Your Most Ridden Manufacturers

[Howie]

^That's charming that is. I'll remember this. Next time you're pleading with me to ride a Big Apple with you so you don't feel like such a sad, lonely bell-end riding it on your own, you know what I'm gonna say? I'm gonna say 'Screw you, worm-boy, ride it yerself'!

 

[DelPiero]

^You loved it, just be glad you weren't there while I was trying to get the pumpkin coaster, criiiiiinge!!!

 

[Will]

Tarted up the spreadsheet last night and added some new bits.
Also, it's... still Vekoma.

 

[Will]

Brag post more than anything, but this year is now my most cred-tastic (which I admit I've worked bloody hard on) AND I rode my 100th Vekoma (which I have not worked hard on)



More to come, as I'm heading back Stateside for Hallowe'en and obviously there's a couple of new coasters in the UK that I haven't made the effort for yet.

 

[Hyde]

Of latest date:

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Due for a six year (!!) update:

- B&M has continued to grow as "most ridden", with modest growth by Intamin and Premier. Mack and Vekoma rides are still an interesting minority in ridership.
- Ride Designer stats are getting ever more sketch due to bad reporting, but still a hella-lot Ing. Stengel
- You can see a slew of fun pie chart and histograms I've toyed with through the years on my Google Sheet tracker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G0YYtbYE2YgcTyV5sy5X9FmFay2g1Xg_KO0U6NV89H0/edit?usp=sharing

 

[James F]

No charts sadly ...

Vekoma: 52
B&M: 22
Mack: 30
Intamin: 18
GCI: 6
RMC: 3
Gerstlauer: 12
Arrow: 8
Schwarzkopf: 7
Gravity Group: 2 (if including Tonnerre 2 Zeus)
CCI: 3
Zamperla: 8

 

[owenstreet7]

Same here, no charts either although a lot of Mack products here (a lot of them were at Europa).

Mack - 20
Vekoma - 9
Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) - 8
Intamin - 7
Maurer Sohne - 5
Arrow Dynamics - 4
Gerstlauer - 4
Zierer - 4
Reverchon - 4
Classic Wooden Rollercoaster - 4
GCI - 2
SBF Visa - 2
WGH - 2
Schwarzkopf - 1
Zamperla - 1
SDC - 1
ART Engineering - 1

With Classic Wooden Rollercoasters, I am referring to older rollercoasters (early to mid 20th century era) that have been made bespoke and not necessarily built by a manufacturer. I'm not sure how these are counted in those stats.

 

[Ollie]

Only got the top 10 most ridden manufacturers on my main stats page. But got them all written in the breakdown.




Here's my fancy numbers page. Still want to add some more graphs and change some of the icons but it's a nice way to quickly visualize certain stats and numbers.

 

[Hixee]

You can tell who's got the graphic design expertise.

*chef's kiss*

 

[Howie]

Yesss! Thanks to 'Murica '24, B&M is now back in front again, reclaiming the title it lost to Vekoma a few years ago. This makes me happy. I like B&M's, me.

1. B&M, 76.
2. Vekoma, 74.
3. Mack Rides, 46.
4. Intamin, 45.

 

[addy2503]

Vekoma & Mack are quite a way ahead of everyone else...

Vekoma: 24
Mack: 21
Intamin: 11
B&M: 10
Arrow: 5
Gerstlauer: 5
Maurer: 5
PTC: 4
Zierer: 4
GCI: 3
Pinfari: 3
CCI: 2
RMC: 2
Zamperla: 2
S&S: 1
Schwarzkopf: 1
WGH Transportation: 1

 

[Mark9]

B&M - 79
Vekoma 72
Mack - 56
Intamin - 53
Arrow - 32
Gerstaluer - 22
GCI - 15
RMC - 14
Others - 200

Total coasters ridden - 543

I'm always surprised by how high Arrow remain although, any American road trip really boosts that number along with B&M. Gerstauler feels low and I suppose because they tend to end up in random small regional parks, its not common to get round to them compared to the major parks with intamins and B&Ms.

 

[Rob Coasters]

I rode my 50th Vekoma on my most recent park trip, so may as well post here: all of my manufacturers where I've ridden at least 10 of their coasters

 

[Will]

Yes, I am bored this afternoon

		Best	Worst
Vekoma	100	Lech Coaster	Stunt Fall
Mack	54	Helix	Jungle Coaster
Zierer	48	Verbolten	Jungle Rally
Intamin	41	El Toro	Indiana Jones et le Temple du Peril
Pinfari	40	Tornado	Looping
B&M	39	Katun	Mandrill Mayhem
Gerstlauer	30	Fluch von Novgorod	Speed: No Limits
SBF	29	N/A	Happy Loops
Zamperla	26	Une Souris Verte	Volare

 

[TilenB]

Just focusing on the ones where I've done 10 or more creds from;

Manufacturer	Number	Best	Worst
Vekoma	71	Lech Coaster	Condor
Mack Rides	37	Ride to Happiness	Wilde Maus (Kinzler)
Intamin	32	Taron	Insane
Bolliger & Mabillard	28	Shambhala	Dragon Khan
Zierer	24	Lisebergbanan	Nyckelpigan
Maurer Rides	23	Winjas	Sky Wheel
Gerstlauer	20	Karacho	Bucklbahn
Pinfari	14	Super 8er Bahn	Goulis (Coppier)
Zamperla	13	Wild West Mine Train	Volare
SBF Visa Group	13	Junior Red Force	Viking Roller Coaster
Arrow	10	X2	Steeplechase

 

[Hyde]

Due for a six year (!!) update:

- B&M has continued to grow as "most ridden", with modest growth by Intamin and Premier. Mack and Vekoma rides are still an interesting minority in ridership.
- Ride Designer stats are getting ever more sketch due to bad reporting, but still a hella-lot Ing. Stengel
- You can see a slew of fun pie chart and histograms I've toyed with through the years on my Google Sheet tracker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G0YYtbYE2YgcTyV5sy5X9FmFay2g1Xg_KO0U6NV89H0/edit?usp=sharing

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Update a year later - B&M is still in the lead, picking up it's lead by a few percentage points!

 

[Hixee]

Update a year later - B&M is still in the lead, picking up it's lead by a few percentage points!

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What's the logic for the order of manufactures? Isn't alphabetical or sorted in order, and I can't see another pattern easily.

 

[Gavin]

Spent ages last week getting all gooned up and putting stuff into a spreadsheet. I just exported from Coaster-Count, which was decent enough but a pain for the actual ride order for anything pre-2009 since that's when I first used it, adding loads of stuff without dates. Still working on putting the right year to a bunch of stuff. I've kept it fairly simple, just with coaster name, park, manufacturer and year ridden (still working through a bunch of that last one). I also took out stuff that I've checked on there, but don't count as creds (bobcarts for example). Anyway, here's my top 20 manufacturers. Well, 19 I guess since there a lot of "Unknowns" in there:
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PTC is probably out a bit since I ended up listing stuff with them where they were the only company listed and might have just built trains or something. Anyway.

That was it part way through 2018. Not much has really changed in terms of the manufacturers apart from a bit of shuffling around, By now, a fair few of those "unknowns" will have been identified, but I can't imagine much of a situation where I'll be bored enough to go through them all to check. The PTC thing is the same as well given how some woodies are listed, so it's probably not accurate.

 

[Matt N]

Wow… I last updated this nearly 7 years ago, it would seem!

My coaster count has more than doubled since then, now sitting at 134, and things have changed a little on this front. Currently, my most ridden manufacturers are as follows:

Ranking	Manufacturer(s)	Number of Coasters Ridden	Percentage of Count
1	Mack Rides	22	16.4%
2	Bolliger & Mabillard	19	14.2%
3	Vekoma	16	11.9%
4	Intamin	15	11.2%
5	Reverchon	8	6.0%
6	Zierer	7	5.2%
7	Arrow Dynamics, Gerstlauer, Maurer AG	5	3.7%
8	Custom Coasters International	4	3.0%
9	Charles Paige, Pinfari, Schwarzkopf, Zamperla	3	2.2%
10	Great Coasters International, Premier Rides, WGH Transportation, Walt Disney Imagineering	2	1.5%
11	Erich Heidrich, Fabbri, Horace Cole, Rocky Mountain Construction, S&S Sansei Technologies, SBF Visa Group, The Gravity Group, William Strickler	1	0.7%

I think the most notable change there is probably that Mack have eclipsed B&M as my most ridden manufacturer… I think my 2022 visit to Europa Park aided that greatly! Even excluding that, though, I’ve actually ridden fairly few new B&Ms in recent years given that my coaster count has more than doubled since I last posted here, having only increased my B&M count by 5 after about 2016.

 

[Hyde]

What's the logic for the order of manufactures? Isn't alphabetical or sorted in order, and I can't see another pattern easily.

Oh it's simple: there is none! Google's own auto-population.

For those at home waiting with baited breath on how many William Cobb designs I've ridden:

B&M

Intamin

Arrow

Vekoma

Mack

Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, Inc.

Premier

Zierer

GCI

Gerstlauer

RMC

Zamperla

Schwarzkopf

Dinn Corp.

CCI

E&F Miler Industries

Gravity Group

Maurer

Morgan

S&S

Chance

Dynamic Attractions

National Amusement Device Company

SBF Visa Group

Charlie Mach

Dollywood

Giovanola

International Amusement Devices

Knoebels

L.A. Thompson Scenic Railway Company

Opus Group

Preston & Barbieri

Reverchon

Roller Coaster Corporation of America

Skyline

Togo

Valdemar Lebech

Vettel

Wiegand

William Cobb & Associates

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