Final Results of the 2001 Internet Steel Tracked Roller Coaster Poll released

Santa Monica Westcoaster may be small, but it is a heck of a lot of fun, with great pops of air in both the front and back ends of the train. Plus, you get two circuits. It is certainly more pleasing to ride than SFMM's headbanging Flashback, IMHO.

CPGenius - I used to look at the wooden and steel polls and think "this is too confusing" but once I actually stopped to read the directions [which I feel are a bit too wordy] its actually quite easy. The first thing I always do is eliminate all the coasters I have never ridden from the list...makes it much easier to deal with and once you've done that its just answering two questions [ride last year? ride this year?] and applying your rank.

Hey SFNE is a good park and Superman is a pissa ride, I'm lucky to live so close. But that poll is saying it's a better ride than Millennium Force? I don't think so.

JDB, almost 3/4 of those that had ridden both MF and SROS preferred SROS...that is a pretty convincing margin.

No other steel ride in the top 20 came close to the 25 percent of the vote that MF received against SROS.

MF has a solid claim to being the #2 steel coaster on the continent.

If people voted for Hypersonic in the top 25 for being a superb one trick pony, I could easily see how they voted for a breathtaking three(height, length, speed,..) or four(..at Cedar Point) trick pony for number 2 in the Americas. ;)

I think the interesting layout, airtime, and out of control feeling is what its lacking over SROS. Hopefully, Intamin will make a lot more like SROS NE and EGF. I'm sure we all can't wait for Goliath to open either at SFH.

I was also surprised at how high some people voted for Adventure Express and Roadrunner Express(SFFT), especially since they're mine trains.

This makes me think that PKI really does need a really great coaster since not a single one cracked the top 50, even though their coasters seem to be well-received overall, with none as really hated is disliked much. Hopefully, they'll get a B&M or Intamin as it would do well for capacity and I believe the popularity would be pretty good as I've seen with the others.

I amazed Nitro is that high, but i am happy because its my favorite coaster an its at my homepark.

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I've only ridden the "lame" S:RoS...yeah, right! The on at SFA kicked MF's butt, IMO, up and down the block. Can't wait to get on the "good" one...Wow! The closest hyper in my book is actually Goliath, but again, that's just me. I'd have a tough time picking that vs. my fav woodie. Steel Forceless, OTOH, is the worst hyper ever, and I'm not even comic book guy...

I still say if you put those beautiful Intamin trains on AC or Nitro, they'd rise drastically...

In closing, there's a sports cliche that comes to mind: "That's why they play the game"...Mitch's poll is, as far as coaster ratings, THE game.
*** This post was edited by rollergator on 3/5/2002. ***

Wow, Magnum wasnt even in the top ten! Glad to see FoF finaly getting loved.

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"Yeah, they did it in Superman 3"

Woo Hoo! Florida snagged the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th spot... without a single hyper! Finally Kraken gets some Kudos! :)

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-FCR
I'd Rather Be Riding Roller Coasters

How sweet it is! Of the Chance-Morgan hypercoasters, WOF's MAMBA was ranked highest, and of the hypercoasters of the CF:LP chain it was ranked second highest behind Magnum (13). That's pretty dang good!!!

15 Mamba Worlds of Fun

28 Steel Force Dorney Park

46 Wild Thing Valleyfair!

55 Steel Eel Sea World Of Texas

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Oh and cross state rivals

47 Wildfire Silver Dollar City

60 Thunderation Silver Dollar City

99 Mr. Freeze Six Flags St. Louis

I would say that WOF kicked some booty in Mizzou-RAH!

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GO HUSKERS!

i'm sorry but superman is not a she ! it would be called superwoman and i don't think that would fly. ha h***

Raging Bull is still my favorite coaster.

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"Duff Man Says... Ohhh Yeah!"
Current Favorite Coasters:
1)Raging Bull 2)Millennium Force 3)Medusa (SFMW) 4)Vertical Velocity (SFGAm) 5)Dueling Dragons (Ice)

Swoosh,

I'm glad someone else out there is in the same middle-of-America riding situation as I am. Thank God for the Mamba. I really love that ride. My first trip to Cedarpoint is coming up in May so hopefully I'll get some real coaster riding action. Not to say SF:MM wouldn't be good or ANY other place (I know how defensive you coaster people are) but CP is reasonably priced as far as getting there and so forth and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is less than 80 miles away. :-)