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The Top Ten Theme Parks in America! (That I've Been To) Early 2015 edition!

#10-Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey

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Six Flags Great Adventure is by far the best Six Flags park that I've been to! It has some great coasters such as El Toro, the airtime filled INTAMIN woodie as seen above, and Nitro, an amazing B&M hypercoaster. They are also home to Kingda Ka (the giant green roller coaster in the background), the world's tallest roller coaster (until Skyplex comes in 2017) and Zumanjaro, the world's tallest drop tower (on the front of Kingda Ka, it isn't in this picture). It's a great park, but the theming isn't as good as other parks! I strongly recommend visiting this park!

#9-Universal Studios Orlando

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Universal Studios Orlando is home to rides from The Simpsons, Despicable Me, Harry Potter, and so much more! This is one of my favorite parks! It provides thrills through what has become a decent amount of thrill rides, but I like some other parks just a little bit more. If you are in Orlando, you have to go to Universal!

#8-Busch Gardens Williamsburg

Busch Gardens Williamsburg is home to some amazing B&Ms! The one in the video (Scroll Down for Subscription Link) above is The Griffon, their B&M Dive Machine! The park also has Apollo's Chariot, an awesome B&M hypercoaster, and Verbolten, not a B&M, but a great Zierer ride for the whole family with the only vertical drop on a roller coaster in the United States. This park is a hybrid on theming and thrills, which is what I love in a park. It has some of the best theme park landscaping around!

#7-Busch Gardens Tampa

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Busch Gardens loves B&Ms! This park is home to Sheikra, Kumba, and Montu, three amazing and powerful B&Ms! On top of that, they have some INTAMIN glory in the Flying Drop tower Falcon's Fury, and the ride for everyone to enjoy, Cheetah Hunt! This park has a great Safari, some great coasters, and some good landscaping. The theming is relatively good, like its sister park in Williamsburg. Definitely head over to this park from next time you are in Florida!

#6-Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia

Kings Dominion gets points for being my home park! I love I-305 and Volcano, Oh the INTAMIN glory of this park! You can't forget a ride on Dominator, the B&M floorless coaster, and of course the classic, Premier Rides built, Flight of Fear. Kings Dominion is not the best park by any means, but it is a great local park, it definitely is the best in the region!

#5-EPCOT at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida

EPCOT, or the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow was Walt Disney's biggest dream. Unfortunately, it was nothing like he planned it to be. He planned it as the sprawling city of the future, with what was actually built as its centerpiece. EPCOT is a permanent world's fair, not the city of tomorrow. Fortunately for us, EPCOT has some great thrill rides, like Test Track, and some awesome family rides like SOARIN! This park has beautiful theming throughout, and delicious food, especially in the world showcase!

#4-Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida

The Magic Kingdom is the most visited theme park on earth for a reason. It is one of the most well themed parks on Earth, with a wide array of classic and modern attractions such as Space Mountain, the Jungle Cruise, It's a Small World, the Haunted Mansion, The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, and countless others! The Magic Kingdom is great for every age, from 1 to 100, the headline park of Walt Disney World is fantastic!

#3-Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida

Disney's Hollywood Studios is the last Disney park on the list, but I want to give an honorable mention to the Animal Kingdom, it needs some more rides to be great. Hollywood Studios is a park in transition, there are so many rides closed in this park. I can't wait to see what the transition will bring to this park. Even with the closures, this is my favorite Disney park, because it has theming and thrills! From The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, the best drop tower that I've been on, to Rock n' Roller Coaster, which has some awesome Aerosmith music, to Toy Story Midway Mania, the fun family shooter, Hollywood Studios is jam packed with some of the best rides in the country! This park is worth your time while you are in Orlando!

#2-Islands of Adventure at the Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida

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I love Islands of Adventure, they have a bit of everything! It is the best place to find thrills and theming combined together! From the Marvel Universe, to Jurassic Park, and Harry Potter, this park has it all! It has some great dark rides like Spiderman and The Forbidden Journey, it has the family friendly Dr. Seuss and Toon Lagoon areas of the park, and three amazing B&M coasters (Dragon Challenge is two roller coasters)! This is by far the best mix of theming and amazing thrills that I know!

#1-Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio

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The Thrill Capital of the world is home to Millennium Force, the number one roller coaster on earth, Maverick, the insane INTAMIN Blitz, Gatekeeper, an awesome B&M WingRider, and so many more insane coasters! This park pushes the boundaries of roller coasters, they were the ones who started the Coaster Wars! It may not have too much theming, but this is by far my favorite park because of the insane thrills of this glorious park!

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Theme Parks and Travel Polls March 2015-What is your favorite Cedar Fair park?

Last month's poll asked what your favorite Six Flags Park is, and the overwhelming winner with a 3-0 win was Six Flags Great Adventure, the only park that got any votes at all! We did that poll for half a month, so now we want to know what your favorite Cedar Fair park is! Go vote in the upper right corner of the site! Vote now before it's too late! Poll closes on April 1st at 11:59pm!

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Here are the choices:
Kings Dominion-Virginia's roller coaster park!
Cedar Point-The "Thrill capital of the world!"
Carowinds-FURY 325's opening will make a mark on this park!
Kings Island-The Beast and The Banshee
California's Great America-Pretty much just Gold Striker!
Canada's Wonderland-The testing ground for Cedar Fair!
Dorney Park-Neglected, but not too bad!
Valleyfair-Neglected
Michigan's Adventure-Yet another neglected park!
Worlds of Fun-I don't know very much about this park!
Knott's Berry Farm-Voyage to the Iron Reef sounds exciting!

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Why aren't there roller coasters on cruise ships?

Hello TP&T readers! Sorry for the long delay between our posts in the recent week, we've had a schedule change and have been extremely busy, but we are back with more articles! Today, we have an article discussing whether or not we will see a cruise ship with a roller coaster!

Cruise ships are getting more and more high-tech thrill rides and awesome amusement rides! There's looping waterslides (Norwegian Breakaway and Getaway), bumper cars (Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas), carousels (Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas), ropes courses (Norwegian Breakaway and Getaway are examples), rock-climbing (an example is the Norwegian Epic), observation decks (Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas), and so many more, but what about roller coasters?

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To this date, we haven't seen a roller coaster on a cruise ship. There are some who have thought of the idea, but the cruise companies haven't put it into place. When you look at all of the rides that are already on cruise ships, it's shocking that the roller coaster isn't on the list. The waterslides even go upside down on some cruise ships now, yet there's not even a kiddie coaster.

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Some will argue that cruise ships are too small to fit a roller coaster, but this is just not true. Look at how huge the Oasis of the Seas and the Allure of the Seas are, they could easily fit a coaster, and it wouldn't have to be a kiddie coaster. They could probably fit in at least a Wild Mouse if not an El Loco (pictured below). Other concerns would be that the roller coasters are "too loud." The solution to this problem is either take measures to reduce noise throughout the ship, which generally are quiet, so you can't hear much besides what's in your room, or possibly limit the operating hours. If you want people to be able to sleep, only operate the roller coaster during times such as 10am-10pm, which leaves people  plenty of time to get some rest.

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Other concerns may include the ship "shaking" as the roller coaster goes by, but the ships are already built to withstand shaking. An even simpler solution is to use smaller cars like Euro-Fighter cars, El Loco cars, or take extra steps in the engineering of the ship to make it more stable. Also, you could make it even out with a dueling coaster! The forces on both sides of the ship should evenly keep the ship stable in its path.

Why not put a roller coaster on a cruise ship, it requires a minimal amount of energy, only a few employees, it shouldn't disrupt passengers too much, and it would be an AWESOME ride! The Simpsons did it, so why not in real life? So Norwegian, Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and all the other cruise companies, put a coaster on a cruise ship, and make cruises even better then they already are!

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