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Your Top Ten Coasters

I admit my count isn’t high, at 72, but what makes you say that, out of interest?

My parents have said that any kind of international travel is firmly off the table until at least 2021, and I think I’ve ridden most of the really notable stuff within the UK barring a few exceptions, so I think I’d most likely have to go abroad to see any new entries into the top 10 at this point, which won’t happen for at least another year.

Pre-COVID, my parents said that we could go back to Florida for my 18th birthday to see things like Iron Gwazi, Velocicoaster and the other stuff that’s been added since my last visit (this would be UOR/SeaWorld/Busch Gardens, a trip that I haven’t done since 2016), as well as reride the stuff I’ve already done (most notably Mako!), but that’s now looking more like a 2022 trip.

I'd recommend for you to try to convince your parents to go to California/Anaheim as opposed to back to Florida. Both are similar climates (though much less humidity and therefore chance of weather disruptions in CA) plus it would give you an opportunity to experience the likes of Disneyland, Six Flags Magic Mountain & Knott's Berry (as well as Universal, Pacific Park and if you wanted to go further north Discovery Kingdom etc). SFMM in particular really expands coaster horizons!
 
I'd recommend for you to try to convince your parents to go to California/Anaheim as opposed to back to Florida. Both are similar climates (though much less humidity and therefore chance of weather disruptions in CA) plus it would give you an opportunity to experience the likes of Disneyland, Six Flags Magic Mountain & Knott's Berry (as well as Universal, Pacific Park and if you wanted to go further north Discovery Kingdom etc). SFMM in particular really expands coaster horizons!
Also follwoing on from this you could try adn convince your parents to do a Netherlands one next year where you can go to Efteling, Walibi Holland, Toverland, Duinrell ect, or a Sweden one where you could do Liseberg, Kolmarden, Grona Lund, Furvurik!
 
Yh i was referring to that. I feel annoyed that i can't get more coaster credits this year as i was meant to get at least 15 more but that'll take next year's tally up high and the year after, I'm aiming for 2022 to reach 100 credits so yh.
How many have you got at the moment? I’m currently on 72, and I’ve got a personal goal to reach 100 coasters by the time I turn 20 years old (31st July 2023, for reference), but whether I achieve that or not is another matter entirely, what with COVID still on the loose.
I'd recommend for you to try to convince your parents to go to California/Anaheim as opposed to back to Florida. Both are similar climates (though much less humidity and therefore chance of weather disruptions in CA) plus it would give you an opportunity to experience the likes of Disneyland, Six Flags Magic Mountain & Knott's Berry (as well as Universal, Pacific Park and if you wanted to go further north Discovery Kingdom etc). SFMM in particular really expands coaster horizons!
My mum and dad have previously expressed interest in doing a fly and drive holiday on the West Coast of America, so I think that region is definitely somewhere they’d be willing to go (I think this may have been spurred by a trip my great aunt did a few years back, where she started in San Francisco, met up with a relative of ours who lives in America who joined her on the trip and then drove southwards through California before finishing in Las Vegas/Nevada. She even saw Manhattan Express and sent me a picture!).

However, I can almost guarantee you that if I ever went to the West Coast of America with my parents, it would not be a theme park holiday, or at least not in the same vein as a trip to Florida usually is. They would have their sights set on many of California/Western America’s non-coaster landmarks shaping their route, and would probably only want to visit a theme park if it was conveniently placed along the route. From what I can tell, California’s parks are a lot more spaced out than Central Florida’s, thus making a theme park trip somewhat harder, and they’re also not particularly close to any of the area’s major tourist landmarks, on the whole (bar Hollywood/Los Angeles).

California is also a much longer flight than Florida, and the 8-9 hour flight to Florida often exhausts us enough, so I’m not sure how keen they’d be to go on a plane for 50% longer...
Also follwoing on from this you could try adn convince your parents to do a Netherlands one next year where you can go to Efteling, Walibi Holland, Toverland, Duinrell ect, or a Sweden one where you could do Liseberg, Kolmarden, Grona Lund, Furvurik!
This is a nice idea, and something that I myself like the idea of, but it’s not the sort of thing I could see my parents wanting to do, especially looking at the sort of accommodation many people seem to stay in on these kinds of trips. I used to watch Shawn Sanbrooke’s European road trip videos, for example, and get ideas of how you could do that sort of thing cheaply. It looked great to me, but my mum would often disapprove of the types of accommodation he stayed in.

It’s also worth remembering that my parents don’t have bags of money to keep going on all of these lavish, expensive theme park trips all the time, and even if they did, they don’t want to be going to a theme park on every holiday they go on (as much as I would!), and that’s more than fair (especially considering that they’re the ones paying for them). I will probably do these types of trips more once I live on my own and can travel a little more freely.

For now, I’m immensely grateful that my parents take me to theme parks at all!
 
How many have you got at the moment? I’m currently on 72, and I’ve got a personal goal to reach 100 coasters by the time I turn 20 years old (31st July 2023, for reference), but whether I achieve that or not is another matter entirely, what with COVID still on the loose.

My mum and dad have previously expressed interest in doing a fly and drive holiday on the West Coast of America, so I think that region is definitely somewhere they’d be willing to go (I think this may have been spurred by a trip my great aunt did a few years back, where she started in San Francisco, met up with a relative of ours who lives in America who joined her on the trip and then drove southwards through California before finishing in Las Vegas/Nevada. She even saw Manhattan Express and sent me a picture!).

However, I can almost guarantee you that if I ever went to the West Coast of America with my parents, it would not be a theme park holiday, or at least not in the same vein as a trip to Florida usually is. They would have their sights set on many of California/Western America’s non-coaster landmarks shaping their route, and would probably only want to visit a theme park if it was conveniently placed along the route. From what I can tell, California’s parks are a lot more spaced out than Central Florida’s, thus making a theme park trip somewhat harder, and they’re also not particularly close to any of the area’s major tourist landmarks, on the whole (bar Hollywood/Los Angeles).

California is also a much longer flight than Florida, and the 8-9 hour flight to Florida often exhausts us enough, so I’m not sure how keen they’d be to go on a plane for 50% longer...

This is a nice idea, and something that I myself like the idea of, but it’s not the sort of thing I could see my parents wanting to do, especially looking at the sort of accommodation many people seem to stay in on these kinds of trips. I used to watch Shawn Sanbrooke’s European road trip videos, for example, and get ideas of how you could do that sort of thing cheaply. It looked great to me, but my mum would often disapprove of the types of accommodation he stayed in.

It’s also worth remembering that my parents don’t have bags of money to keep going on all of these lavish, expensive theme park trips all the time, and even if they did, they don’t want to be going to a theme park on every holiday they go on (as much as I would!), and that’s more than fair (especially considering that they’re the ones paying for them). I will probably do these types of trips more once I live on my own and can travel a little more freely.

For now, I’m immensely grateful that my parents take me to theme parks at all!
I understand that and I'm in the same position. Although i would like to go to different parks, my parents don't as they hate the rollercoasters i like and they don't have money trees either. I guess European road trips are more for mates or single people to do? Sounds weird when you say it.
 
How many have you got at the moment? I’m currently on 72, and I’ve got a personal goal to reach 100 coasters by the time I turn 20 years old (31st July 2023, for reference), but whether I achieve that or not is another matter entirely, what with COVID still on the loose.

My mum and dad have previously expressed interest in doing a fly and drive holiday on the West Coast of America, so I think that region is definitely somewhere they’d be willing to go (I think this may have been spurred by a trip my great aunt did a few years back, where she started in San Francisco, met up with a relative of ours who lives in America who joined her on the trip and then drove southwards through California before finishing in Las Vegas/Nevada. She even saw Manhattan Express and sent me a picture!).

However, I can almost guarantee you that if I ever went to the West Coast of America with my parents, it would not be a theme park holiday, or at least not in the same vein as a trip to Florida usually is. They would have their sights set on many of California/Western America’s non-coaster landmarks shaping their route, and would probably only want to visit a theme park if it was conveniently placed along the route. From what I can tell, California’s parks are a lot more spaced out than Central Florida’s, thus making a theme park trip somewhat harder, and they’re also not particularly close to any of the area’s major tourist landmarks, on the whole (bar Hollywood/Los Angeles).

California is also a much longer flight than Florida, and the 8-9 hour flight to Florida often exhausts us enough, so I’m not sure how keen they’d be to go on a plane for 50% longer...

This is a nice idea, and something that I myself like the idea of, but it’s not the sort of thing I could see my parents wanting to do, especially looking at the sort of accommodation many people seem to stay in on these kinds of trips. I used to watch Shawn Sanbrooke’s European road trip videos, for example, and get ideas of how you could do that sort of thing cheaply. It looked great to me, but my mum would often disapprove of the types of accommodation he stayed in.

It’s also worth remembering that my parents don’t have bags of money to keep going on all of these lavish, expensive theme park trips all the time, and even if they did, they don’t want to be going to a theme park on every holiday they go on (as much as I would!), and that’s more than fair (especially considering that they’re the ones paying for them). I will probably do these types of trips more once I live on my own and can travel a little more freely.

For now, I’m immensely grateful that my parents take me to theme parks at all!

Fair enough! I should point out that flight time is only about 13 hours to LA and usually a good hour shorter on the way back due to the jet stream so it isn't quite 50% longer. A stay in Anaheim puts you within a very short drive of the two Disney parks & Knott's, while a stay further north in the LA area puts you easily within reach of Universal Studios, Santa Monica and even SFMM which is only an hour or so's drive away. Everything else I agree with you in that it isn't too convenient without driving from park to park.
 
I’m not saying that I wouldn’t happily do a theme park driving trip along the West Coast, as I know full well that I’d love visiting a different park every day along that type of route!

However, I’m not sure whether my parents wouldn’t prefer a different kind of trip if they were travelling for all that time to that region.

For now, I think I just have to take every opportunity I can get to visit a theme park full stop.
 
Following a fun trip to the south and east coasts of the UK but also now cancelling my trip to Poland I'm pretty sure this will be the first time in a while I'll have not had any changes to my top coasters in a year. Was still fun to visit places I'd not been before like Paultons, Chessington, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Joyland, and Pleasurewood Hills.

Saying that the Rollercoaster at Great Yarmouth PB was an absolute gem.
 
Following a fun trip to the south and east coasts of the UK but also now cancelling my trip to Poland I'm pretty sure this will be the first time in a while I'll have not had any changes to my top coasters in a year. Was still fun to visit places I'd not been before like Paultons, Chessington, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Joyland, and Pleasurewood Hills.

Saying that the Rollercoaster at Great Yarmouth PB was an absolute gem.
Tis a hidden gem
 
I've had a good laugh with friends the past two weekends going to some little parks I've never visited before. Just nice seeing and doing some new things but mainly nice to catch up with people. Nice to add a few random creds though whilst helping some smaller parks (though it's nice to see them busy).

Hopefully next year I can get back to visiting some of the parks on my bucket list whilst also some more out of the way UK parks.
 
I've spent the last couple of weeks ranking every one of my 244 ridden roller coasters, something I've been meaning to do for a while but never had the time or motivation for. I based each coaster's position on how I rated the ride experience, track and train, not taking into account story/theming/landscaping etc. There's several I've ridden where the layout is the same, or very similar, and in such an instance I would then base each one on its thematic elements. Anyway, my top 10 now looks like this.
  1. Untamed, Walibi Holland
  2. Helix, Liseberg
  3. Der Schwur des Kärnan, Hansa Park
  4. Wodan Timbur Coaster, Europa-Park
  5. Nemesis, Alton Towers
  6. Oz'Iris, Parc Astérix
  7. Fury, Bobbejaanland
  8. Colossos - Kampf der Giganten, Heide Park
  9. Lost Gravity, Walibi Holland
  10. Black Mamba, Phantasialand
 
I've spent the last couple of weeks ranking every one of my 244 ridden roller coasters, something I've been meaning to do for a while but never had the time or motivation for. I based each coaster's position on how I rated the ride experience, track and train, not taking into account story/theming/landscaping etc. There's several I've ridden where the layout is the same, or very similar, and in such an instance I would then base each one on its thematic elements. Anyway, my top 10 now looks like this.
  1. Untamed, Walibi Holland
  2. Helix, Liseberg
  3. Der Schwur des Kärnan, Hansa Park
  4. Wodan Timbur Coaster, Europa-Park
  5. Nemesis, Alton Towers
  6. Oz'Iris, Parc Astérix
  7. Fury, Bobbejaanland
  8. Colossos - Kampf der Giganten, Heide Park
  9. Lost Gravity, Walibi Holland
  10. Black Mamba, Phantasialand
I must say it's interesting how Wodan is above Troy for you, or have you not done it? Also where the hell is Taron?
 
I must admit that some other placements in the list also interest me greatly, including the very high placement of Nemesis at #5, Fury at Bobbejaanland at #7 and (seemingly) Black Mamba above Taron.

With Troy vs Wodan, I’ve noticed that most seem to love one and not really think much to the other, so maybe @Burbs just loves Wodan and doesn’t think as much to Troy?
 
I must say it's interesting how Wodan is above Troy for you, or have you not done it? Also where the hell is Taron?
I have done Troy, which is my #19, and Taron is just above at #15. I very much enjoy them both but neither are top-10 worthy in my view.

For me, Troy is terribly overrated. It lacks much airtime and is all the poorer for it. I prefer both its neighbours Joris and Wodan by quite some margin. .
Joris Water and Fire sit at #33 and #34 for me respectively.
 
I have done Troy, which is my #19, and Taron is just above at #15. I very much enjoy them both but neither are top-10 worthy in my view.


Joris Water and Fire sit at #33 and #34 for me respectively.
If you’ve ranked every ride you’ve ridden, I’d be very intrigued to know; presuming you’ve ridden them both, where do Icon and Wicker Man sit for you?

I know they seem like two very random rides, but they’re my favourite out of the coasters you seem to have ridden from your top 10 (I’m guessing you’ve never been to Florida), so I’d be intrigued to know where they are in the list of someone who’s ridden quite a bit more than me.
 
If you’ve ranked every ride you’ve ridden, I’d be very intrigued to know; presuming you’ve ridden them both, where do Icon and Wicker Man sit for you?

I know they seem like two very random rides, but they’re my favourite out of the coasters you seem to have ridden from your top 10 (I’m guessing you’ve never been to Florida), so I’d be intrigued to know where they are in the list of someone who’s ridden quite a bit more than me.
Indeed, I've only been to theme parks in the UK and 6 countries in mainland Europe (7 if you include the Alpine Coaster we did in Switzerland). Icon for me is #57 and Wicker Man #50, the former being my least favourite of the 4 Mack launch coasters I've done, and Wicker Man coming in at #5 of the 6 GCIs I've ridden.
 
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