Worst theme parks

[Edward M]

^ how is Cedar Point your favorite park if you haven't been to it? Have you actually ridden Leviathan either?

 

[tribar]

Of the few parks I've been too, Mt Olympus

 

[Thekingin64]

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.

 

[rtotheizzo17]

If I had to base it off of only the parks I've been to, then all my least favorites are disney parks. Disney Land, Magic Kingdom, California Adventure. I'm just not a disney fan. Its like a park dedicated to 5 year olds. I like parks with coasters. So my favorite that i've been to is SF Great Adventure. I love that place to death. But once I go to Cedar Point, that will be #1.

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]

There have been plenty of topics on good parks but not many on bad. I want to talk about the stinkers, the worst of the worst. What are the worst parks you've been to?

My personal least favorite park is actually SFGAdv. I just don't like anything about the park (except El Toro and Nitro). It has some of the worst maintenance I have ever seen, and the lines seem to be dreadfully long. I just don't like the rude workers either. Another one of my least favorite parks is Animal Kingdom. I don't like this park because there is nothing to do! There are only 5 major attractions. At $90 that is ridiculous! The park itself is very overrated too. It is pretty but not that pretty. The animals are very gimmicky. If I want to pay $90 to see some animals I will go to zoos and save $60. I feel like the "magic" of Disney shines least in this park. Also, Expedition Everest is very overrated. Coney Island was pretty underwhelming with no good rides in the park while it is $9 per ride. The Cyclone was pretty disappointing for how built up it was.

The park was pretty clean but all the coasters needed maintenance.

 

[Idlewild]

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.

 

[Screaming Coasters]

10 years since their last coaster and that was a poor mans spinball.

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]

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!

 

[bmac]

I don't get the hate for the Jersey Shore parks.

I found nothing frightening or terrible about any of them. Then again, I grew up going to Salisbury Beach/Pirates Fun Park, and that place was like a giant ashtray.

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.

 

[furie]

10 years since their last coaster and that was a poor mans spinball.

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]

^ Owhhhh you... youu..... YOUUUU!!!! :'(

 

[furie]

IMHO of course

 

[therick311]

Also Six Flags as a chain is just BAD. They can't move people at all in an efficient manner (especially at Magic Mountain), everything is coated in advertisements, there is **** music blaring everywhere, all the buildings need a fresh coat of paint, the food is terrible, there's no fans anywhere (especially at Magic Mountain), and the Flash Pass is absurd (ESPECIALLY at Magic Mountain). I can't think of another place that sucks the fun out of being at an amusement park more than literally every Six Flags I've been to. It wasn't as bad when I started going in 2000 to Six Flags New England but things have become progressively more intolerable for a few years now.

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.