Best And Worst Coaster In California

[cal1br3tto]

Best wood: Giant Dipper SCBB! (And I like it much better than Roar. I like Roar, but it doesn't have enough airtime for me.)

Best steel: California Screamin'. [Edit: Medusa also.] This will come up for debate at some point as I ride it again and ride other CA coasters. Contrastingly, I wouldn't be surprised if Giant Dipper retains its position for quite some time.

 

Worst wood: Grizzly. I don't hate it; not even close. I just think it is utterly pointless, and could've (should've, really) been infinitely better.

Worst steel: Demon, Kong, and Boomerang Coast-to-Coaster. They each have something mildly fun to them, but overall I find them boring.

 

This is out of 25 coasters at 7 parks.

[CreditCrazy]

I've been to nearly every park in California, and I'd have to say:

 

Best: X2

Worst: Invertigo, Boomerang (KBF's, SFDK's is okay), and Hurricane (SCBB). I really, really hate those three.

[Calicoasters]

Best: Xcelerator - The launch and tophat get me everytime!

 

(Excluding small family coasters)

 

Worst: Grizzly - Lame

[atem122]

Best-Steel: X2

Wood: Termy!!!

 

Worst- Steel: Kong in the back, or Hurricane at SCBB

Wood: I havent been on Grizzly, but Ghostrider is just puuuure pain

[Franc]

I have only been to 3 parks (SFMM-SFDK-Knotts).

 

Best; Xcelerator

Worst; Psyclone when it was there and Kong

[Crazy_Behemoth_Lady_Jess]

Wooden: Giant Dipper

 

Steel: Medusa

 

Worst wood: Grizzly (I got off with shaken child syndrome!)

 

Worst steel: Guess it would be Kong although I didn't find it THAT bad

[Angry_Gumball]

I know in the past I said about Grizz being the worst, but I'm starting to love it for being the worst. The past few rides on it though, it felt like it was trying to do something but couldn't quite pull it off...perhaps some airtime? It was delivering some slight floater air.

 

My coaster experiences still have not changed yet as I haven't ridden anything outside of CA.

[cal1br3tto]

The past few rides on it though, it felt like it was trying to do something but couldn't quite pull it off...perhaps some airtime? It was delivering some slight floater air.

 

That's exactly what I experienced in June. I was certain I felt two or three very faint spots of air during each ride.

Is it because of the minor retracking? When I read about that, I was hoping it would improve the experience a little.

[Dietcokevan]

Best Steel: X2

Best Wooden: Terminator

 

Worst Steel: Kong

Worst Wood: Ghostrider or Pysclone, neither are/were enjoyable.

[GivenOneChance]

How can someone say Deja Vu is the worst ride in California?

 

Deja Vu with row 16 = is AWESOME (no where near the worst)

 

Anyways, from the parks I've been to in California (SFMM, Knotts)

 

Recent:

Best - X2/Goliath/Xcelerator

Worst - Goldrusher/Jaguar/Superman The Escape (if you want to count it as one).

[KnottsDisneyFarm]

Best=Xcelerator

Worst=Pony Express (why does it exist exactly?)

[stuartnz]

Best: Xcelerator, I have a fetish for Intamin launchers.

Worst: Mulholland Madness. Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh. No wait! I take it back! Kong at SFDK! No, wait! Ghostrider! No, wait! I can't decide. Any of those.

 

EDIT: How can you list Goldrusher and Jaguar! as the worst? I mean, they're not huge coasters, but they're good for what they are.

[SFjunkie2010]

from my experience best: Xcelerator or Tatsu

Worst: timberline Twister haha

[atem122]

^How dare you say Timberline Twister is the worst!

 

As far as tiny kiddie coasters go, that ride is awesome, it has good airtime for the little ones, there are much worse kiddie coasters in Cali

[coolcalicoaster]

Best: Xcelerator

 

Worst: Revolution, if I was forced to pick one.

[X2coasterfreak]

Best:California Screamin'

Worst: Pony Express

[Bolliger&Mabillard]

Best:California Screamin'

QFT

[atem122]

^^Screamin is my number 2 being outranked only by X2.

I still like it more than Xcelerator, Medusa, Tatsu, and everything else in Cali

[The Disneylander]

I also love Screamin'. It's highly underrated for what it is: excellent launch, respectable height, awesome "first" drop, and, oh god, those airtime hills.

[Xcoaster]

Best - Probably X2 for me, but otherwise it's a tossup between it and Terminator, Tatsu, Riddler's Revenge, California Screamin', and good Ghostrider.

 

Worst - Besides kiddies and Flashback (dead), probably Santa Monica's West Coaster. It's really boring for being the pier's star attraction and one of the most frequently filmed coasters.

[sfmmrules!]

Best? Oh my gosh there are too many! I can't possibly just pick one.

-X2

-Tatsu

-Goliath

-Viper

-Riddler

-Batman

-Scream

-Colossus

-Terminator

-Superman

-Space Mountain

-Big Thunder

-Matterhorn

-California Screamin

-Roar

-V2

-Medusa

Worst:

-Kong

-Grizzly

-Ghostrider

-Pony Express

-Vortex

-THBS

-Sierra Sidewinder(can't go on spinny coasters!)

[andre8]

Best:

 

Giant Dipper

Roar

Boomerang

 

Worst:

 

Tony Hawk at SFDK; Fun, but PAINFUL.

[CGA_88]

Best:

 

X2

Tatsu

Riddler's Revenge

Goliath

Deja Vu

Medusa

V2

Flight Deck

Roar

Giant Dipper

Xcelerator

Montezooma's Revenge

Terminator

 

Worst:

 

Grizzly

Boomerang

Kong

Viper

Revolution

Pony Express

Ghostrider

[atem122]

^When was the last time you rode Viper? Because now that it's smooth I really love that thing

[CGA_88]

I just went on it last week. Don't get me wrong, most of the ride is fun, it's the last half of the ride after the MCBB that totally kills it for me; it's to jerky. It's those damn shoulder harnesses that are too low on my shoulders. The worst part is the entry to the corkscrews. If it weren't for that, it would probably be on my "best" list.