Style points, baby

Thanks for all of the replies, I would like to also say that the enterance to GOLIATH is quite nice, MegaTurbo!!

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Gotta ride 'em all!

Outer Limits has got to be the most elaborate setting I have ever seen. Way better than Space Mountain. But I still have to go with the Beast with almost the whole coaster unseen by riders even from the top of the first lift.

I have to go with Deuling Dragons as the best queue line, and Kraken with the coolest tunnel. The tunnel has the water falls and the near miss with the top of it. It also has neat sayings on the walls in the queue line.

Dueling Dragons gets my vote with an awsome themed, and long, queue line. The trains on the Dragons are also awesome with the teeth and also the front car has pink restraints representing the Dragons tongue. OTL:FLOF has a great themed queue, but the ride is far from perfect(It is actually really bad). Kraken looks awesome with the whole jellyfish over the exit thing. The tunnels look very cool.

I would have to put in a vote for The Legend at Holiday World. The way that the coaster is named fits in PERFECTLY with the way that the coaster winds through the trees and follows the lay of the land.

the OLFOF queue is cool.. ..I used to not care much for it, until I noticed the mirror trick. now it's just fun to go through the line and hate yourself for not noticing all those obvious symetries and inconsistencies..
Raptor and MS both have plenty of style. Raptor's got that fast, silently, deadly feel, and a cool logo, and MS is just plain massive.

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WE'RE ALL GONNA DDDDDIIIIEEEE!!

Sorry BeastMaster and RaptorMunkey, I think OLFOF's design is just annoying. If I'm going to stand in line for hours for a ride, I don't want to hear the same fake broadcast over and over. I vote for the Beast. It has this mysterious aire to it!

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We are the ones who wait in line for hours for a 45-second thrill, and consider it time well spent.

I also think that Montu has some style to it too. I like the Egyptian theme to it. The coolest thing about Montu is how it is set in an Egyptian ruins setting. I like it when you enter the Egypt section and you hear the Egyptian music playing as you watch Montu in action.

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Can you take me higher? (CREED) *** This post was edited by THE BEASTmaster on 6/7/2000. ***

Also on Montu you actually leave the station and pass over live crocodiles, but most riders miss that feature. My visiting friend from Texas didn't, as a croc snapped his jaws upward just as we passed and terrified him much more than the coaster did!

But my favorite theming, beyond a doubt, is Dueling Dragons! It is an experience all by itself, and the vast darkness and scary atmospheric often spooks the faint hearted BEFORE they get to the station.
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"You have to scale a lot of lift hills to coast easily..."

Jason

By the way- the Gators at the beginning of Montu have been removed...

Why did they remove the crocs? I noticed that too when I went over the weekend.

My favorite coaster based on style alone is De la Terre à la Lune (Space Mountain) at Disneyland Paris. It's modeled after Jules Verne's story "From the Earth to the Moon," and the entire Discoveryland section of the park there is "Vernian" in design. I love it! Even though Space Mountain is a dark ride, inside there are things to look at, including the moon from Georges Méliès' 1909 movie Le Voyage dans la lune (where the moon gets hit in the eye with a rocket headed in its direction) - it distracts you right as you crest the hill before the first drop, I think. The ride even has a soundtrack (and you guys thought Disney's Rock-n-Roller coaster was first with that! :-) ) Plus, when the coaster launches, from outside the building it looks like you're being shot out of the cannon. (This is cool: go to the Disneyland Paris web site and you can hear the cannon fire and the first few bars of the soundtrack: http://www.2000.disneylandparis.com/uk/DiscoverThePark/discoveryland.html ). There's also a video of the ride there.

I almost forgot! Also earning points for this ride: the exit dumps you out near the entrance for Star Tours. (And yes, that *is* Anthony Daniels doing CPO's voice on that Star Tours, even though he's speaking French! Mr. Daniels told me that himself.) *** This post was edited by xrae on 6/7/2000. ***

Mr. Peanut, from what I heard, the crocodiles got a little too big for their pen.

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Can you take me higher? (CREED)

I thought it was because of the droughts in FL. Busch Gardens had all the fountains dried and emptied, and I think that all unecessary water stuff in the park has been emptied to conserve it. I think the gators were moved , but will be back once they get some water down there.