Just had a big trip around Europe myself, which has given a drastic reshaping to my top 10/20. (...)
Well, so much for that. Just back from the Pleasure Beach for the first time since February. Despite my going in with deliberately lowered expectations and conscious of trying to see it in isolation rather than boosting it just because I've been waiting for it for years and it's at my favourite park - despite all my good intentions, in other words - I've reached the unavoidable conclusion that every single thing I posted just over a month ago is now wrong.
1. Icon
2. Shambhala
3. Big One
4. Colossos (Heide Park)
5. Grand National
6. The Swarm
7. Wodan
8. Blue Fire
9. Red Force
10. Smiler
11. Oblivion
12. Wild Mouse (BPB)
13. Big Dipper (BPB)
14. Furius Baco
15. Revolution
16. Stealth
17. Kumali
18. Nemesis
19. Rutschebanen (Tivoli)
20. Avalanche
I don't know if I just got it on a really good day, but Icon completely blew me away today. Obscene airtime, relentless, forceful, artful hangtime and inversions and crucially completely reride-able. I was honestly steeling myself for a faint disappointment and I re-rode it quite a bit to make absolutely sure I was right, but I am. Icon gives almost everything I want from a coaster.
Special mentions go to Shambhala, which I feel very bad for knocking off the top spot only a month into its reign, Oblivion which falls out of the top 10 and Colossus at Thorpe which falls out of the top 20.