2009 Golden Ticket Winners are out

[monsterfan99]

The winners have been announced. All can be found here

http://www.amusementtoday.com/corndog/2 ... nners.html

Six Flags Great America had 3 coasters listed: Viper #30, Raging Bull #14 & Whizzer #47. Columbia Carousel was also voted the 5th best carousel.

Kiddieland, in its final season, is the #5 Best Childrens Park.

[monsterfan99]

I wanted to get the info post out of the way before i commented.

It seems like another year, same results. Some things changed (Silver Dollar City over took Holiday World as friendliest park) but not much.

In the best parks, once again Cedar Point wins best park in the world. Knobel's coaster enthusiast love puts it ahead of all Disney and Universal parks in the world along with the amazing looking parks of Europe. Even worse on the Orlando parks, the 2 picked (IOA and Magic Kingdom) as glorified construction zones this year.

In best new ride, Prowler has to be a upset over Diamondback and Manta. I really do feel that the ACE annual conference being there won it for Worlds of Fun.

In the coaster ranks, some of them are just dumbfounding. The worst is Ozark Wildcat. The ride has not run since October of last year, yet it is the #36 best wooden coaster of 2009. With Whizzer, as much as I enjoy the ride for what it is, I'm not even sure if it is in the top 5 coasters in the park.

Oh well, the public will take the awards as gospial. Parks will promote the hell out of them and everyone not even care in 2-3 weeks. But it does gives a reason to debate as the theme park season comes to a close

[tp41190]

Im glad WOF won Best New Ride. After riding them, it really is much better. Diamondback is just another Hyper, but Prowler is just amazing and so unique.

And how the hell did Holiday World win friendliest park?!?! They are COMPLETE PMS'ing Nazis.

[bobbinbop20]

Not to mention Millenniumforceless sucks total ass, Nitro is way better then that crappy intamin creation!

[monsterfan99]

And how the hell did Holiday World win friendliest park?!?! They are COMPLETE PMS'ing Nazis.

Then didn't, Silver Dollar City did.

[Ilovthevu']

To me, clean means 2 different things that should be addressed at an amusement park. It means to me trash all over the place, and just the way the rides and places look. For instance, people have said that La Ronde is a dirty park. Well, when That Guy posted a trip report about it, we seen how dirty it is (graffati alone just in the lines), and I don't believe he was talking about garbage.

I think painting stuff should be an essential thing for an amusement park (particularly an aging one), and I'm not just talking about roller coasters because otherwise people are going to think that park is unkept, and dirty. When you go to somewhere your not accustomed to, and you see the paint coming off, wood being chipped, and so on, you kind of feel like the place is rundown a bit. It's different when you have been going to the place for awhile, and you really don't notice it compared to first coming.

Great America is clearly not the cleanest park in the world in my opinion (looking good wise, not talking about garbage - I never thought that garbage was a big deal). You can just look going up the stairs to the Whizzer, and look at those poles. The brown is coming off of them. Look at the back of a Batmans sign. This cleanest theme park in the world garbage (pardon the pun) makes you look deeper into the place, and I guess you could neglect it if they didn't tell you. If you aren't looking at the Carousel roof, you could ignore it. If you are not looking at the back of the Batman sign, you can ignore it.

It's like the worst advertising in my opinion they did before, where bigger than Disneyland? In advertising, you shouldn't tell people anything about your competition because than they might have second thoughts about your product, and go for that one because you mentioned it. For a type of food (Our food has less fat than the other brand.), people might think this product stinks, let's try the other one, or the other brand is cheaper and they didn't know about that one before. That's why they say something like the leading competitor.

Hey, mom what's Disneyland? It's a park in California that has Mickey Mouse, and a bunch of characters from the movies. Mom do they have (pretend this is a girl) Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty? Oh yeah they do. Can we go there instead of Six Flags? But they say that Six Flags is bigger than that place? So, I want to see the characters. How come we didn't know this before? It's because Six Flags didn't tell us about a place called Disneyland. lol

[zjohn1988]

There are a lot of typos in this year's publication..

[Coaster Justin]

I hate the Way the Golden Tickets never really Change (Imagine if the Emmy's Were Like That)

I Don't even know why We Pay Attention to this. I've seen Toilets at SFGAm with less (Insert your Own Word) than this Award System.

I would love to see GT without any Repeat Winners. If you're Telling Me that No Steel Coaster is Better than Magnum XL (It ranked #9), Then That's Just Sad. Yeah I Said It.

[MForce4ever]

GTs are hysterical! To bad there will most likely be no Mitch Hawker poll this year, as I actually liked that poll (dispite it's leaning towards less ridden coasters) I wouldn't be to surprised if Robert Lee Alvey didn't launch his own poll from TPR as a marketing tool.

[Coaster Justin]

^ God, I hate Robb (Those Of you that Know, Can Understand.)

I think Shapiro Should do something like this But Just for Things in the Six Flags Company. That Would Be Interesting.

[MForce4ever]

^Tournament of Thrills?

[vprlvr456]

LOL! Le Monstre over X2!