Rollercoaster Advice | Summer 2022 Amusement Park Review and Ideas

[Mickeynerd17]

Spaceship Earth not making a top ten spot on a tier list is a sin. Even in its current state its a beautiful attraction.

 

[JokersWild]

Spaceship Earth not making a top ten spot on a tier list is a sin. Even in its current state its a beautiful attraction.

It's just so inferior to the '94 version. I still love it, but the changed descent really kills it for me. 13th place is still pretty respectable, haha.

 

[spacemt354]

Spaceship Earth not making a top ten spot on a tier list is a sin. Even in its current state its a beautiful attraction.

The '94 version was my all-time favorite attraction - the current version is #2 for me but the lack of descent scenes dropped it below Haunted Mansion. Despite being 15+ years old in this iteration the ascent still holds up though.

 

[ThemeParkPriest]

First, my rankings:

1	Splash Mountain
2	Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
3	Expedition Everest
4	Flight of Passage
5	Rock N’ Roller Coaster
6	Kilimanjaro Safaris
7	Smuggler’s Run
8	Dinosaur
9	Space Mountain
10	Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
11	Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway
12	Star Tours: The Adventure Continues
13	Spaceship Earth
14	Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
15	Soarin’
16	Living with the Land
17	Test Track
18	Toy Story Mania
19	Na'vi River Journey
20	Haunted Mansion
21	Pirates of the Caribbean
22	Peter Pan’s Flight
23	Peoplemover
24	Frozen Ever After
25	Jungle Cruise
26	Grand Fiesta Tour
27	Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
28	It’s a Small World
29	Kali River Rapids
30	The Enchanted Tiki Room
31	Journey of the Little Mermaid
32	Mission Space
33	The American Adventure
34	It’s Tough to be a Bug
35	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
36	Festival of the Lion King
37	Country Bear Jamboree
38	MuppetVision 3D
39	Walt Disney World Railroad
40	Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress
41	Mad Tea Party
42	The Seas with Nemo and Friends
43	Mickey’s Philharmagic
44	The Hall of Presidents
45	Astro Orbiter
46	Liberty Square Riverboat
47	Prince Charming’s Regal Carousel
48	Impressions De France
49	Alien Swirling Saucers
50	Dumbo the Flying Elephant
51	Tomorrowland Speedway
52	Swiss Family Treehouse
53	Triceratops Spin
54	Tom Sawyer Island

And the Forum rankings (based on the 5 that have given rankings):

Name	ForumRank	Average	Worst	Best
Haunted Mansion	1	6.8	20	1
Expedition Everest	2	8.4	18	1
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad	3	8.4	13	4
Flight of Passage	4	8.8	16	2
Dinosaur	5	9.4	14	3
Twilight Zone Tower of Terror	6	10.4	28	2
Space Mountain	7	11.2	30	3
Spaceship Earth	8	11.2	23	2
Kilimanjaro Safaris	9	11.4	22	1
Splash Mountain	10	12.2	24	1
Peoplemover	11	12.2	23	4
Rise of the Resistance	12	12.25	22	2
Living with the Land	13	12.6	36	2
Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress	14	15.4	40	8
Pirates of the Caribbean	15	15.8	29	8
Jungle Cruise	16	17.6	25	6
Country Bear Jamboree	17	18.4	37	5
Rock N’ Roller Coaster	18	19.4	31	5
Grand Fiesta Tour	19	19.4	26	6
Peter Pan’s Flight	20	21.25	34	13
The American Adventure	21	22.6	33	18
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train	22	23	32	14
Toy Story Mania	23	23.25	35	15
Test Track	24	23.4	39	10
Na'vi River Journey	25	24.25	33	17
Frozen Ever After	26	24.25	30	20
Smuggler’s Run	27	25	40	7
Soarin’	28	25.6	40	12
The Enchanted Tiki Room	29	27	30	21
MuppetVision 3D	30	27.25	38	19
Star Tours: The Adventure Continues	31	27.4	46	12
The Seas with Nemo and Friends	32	28.5	44	11
It’s a Small World	33	29.75	39	25
Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway	34	31.25	63	11
Slinky Dog Dash	35	31.33333333	37	25
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	36	33	37	24
Journey of the Little Mermaid	37	33.75	44	26
Walt Disney World Railroad	38	35.4	43	18
Finding Nemo: The Musical	39	36	50	27
Festival of the Lion King	40	37	50	15
It’s Tough to be a Bug	41	38.25	51	31
Impressions De France	42	41.25	53	18
Kali River Rapids	43	42.5	60	29
Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin	44	43.25	56	27
Mickey’s Philharmagic	45	44	48	42
Mission Space	46	45.5	58	32
Journey into Imagination with Figment	47	46	48	44
Swiss Family Treehouse	48	46.25	52	38
Tom Sawyer Island	49	46.5	54	36
Mad Tea Party	50	47	51	41
The Hall of Presidents	51	47	58	41
Voyage of the Little Mermaid	52	48	59	34
Liberty Square Riverboat	53	48.25	60	41
Astro Orbiter	54	48.75	56	41
Prince Charming’s Regal Carousel	55	51	58	45
Dumbo the Flying Elephant	56	51	57	43
The Barnstormer	57	51	52	49
Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor	58	54.66666667	59	50
The Mickey Shorts Theater	59	55	65	45
Alien Swirling Saucers	60	55.5	64	49
The Magic Carpets of Aladdin	61	58	59	57
Tomorrowland Speedway	62	58.25	65	51
Triceratops Spin	63	58.25	62	53
Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage	64	61.5	63	60
Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy	65	62.5	64	61

 

[Disney Warrior]

I’ll be heading off to Universal Orlando with my family in a little less than two weeks from now, can’t wait to experience the wonder of Fast and the Furious Supercharged lol (if I even ride this during my visit)

 

[TheOriginalTiki]

I’ll be heading off to Universal Orlando with my family in a little less than two weeks from now, can’t wait to experience the wonder of Fast and the Furious Supercharged lol (if I even ride this during my visit)

I would actually highly recommend doing Supercharged once just for the pre-show. I swear, the cast members in there have turned it into a brilliant piece of Kauffman-esque performance art. They basically go out of their way to act as apathetic about everything as humanly possible, including their interactions with the film characters. It absolutely MAKES the attraction worth doing.

 

[TheOriginalTiki]

I can go ahead and confirm that the next Great Ranking Podcast will be focused on Universal Orlando and will feature long-time channel contributor Monkey as my co-host. Here are the 30 attractions we'll be covering in this exciting three part event. (You can blame Wiki for the wonky order as I was just copying off their list of attractions ) More info to come! Velocicoaster and Bourne will NOT be a part of this list since Monkey hasn't experienced them yet, but Velocicoaster will of course feature prominently in the upcoming Coasters ranking.

Flight of the Hippogriff
Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure
Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts
Hollywood Rip Ride Rock-It
Revenge of the Mummy
Incredible Hulk
Woody Woodpecker’s Nuthouse Coaster
Despicable Me Minion Mayhem
Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey
Race Through New York
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man
The Simpsons Ride
Transformers: The Ride
Carou-Seuss-Sel
Doctor Doom’s Fear Fall
Dudley Do Right’s Ripsaw Falls
ET Adventure
Fast and the Furious: Supercharged
Hogwarts Express
Jurassic Park River Adventure
Kang and Kodos Twirl and Hurl
Men in Black: Alien Attack
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Popeye and Bluto’s Bilge Rat Barges
Skull Island: Reign of Kong
The Cat in the Hat Storm
Force Accelatron
The High in the Sky Seuss Trolley Train Ride
Horror Makeup Show
Poseidon's Fury

 

[ThemeParkPriest]

I can go ahead and confirm that the next Great Ranking Podcast will be focused on Universal Orlando and will feature long-time channel contributor Monkey as my co-host. Here are the 30 attractions we'll be covering in this exciting three part event. (You can blame Wiki for the wonky order as I was just copying off their list of attractions ) More info to come! Velocicoaster and Bourne will NOT be a part of this list since Monkey hasn't experienced them yet, but Velocicoaster will of course feature prominently in the upcoming Coasters ranking.

Flight of the Hippogriff
Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure
Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts
Hollywood Rip Ride Rock-It
Revenge of the Mummy
Incredible Hulk
Woody Woodpecker’s Nuthouse Coaster
Despicable Me Minion Mayhem
Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey
Race Through New York
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man
The Simpsons Ride
Transformers: The Ride
Carou-Seuss-Sel
Doctor Doom’s Fear Fall
Dudley Do Right’s Ripsaw Falls
ET Adventure
Fast and the Furious: Supercharged
Hogwarts Express
Jurassic Park River Adventure
Kang and Kodos Twirl and Hurl
Men in Black: Alien Attack
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Popeye and Bluto’s Bilge Rat Barges
Skull Island: Reign of Kong
The Cat in the Hat Storm
Force Accelatron
The High in the Sky Seuss Trolley Train Ride
Horror Makeup Show
Poseidon's Fury

Awesome! As my first and only trip to Universal Orlando was in 2003, I only have 19 attractions that I'll officially rank. I'm lucky to have that many because I've ridden 4 of them at Universal Studios Hollywood.

 

[TheOriginalTiki]

Going live in an hour!

 

[ThemeParkPriest]

I'm going to rate Fast and Furious, too, because I've seen a lot of the ride at Hollywood as part of the backlot tour. The rides below are the ones I haven't ridden. I've put them in order based on how excited I would be to ride them based on the technology in them.

21	Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure
22	Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts
23	Skull Island: Reign of Kong
24	Hollywood Rip Ride Rock-It
25	Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey
26	Race Through New York
27	The High in the Sky Seuss Trolley Train Ride
28	Hogwarts Express
29	Woody Woodpecker’s Nuthouse Coaster
30	Kang and Kodos Twirl and Hurl

 

[TheOriginalTiki]

Baby Tiki's first coaster credit

 

[TheOriginalTiki]

We'll be going live in two hours (5PM EST) for part two of The Great Universal Ranking Podcast!


Following the show, Monkey and I will be launching the pilot episode of The Generic Theme Park News Show (yes, that's the actual title we settled on ) where we'll be covering IAAPA, KidZone's demise, the USH coaster rumors, and more!

 

[ThemeParkPriest]

We'll be going live in two hours (5PM EST) for part two of The Great Universal Ranking Podcast!


Following the show, Monkey and I will be launching the pilot episode of The Generic Theme Park News Show (yes, that's the actual title we settled on ) where we'll be covering IAAPA, KidZone's demise, the USH coaster rumors, and more!

Here are my Universal Orlando rankings (these are the bottom half of rides I've actually ridden):

11	The Cat in the Hat
12	Fast and the Furious: Supercharged
13	Despicable Me Minion Mayhem
14	Poseidon's Fury
15	Horror Makeup Show
16	Doctor Doom’s Fear Fall
17	One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
18	Carou-Seuss-Sel
19	Flight of the Hippogriff
20	Storm Force Accelatron

 

[Disney Warrior]

I have internet on the plane to Orlando lol (todays the first day of UO)

 

[tcool123]

Lucky Fella, it's 33 degrees where I am right now. Enjoy the sun and fun down there.

While not 33, its a “warm” 60 degrees right now. It is set to rain all day today ensuring that it doesnt warm up past 63 today. When you account for windchill and humidity it feels like its 45 out there - in other words I cant wait to escape back to Miami today lol where its going get to 79 today

Orlando is forecasted to be rainy sweater weather till Wednesday and the coldest day is set to be Saturday with a low of 50 and the feels like likely to be in the high 30s/low 40s.

In other words @Disney Warrior I hope you packed ponchos and a few long sleeves!

 

[TheOriginalTiki]

While not 33, its a “warm” 60 degrees right now. It is set to rain all day today ensuring that it doesnt warm up past 63 today. When you account for windchill and humidity it feels like its 45 out there - in other words I cant wait to escape back to Miami today lol where its going get to 79 today

Orlando is forecasted to be rainy sweater weather till Wednesday and the coldest day is set to be Saturday with a low of 50 and the feels like likely to be in the high 30s/low 40s.

In other words @Disney Warrior I hope you packed ponchos and a few long sleeves!

I've been freakishly lucky when it comes to Florida rain. The worst I ever experienced was two 15 minute thunderstorms in the same day, including one I got stuck in RIGHT as I was getting off the bus arriving at Hollywood Studios so I had a LONG uncovered walk to the entrance When I went a couple months ago I kept hearing horror stories about how rainy it was before I left, and OF COURSE after packing for that weather I literally only encountered like two ten minute showers the whole time I was there and given the fact that it was HOT I would have welcomed more rain that trip haha.

 

[Disney Warrior]

While not 33, its a “warm” 60 degrees right now. It is set to rain all day today ensuring that it doesnt warm up past 63 today. When you account for windchill and humidity it feels like its 45 out there - in other words I cant wait to escape back to Miami today lol where its going get to 79 today

Orlando is forecasted to be rainy sweater weather till Wednesday and the coldest day is set to be Saturday with a low of 50 and the feels like likely to be in the high 30s/low 40s.

In other words @Disney Warrior I hope you packed ponchos and a few long sleeves!

Rainy weather in Orlando sucks! I only went on two rides (Minions and Transformers) and I was only at the park for about three hours (I’m in my hotel rn). It is very windy as well, I kinda feel that I made the right choice staying at the hotel for the afternoon. I did not expect Rhode Island/Mass like fall weather in the middle of Florida. Hopefully tomorrow has better weather than today. It’s also been 6 years since I’ve last been to Florida, and this is my first time at Uni.

Update: That day before dinner I had more time to kill, so I went back to USF, and rode Revenge of the Mummy, the jumpscares caught me off guard


Monday was definitely a better day, aside from not getting on Hagrid due to the long wait times (Forbidden journey was cool but I had no idea what was happening)

 

[Disney Warrior]

The weather gods were on my side during my third and last day at Universal, but Hagrid nearly destroyed me with its three hour wait in the morning, but it was well worth it. The only non-inverting coasters (I decided not to go on Hulk, Rockit, or Velocicoaster) I didn’t go on were Gringotts (didn’t want to stand in another long line for an HP ride, Harry is overrated) and the two Vekoma junior coasters. Jurassic Park and other water rides were not ridden by me because I didn’t want to get too wet. The joke attraction, Fast and Furious Supercharged was weird, wet, loud, and made no sense, family was only mentioned once outside of the pre show. I actually prefer Kong and Jimmy Fallon to Supercharged (and I’ll probably still make fun of it every now and then).

 

[TheOriginalTiki]

To be fair, Reign of Kong is unironically a masterpiece in my opinion haha.

 

[ThemeParkPriest]

We'll be going live in two hours (5PM EST) for part two of The Great Universal Ranking Podcast!


Following the show, Monkey and I will be launching the pilot episode of The Generic Theme Park News Show (yes, that's the actual title we settled on ) where we'll be covering IAAPA, KidZone's demise, the USH coaster rumors, and more!

Just like with the WDW rankings, remember to get your rankings finalized if you want to be included in the Forum's composite rankings for Universal rides.