Decade in Review (2000-2009)

I some places it is already 2010. Others have to wait a little bit. But lets look back at 2000 though 2009. What happened? Here are a few questions too look back over the last 10 years.

- Best year of the decade?
- Best coaster of the decade?
- Worst coaster of the decade?
- Best move by a chain?
- Worst move by a chain?
- Best park?
- Worst park?
- Worst year of the decade?
- Best website improvement?
- Worst website feature?
- Most surprising news of the decade?
- Most/Least successful park/chain?

Feel free to add in other points. Welcome 2010 and good by new millennium-decade.

Answers will be featured on the next podcast.

Worst Move by a chain: Bizzarro (spelling?)

I personally think that 2000 was the best year. Boss, Boulder Dash, Goliath (Magic Mountain), Katun, Kraken, Legend, Lightning Racer, Mega Zeph, Millennium Force, Son of Beast, Speed, Steel Dragon 2000, Superman Krypton Coaster, Superman: Ride of Steel (SFA). Yeah, it was a really good year ride addition wise. And most parks weren't doing bad or anything if I can remember.

- Best year of the decade?

2001. The best year for me since my #1 opened that year. Though I didnt ride it until about 2004.

- Best coaster of the decade?

Talon.

- Worst coaster of the decade?

Son Of Beast

- Best move by a chain?

Cedar Fair accusation of Paramount Parks.

- Worst move by a chain?

SIX FLAGS! MORE FLAGS! MORE FUN!

- Best park?

Knoebels

- Worst park?

SFA

- Worst year of the decade?

2009. The loss of the icon that was Big Bad Wolf.

- Best website improvement?

Podcast. [:p]

- Worst website feature?

Points.

- Most surprising news of the decade?

Pending Cedar Fair sale.

- Most/Least successful park/chain?

Most: Cedar Fair
Least: Six Flags

[gouldy]

Best website improvement?

... the invention of the website... ?

^ LOL! it says improvement though

Edit: Worst park of the decade -
SFKK

- Best year of the decade?
2000

- Best coaster of the decade?
Boulder Dash

- Worst coaster of the decade?
Hypersonic XLC

- Best move by a chain?
Six Flags actually trying, instead of just buying up parks and ruining them. Saving Little Dipper was a nice move too

- Worst move by a chain?
Cedar Fair acquiring Paramount
Six Flags putting rides in parks that already had the same ride
KI trying to keep Son Of Beast going...

- Best park?
Not sure what you mean here...My favorite park is Lake Compounce if that's what you're talking about

- Worst park?
Clementon

- Worst year of the decade?
2002 - CCI Defunct

- Best website improvement?
Don't care

- Worst website feature?
Don't care

- Most surprising news of the decade?
Not sure, I'll edit if I think of something

- Most/Least successful park/chain?
Holiday World/Kentucky Kingdom

Originally posted by Tetsu

- Best move by a chain?

Cedar Fair accusation of Paramount Parks.

What did the Paramount Parks do?... OH you must've meant acquisition.

Not sure if this counts but...

- Best website improvement?
When CoasterSims shut down...not sure if it really shut down for good, but it's not here anymore so whatever.

I'll do the rest later.

Year: 2000 for all the kick @$$ rides that opened that year.
Best Coaster: Boulder Dash
Worst: SOB (Even though I had fun...it was rough as hell)
Best Move: CF FINALLY adding some GCI's
Worst: Bizarro
Best Park: CP
Worst: SFKK for losing any business what so ever.
Worst Year: 2009 for losing BBW and a complete lack of originality for new rides. 2 Bizarros, 2 Intimidators (Even though that's technically 2010), and just lack of interesting news thus far.
Best Improvment: Alot of them.
Worst: Changing back from coastercrazy.com
Surprise: Gueaga Lake closing (DAMN YOU SIX FLAGS!)
Most Successful: Cedar Fair
Least: Six Flags (Surprise Surprise)

best coaster, maverick.

dmillz

Geagua lake closed under the ownership of Cedar Fair, Not Six Flags


To bad to, X flight was an awesome ride.

^ Geagua Lake became a waterpark under CF. X-Flight is now Firehawk at Kings Island.

Best year of the decade?
2006-2007 just before the economy started to crash.

- Best coaster of the decade?
El Toro because of the way the track is constructed

- Worst coaster of the decade?
That's a "NO BRAINER"

- Best move by a chain?
Paramount selling its parks. Or CBS or Viacom whatever!

- Worst move by a chain?
Cedar Fair buying them, in hindsight of course.

- Best park?
Disney World

- Worst park?
Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom

- Worst year of the decade?
2008 when Bear Stearns went under and the economy fell into the deepest depression I can remember. Probably equaling or worse than the Great Depression of the 1930's had it not been for the Federal Government stepping in and throwing money at it.

- Best website improvement?
Wee Wee Slap changed to Coaster Crazy

- Worst website feature?
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- Most surprising news of the decade?
The destruction of the New York Trade Towers by the terrorists.

- Most/Least successful park/chain?
Walt Disney Parks were the most successful.
Six Flags was the least successful.

BTW Best song of the Decade: POKER FACE by Lady Gaga

I know it went under as a CF park...I was referring to the rapid building SF did to it that cuased it to crash and burn. Had SF not taken over GL...GL would still be around...granted it wouldn't be as big as it was with CF but it would still be here.

- Best year of the decade?
2009 as i had the best theme park experiences ever in the epic trips me and dirk had. memorys that will never be forgoten

- Best coaster of the decade?
speed at oakwood theme park. its simple but the forces are awsome

- Worst coaster of the decade?
G-force at drayton manor, god i hate it so much

- Best move by a chain?
tussauds selling up to merlin

- Worst move by a chain?
tussauds not selling to merlin sooner

- Best park?
withought a dought europa park, that place seriously rules

- Worst park?
though i really love the place i got to say blackpool pleasure beach, nothing majour for a long time now and nothing for the forseeable future either. they need to do something big now as all the rides are same and getting boring now

- Worst year of the decade?
2001, just a pretty rubbish year for me

- Best website improvement?
the new front page

- Worst website feature?
the greeting car, serously who has ever used it?

- Most surprising news of the decade?
oscar breaking his neck

- Most/Least successful park/chain?
most - universal
least - sixflags

- Best year of the decade? 2000
- Best coaster of the decade? Wood-Thunderhead/Steal-Goliath SFOG
- Worst coaster of the decade? Cheetah - Wild Adventures
- Best move by a chain? N/A
- Worst move by a chain? Six Flags for putting advertisement banners and wraps on rides
- Best park? Dollywood
- Worst park? N/A
- Worst year of the decade? 2001
- Best website improvement? N/A
- Worst website feature? N/A
- Most surprising news of the decade? N/A
- Most/Least successful park/chain? Most-Cedar Fair
Least-Ghost Town In The Sky

- Best wood coaster of the decade?: Hades
- Best steel coaster of the decade?: Spongebob
- Worst coaster of the decade?: Ragin' Cajun
- Best move by a park?: Six Flags Great America Buying the Little Dipper
- Worst move by a chain?: Six Flags (enough said)
- Best park(that I've been to)?: Indiana Beach
- Worst park(that I've been to)?: Six Flags St. Louis
- Worst website feature?: Having to buy a new avatar every time you edit your profile
- Most surprising news of the decade?: Coco key in Arlington Heights closing
- Best album of the decade: Death Magnetic - Metallica
- Most successful park?: Holiday World
- Least successful park?: Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom

^Spongebob...really? Ya oughta get outta this area more, man!

Best year of the decade?
-2005 (Hades, SheiKra, Kingda Ka... all pretty cool deals)

Best coaster of the decade?
-SheiKra

Worst coaster of the decade?
-MF

Best park?
-BGA

Originally posted by Jonny Richey


- Worst park(that I've been to)?: Six Flags St. Louis

What the hell?!

Originally posted by GerstlCrazy

^ Worst coaster of the decade?
-MF

All right, I can see that for some people MF isn't the best coaster on the planet, but calling it the worst of the decade? Come on, there are plenty of coasters worse than MF, even if you hate it. What about the jet coasters built in 2009?