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Posted at 1:43 AM EDT (0543 GMT) May. 14th, 2004 -- Forbes magazine is a wealthy index of information vital to anyone interested in the business world. Since buisness is a huge catagory in periodicals, editorials, and news, Forbes recently published a guide under the thrill catagory. A new guide was published by Forbes recently, to take a interesting look at amusement parks in a financial stand point, and convenience. Forbes rated top parks such as: Cedar Point, Busch Gardens, Hersheypark, Paramount Parks, Disney Parks, and even Legoland. Parks from all over the world are featured in the latest issue, including Park Asterix. So go ahead and take a look for yourself, and plan that dream coaster vacation of yours. Check out and see which parks top out best by Forbes. Forbes.com: The World's Best Amusement Parks
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cedarpointfreak
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I love the line under cedar points info that says
"This spring, the park will add the Wicked Twister, which claims to be the world's tallest."
Not only is it wrong, its also 2 years late
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| 5/14/2004 7:09 AM |
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ImmelMatt
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The one thing I credit Forbes with in this article is the rightful exclusion of Six Flags Parks. Bravo! However, they managed to mutilate the facts behind the parks.
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My favorite quotes from this hilarious topic:
"Busch Gardens also has several roller coasters, including the Gwazi, which is a wooden, double twist coaster whose trains whiz past each other at 100 mph."
Double twist? Do they mean dueling? And 100 mph on Gwazi is a joke. They should have showcased Montu considering Gwazi is one of the worst GCIs I've ever ridden. It would be better if they actually dueled again.
"This spring, [Cedar Point] will add the Wicked Twister, which claims to be the world's tallest... As the train slows near the top of the U-shaped track, riders experience "air time," the feeling of floating in air..."
This one's great. First of all, TTD is twice as tall as WT, which gets no credit along with Maggie and Millie. And riders experience WEIGHTLESSNESS at the top of the front and back spikes. Air time is the physical movement of your body out of the coaster seat from a large drop. Airtime is mostly found on wooden and hyper-sized non-looping steel coasters. This has got to be my favorite usage of coaster enthusiast speak by the GP ^_^
"[PKI] is also home to the world's first stand-up coaster."
WAS home to it. WAS ^_^
"...we'd like to suggest a new ride: the David Letterman Roller Coaster."
Three words: Never. Gonna. Happen.
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| 5/14/2004 9:06 AM |
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Chain Dawg
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This article was published in March of 2002. I did a search on the Forbes website for "Amusement Parks". It came up as hit #18. Good job Kyle L.
"The World's Best Amusement Parks
March 21, 2002
As long as you have to take your kids to one, you might as well find out which are the best."
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| 5/14/2004 11:48 AM |
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Steven
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Thank you Kyle... now get back to 2004.
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| 5/14/2004 1:54 PM |
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Kyle L
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Sorry everyone, I didn't see it was 2002. I am really sorry, I should be more cautious.
Anyways, maybe you enjoyed it? Now you can all make fun of me.
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| 5/14/2004 6:59 PM |
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Magnum Robert
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Well, it was interesting to read about CP before WT was even built, lol.
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| 5/17/2004 12:45 AM |
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