travel channel best parks awards

manutdfan1

manutdfan1

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Ok...there is really something wrong with the people that decides all this because disney only won 2 awards and they wernt firtst place. disney got 2nd best new water ride with crush n gusher and 3rd best water park with blizard beach. This is how best park in the world went: 3rd-Black Pool Pleasure Beach in Blackpool, Enlgand. 2nd(and i dont know how)- Islands of Adventure Orlando, Florida. and 1st- Ceder Point Ohio. This is crazy. Everyone knows that disney sea blows all these parks out of the water. I mean the Magic Kingdom is way better than ceder point because ceder point has NO and i mean no theming. Whats wrong with this? and comments
 
SirNim

SirNim

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I think that the Travel Channel, for these shows, only "evaluates" amusement and/or thrill parks/attractions...

That's got to be the case, because if they were "evaluating" theme parks Disney would own the list...
 
AndyP

AndyP

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I don't mind seeing IoA there, because I really do like IoA. But Blackpool, I mean come on! I live only an hour away from there, regular nicknames include 'cess-pool' for example. It has a couple of good rides (The Big One, Valhalla) from what I have heard and well, theming, nope none of that. I wouldn't even begin to compare Disney with Blackpool, they are on totally different leagues.
 
DonaldDoleWhip

DonaldDoleWhip

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It's a good thing people don't follow the Travel Channel.

What are the top 5 theme parks in North America? What are the top 2 in Asia? What's number one in Europe?

Agree with the people who have already posted. Disney absolutely DOMINATES the theme park industry (and some new things are coming to Walt Disney Studios Paris, like ToT and Toon Studios). Adrenaline junkies can find amusement in IoA and Cedar Point. But Disney will always reign supreme.
 
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patsfan567

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you all got to be kidding me! Cedar Point is by far the best park in the world, nothing tops cedar point. I no theres no theming and all but the rides are unbelievable! Disney is a great park but i wouldnt count them as a #1 park in the world. Its theming is unbelievable and all but there isnt any real thrill rides beside R&R and ToT. If this was a theme contest Disney would Dominate! And For IoA Being #2 in the world thats just crazy! the only ride that impreses me is Spider Man, Other Than That its all crap At IoA! Now this is just my opinion and i know most of you have completly Different opinions, so dont cut me down.
 
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jaredliu

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Of course Disney park are amusement parks. Their parks do nothing but "amusing" people. And there is no evidence shown that those votes come from coaster geeks.
 
bluefaery

bluefaery

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coasterphil said:
Most of the voting for the Golden Ticket Awards is done by coaster enthusiasts, which shows why Disney doesn't get much attention.
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so that's why 6 flags fiesta texas won best park? LOL :veryconfu
 
Jarboe

Jarboe

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Well, although Disney is not mentioned here, consider that the Travel Channel does provide many hour and two-hour long specials devoted solely to the Disney parks and resorts.

And I think Walt would have hated his parks to be considered 'amusement parks'
 
Defend10

Defend10

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The people that make the Golden Ticket awards, what todays special was based on, all know the industry very well. They tend to consider Disney parks as sperate from the wet, in quite a good way. In all honesty, looking at it this way, it's more of a compliment than anything. While they compare waterparks with Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon, they just think of Disney as a league of it's own.

Honestly, it really wouldn't be that exciting of a competiton if the interviewed random people on the street. There'd be two types of answers. ____ (enter local thill park here) or Disneyland/World. Besides, we wouldn't want anyone dominating a poll like this year after year, especially if they really didn't earn it... (cough cough IoA/CP):confused:
 
Defend10

Defend10

Member
Mecha Figment said:
least not forget that Disney owns the Travel Channel
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Umm, Travel Channel, and Discovery Networks, among others, are owned by Liberty Media Corporation. What does Disney have to do with them? A simple google does wonders for credibility...
 
George

George

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If the travel channel show kept the Disney parks separate that's a good thing. It gets really messy when you compare amusement parks to theme parks. I've seen this done and then you get arguments from coaster/thrill enthusiasts and theme park/ride storytelling enthusiasts and they never agree. I actually like both and have tried to mediate such debates in my old age I realize its like trying to get a hardcore Democrat and Republican to agree, so now I step back and let the debate entertain me. Islands of Adventure is interesting. It could be included in both a theme park rating and a thrill park rating comparison.
If you're ever bored, check out themeparkinsider.com. It compares parks and rides of all different ilks. You can see what a large cross section of the general public (theme and thrill enthusiasts alike) thinks of a park or attraction. It is also international so you can see ratings/pics of overseas parks and things. It has a slight (but I think very slight) thrill park bias (Disney doesn't dominate the top ten attractions, but it also has 3-5 rides listed in the top ten).
 
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Brian Noble

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The Golden Tickets are voted on by a geographically-distributed set of what Amusement Today calls "amusement park enthusiasts", but would probably be more properly called coaster enthusiasts. These folks consider mostly "traditional" amusement parks in their votes.

http://www.amusementtoday.com/2005gta82705.html

Some categories make sense. While one could quibble with the steel and wooden coater award winners, they are not ridiculously wrong. Cedar Point (which happens to be my home park) may well be the best *traditional* amusement park, but there are certainly others I would consider---especially given some recent operational changes at CP.

Best kids park? Legoland may be the best park focused exclusively on kids, but it's not the first place I'd take kids even in southern california---that'd be Disneyland.

Others just make no sense at all. I've been to SFFT, and seen more than half of thier shows. And, they really are quite good. But there is no way on God's green earth that MGM-Studios should be only *fifth* on that list (tied with Cedar Point no less, which---expect for their ice skating show, which was developed at Knott's---has strictly bush-league productions.) Their big muscal number is good, but Beauty and the Beast is better. (And, Aladdin at DCA is better still.)

Disney did garner one Golden Ticket, for best nighttime show. However, I think they picked the wrong one (Illuminations) rather than the right one (Disneyland's Fantasmic!).

At the end of the day, the golden tickets are a beauty contest amongst traditional amusement parks, and serve mostly as a vehicle to generate full-page ads in the AT issue that announces the results: http://www.amusementtoday.com/image/GoldenTicket2005.pdf
 
Damien666

Damien666

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Fiesta Texas won best shows. Cedar Point won best park. With the awards, I have to disagree with some of them. Why is MF 1? Superman Ride of Steel at Six Flags New England kicks the crap out of MF! I laughed my head off when one person said MF had "Tons of airtime". You may get good airtime on the first drop but thats it. Superman has tons of airtime and a wilder layout. It's better the MF. BTW, when MF is compared to all the other Intiman coasters, it doesn't even make the top 3.

The reason why Cedar Point is voted number one is because most of the voters are from the midwest. I am glad IOA took second place. Now I don't know who said Spiderman is the only good ride there and the rest is crap. But IOA does have some great coasters that beat some of Cedar Point's. (Dueling Dragons kills Raptor by a long shot)
 
JROK

JROK

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unkadug said:
All Theme Parks are Amusement Parks; but all Amusement Parks are not Theme Parks.
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Unless you're IOA in which you are both Amusement and Theme...

Glad to see Halloween Horror Nights up there kicking butt though!
 

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