TPR 2018 Coaster Poll Results!

[Canobie Coaster]

^ I really wish I rode it with a full train of Americans. It was dead the day I went and I think PeoplemoverMatt and I were on the only trains it cycled all day.

[SharkTums]

^Yeah, those Intamin megalites are VERY dependent on weather, riders, and how often it's running.

[joelwee]

Not that it's an emergency, but I'm not able to view my rankings. I tried logging into my profile and hitting "rankings", and received the 404 error shown in the screenshot. I then tried copying and pasting coasterbill's URL into the address bar and changing the username to "joelwee", but still got the same result.

If I thought hard enough, I could probably remember my top 10 and bottom 10 rankings, but I'm too lazy and would rather just look them up.

[A.J.]

Not that it's an emergency, but I'm not able to view my rankings. I tried logging into my profile and hitting "rankings", and received the 404 error shown in the screenshot. I then tried copying and pasting coasterbill's URL into the address bar and changing the username to "joelwee", but still got the same result.

On the top right, click your name and go to "account settings", and set your rankings to "public".

[joelwee]

On the top right, click your name and go to "account settings", and set your rankings to "public".

Awesome, thank you!

 

Top 10:

1. Maverick

2. Steel Vengeance

3. Millennium Force

4. Twisted Colossus

5. Phantom's Revenge

6. X2

7. Top Thrill Dragster

8. Xcelerator

9. Diamondback

10. Ghostrider

[prozach626]

A lot of these were really surprising to me. I thought Fury would have been a lot higher, but I'm biased since it's probably my favorite. Great job and thanks for doing it!

[tinaalsgirl]

Here are my rankings.... I don't have a top 25 because I don't even have 25 coasters ranked, lol.

 

https://coasterpoll.com/u/tinaalsgirl/rankings

 

Top 20

Outlaw Run

Powder Keg: A Blast in the Wilderness

FireChaser Express

Wild Eagle

Lightning Rod

Wildfire

Mamba

Patriot

Expedition Everest

Space Mountain

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

Thunderation

Fire In The Hole

Zippin Pippin

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster

Tennessee Tornado

Prowler

Spinning Dragons

Mystery Mine

Timber Wolf

 

Bottom 2

Boomerang

Primeval Whirl

[JordyC]

TOP 35

 

1 Hyperion

2 Wildfire

3 Shambhala

4 Schwur des Kärnan

5 Taron

6 Helix

7 Lech Coaster

8 Expedition GeForce

9 Goliath

10 Alpina Blitz

11 Red Force

12 Troy

13 Icon

14 Smiler

15 Fēnix

16 Superman / la Atracción de Acero

17 Wodan Timbur Coaster

18 Lost Gravity

19 The Swarm

20 Star Trek: Operation Enterprise

21 Black Mamba

22 OzIris

23 Valkyria

24 Silver Star

25 Flug der Dämonen

26 Wicker Man

27 Baron 1898

28 Anubis: The Ride

29 Gold Rush

30 Batman: Arkham Asylum

31 Nemesis

32 Fluch Von Novgorod

33 Dragon Khan

34 Formuła

35 Blue Fire Megacoaster

[Pedrinho]

I have a question: Under the worst costers overall, Anaconda ist the wooden one with the lowest number ("the worst"), but under the worst wooden coasters, there's Bandit still worse than Anaconda. How do I have to interpret that? How can it be a badder wooden coaster, but is not worse in overall?

See above. Fourth time!

I'm so sorry.. I'm a moron. I just read the first site and replied with quick reply. Just didn't see the other pages. My bad.

[vertigomkie]

Has Little Dipper at SFGAm gotten that bad? I never thought I'd see a kiddie coaster make it on the worst wooden coasters list

 

That stood out to me the most. No, it's actually pretty decently maintained. SFGAm's Little Dipper shouldn't be on that list but I definitely chock it's placement along with Zach's Zoomer as simply being the two boring Midwest coasters that folks in the region rank the lowest by default.

 

It makes somewhat sense, riders get more entertainment out of an uncomfortably rough thrill ride than one with no thrill at all.

[robbalvey]

Has Little Dipper at SFGAm gotten that bad? I never thought I'd see a kiddie coaster make it on the worst wooden coasters list

 

That stood out to me the most. No, it's actually pretty decently maintained. SFGAm's Little Dipper shouldn't be on that list but I definitely chock it's placement along with Zach's Zoomer as simply being the two boring Midwest coasters that folks in the region rank the lowest by default.

 

It makes somewhat sense, riders get more entertainment out of an uncomfortably rough thrill ride than one with no thrill at all.

It's basically a no-win situation with the kiddie woodies.

 

It's unlikely that anyone is going to rank them very high, yet if we remove them from the list, people will complain that they aren't there.

 

Because how do you say "Well, let's include Wooden Warrior and Oscars Wacky Taxi, but not Zach's Zoomer and Little Dipper."

 

If I was one of those junior woodies I wouldn't take it too personally... and just be happy that I exist in the first place because, at least until recently, that genre of coaster was kind of a dying breed...

[A.J.]

It's basically a no-win situation with the kiddie woodies.

I personally don't think that the junior wooden coasters are "bad" - I think they just sort of end up low on peoples' lists because they've ridden so many better coasters.

[adamico2]

The only part of this poll that baffles me, is the worst wooden coasters.

 

Seriously....Zacks zoomer and little dipper made this list? I could think of a hundred other wooden coasters that should be on that list.

Zacks zoomer is a kiddy coaster in nowhere Michigan, that is basically a clone of the kiddy wooden coaster at kings island, dominion, and carowinds. It's in no way rough, and it runs just as good as the other clones of it(none of witch made the list). Confused on this one.

 

Little dipper at six flags? All I can say is seriously??? Out of all the bad wooden coasters in the world, this is one of the worst?

This is just my opinion, but kinda odd.

 

While I actually quite enjoy the old Scooby Doo coasters from the former Taft properties, Zach's Zoomer annihilated my knee caps, so it is very low in my rankings.

[A.J.]

All right! Manufacturer top tens!

 

They will all be extracted from the combined poll results. We will not be recalculating every single poll to generate these results. If you really think that we should recalculate the poll for each one, then, I don't know, email Dan? Isn't that what we used to tell people to do with their ridiculous requests back in ye olden days?

 

Let's get the six big ones out of the way right now!

 

Top 10 B&M coasters

 

1. Fury 325 - Carowinds

2. Flying Dinosaur - Universal Studios Japan

3. Shambhala - PortAventura Park

4. Nemesis - Alton Towers

5. Katun - Mirabilandia

6. Montu - Busch Gardens Tampa

7. Nitro - Six Flags Great Adventure

8. Pyrenees - Parque Espana Shima Spain Village

9. Kumba - Busch Gardens Tampa

10. Diamondback - Kings Island

 

Top 10 Gerstlauer coasters

 

1. Schwur des Kärnan - Hansa Park

2. Heiße Fahrt / Klotti Coaster - Wild- und Freizeitpark Klotten

3. Gold Rush - Attractiepark Slagharen

4. Junker - PowerLand

5. Monster - Adventureland (Iowa)

6. Fluch von Novgorod - Hansa Park

7. HangTime - Knott's Berry Farm

8. Madagascar Mad Pursuit - Motiongate

9. Smiler - Alton Towers

10. Karacho - Erlebnispark Tripsdrill

 

Top 10 Intamin coasters

 

1. El Toro - Six Flags Great Adventure

2. Maverick - Cedar Point

3. T Express - Everland

4. Intimidator 305 - Kings Dominion

5. Expedition GeForce - Holiday Park

6. Soaring With Dragon - Hefei Wanda Theme Park

7. Skyrush - Hersheypark

8. Millennium Force - Cedar Point

9. Superman The Ride - Six Flags New England

10. Taron - Phantasialand

 

Top 10 Mack coasters

 

1. DC Rivals Hypercoaster - Warner Bros. Movie World

2. Helix - Liseberg

3. Icon - Blackpool Pleasure Beach

4. Time Traveler - Silver Dollar City

5. Flash - Lewa Adventure

6. Lost Gravity - Walibi Holland

7. Velociraptor - IMG Worlds of Adventure (best "Blue Fire" layout)

8. Alpina Blitz - Nigloland

9. Star Trek Operation Enterprise - Movie Park Germany

10. Capitol Bullet Train - Motiongate

 

Top 10 Rocky Mountain Construction coasters

 

1. Steel Vengeance - Cedar Point

2. Lightning Rod - Dollywood

3. Wildfire - Kolmarden

4. Outlaw Run - Silver Dollar City

5. Twisted Timbers - Kings Dominion

6. Medusa Steel Coaster - Six Flags Mexico

7. Twisted Colossus - Six Flags Magic Mountain

8. Twisted Cyclone - Six Flags Over Georgia

9. Storm Chaser - Kentucky Kingdom

10. Iron Rattler - Six Flags Fiesta Texas

 

Top 10 Vekoma coasters

 

1. Gravity Max - Lihpao Land

2. Lech Coaster - Legendia

3. Tron Lightcycle Power Run - Shanghai Disneyland

4. Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars - Hong Kong Disneyland

5. Formula - Energylandia

6. Expedition Everest - Disney's Animal Kingdom

7. Big Thunder Mountain - Disneyland Paris

8. Rock 'n' Roller Coaster - Disney's Hollywood Studios (best of the two layouts)

9. Battlestar Galactica Cylon - Universal Studios Singapore

10. Seven Dwarfs Mine Train - Shanghai Disneyland (best of the two layouts)

Edited May 14, 2019 by A.J.

[Canobie Coaster]

Thanks for putting these together! Wow the Vekoma list is pretty much all foreign and/or Disney.

[coasterbill]

I love Nitro but I’m shocked that it finished as high as it did (and ahead of Kumba).

[Canobie Coaster]

^ I'm shocked it placed that highly compared to some of the other B&M hypers like Goliath and Behemoth.

[A.J.]

^ I'm shocked it placed that highly compared to some of the other B&M hypers like Goliath and Behemoth.

Goliath was #17, Behemoth was #21.

[ytterbiumanalyst]

Sounds about right to me. Nitro and Diamondback are my 2 highest B&M hypers. Both are super fun and deserve the praise.

[XII]

Might as well join in with my rankings

 

Top 28

1. El Toro

2. Outlaw Run

3. Expedition Ge Force

4. Steel Vengeance

5. Balder

6. Maverick

7. Boulderdash

8. iSpeed

9. Superman the Ride (SFNE)

10. Eejanaika

11. Fury 325

12. X2

13. Coaster (PNE Playland)

14. Kumba

15. Phantom's Revenge

16. Kawasemi & Piraten

17. Insane

18. Arashi (HOLY CRAP!!! This thing flipped like crazy! The Insane of Japan)

19. Pyrenees

20. Montu

21. Katun

22. Flying Dinosaur

23. Voyage

24. Phoenix

25. Twisted Colossus

26. Iron Rattler

27. Storm Chaser

28. Do-Dodonpa

 

Bottom 5

355. Ninja (SFSL)

356. Wild Beast

357. Bandit (Movie Park Germany)

358. Dragon (Adventureland)

359. Gouderix

[Parker821]

Top 10 Vekoma coasters

 

 

Do SLC's, we need to settle which SLC is the best.

[805Andrew]

Top 10 Vekoma coasters

 

 

Do SLC's, we need to settle which SLC is the best.

 

Just read through the bottom of the list and you'll see all the SLCs and will be able to figure out which is the least worst.

[805Andrew]

Here’s my list of my top 20 and bottom 15 coasters. I agree with most of the results I’ve seen and Steel Vengeance is my new #1 after riding it last year.

 

I would like to see lists of top hyper/gigas (combined to one list is fine with me), inverts, hybrids, multi loopers (5 or more inversions), and launched coasters.

 

 

Top 20

 

Bottom 15

 

https://coasterpoll.com/u/805andrew/rankings?shared

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[ytterbiumanalyst]

Top 10 Vekoma coasters

 

 

Do SLC's, we need to settle which SLC is the best.

Fly the Great Nor'Easter. Is this even a question?

[JordyC]

Top 10 Vekoma coasters

 

 

Do SLC's, we need to settle which SLC is the best.

Fly the Great Nor'Easter. Is this even a question?

 

Roller Coaster Mayan at Energylandia was also pretty decent.