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Just for Josh, (who did his top 10% in 2024 as well), here is the rest of my top 10% from (11-61). This won't be in any order because after the top 10, it becomes impossible to put them in preference order. On any given day I could prefer Oz'Iris to Taron and so forth. Stardust Racers Yellow Oz'Iris Katun Helix Wodan Blue Fire Copperhead Strike Afterburn Wildcats Revenge Stealth Black Mamba Fly Superman la Atrocciones de acero Manta/Acrobat Incredible Hulk iSpeed Shambhala Kumba Griffon Alpengeist Juvelen The Smiler Medusa (discovery kingdom) Tatsu Taron Alpina Blitz (Nigloland) Monster (Walygator) Icon Karnan Flug der Demon Raging Bull Twisted Timbers Behemoth Magnum XL 2000 Maverick Gatekeeper Untamed Dwiverlwind Velocicoaster Monster (Grona Lund) Wildfire (Kolmarden) Hyperion Abyssus Dominator Pantheon Farenheight Candymonium Mako Steel Dragon 2000 Nitro El Toro Batman Gotham city Escape Iron Grawzi Goliath (Six Flags over Georgia) Aerieforce One Thunderhead The Beast Fianna Force The Voyage Piraten Dragons Fury I love lists so much.

The new top ten. Woah 1. Steel Vengeance (first ridden 2018). Retaining its spot at number 1 is the astoundingly well paced, brilliant Steel Vengeance. 2. Nemesis Reborn. (first ridden in 2024 or 2004 depending on your point of view,). Staying at number 2 is Nemesis Reborn, despite not riding this year. Having done a fair number of inverters now, this just has something special about it and is so iconic for many many reasons. 3. Ride to Happiness. (first ridden in 2022). No movement here either. An amazing ride and I am desperate to get back on. 4. Voltron (first ridden in 2024). A tour de force of Mack skills. I love it. Flying Dinosaur (first ridden in 2025). A brilliant flyer, one of the most forceful rides out there with an outstanding starting sequence. The fly to lie to fly to lie to fly (I loved typing that) is just outstanding and feels like your face will be ripped off. Then you hit that pretzel loop at such pace. Ah.. so good. 6. Taiga. (first ridden in 2024). My favourite Intamin, such a great well paced ride. 7. Toutatis (first ridden in 2023). Another excellent Intamin, two in a row. Desperate to get back on this. 8. Fury 325. (First ridden in 2024). Looking back, I didn't appreciate Fury 325 enough. It isn't normally my kind of ride but Fury is something different and a great evolution of Leviathan. 9. Baron 1898. (First ridden in 2017). Sadly when I last went to Efteling, Baron was going through refurbishment so I am itching to get back on. I love this ride for its theatrics. It's not the best ride out there but I love the storytelling. Stardust Racers - Pulsar (First ridden in 2025). Theres actually very little in-between Green and Yellow so it really comes down to the smallest details and for me Green is the better of the two. I prefer the interactions on green such as the zero g roll over the top of yellow for example or the way Green races through the last section of track. Just feels better. See you in 2026... I tink this list will literally be the same next year

Hello. How was your year? Here's mine- Parks visited Efteling X5 Animal Kingdom X3 Hollywood Studios X1 Southend Adventure Island X1 Chessington X1 Schwaben Park X1 Tripsdrill X1 Legoland Deutschland X1 Hong Kong Disneyland X2 Ocean Park HK X1 Himeji Central Park X1 Parque Espana Shima X1 Nagashima Spa Land X1 Fuji Q X1 Disneyland Tokyo X2 Tokyo Disney Sea X3 Thorpe Park X2 Wiener Prater X1 Fantasiana X1 Epic Universe X2 New Rollercoasters ridden - 62 I'd say my top ten new rollercoasters of 2025 are as follows- Flying Dinosaur - The most intense flyer out there. It is absolutely fantastic. Stardust Racers Green - I love this ride, the flowing elements and air time are excellent and the duelling with yellow is so good. Stardust Racers Yellow - I mean come on, they are both so good and theres very little in between them in terms of quality. Steel Dragon 2000 - Aside from the really frustrating loading, this is a really long ride that does deliver. The air time at the end is also excellent. Pyrenees - An Inverter that sits under the radar, this is a very good rollercoaster, it just has a really odd ending. Hals Uber Kopf - The vekoma STC is so good. Both it and Fienna Force are so class. I thought this was a surprisingly forceful rollercoaster and really enjoyed it. Hollywood Dream - A surprisingly good hyper coaster. I only got the chance to ride this backwards but I thought it was excellent. Harakugei - A very good RMC but I find the loading procedures really take away the fun from a lot of Japanese parks. This is still awesome but its tiresome waiting for it . Diavlo - I don't really care that this is just a batman clone, it really is an excellent version of the ride. It looks a little rusty and run done and its amazing that the park have bothered to keep it running. Glad to have got on it. Zokkon - An excellent Intamin straddle coaster. Full of unique elements and excellent pacing. Landmark moments from 2025 Rollback on Mandrill Mayhem where we were stuck just before the Statue helix. Star of some B- tier tiktok vlogs. Loved it. Evacuated from the break run on Stardust Green. Lots of fun watching Stardust Yellow continue to run. Also managing to get on it after the death in September. Finally making it to Tokyo Disney and getting on all the major rides multiple times. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Sinbad, Indianna Jones, Winnie the Pooh and Beauty and the Beasts felt like life changing rides in my theme park career Reclaiming the 'ridden all B&M's in Europe' after getting to Legoland Deutschland Saying goodbye to way too many attractions this year. Kingda Ka, Muppets 3D, Six Flags America, Tough to be a Bug, Scorpion Express, Blade. Also our last ever rides on Dinosaur before its closure in 2026. So please share your 2025. We love content.

I can't believe we're nearly at four years of this twaddle.

Chesington's far worse as you can see the character the park used to have and when you compare to the modern day equivalent, it has lost so so much. The way IP has become an invasive species at Chessington, is far worse then so so so many parks.

I think it's very difficult to get all rides at Tokyo Disney to be honest, unless you are there at a cross over point. I was fortunate to have all the rides at both parks (aside from the under construction space mountain) and IMO Disney Sea is the finest theme park out there. Just thinking about Sinbad or Journey to the Centre of the Earth has me looking up flight prices..

I know it's the red tinted glasses but I love looking back at the videos of Thorpe from the 80's and 90's. There's an innocence to the park that doesn't really exist anymore.

A thousand Ap holders say exactly the same thing. Maybe it's time to end the Annual Pass so that the parks can actually become manageable and dare I say... profitable 🧐

And that's an under statement.

Did it have a previous life before it opened at Drayton Manor? I always assumed it was brand new when it opened there in 2003.

They're all screwed in november then when Six Flags America closes.

Upon Kingda Ka's passing, it cursed all the accelerator models.

Easy winner is Thorpe. Best operated rides, best opening hours and better reliability.

The actual operations at Towers are broadly always excellent. It's whether the rides are actually open that is Altons problem.

Any Hippogriff ride. I will never wait an hour for a Vekoma junior coaster. Not on your life. I don't generally spite myself out of any rollercoaster. If I've done it before then I won't do a lot of Gerstlauer rollercoasters. Saw is awful to ride, Smiler is painful to queue for. Eurofighters are generally quite meh. Generally I avoid Tidal Wave type rides now, there's no fun in walking abound in soggy clothes.

Smiler is constantly Towers busiest ride but that doesn't make it the most popular 😘

It's a top five for sure. The return journey to the station is some of my favourite sequencing on any rollercoaster, the pacing is just spot on. With Voltron and Helix, Mack prove that if you let them, they can push boundaries with even the smallest of elements. I guarantee, if you ask the majority of the general public, their favourite ride at Europa Park is still Silver Star. I remember a few years back, they did a general poll and I was so sure Wodan would be the guest favourite, but no it was the old reliable. As brilliant as Voltron is, it is just that aggressive and intense that it probably puts a lot of people off after their first ride.

Define slow. I believe they can dispatch as soon as the 1st train has cleared the lift hill.

For context, 8.5 million is near the bottom of the Universal portfolio Japan 16 million Orlando 10 million (for each park) California 9.6 million Beijing 9 million Singapore 4 million Being bang in the middle of Orlando and the three Asian resorts, I think the scope is there for 8.5 million but the UK needs to get the infrastructure bang on. I really have doubts in Eurostar ever making it to Bedford, Disneyland Paris had Eurostar right on their doorstep and halted that right after Brexit so there's no way it's going to Bedford. Not with Thameslink from Kings Cross St Pancras already in place.

I'm really impressed by the ride teams at Thorpe. We really take for granted how hard they work to keep the rides moving so efficiently. It's really telling how good we have it, The Swarm probably had the worst ops but they were still only stacking trains for about 10 seconds per cycle (and that is an exaggeration). The Hyperia team must have been chosen by the goddess themselves, because they run that ride so well, never stacking, always dispatching as soon as they can. Also shout out to Inferno's team who were doing a great job. They need a batcher though as lots of trains going out with two empty seats next to each other. And finally, the older I get the more I see myself preferring Thorpe's coaster line up to Altons. As much as I like Nemesis Reborn, I think the rest of the line up is either gimmicky nonsense, run awfully or just dull. Whereas Inferno is running the best Ive seen it (honestly, it's so good right now), Stealth and the Swarm are just so much fun, Hyperia manages to be open ( ) and I still love hanging out around Colossus and hearing that music. In general Thorpe is just a better experience all round. Better hours, better rides, better food, better operations. I would have never said that 20 years ago, but now, to me, Thorpe is in a different league.

Riding this Saturday, it was incredibly smooth, couldn't notice a hint of vibration or roughness. And actually riding this so soon after riding Helix two weeks ago, it's amazing how forceless Hyperia feels. Maybe the new wheels making it faster has taken some of the weightless feeling out of the ride (well for me anyway). Majority of guests clearly still love it although I found it interesting on my trip that Inferno was far busier throughout the day. I was expecting Hyperia to range in the 100 minute wait time, especially with the beautiful weather, but it never went above 50. As intimidating as it is, sometimes the majority of guests just want a smaller, more manageable ride like Inferno and the Swarm.

I get the reference however.. The only thing worse than people moaning about Christmas stuff in shops in August is forums talking about halloween.

Do we have to? It's worse then Christmas in shops in August..

They just need to scrap it now. It does nothing for anyone, it's costly, it has a terrible atmosphere with ride hosts shouting down the PA and down megaphones all the time. It's also an awful ride that barely gets you wet. Opening 3 hours after park opening? Get rid. Not worth the effort.

Yes it is. I actually like quite a few of the rides but it is a painful park to be in most of the time.