What's your summer Golden Tickets?

[KingdaKa1]

What's your summer Golden Tickets. Name your top 3. (predict what will happen)

STEEL
1. Millennium Force (Cedar Point)
2. Superman:Ride of Steel (Six Flags New England)
3. Expedition GeForce (Holiday World)

WOOD
1. Beast (Paramount's Kings Island)
2. Balder (I think it's Linden World???)
3. Thunderhead (Dollywood)

Park
1. Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio)
2. Islands of Adventure (Orlando, Florida)
3. (Can't pick a third, personally) SFGADV???

Best New in 2006
1. El Toro (Six Flags Great Adventure)
2. Tatsu (Six Flags Magic Mountain)
3.Voyage (Holiday World)


Those are atleast the major ones. So what do you think?

[SnooSnoo]

STEEL
1. Millennium Force (Cedar Point)
2. Superman:Ride of Steel (Six Flags New England)
3. Expedition GeForce (Holiday World)

WOOD
1. El Toro (Six Flags Great Adventure
2. The Voyage (Holiday World)
3. Thunderhead (Dollywood)

Park
1. Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio)
2. Six Flags Great Adventure (Jackson, New Jersey)
3. Islands of Adventure (Orlando, Florida)

Best New in 2006
1. El Toro (Six Flags Great Adventure)
2. The Voyage (Holiday World)
3. Tatsu (Six Flags Magic Mountain)

[soundgodz]

Wood no order
The Voyage
Kentucky Rumbler
Hades

Steel
MF
Superman:ROS
Goliath (SFoG)

New
El Toro
The Voyage
Tatsu

Park
Cedar Point
Disneyland (anniversary)
Holiday World
The steels you have to figure MF and Superman will top as usual. Woods, well, who knows. New, There's so much buzz for The Voyage and Tatsu has to get major style points. As for parks, well, CP always wins, and Holiday World always rates high.

[gamemast75]

Steel:

1. Adventure Express in PKI (Elysburg, PA)
2. Space Mountain in WDW (Orlando, FL)
3. Wild Mouse in Michigan's Adventure (Muskegon, MI)

Wood:

1. Pheonix in Knoebels (Elysburg, PA)
2. Racer in PKI (Cincinatti, OH)
(I've only ridden 2, I'm planning on riding more)

Best Park:

1. Knoebels (Elysburg, PA)
2. Six Flags Great America (Gurnee, IL)
3. Michigan's Adventure (Muskegon, MI)

Best Water Ride:

1. Howling Wolf in Great Wolf Lodge (Traverse City, Michigan)
2. Congo Falls in PKI (Cincinnati, OH)
3. Mine Shaft (I think that's what it's called) in Michigan's Adventure (Muskegon, MI)

[soundgodz]

Gamemast, I think you're missing the mark here. This isn't supposed to be your personal choices for Golden Tickets, it's supposed to be our guesses for what will actually win. Of the 9 coasters I've listed, I have only ridden two of them. Of the parks, I've yet to get to Holiday World. My guesses are based on impressions and comments I heard during CoasterMania at Cedar Point. I also know from personal experience that Space Mountain, as much loved as it may be, is not a current Golden Ticket contender, neither is Racer, and NO wild mouse is likely ever to win one. It's unlikely as heck that SF Great America will be in the running, nor any other SF park because they just don't move people on and off rides fast enough. Sorry if I'm raining on your roses, maybe I'm nitpicking, but, take a look at what and why things have won Golden Tickets in the past. Cedar Point has become almost unbeatable, mostly because they move huge amounts of riders faster than almost any other park in the world combined with 16 different coasters.

[lakeccrunner]

Steel:
1. Millennium Force
2. Expedition Ge-Force
3. Superman: Ride of Steel

Wood:
1. The Voyage
2. The Raven
3. The Beast

New:
1. The Voyage
2. Tatsu
3. El Toro

Parks:
1. Cedar Point
2. Busch Gardens Africa
3. Islands of Adventure

[-NGS-]

Steel:
1. MF
2. S:ROS
3. Not sure here, it could be Expedition Geforce, or some new contender

Wood:
1. El Toro (even though I'd prefer The Voyage to win)
2. The Voyage
3. Thunderhead

The following two are not actual categories, if I remember correctly; I just like to specify

Best new steel:
1. Tatsu
2. Black Mamba
3. Goliath

Best new wood:
1. El Toro
2. The Voyage
3. Speed Monster (possibly)

Best park:
1. Cedar Point
2. SFGA (if they hadn't come out with El Toro, I think Holiday World would take it)
3. Holiday World

[Alpengeist]

My Top 3 lists.

Steel
1.Superman-ROS (SFNE)
2.Storm Runner
3.Apollo's Chariot

Wooden
1.El Toro
2.Phoenix
3.Thunderhead

Parks
1.IOA/USF
2.Hershey Park
3.BGE
b.BGA

New
1.El Toro
2.The Voyage
3.Kentucky Rumbler
b.Goliath (SFOG)

I won't predict what will happen, since all that matters to me is my list.;)

[soundgodz]

Alpengeist, while this isn't as incendiery as Disneyland vs. Disney World, I'd lean more towards BGA (BGT) for it's collection of coasters. There's still only 4 in Williamsburg but 7 in Tampa. For scenery, I'd go with BGE(BGW), especially the "Rhine" river valley. I will also admit that the 4 coasters that are there are all excellent rides, even Nessie, which I underestimated.

[-NGS-]

Everyone underestimates Nessie. ;)