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How many different number 1s have you had?

Here are mine ☺️

Pre-enthusiast

Little Niles - Cat-O-Pillar - Paultons Park: My most ridden coaster easily, my parents would just leave me on here for hours, they would sit on a bench, chat, eat, read and every so often ask if I had enough but usually I would laugh and carry on, what a fun little coaster.
2002-2004 - Big Thunder Mountain - DP: Beautiful rollercoaster, and when I was little it fascinated me, I loved the other coasters in the park but this one stayed with me as an amazing ride.
2004-2006 - Duelling Dragons - IA: I really liked dragons and castles when I was little and this ride had great forces, theming and the duelling made it really special, oddly I think I preferred the ice side.
2006-2012 - Stealth - TP: First ride in the back was good but the front was amazing, it took my breath away and on a cold wet day me and my dad marathoned it getting front row rides over and over going on it about 12 times I think, that launch still holds up and I think the coaster is underrated but it is all about the front.
2012-2017 - Nemesis - AT: Always liked it but as I got older I appreciated it more and more, a night ride after a long day of the coaster warming up finally put it on top and its still my No1 in the UK......sadly

Enthusiast

2017-2018 - Ghostrider - Knotts: Truly amazing woodie, it had been re-tracked not to long ago and it was so smooth and forceful, on the day we went it was a walk on all day and when flying through the timbers something clicked and I wondered if people enjoyed coasters as much as I do leading me here, so it hold a special place for me as the coaster that made me become an enthusiast.
4/6/2018 - 8/6/2018 - Skyrush - Hersheypark: I had never had anything come close to this in force, it left me shaken and have no words, truly an unbelievable creation, however it only lasted 4 days as my No1
8/6/18-Current - Steel Vengance - CP: Not sure what I can say that has not been said already, i just hope you can get on it at some point, its unbelievably brilliant.
 
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Good question, probably something like this...

Nemesis - Towers was a rare treat and Nemesis was always my favourite coaster there

Shambhala - Port Aventura was my first park abroad and Dragon Kahn was always the highlight until Shambhala popped up

Taron - Inspired me to travel further afield

Steel Vengeance - Genuinely don't think this will ever be topped. There will never be a coaster built that gives this much sustained airtime over such a long duration
 
My orders been:

Nemesis - (probably first ridden in 1996-7ish)
Collossos (heide park) - first ridden on the CF live there - 2009
Bizarro sfne (cf live again - 2012)
Skyrush (First ridden on the same live, but a place or 2 below bizarro, rerode in about 2017, and upgraded) - It's gonna take something special to knock this one off!
 
1985 - Shock Wave (SFOT)
1991 - The Texas Giant (SFOT)
2000 - Superman Krypton Coaster (SFFT)
2006 - X (SFMM)
2021 - Twisted Colossus (SFMM)

15 years of memories of X came crashing down on my return visit… it now is 3 or 4 for me.
 
2007 - Roller Coaster, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach
2009 - Vampire, Chessington World of Adventures
2009 - Rage, Adventure Island
2015 - OzIris, Parc Asterix
2016 - Munchen Looping, Travelling Fairs
2018 - Icon, Blackpool Pleasure Beach
2020 - Munchen Looping (again), Travelling Fairs

I didn't start actually ranking coasters until late 2019, but I remember that feeling of coming to the brake run knowing that you've just done something great.
 
2002 - 2005: Rock 'n' Rollercoaster, DHS
I was always into rollercoasters since a very early age, but this was before I became a proper goon, I still love this coaster, not enough coasters offer on-board audio.

2006 - 2007 : Kraken, SeaWorld Orlando
This was my first coaster as an enthusiast and it turned me into a B&M fanboy.

2008 - 2016: Sheikra, Busch Gardens Tampa
A long 8 year rein. I love B&M dive coasters, even the likes of Shambhala could not top it, although most enthusiasts would disagree with me on this one, I still think it's a fantastic ride.

2017 - Present: Helix, Liseberg
After riding Blue Fire and Cheetah Hunt, I wasn't expecting much from Helix, to me the ride looked like a cross between the two and neither had completely really blown me away, but I remember getting off this and thinking "wow, this is in a whole new league of coasters"


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It is very likely that something slipped through, but this is what I remember for sure. My first ride on Silver star was with 13 or 14, BFMPBNS2 was with 18 years - just in case anyone wonders why some weird coasters might appear. We all started as GP at some point, didn’t we?

1: Alpenexpress Enzian @Europapark
2: Wild Wild West (now Bandit) @Movie Park Germany
3: Colossos @ Heidepark
4: Silver Star @ Europapark
5: blue fire megacoaster powered by Gazprom (now powered by Nordstream 2) @ Europapark
6: Taron @ Phantasialand (was my number 80 and kicked my off my enthusiasm)
7: Hyperion @ Energylandia (Standing strong since 2018)
 
Eyebrows said:
That’s the same amount of characters as if you were to type the words “blue fire”
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Blue Fire was a roller coaster at Parque Norte in Columbia, the ride at Europa Park is called blue fire megacoaster powered by Nordstream 2. The park spent hundreds of hours to find a good, unique and compelling name, I think we as enthusiasts should value the hours put into the name and not call it like another (and most likely inferior) ride.
 
Trax said:
Blue Fire was a roller coaster at Parque Norte in Columbia, the ride at Europa Park is called blue fire megacoaster powered by Nordstream 2. The park spent hundreds of hours to find a good, unique and compelling name, I think we as enthusiasts should value the hours put into the name and not call it like another (and most likely inferior) ride.
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It’s like you’ve written this as some sort of exam question: ‘how many reasons can you come up with to dispute / critique this paragraph?’ I’ve totted up 8 reasons, if anyone can beat that.

Just ‘Blue Fire’ is fine👌
 
Me:
-Tyrolean Tubtwist (2007 - 2007)
-Roller Coaster GYPB (2007 - 2009)
-Rage (2009 - 2014)
-OzIris (2014 - 2016)
-Nemesis Inferno (2016 - 2016)
-Stealth (2016 - 2016)
-Olympia Looping (2016 - 2018)
-Icon (2018 - 2019)
-Olympia Looping again (2019 - present)

I technically didn't start actually ranking my coasters until 2019 but I have a stupidly good memory of coasters when I was younger and I'm quite happy with those positions.

A funny thing - I now rank Roller Coaster above Rage, but at the time I preferred Rage! What's also interesting is how Olympia's taken the #1 spot two separate times.

You don't have to go through every coaster you've ever done like what I did, if you want to you could only do the evolution of your #1 ever since you became an enthusiast for example. Whatever suits you best.
 
(Merging both threads together for easier reference for users :) )
 
Update

Pre-ranking

2007 – 2011 : Stealth @ Thorpe Park
2011 – 2012 : Kraken @ Seaworld Orlando (I had been salivating over it for years on RCDB, so I can guess you can say it was ridden with rose-tinted glasses)
2012 – 2018 : X2 @ Six Flags Magic Mountain

Post-ranking

2018 – 2019 : X2 @ Six Flags Magic Mountain
2019 – 2020 : Wildfire @ Kolmarden
2020 – 2021 : Untamed @ Walibi Holland
2021 - Present : Zadra @ Energylandia

Wow, some quite rapid-fire number 1 transitions in recent years... I think I may have a new one later this year too 👀😂
 
I’ll go with all the number 1s I’ve had since becoming an enthusiast… I never really thought about it too much before becoming an enthusiast.
  • Rita at Alton Towers (28th September 2013-27th July 2014)
  • Stealth at Thorpe Park (27th July 2014 for a few hours)
  • The Swarm at Thorpe Park (27th July 2014-22nd August 2016)
  • Montu at Busch Gardens Tampa (22nd August 2016-23rd August 2016)
  • Mako at SeaWorld Orlando (23rd August 2016-present)
Mako’s had the throne for 6 years now… even though I’ve had some close calls (some very close calls, in fact), nothing has yet topped it for me. I wonder what the ride to beat it will be?
 
Same as a few others, I had only really started counting credits and doing rankings back in 2014....as follows:

2014 - The Swarm, Thorpe Park (Didn't venture out to any theme parks in other countries until 2018)

2017 - Nemesis, Alton Towers (this had been my #2 for a while however I had a rather unpleasant ride on The Swarm that year with the vest restraints that made me alter my rankings)

2018 - The Incredible Hulk, IOA

2018 - Mako, SWO (This was in the same trip however, for a few days before I went to SeaWorld, Hulk was at the top)

This is currently my list however I feel like my visit to Florida in September will lead to me having 2 different new number 1's again during the same trip....
 
Snoo said:
Update to mine as well.. can't believe I forgot about Mavericks several month reign:

Millennium Force 2000-2003
Top Thrill Dragster 2003-2007
Maverick 2007
El Toro 2007-2008
Boulder Dash 2008-2016
Lightning Rod 2016-2018
Steel Vengeance 2018-present
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This remains truth to this day. However, with my big European trip on its way as well as re-riding SV, we shall see if it holds. It's really 1a/1b for SV and Velocicoaster right now. Shall see if it retains. :D
 
Matt N said:
I’ll go with all the number 1s I’ve had since becoming an enthusiast… I never really thought about it too much before becoming an enthusiast.
  • Rita at Alton Towers (28th September 2013-27th July 2014)
  • Stealth at Thorpe Park (27th July 2014 for a few hours)
  • The Swarm at Thorpe Park (27th July 2014-22nd August 2016)
  • Montu at Busch Gardens Tampa (22nd August 2016-23rd August 2016)
  • Mako at SeaWorld Orlando (23rd August 2016-present)
Mako’s had the throne for 6 years now… even though I’ve had some close calls (some very close calls, in fact), nothing has yet topped it for me. I wonder what the ride to beat it will be?
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You forgot the one evening that Silver Star was your number 1 ;)
 
About to date myself, but whatever...

1996 - 1997: Hangman, Opryland
1997 - 1998: Vortex, Paramount's Kings Island
1998 - 1999: Mr. Freeze, Six Flags St. Louis
1999 - 2000: Raging Bull, Six Flags Great America
2000: Boss, Six Flags St. Louis
2000 - 2003: Millennium Force, Cedar Point
2003 - 2016: Phantom's Revenge, Kennywood
2016 - 2018: Expedition GeForce, Holiday Park
2018 - Present: Helix, Liseberg

So, to answer the titular question: 9

Somewhat surprisingly, an RMC has never held the top spot. They dominate my top ten, but have never eclipsed all, though Zadra came pretty close.
 
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