did not meet the ridership requirements The TPR Coaster Poll requires a coaster to have twelve (12) rankings, or "riders", to qualify in the results each year. This is to help get to a consensus - and to prevent single ballots from skewing results in one direction or the other for a particular coaster. Coasters that do not meet this requirement are given a provisional result but are not included in the official ranking. Notable coasters that did not meet the requirements for 2020 include but are not limited to: Hakugei - Nagashima Spa Land Zadra - Energylandia Taiga - Linnanmäki Extreme Rusher - Happy Valley Beijing Python in Bamboo Forest - Nanchang Sunac Land Ultra Twister - Rusutsu Resort Bullet - Selva Mágica Soaring with Dragon - Hefei Sunac Land Gravity Max - Lihpao Land Starry Sky Ripper - Joyland Dauling Dragon - Happy Valley Wuhan Storm - Etnaland Mystic - Walibi Rhône-Alpes F.L.Y. - Phantasialand Junker - PowerLand Wood Coaster - Knight Valley Dynamite - Freizeitpark Plohn Wood Express - Parc Saint Paul Panic Coaster Back Daaan - Tokyo Dome City Roar-O-Saurus - Story Land If you want to see any of these coasters ranked on the poll, be sure to go out and ride them once their parks open back up!

The 2020 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 eight 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.” 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 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 Normally, the additional rule is that a coaster must have operated for the majority of the previous season (2020) to qualify for the poll. However, due to current world events, we have taken 2019 season operation into consideration as well. Are you excited yet? Here come the results! Wooden 2020 Results Steel 2020 Results Complete 2020 Results 2020 Top 25 Wooden Coasters El Toro - Six Flags Great Adventure (+1) Lightning Rod - Dollywood (-1) Outlaw Run - Silver Dollar City T Express - Everland (+1) Wildfire - Kolmården Wildlife Park (-1) Phoenix - Knoebels Amusement Park and Resort Boulder Dash - Lake Compounce (+1) Voyage - Holiday World (-1) Colossos Kampf der Giganten - Heide-Park Resort Balder - Liseberg Ravine Flyer II - Waldameer Water World (+1) Goliath - Six Flags Great America (+1) Coaster - Playland (at the PNE) (-2) Mystic Timbers - Kings Island (+1) Wooden Coaster Fireball - Happy Valley Shanghai (-1) Mine Blower - Fun Spot Kissimmee (+1) Shivering Timbers - Michigan's Adventure (-1) Renegade - Valleyfair Tremors - Silverwood Theme Park GhostRider - Knott's Berry Farm (+1) Cú Chulainn - Tayto Park (+4) Gold Striker - California's Great America (-2) Troy - Toverland (-1) Comet - Great Escape (new to top 25) Wodan Timbur Coaster - Europa Park (-1) 2020 Top 25 Steel Coasters Untamed - Walibi Holland Steel Vengeance - Cedar Point Skyrush - Hersheypark (+4) Expedition GeForce - Holiday Park (-1) Maverick - Cedar Point (-1) Medusa Steel Coaster - Six Flags Mexico (-1) Twisted Timbers - Kings Dominion (-1) DC Rivals Hypercoaster - Warner Bros. Movie World (+1) Twisted Colossus - Six Flags Magic Mountain (+3) Helix - Liseberg Fury 325 - Carowinds Taron - Phantasialand (-4) Intimidator 305 - Kings Dominion Millennium Force - Cedar Point Flying Dinosaur - Universal Studios Japan (+2) Wicked Cyclone - Six Flags New England (+5) Storm Chaser - Kentucky Kingdom (+5) Twisted Cyclone - Six Flags Over Georgia (+2) New Texas Giant - Six Flags Over Texas (+5) RailBlazer - California's Great America (-5) Goliath - Walibi Holland (+2) Superman The Ride - Six Flags New England (+3) Iron Rattler - Six Flags Fiesta Texas (new to top 25) Hyperion - Energylandia (new to top 25) Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster - Six Flags Fiesta Texas (-6)

And... We're closed! Thanks to everyone who participated! Look out for the results sometime in the next week!

One thing that people like to do is group their coasters in batches. So, you have your top 25. Then, for your next batch of coasters that you really like but can't put in order, mark them with rank 35. Then the next batch 45, the next 55, and so on.

They've also posted a full overview of the current (?) progress of the land, including the other coaster (Vekoma family boomerang like the one Farup just opened) and the flat rides: I have no idea what you're talking about, Daniel and I were basically dry in the back!

I have to disagree with you here... Taron hasn't lost its uniqueness. To all "normal" guests and 95 percent or more of enthusiasts, the Taron clone does not exist. I can't think of any other combinations of impressive theming, intricate rockwork, and two (!!) intertwined coasters (one of them being world-class) anywhere in the world - except for Phantasialand, of course! I'm not going to go to a random Sunac park in China to ride Taron, I'm going to go to Phantasialand! Why wouldn't I?

Long live the Polish Princes.

Thanks for noticing that. At the time Lakemont Park went SBNO, we didn't have the SBNO protocol we did now, so it was removed from the poll... And it just never got added back. I've added Skyliner back. Leap the Dips does not qualify despite its historical significance. And the two wild mouse coasters you mentioned are also too small to qualify... The smallest wild mouse coasters that generally are on the poll are the Mack Wild Maus compact models.

Sometimes, there can be a pretty big gap between the design phase and the installation / construction phase. Funding dries up, the neighbors get upset, permitting issues happen, a worldwide pandemic... You name it. The only people who can truly speak as to why they ended up with that style are the people at B&M and Grona Lund themselves. Same deal regarding the delay of Gyeongju World's and Happy Valley's. To my knowledge, if a coaster is designed for a specific train type, that's the one it gets, regardless of how long it is between the time the design is signed off on and the time it finally gets built. Switching out for a new type in the middle of the design phase, or in between those phases, has consequences for the ride's dynamics, its clearance envelopes, its height restriction, and other things. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Plausible. If this coaster was refined over the course of half a decade or more, it makes sense that they'd stick with the train type they started with as opposed to starting from the drawing board. I wouldn't be surprised if the general layout was "finalized" at about the time that they installed Eclipse - 2013, right in between OzIris and Banshee. I'd bet that this is the exception, not the rule though. I don't see any reason why B&M would offer the old style on any of their coasters from this point on. They seem to like to keep things standardized.

For some reason, the search function is pointing to "SSD" instead of "SWSD" for SeaWorld San Diego. https://coasterpoll.com/@SWSD/manta https://coasterpoll.com/@SWSD Those should help.

I would recommend spreading out your batches in case there's a new coaster you ride later that might end up between them. What the poll cares about is whether or not you prefer coaster A over coaster B. As for mountain coasters, no they are not included.

You're always great at pointing those missing coasters out, Garet! Much appreciated. As for your broken images issue... I'm not noticing that regardless of which browser I use on any of my devices. Not sure how to help you there. Is anyone else experiencing this?

The 2020 TPR Coaster poll is now open! Happy voting!

Finally, here is some info on some additions and changes for 2020! Brand-new coasters for 2020 Candymonium - Hersheypark Eagle Warrior - VinWonders Euro-Coaster / Christmas Coaster - Traveling FLY (F.L.Y.) - Phantasialand Forest Predator - Happy Valley Nanjing Gesengte Sau - Wiener Prater Hals-uber-Kopf - Erlebnispark Tripsdrill Launch Roller Coaster - Sun Tzu Cultural Park Light of Revenge - Happy Valley Nanjing Objectif Mars - Futuroscope Orion - Kings Island Pitts Special - PowerLand Roller Ball - Wiener Prater Roller Coaster (Maurer spinning coaster) - Galaxy Sandy's Blasting Bronco - Nickelodeon Universe New Jersey Saven - Farup Sommerland Shred the Sewers - Dream Island Suspended Family Coaster - Happy Valley Nanjing Texas Stingray - SeaWorld San Antonio Vertika - La Recre des 3 Cures Volldampf - Erlebnispark Tripsdrill Wakala - Bellewaerde West Coast Racers - Six Flags Magic Mountain Wrath of Zeus - VinWonders Coasters that opened too late in 2019 to be considered for 2019's poll Boomerang Hyper Coaster - Trans Studio Action Zone Canavar Dalga - Wonderland Eurasia Dragonfire - Adventure Island Qatar Launch Coaster - Sun Tzu Cultural Park Nickelodeon Slime Streak - Nickelodeon Universe New Jersey Relámpago - Mundo Petapa Sandy's Blasting Bronco - Nickelodeon Universe New Jersey Shredder - Nickelodeon Universe New Jersey Timmy's Half Pipe Havoc - Nickelodeon Universe New Jersey TMNT Shellraiser - Nickelodeon Universe New Jersey Coasters that were left off of the 2019 poll by mistake Dancing Oscar - Shinhwa Theme Park Skyliner - Lakemont Park Thunderbolt - Gyeongnam Mason Robotland Some notes on the poll this year: Lightning Rod at Dollywood will be considered a wooden coaster for the 2020 poll. Quimera at La Feria will remain on the poll this year despite its SBNO status. Due to the ride's significance, it will not receive a new entry when it reopens at Indiana Beach in 2021, instead having its park and name changed. The same will be true for Cascabel 2.0, assuming it opens at Indiana Beach itself. Coaster poll protocol for standing but not operating (SBNO) coasters: If a roller coaster that was previously listed on the poll goes into a standing but not operating (SBNO) state, and it's assumed that the coaster will operate again eventually, you will still be able to rank it like any other coaster. However, during any season(s) where the coaster is SBNO, it will not be calculated in the final ranking and will not show up on the final results. Any coaster that is SBNO as a result of an upcoming conversion, such as with wooden coasters being re-made by Rocky Mountain Construction, will be eliminated from the poll entirely as the "old" coaster is effectively defunct. At the time of this writing, no major coasters have gone SBNO for the majority of the 2020 season outside of park closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please help us out! If you see a coaster on the poll that has closed and shouldn't be there, or if you see a roller coaster that was re-named and it's not reflected, please let us know! coasterpoll.com And, as before, please let us know if you have any questions!