http://www.ushsho.com/bestrollercoasterpoll.htm
The results for the 2008 polls are now starting to come in, with the Wood results up.
Wood Results
http://www.ushsho.com/woodrollercoaster ... ts2008.htm
In it's opening season, South Korea's T-Express has won the top spot in this year's poll, which doesn't surprise after hearing rave reviews about it ever since Theme Park Review's latest tour there.
Here are the top 10 Wooden coaster for 2008:
1. T-Express - Everland
2. The Voyage - Holiday World
3. El Toro - SFGAd
4. Boulder Dash - Lake Compounce
5. Balder - Liseberg
6. Phoenix - Knoebel's
7. Aska - Nara Dreamland
8. Troy - Toverland
9. Ravine Flyer II - Waldameer
10. Colossos - Heide Park
Coming in at the bottom are a load of coasters which chiropracters could only dream about having near them. This includes the former tallest and fastest wooden coaster in Son of Beast. Here are the bottom 5:
172. The Bandit - Movie Park
173. Predator - Darien Lake
174. Son of Beast - Kings Island
175. Anaconda - Walygator Parc
176. The Grizzly - Great America
The best wooden coaster in the UK for 2008 is Blackpool Pleasure Beach's Grand National, coming in a respectable 28th overall. This is followed by Oakwood's Megafobia at 32nd and a surprise third place for Blackpool's Wild Mouse at 40th overall.
Steel Results
http://www.ushsho.com/steelrollercoaste ... ts2008.htm
Winning yet again, but only just, is New England's Ride of Steel and it's crazy mix of mad airtime but terrible restraints. Second is yet another Everland coaster ranking extremely highly in the Arrow coaster of Eagle's Fortress. In at 3 is the much loved by a lot of people, especially on Coasterforce, coaster of Expedition GeForce. Climbing to 6, rather surprisingly after hearing all the opinions that it is as rough as ever this year is Nemesis.
Here is the full top 10 Steel coasters of 2008:
1. Superman - Ride of Steel SF New England
2. Eagle's Fortress - Everland
3. Expedition GeForce - Holiday Park
4. Kawasemi - Tobu Zoo
5. Piraten - Djurs Sommerland
6. Nemesis - Alton Towers
7. Behemoth - Canadas Wonderland
8. Goliath - Walibi World
9. Katun - Mirabilandia
10. Dragon Khan - Port Aventura
The bottom 10 consists of 3 coasters from the UK, including everybody's favourite Welsh killing machine of MegaBlitz at 354th overall and Drayton Manor's G-Force at 349th. Right at the bottom, however, for the second year running, is unsurprisingly French, and it is Goudurix at Parc Asterix!
Here are the bottom 5:
354. MegaBlitz - Coney Beach
355. Fav Zamperla Volare - Any Park Anywhere
356. Fav Zyklon Loop - Any Park Anywhere
357. Fav Chance Toboggan - Any Park Anywhere
358. Goudurix - Parc Asterix
The top coaster from the UK is obviously Nemesis, coming in at 6th overall. This isn't even closely followed by Nemesis' younger brother, Nemesis Inferno, at 61st. Third in the UK is Oakwood's Eurofighter, Speed, at 69th with Stealth and Oblivion making up the top 5 UK steel coasters. (Stealth beating Oblivion - What a load of bollocks!)
And this is where the results end, but don't worry, just a year to go until the new poll starts and less time then that until CF's very own coaster awards start!
So all of you people that rated Nemesis, Nemesis Inferno and Stealth highly, get out of this country and ride some decent coasters, and this topic will be back next year!
Thanks for reading. (Am I kidding myself???)
Mike.
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If you haven't a clue what I'm on about, I'm talking about a poll created by a bloke called Mitch Hawker, which gives every entusiast (and not 10 or so random ACErs) the chance to vote for which they think is the best coaster.
Last year Superman RoS at SFNE won, with Expedition GeForce coming 2nd in the steel coaster poll. The Voyage came top in the wood coaster poll, with El Toro 2nd.
The results for the 2008 polls are now starting to come in, with the Wood results up.
Wood Results
http://www.ushsho.com/woodrollercoaster ... ts2008.htm
In it's opening season, South Korea's T-Express has won the top spot in this year's poll, which doesn't surprise after hearing rave reviews about it ever since Theme Park Review's latest tour there.
Here are the top 10 Wooden coaster for 2008:
1. T-Express - Everland
2. The Voyage - Holiday World
3. El Toro - SFGAd
4. Boulder Dash - Lake Compounce
5. Balder - Liseberg
6. Phoenix - Knoebel's
7. Aska - Nara Dreamland
8. Troy - Toverland
9. Ravine Flyer II - Waldameer
10. Colossos - Heide Park
Coming in at the bottom are a load of coasters which chiropracters could only dream about having near them. This includes the former tallest and fastest wooden coaster in Son of Beast. Here are the bottom 5:
172. The Bandit - Movie Park
173. Predator - Darien Lake
174. Son of Beast - Kings Island
175. Anaconda - Walygator Parc
176. The Grizzly - Great America
The best wooden coaster in the UK for 2008 is Blackpool Pleasure Beach's Grand National, coming in a respectable 28th overall. This is followed by Oakwood's Megafobia at 32nd and a surprise third place for Blackpool's Wild Mouse at 40th overall.
Steel Results
http://www.ushsho.com/steelrollercoaste ... ts2008.htm
Winning yet again, but only just, is New England's Ride of Steel and it's crazy mix of mad airtime but terrible restraints. Second is yet another Everland coaster ranking extremely highly in the Arrow coaster of Eagle's Fortress. In at 3 is the much loved by a lot of people, especially on Coasterforce, coaster of Expedition GeForce. Climbing to 6, rather surprisingly after hearing all the opinions that it is as rough as ever this year is Nemesis.
Here is the full top 10 Steel coasters of 2008:
1. Superman - Ride of Steel SF New England
2. Eagle's Fortress - Everland
3. Expedition GeForce - Holiday Park
4. Kawasemi - Tobu Zoo
5. Piraten - Djurs Sommerland
6. Nemesis - Alton Towers
7. Behemoth - Canadas Wonderland
8. Goliath - Walibi World
9. Katun - Mirabilandia
10. Dragon Khan - Port Aventura
The bottom 10 consists of 3 coasters from the UK, including everybody's favourite Welsh killing machine of MegaBlitz at 354th overall and Drayton Manor's G-Force at 349th. Right at the bottom, however, for the second year running, is unsurprisingly French, and it is Goudurix at Parc Asterix!
Here are the bottom 5:
354. MegaBlitz - Coney Beach
355. Fav Zamperla Volare - Any Park Anywhere
356. Fav Zyklon Loop - Any Park Anywhere
357. Fav Chance Toboggan - Any Park Anywhere
358. Goudurix - Parc Asterix
The top coaster from the UK is obviously Nemesis, coming in at 6th overall. This isn't even closely followed by Nemesis' younger brother, Nemesis Inferno, at 61st. Third in the UK is Oakwood's Eurofighter, Speed, at 69th with Stealth and Oblivion making up the top 5 UK steel coasters. (Stealth beating Oblivion - What a load of bollocks!)
And this is where the results end, but don't worry, just a year to go until the new poll starts and less time then that until CF's very own coaster awards start!
So all of you people that rated Nemesis, Nemesis Inferno and Stealth highly, get out of this country and ride some decent coasters, and this topic will be back next year!
Thanks for reading. (Am I kidding myself???)
Mike.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you haven't a clue what I'm on about, I'm talking about a poll created by a bloke called Mitch Hawker, which gives every entusiast (and not 10 or so random ACErs) the chance to vote for which they think is the best coaster.
Last year Superman RoS at SFNE won, with Expedition GeForce coming 2nd in the steel coaster poll. The Voyage came top in the wood coaster poll, with El Toro 2nd.