A.J. Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 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) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJLehto Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Skyrush in #3!? 7th overall?? This makes me very happy And damn I do regret not going on Mine Blower last time I was in Disney. Heard good things but didn't expect that! Thanks again for all the work that goes into this!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canobie Coaster Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Coaster Express earned that spot as the worst coaster in the world. I agree wholeheartedly with that selection. Looks like RMC dominated the top of the rankings again. Hopefully more people can get on Hakugei and Zadra so they can get a clearer ranking since it looks like they would have been top 5 rides as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbill Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 I want to laugh at the fact that people who live among us believe that Copperhead Strike is better than Superman at Six Flags Mexico but then I remember that I have Mystery Mine in the top 20 and Wild Chipmunk ahead of Ravine Flyer II so I guess I have no room to speak. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper39 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 There's always some interesting results in this poll. I kind of forgot about Colossus at Heide Park since it was closed for a few years so that popping up in the top 10 was surprising. I remember that coaster ranking fairly high before it closed but I don't recall it being commonly in top 10's, but maybe that's just my poor memory. I certainly don't remember it being rated higher than Balder. Always interesting to see where all the B&M inverts fall. Looks like Nemesis, Pyrenees, Montu, & Katun were the top 4 this year, which seems accurate, then Black Mamba was 5th above Afterburn, Raptor, and Alpengeist which was a bit surprising. Also I guess Hagrid's ranked the highest of the major theme resort coasters (Disney, Universal etc.) which was expected, but then Big Grizzly Mountain at Hong Kong ranking higher than Tron was a surprise. I'd expect Velocicoaster to take that top spot next year, wouldn't be surpsied if that doesn't end up in the Top 10 overall based on the type of ridership it's going to see. Also on that topic Rip Ride Rockit ranking higher than Space Mountain is pretty shocking lol. I mean I enjoy Rockit, but give me any of the Space Mountains any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJLehto Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 This is surely one of my "lol u srs?" moments but I enjoy Rip Ride Rockit. Like, more than I imagined, and that vs Space Mountain? RRR > SM any day in my book. Then again I didn't hate Grizzly at CGA. I didn't like it lol it was slow, boring, if it wasnt for the rattling I'd have felt nothing, but thing is it wasn't the roughest thing ever. Far from it (prob bc it went too slow to be that rough!). I just thought it was meh....rode and forgot. I had much worse rides on like GASM at SFoG or Hershey's wildcat. But that's why this is great! Difference in opinion is good Oh except this, Bill is right to say Copperhead Strike > any RMC is a crime against humanity 11 minutes ago, coasterbill said: I want to laugh at the fact that people who live among us believe that Copperhead Strike is better than Superman at Six Flags Mexico but then I remember that I have Mystery Mine in the top 20 and Wild Chipmunk ahead of Ravine Flyer II so I guess I have no room to speak. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbill Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Skull Mountain is 420 and I feel like all is right with the universe. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper39 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 18 minutes ago, coasterbill said: Skull Mountain is 420 and I feel like all is right with the universe. Cheetah Hunt was 69 but I'm still working on the correlation to make a joke about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJLehto Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 This goes to show why you cant always trust "what you hear/the vibe you get" I really had the impression White Lightning was generally considered better than Mine Blower. Yet here its not just flipped by Mine Blower 16 White Lightning 43. Interesting! Also Beast, top 30 right around Thunderhead and Raven. Very interesting. I know I was pleasantly surprised (granted the bar was low) guess I'm not alone. And yes, some of these look superb and clearly deserve to be up in the rankings. Well, guess I'm off to China! No biggie XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJLehto Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Final note: The vindication continues! Despite the hefty, yearly, crap that MForce gets from the enthusiast community. Still #14 and above a bunch of RMC's, Phantom's Revenge, SFNE Superman The fans exist, they just aren't as vocal as me XD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grsupercity Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Looks way better then golden ticket results lol 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Coastersaurus does not belong in any 'worst' list...let alone a list with Bandit and Coaster Express! It's a kiddie woodie. This is why it may be time to take 'kiddie' rides off the poll. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJLehto Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 1 hour ago, SharkTums said: Coastersaurus does not belong in any 'worst' list...let alone a list with Bandit and Coaster Express! It's a kiddie woodie. This is why it may be time to take 'kiddie' rides off the poll. Agreed! I didn't rank any kiddies because yeah its just a different type of ride. They certainly are not "bad" ya can't really compare with Voyage and El Toro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canobie Coaster Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 3 hours ago, coasterbill said: I want to laugh at the fact that people who live among us believe that Copperhead Strike is better than Superman at Six Flags Mexico but then I remember that I have Mystery Mine in the top 20 and Wild Chipmunk ahead of Ravine Flyer II so I guess I have no room to speak. If the mid-course doesn't trim you on Superman, I think it's definitely better than Copperhead Strike. But if it slows you down, the return run can be a dud on that ride and then I think it's a much closer fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boldikus Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Really surprised and impressed with how Skyrush landed this year. It 100% deserves its spot up there, a gem unlike any other. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garet Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Wow, go Everland! You only have 2 big coasters since you demolished Eagle's Fortress and you managed to get one into the top 10 and one into the worst 5. Surely the biggest jump in quality from any parks coaster to the next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 20 minutes ago, Garet said: Wow, go Everland! You only have 2 big coasters since you demolished Eagle's Fortress and you managed to get one into the top 10 and one into the worst 5. Surely the biggest jump in quality from any parks coaster to the next. Ha! That's a great point! AJ, can you look at the list of the parks and see which parks have the greatest spread between best and worst coaster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dankeykang Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Dang guys, we almost had it... only off by 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinaalsgirl Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 4 hours ago, SharkTums said: Coastersaurus does not belong in any 'worst' list...let alone a list with Bandit and Coaster Express! It's a kiddie woodie. This is why it may be time to take 'kiddie' rides off the poll. Agreed! I personally loved Little Dipper. I wonder... are there enough coasters where the poll could do a "best kiddie coaster" category? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillseeker4552 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Yay for results! Thank you to all involved. These rankings are so much more fun to analyze than the vastly overrated GTAs. Skyrush taking #3 steel and #7 overall makes my heart happy. I haven't ridden it in 5 years but very few coasters, if any, match its intensity and awesomeness. I can't wait to ride it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Finn Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Pleased to see my love of Pyrenees isn't out of nowhere. Just behind Nemesis for #1 invert. Was without a doubt my favorite coaster in Japan and SO grateful we managed to sneak a few rides in on a rainy, rainy day. I would return to that park before returning to Fuji-Q (probably not before Nagashima, though... need to get on Hakugei). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbill Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Lol just looked through this again. People are really taking a good hit off of this Candymonium crackpipe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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