Poll of the Day > Which big amusement park do you think is the best in the world?

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KazGT6
02/23/21 6:24:43 PM
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disney world?
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Kimbos_Egg
02/23/21 6:27:53 PM
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Whats the one that kept killing people and got shut down?

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PMarth2002
02/23/21 6:29:19 PM
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i've mostly been to the ones in central florida, so i can't claim any of them are the best in the world, but my favorite is busch gardens. i'm going to hit up cedar point sometime after the pandemic's done.

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KazGT6
02/23/21 6:30:26 PM
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PMarth2002 posted...
i've mostly been to the ones in central florida, so i can't claim any of them are the best in the world, but my favorite is busch gardens. i'm going to hit up cedar point sometime after the pandemic's done.
i go to cedar point all the time. You're gonna drive up to cedar point? fly?
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FatalAccident
02/23/21 6:31:35 PM
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Kimbos_Egg posted...
Whats the one that kept killing people and got shut down?
Of course this would be your thing

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Mead
02/23/21 6:32:04 PM
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Disney world of all the parks count as a single thing

If not then Id say Disneyland. Ive only ever been to the Disney parks and Six Flags though

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rjsilverthorn
02/23/21 6:32:06 PM
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Kimbos_Egg posted...
Whats the one that kept killing people and got shut down?
Action Park?
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PMarth2002
02/23/21 6:33:35 PM
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KazGT6 posted...
i go to cedar point all the time. You're gonna drive up to cedar point? fly?

dunno, i don't want to make definitive plans yet. i'm not going anywhere if covid is still going on.

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Kimbos_Egg
02/23/21 6:34:19 PM
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rjsilverthorn posted...
Action Park?

Thats the one.

FatalAccident posted...
Of course this would be your thing

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captpackrat
02/23/21 6:58:13 PM
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rjsilverthorn posted...
Action Park?
Traction Park is more like it.

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SunWuKung420
02/23/21 7:25:25 PM
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Kimbos_Egg posted...
Whats the one that kept killing people and got shut down?

Action Park. 6 deaths isn't that bad.

Also people can and have got hurt or killed at every amusement park. Action Park was also poorly ran. It's also still a functional amusement park.

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SilentSeph
02/23/21 7:30:18 PM
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PMarth2002 posted...
busch gardens
This is my favorite so far, though I've only been to four (Universal, Six Flags, Disney World)

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kukukupo
02/23/21 8:40:47 PM
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KazGT6 posted...
i go to cedar point all the time. You're gonna drive up to cedar point? fly?

worth it if you like roller coasters.
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Zikten
02/23/21 11:28:01 PM
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I tbink I've only been to 3 in my life . 4 if you count a water park with some rides

Hershey Park in PA as a little kid. I loved it back then in the summers

Disney Land. Went once as a teenager. I didn't like how long the lines were

And some place in Idaho I tbink but I don't remember the name of it. It was similar to Hershey Park I guess. Wasn't as memorable. Maybe just cause Hershey Park had the power of nostalgia on its side

I think I had the most fun at Hershey Park though
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agesboy
02/24/21 12:21:25 AM
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dollywood's pretty great, and it's probably the one i've been to the most

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cute_fan
02/24/21 5:40:55 AM
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Sanrio Puroland ^.^
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hockey7318
02/24/21 5:59:45 AM
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Cedar Point is amazing and super surprising seeing as it's in Ohio and literally nothing good should be in Ohio.
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DANTE20XX
02/24/21 8:07:24 AM
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Nintendoland

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ReggieTheReckless
02/24/21 8:13:49 AM
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KJ StErOiDs
02/24/21 10:46:49 AM
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I couldn't say...

I've only ever been to Cedar Point but I would love to return one day.

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Bomberhead
02/24/21 1:13:04 PM
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Not limiting to the few I've been to, I would say EnergyLandia in Poland.
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Muscles
02/24/21 1:18:22 PM
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Cedar Point

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NejiHyuga900
03/01/21 1:57:03 PM
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Definitely Cedar Point if you want the thrill and excitement.

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Zeus
03/01/21 2:17:56 PM
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Probably one of the Disney parks, unless you're more looking for thrill rides. The Universal ones are also neat for theming, and I liked Busch Gardens (the Florida one, which I think might have been near Tampa, but I can't remember)

captpackrat posted...
Traction Park is more like it.

You mean Class Action Park.

iirc, it had like five separate incidents resulting in deaths -- some with multiple fatalities -- yet it's open again. Most of the problem is the fact that the owner had designed the rides and it's not like he had that kind of a background.

The DefunctLand video on it was darkly humorous given how fucking crazy the thing was. I've also been getting into the channel FascinatingHorror which covers a lot of amusement park disasters (along with other disasters), which I'm guessing was recommended because I watched some of the DefunctLand episodes for parks with that kind of a history.

Crazily enough, there was another park that had two unconnected fatal incidents (one killing two people, hospitalizing another person and the other killing one person) in the same day. Honestly, the crazy shit I've heard about is enough to convince me to stick with Disney parks where at least the patrons never seem to die (although I guess the staff occasionally has)

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captpackrat
03/01/21 7:35:50 PM
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Action Park's 2,700-foot-long (820 m) alpine slide descended the mountain beneath one of the ski area's chairlifts, which provided guests access to the top of the slide. Riders sat on small sleds that had only a brake/accelerator control stick, and rode down the slide in long chutes built into the slope. The ride, and more specifically the sleds, became notorious for causing injuries. The stick that was supposed to control the sled's speed in practice offered just two options on the infrequently maintained vehicles: extremely slow, and a speed described by one former employee as "death awaits". The chutes the sleds traveled in were made of concrete, fiberglass, and asbestos, which led to serious abrasions on riders who took even mild falls. The tendency of guests to ride in bathing suits made the problem worse. The path underneath the chairlift resulted in verbal harassment and spitting from passengers going up for their turn.

A skatepark briefly existed near the ski area's ski school building, but closed after one season due to poor design. Bowls were separated by pavement, which in many cases did not meet the edges smoothly. Former park employee Tom Fergus was quoted in the magazine Weird NJ as saying that the "skate park was responsible for so many injuries we covered it up with dirt and pretended it never existed".

The Super Go Karts allowed guests to drive around a small loop track at a speed of about 20 miles per hour (32 km/h), controlled by the governor devices on the karts. However, park employees knew how to circumvent the governors by wedging tennis balls into them, and they were known to do so for guests. As a result, an otherwise standard small-engine kart ride became an opportunity to play bumper cars at 50 mph (80 km/h), and many injuries resulted from head-on collisions. Also, the karts' engines were poorly maintained and some riders were overcome by gasoline fumes as they drove.

The Lola Cars were miniature open-cockpit race cars on a longer track. Extra money was charged to drive them, and they, too, could be adjusted for speed by park employees, with similarly harmful consequences to riders. Former employees have said that, after park management briefly set up a microbrewery nearby, employees would break into the brewery, steal the beer, and then take the cars out and ride them on Route 94.

The Super Speedboats were set up in a small pond, known by park staff to be heavily infested with snakes. They could be driven around a small island at 3540 mph (5664 km/h). While, unlike the land vehicles, there was no way to tamper and increase their speed, many riders nonetheless used them to play bumper boats, and one seriously inebriated rider had to be rescued by the attendant lifeguard after his boat capsized following a collision.

Bumper Boats was a supposedly safer ride than the Super Speedboats, but the engines often leaked gasoline, at least once requiring medical attention for one rider who got too much of it on his skin. Tall riders also often were unable to fit their legs on the small-sized boats, resulting in them hanging off of the sides of the boats and being fractured during collisions.

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captpackrat
03/01/21 7:44:08 PM
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In the mid-1980s, GAR built an enclosed water slide. This was not unusual for that time. In fact, the park already had several such slides. On this one, however, they decided to build a complete vertical loop at the end, similar to that of a roller coaster. The resulting slide, called the "Cannonball Loop", was so intimidating, that employees have reported they were offered $100 (equivalent to $238 in 2019) to test it. Fergus, who described himself as "one of the idiots" who took the offer, said, "$100 did not buy enough booze to drown out that memory."
The slide was open for only a month in 1985 before it was closed at the order of the state's Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety, a highly unusual move at the time. One worker told a local newspaper that "there were too many bloody noses and back injuries" from riders, and it was widely rumored, and reported in Weird NJ, that some of the test dummies sent down before it opened had been dismembered and decapitated. A rider also reportedly got stuck at the top of the loop due to insufficient water pressure, and a hatch had to be installed at the bottom of the slope to allow for future extractions.

The Tidal Wave Pool: The first patron death occurred here in 1982; another visitor drowned in this common water-park attraction five years later. It was, however, the number of people the lifeguards saved from a similar fate that made this the only Waterworld attraction to gain its own nickname, "The Grave Pool". It was 100 feet (30 m) wide by 250 feet (76 m) long and could hold 500 to 1,000 people. Waves were generated for 20 minutes at a time with 10-minute intervals between them, and could reach as much as 40 inches (1.0 m) in height. It was not always obvious that pool depth increased as one got closer to the far end, and there were patrons who only remembered or realized that they could not swim when they were in over their heads and the waves were going full blast. Even those who could swim sometimes exhausted themselves, causing patrons to crowd the side ladders as the waves began, leading to many accidents. Twelve lifeguards were on duty at all times, and on high-traffic weekends they were known to rescue as many as 30 people, compared to the one or two the average lifeguard might make in a typical season at a pool or lake.

Aqua Skoot: Invented by Ken Bailey in the early 1980s, riders would carry a hard, solid plastic sled up to the top of the ride, go down a slide consisting of rollers akin to those found in factories, warehouses, or assembly lines, and end up in a pool that in most areas was no deeper than a puddle. The idea of the ride was to, once the sled hit the water, skip across the water like a stone. In order to do this the rider had to be in a certain position, leaned back. If the rider was not in this position, the sled would sink into the water as soon as it hit the pool, flinging the rider off head-first, which often resulted in head injuries. Other times, riders would be leaving the pool only to have others crash into them as they were riding.

The Kayak Experience: It was an imitation whitewater course that used submerged electric fans to agitate the water above. Frequently the kayaks got stuck or tipped over, and people had to get out of them to remedy the situation. In 1982, a man died after trying to get back on his kayak and touching the wiring of the fans, sending him into cardiac arrest and leading to its permanent closure.

The Tarzan Swing: This was a steel arch hanging from a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) cable over a spring-fed pool. Patrons waited in long lines for the chance to hang from it, swing out over the water, then jump off as the beam reached its height. In early years the area patrons jumped off from was not over the water but a cushioned area. Some people who let go as soon as they started their swing would land on the cushion and then slide/crash into the water. In the mid-1980s the starting position was shifted so that patrons started over the water. Some patrons hung on too long and scraped their toes on the concrete at the far side. Others used the ride properly, but were then surprised to find out the water underneath was very cold. It was cold enough, in fact, that the lifeguards sometimes had to rescue people who were so surprised by the sudden chill that they could not swim out of the pool. In 1984, one man died from a heart attack after experiencing the swing.

Roaring Rapids: This was a standard raft-based whitewater ride. Reports that the park filed with the state in 1984 noted fractured femurs, collar bones and noses, and dislocated knees and shoulders. This attraction is still open.

Surf Hill: This ride, common to other water parks at the time, allowed patrons to slide down a water-slick sloped surface on mats into small puddles, until they reached a foam barrier after an upslope at the end. Barriers between lanes were minimal, and people frequently collided with each other on the way down, or at the end. The seventh lane was known as the "back breaker", due to its special kicker two-thirds of the way down intended to allow jumps and splashdowns into a larger puddle. Employees at the park used to like eating at a nearby snack bar with a good view of the attraction, since it was almost guaranteed that they could see some serious injuries, lost bikini tops, or both.

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captpackrat
03/01/21 7:48:05 PM
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Super Speed Water Slides: These two water slides, also known as Geronimo Falls, were set slightly apart from the rest of the park and took advantage of nearly vertical slopes to allow riders to attain higher speeds than usually possible. One started with riders going almost vertically downwards and was covered with screening for the first several feet. As barriers on the side of the slides were very low, lifeguards reminded every user to remain flat on their back with their arms at their side as they descended, since there was no way to ride it otherwise and stay on. The fall from both slides had the potential for very serious injury.

Diving cliffs: The area around Roaring Rapids was (and still is) laid out like a kind of grotto, with many lower-intensity attractions. One was a pair of diving cliffsone 23 feet (7.0 m), the other 18 feet (5.5 m)above a 16-foot-deep (4.9 m) pool. However, the pool below was not blocked off from those who might be swimming in or away from other attractions, and nothing at water level gave any indication to swimmers below that they could expect people to dive in right next to themor right on top of them. The sole lifeguard on duty often had his or her hands full dealing with the results of those collisions. Also, nonswimmers would jump off the cliffs, not fully appreciating how deep the water below was, and have to be rescued. Former employee Tom Fergus says the bottom of the pool was eventually painted white to make it easier to spot any bodies on the bottom.

Colorado River Ride: Because the ride trough was designed to look and feel like actual river bed, the ride was rough. It was not uncommon for people to hit heads with the other riders, or for the rafts to climb the walls after hitting them at high speed, so now they wear football helmets. A rider recounted to Weird NJ how a friend's mother suffered a broken nose when their raft was thrown into a rock wall. On the curve before the first fork, it was common for rafts to get stuck requiring riders to have to jump out, and push the raft or wait for the raft behind them to hit them. Inside the tunnel were jagged rocks, which could cause cuts or scrapes if riders placed their hands out.

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Zeus
03/02/21 1:16:33 AM
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