Mitch Hawkers Annual Wood Coaster Poll

[GAcoaster]

It's that time of year again, when Mitch Hawker starts the Wood Coaster poll.

 

 

Make (El Toro) sure (El Toro) to (El Toro) go (El Toro) on (El Toro) and (El Toro) vote (El Toro) for (El Toro) your (El Toro) favorites (El Toro)!

 

CoasterFanatics has made it easy to vote once again with their simple ballot:

 

Go to the poll!

[CycloneMan]

I didn't pick El Toro !

 

-Dainan "Any guesses as to what I picked ?" Rafferty

[redsoxfan0810]

I unfortunatley have yet to ride Toro, so I can't help the cause. Here's my ballot:

 

~"Connecticut"

 

~"Dan Forget"

 

Floating Airtime_________________________,__,y,y,1

Abrupt Airtime___________________________,__,y,y,2

Sensation of Speed_______________________,__,y,y,3

Out of Control Feeling/Directional Change,s_,y,y,4

Positive G's/Loops_______________________,__,y,y,5

Lateral Forces___________________________,__,y,y,6

 

My Favorite Steel Anypark Anywhere ,**,y,n,1

Lightning Racer - T Hersheypark ,PA,y,n,2

Lightning Racer - L Hersheypark ,PA,y,n,3

Boulder Dash Lake Compounce ,CT,y,y,4

Cyclone SF New England ,MA,y,y,5

Phoenix Knoebel's ,PA,y,y,6

Twister Knoebel's ,PA,y,y,7

Blue Streak Cedar Point ,OH,y,y,8

Thunderbolt SF New England ,MA,y,y,9

Gwazi-Tiger Busch Gardens-Tampa ,FL,y,n,10

Gwazi-Lion Busch Gardens-Tampa ,FL,y,n,11

Comet Hersheypark ,PA,y,n,12

Wildcat Hersheypark ,PA,y,n,13

Rolling Thunder SFGAd ,NJ,y,n,14

Wildcat Lake Compounce ,CT,y,y,15

Mean Streak Cedar Point ,OH,y,y,16

-----------------------------------------,-------378

 

[GAcoaster]

Wow, a LOT of people submitted ballots this year!

 

Check out the processed ballots!

 

I'm a little nervous looking at them. There were a lot of people who ranked El Toro #1 (including Robb & Elissa Alvey), but there were also a lot of those GA/SF haters who ranked it very low, and ranked Voyage as their #1. It will be interesting to see how this turns out statistically.

 

While I agree that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and different people prefer different types of coasters, there seem to be quite a few people who ranked ET exceptionally low. I would guess these are the same people who regularly bash everything SF does, and keep saying ET is not a "real' woodie (despite the fact it is made ENTIRELY of wood while other top coasters have steel framework).

 

Steel Coaster voting should be coming soon...

[GAcoaster]

And the results are in...The Voyage JUST beat out El Toro for the #1 spot!

 

Click here for all the results!

 

Here's the top 10:

 

1. The Voyage

2. El Toro

3. Thunderhead

4. Troy

5. Balder

6. Boulder Dash

7. Phoenix

8. Tremors

9. Hades

10. Thunderbird

 

As predicted, the bashers are at it (quotes from Coasterbuzz):

 

At night, El Toro dreams its as good as Voyage. And then it wakes up, realizes it's hardly even a real wooden coaster, and is sad all day.

 

This threads only serve to remind me that I have El Toro 3 hours from me and I'm still loathe to step foot in the park that it's located in. *sigh*

[29yrswithaGApass]

Ah.... The things jealous people say!

[redsoxfan0810]

keep saying ET is not a "real' woodie (despite the fact it is made ENTIRELY of wood while other top coasters have steel framework).

 

*cough*voyage*cough*