Worst theme parks
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Thekingin64
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Has to be New Pleasureland Southport closely followed by Knightly's in Towyn.
When I visited earlier this year, New Pleasureland was in a right state with just a few travelling rides placed about. Both coasters and log flume were shut with no-one nearby. The worst bit is there are remains of the old Pleasureland everywhere in the park from the buildings to old kerbs and flovwer arrangements. At one place, there are some old signs and the marks on the grass of where the Crazy Golf used to be.
Knightly's is just some travelling rides packed into a tiny bit of land next to the railway. It's not particulary a bad park like Pleasureland and had a few good rides but I just didn't like the place. It is definitly not worth the same price as Tir Prince down the road.
When I visited earlier this year, New Pleasureland was in a right state with just a few travelling rides placed about. Both coasters and log flume were shut with no-one nearby. The worst bit is there are remains of the old Pleasureland everywhere in the park from the buildings to old kerbs and flovwer arrangements. At one place, there are some old signs and the marks on the grass of where the Crazy Golf used to be.
Knightly's is just some travelling rides packed into a tiny bit of land next to the railway. It's not particulary a bad park like Pleasureland and had a few good rides but I just didn't like the place. It is definitly not worth the same price as Tir Prince down the road.
rtotheizzo17
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CPSFMMCW said:
I get opinions, but this one is a little off.
Yes the Disney parks are geared to a younger fan base, but all of those parks have a good coaster line up. The Cali parks have 6 creds over 2 parks, and Orlando has 8. That exceeds what the American Universal parks offers. Disney is usually at the forefront of ride technology.
PeskyTrimBrake
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Edward M said:
The park was pretty clean but all the coasters needed maintenance.
Idlewild
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Legoland Windsor, gets as many visitors as Thorpe Park but has a tenth of the capacity. The best rides are the spinning spider(Intamin tea cups) and fairy tale brooke(boat ride).
The parks biggest Rollercoaster is widely considered to be inferior to the parks kiddy coaster. Of the two dark rides lazer raiders is very similar yet vastly inferior to chessington's Tomb Blaster and the better of the two rides Atlantis: submarine voyage is rather short with nothing much happening.
The park is inferior to how it was in its opening year despite having more rides, it has lost much of the interactivity that was the best feature of the park. Such as the Exporers Institute walk through.
The parks biggest Rollercoaster is widely considered to be inferior to the parks kiddy coaster. Of the two dark rides lazer raiders is very similar yet vastly inferior to chessington's Tomb Blaster and the better of the two rides Atlantis: submarine voyage is rather short with nothing much happening.
The park is inferior to how it was in its opening year despite having more rides, it has lost much of the interactivity that was the best feature of the park. Such as the Exporers Institute walk through.
Screaming Coasters
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delpiero1982 said:
Actually, Dragons Fury is the more expensive coaster out of the two as Spinball is an off-the-shelf model, whereas Dragons Fury is a custom model.
Darren B
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Thorpe Park is the obvious answer, especially when it's busy, but on a quiet weekday I actually really enjoy the park, it's full of thrills, the food is good and easy to navigate. So Thorpe doesn't get that much hate from me.
Linnanmaki in Helsinki, Finland is probably the park I'd least like to visit again. None of the rides were really that impressive although some I enjoyed, but none are worth more than a 10 minute wait. There didn't seem to be much food choice and what they did offer was vile and expensive. And most annoying was the fact the park is extremely small but extremely difficult to navigate. All in all I really wasn't impressed with the park.
Special mention though to Europa Park, A huge park with beautiful theming but it didn't hit the spot, maybe because its hard to navigate once more and only has 3 decent rides in the whole park!
Linnanmaki in Helsinki, Finland is probably the park I'd least like to visit again. None of the rides were really that impressive although some I enjoyed, but none are worth more than a 10 minute wait. There didn't seem to be much food choice and what they did offer was vile and expensive. And most annoying was the fact the park is extremely small but extremely difficult to navigate. All in all I really wasn't impressed with the park.
Special mention though to Europa Park, A huge park with beautiful theming but it didn't hit the spot, maybe because its hard to navigate once more and only has 3 decent rides in the whole park!
bmac
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rollermonkey said:
The scariest Jersey Shore parks I've been to were Funtown, Casino, and Atlantic City. Of those three Atlantic City truly scared the living crap out of me every time I went. The employees were horrid, the people were horrid, the food was horrid on the boardwalk, everything was just pure garbage with a slight chance of a shank mugging around every corner. I didn't like Funtown or Casino because Funtown had to have its electronics replaced every year due to shady installation and salt water damage and Casino was literally sinking into the **** beach/ocean. That hurricane just sped up the inevitable, it honestly did.
The other shore parks are basically your average amusement parks except on the ocean. Wildwood has some meh coasters with Great White, but the food is good (although pricey depending on where you eat), operations are decent, and the people aren't shady like at Atlantic City. Ocean City is basically a less crappy Atlantic City with Gillian's and Playland's and a water park, nothing special or bad about it.
Screaming Coasters said:delpiero1982 said:
Actually, Dragons Fury is the more expensive coaster out of the two as Spinball is an off-the-shelf model, whereas Dragons Fury is a custom model.
Yeah, but they should have gone for the standard model because Dragon's Fury is turd
Screaming Coasters
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^ Owhhhh you... youu..... YOUUUU!!!! :'(
therick311
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Pieman said:
Have you been to Six Flags St. Louis or Six Flags Great America? These parks aren't perfect, but they are far, far better than some of the truly bad parks mentioned in this thread.