2002 Golden Ticket Awards, Predictions?
Kick The Sky said:
Here is my predictions...
• Best Park: Six Flags Worlds of Adventure, Aurora, Ohio
• Best Waterpark: Paradise Cove Indoor Waterpark, Milwaukee, WI
• No. 1 Wooden Coaster: Psyclone, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, CA
• No. 1 Steel Coaster: Shockwave, Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, IL
• Friendliest Park: Six Flags Worlds of Adventure
• Best Capacity (Fastest Moving Lines): Six Flags Worlds of Adventure
• Cleanest Park: Six Flags Great Adventure
• Best Landscaping: Little A'Merrick'A
• Best Shows: Big Chief's Carts and Coasters
• Best Food: The entire Six Flags Chain
• Best Dark Ride: Space Shuttle America, Six Flags Great America
• Best Water Ride: Log Ride, Timber Falls, Wisconsin Dells
• Best Carousel: Put In Bay Ohio
• Best Kid's Area: Fun Spot, Indiana
• Best Waterpark Ride: Kiddie Wave Pool, Noah's Ark
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Bob HansenA proud CoasterBuzz Member
Operation Wicked Twister - Goal: Lose 50 lbs by next season to ride it! (updates soon)
I belive the Best Food should go to a Six Flags with a Mickey D's in it. LMAO
Friendiest Park Award should most defently go to SFWoA.
I disagree with you about SFWoA having best capcity. I belive that awards should go to SFKK.
I disagree with you on Best Water Ride. I belive that award should go to WOF's Viking Voyager, hey it even has a dry slide on it.
I kinda agree with you on everything else.
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Chris Knight
Whoa I'm the 88984594th Vistor to Coasterbuzz. I wonder what I have won.
This year's awards are being held at a certain favorite park of mine... and I'll be there ;-)
Shaggy
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Shaggy
R.I.P. Maestro
Phantom Theater 1992-2002
In the woodie category Timbers will finally topple Raven for the # 1 spot! I'd say Cornball will be somewhere in the top 10 (hopefully top 5, if not it’s a crime), The Legend will gain another position or two.
For Steel I'd say The Force will lose it's title and Phantom's Revenge will keep moving towards the upper echelon.
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Anastasia BeaverHausen said:
Do you have to be a subscriber to that magazine (Amusement Business or Amusement Today) to vote?
I can say with 99.9 certainty that you do have to be a subscriber.
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Goku2216 said:
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Anastasia BeaverHausen said:
Do you have to be a subscriber to that magazine (Amusement Business or Amusement Today) to vote?I can say with 99.9 certainty that you do have to be a subscriber.
and I can say with 100% certainty that you don't, since I voted and I'm not a subscriber...
AT gives out surveys to enthusiasts who are well-travelled, not necessarily those who get the mag (since it's an industry magazine, not an enthusiast one anyway...)
They also limit the number of people from each area of the country to try and balance opinions out and keep "fanboys" to a minimum.
Kick The Sky said:
Here is my predictions...
• Best Park: Six Flags Worlds of Adventure, Aurora, Ohio
• Best Waterpark: Paradise Cove Indoor Waterpark, Milwaukee, WI
• No. 1 Wooden Coaster: Psyclone, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, CA
• No. 1 Steel Coaster: Shockwave, Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, IL
• Friendliest Park: Six Flags Worlds of Adventure
• Best Capacity (Fastest Moving Lines): Six Flags Worlds of Adventure
• Cleanest Park: Six Flags Great Adventure
• Best Landscaping: Little A'Merrick'A
• Best Shows: Big Chief's Carts and Coasters
• Best Food: The entire Six Flags Chain
• Best Dark Ride: Space Shuttle America, Six Flags Great America
• Best Water Ride: Log Ride, Timber Falls, Wisconsin Dells
• Best Carousel: Put In Bay Ohio
• Best Kid's Area: Fun Spot, Indiana
• Best Waterpark Ride: Kiddie Wave Pool, Noah's Ark
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Bob HansenA proud CoasterBuzz Member
Operation Wicked Twister - Goal: Lose 50 lbs by next season to ride it! (updates soon)
Sorry but we all know that Cedar Point will win and deserves best park award.
S:RoS ( SFNE ) is the most deserving coaster of number 1. Anyone who has ridden it knows that too!
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S:RoS ( SFNE ) rules!
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-Matt
2001 Magnum Crew
MDOmnis said:Weren't these awards announced earlier last year? Like July or so?
Yes, last year the Golden Ticket Awards were announced on July 31 at Holiday World.
Thanks, Paula
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Paula Werne
Director of Public Relations
Holiday World & Splashin' Safari
Santa Claus, Ind.
JPWerne@holidayworld.com
I think PKI will get best Children's area again. It's just a feeling especially since the won last year.
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SFNE Dude said:
Sorry but we all know that Cedar Point will win and deserves best park award.S:RoS ( SFNE ) is the most deserving coaster of number 1. Anyone who has ridden it knows that too!
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S:RoS ( SFNE ) rules!
He was joking sfne dude
CortexBomb said:
and I can say with 100% certainty that you don't, since I voted and I'm not a subscriber...
That's what the .01 percent was for.....lol
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Giving the voters a little more time to see the park season play out will only help Holiday World and Cedar Point while hurting Six Flags.
Either way, if you look at last year's results, there weren't many tight races in most of the categories. I think the voters like to show some form of consensus, which is why -- bold prediction here -- that Holiday World will not only win the clean and friendly awards, but do so by an even wider margin. The same goes for Cedar's capacity award.
The voters also cling to the traditional indie parks the way a movie reviewer loves the obscure film noir. I mean, I love you Knoebel's but as ambitious as the Haunted House is on a shoestring budget it is NOT the second best dark ride in the country. Okay, any brass ring park deserves the carousel award so you can keep that one, but while the food value truly rocks and perogies, blue birch beer and taters are tasty, grab a meal at Mythos, Confisco's or Oak Tree Tavern at IOA and then let's hand out the food award.
I think that X is definantly gonna be up there somewhere on the top steel list, with Millennium Force close behind, or ahead. Here are my predictions -
#1 Steel - Millennium Force or X - Millennium Force is just screaming greatness and X I've heard is a lot of fun.
#1 Woodie - Shivering Timbers - Duh
#1 Park - Cedar Point - Duh again
I don't know what the other catagories are, but those are my guesses for those categories.
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Paris said:
"Giving the voters a little more time to see the park season play out will only help Holiday World and Cedar Point while hurting Six Flags.Either way, if you look at last year's results, there weren't many tight races in most of the categories. I think the voters like to show some form of consensus, which is why -- bold prediction here -- that Holiday World will not only win the clean and friendly awards, but do so by an even wider margin. The same goes for Cedar's capacity award."
I don't think the longer deadline will help CP at all...enthusiasts in general aren't Six Flags fans, I don't think another month will sway them more in either direction.
I think some results may surprise people this year, there's a lot of new blood in the awards because, again, the majority of the 200+ people who went on the ACE Euro Odyssey voted this year. You're likely going to see a lot of Euro rides and attractions finishing higher than expected.
"The voters also cling to the traditional indie parks the way a movie reviewer loves the obscure film noir. I mean, I love you Knoebel's but as ambitious as the Haunted House is on a shoestring budget it is NOT the second best dark ride in the country. Okay, any brass ring park deserves the carousel award so you can keep that one, but while the food value truly rocks and perogies, blue birch beer and taters are tasty, grab a meal at Mythos, Confisco's or Oak Tree Tavern at IOA and then let's hand out the food award."
More importantly, not just the best dark ride in the country, the best dark ride *in the world*.
AT is supposed to represent the whole industry, it's just that getting people who've travelled to Europe is much more difficult than finding people who've travelled around the States and Canada.
I still expect Knoebel's Haunted Mansion to win the best dark ride, but look for stuff something Fata Morgana or Droomvlucht from Efteling to sneak in below it.
I think Knoebel's just touches something inside people who like traditional parks...I'd take cheese on a stick and an order of perogies over *any* fancy park food, because the perogies mean I've got to be in Elysburg :-)
And it's more than that, I think it's just a matter of taste...you might be a fan of fancy meals at IOA, me? I'd take a pasty with cheese curds and gravy on it over *any* fancy stuff 9 times out of 10.
It's all just a matter of taste...
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#1 Woodie: The Legend @ HW
#1 Steelie: Eurosat @ Europa
Fav. Park: Knoebel's Grove
Raven Maven said:
The announcement is at 1 pm ET on Monday.
Pin and needles....
Paula
Hey, Paula, did you hear anything yet?
Closed topic.
