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The Best Theme Park Rides in the World
One cross-category list. A trackless dark ride and a hybrid coaster are judged on the same question: how good is the ride, start to finish?
Which parks hold the most records
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Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
A multi-act epic combining a simulator, a Star Destroyer hangar, trackless vehicles and a freefall escape.
TypeTrackless dark ride with drop segment - 2
Jurassic World VelociCoaster
Two launches, a mosasaurus roll over the lagoon, and the tightest theming-to-thrill ratio anywhere.
TypeMulti-Launch Coaster - 3
Mystic Manor
Widely called the best dark ride ever built — a trackless tour of a haunted collection scored by Danny Elfman.
TypeTrackless dark ride - 4
Steel Vengeance
Over 27 seconds of airtime across four inversions — routinely voted the best coaster in the world.
TypeIBox Track - 5
Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey
KUKA robot arms swing riders through Hogwarts in the ride that redefined theme-park immersion.
TypeRobotic arm dark ride - 6
Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure
Seven launches, a vertical drop track and story beats woven into every metre of the Forbidden Forest.
TypeMulti-Launch Coaster - 7
Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure
The most technologically advanced dark ride on earth: trackless boats inside a wall-to-wall projected ocean.
TypeTrackless boat dark ride - 8
Journey to the Center of the Earth
A subterranean expedition inside Mount Prometheus that ends in a 76 km/h burst out of the volcano.
TypeLaunched dark ride - 9
Symbolica
Three branching routes through a palace of wonders — Europe's answer to Mystic Manor.
TypeTrackless dark ride - 10
Taron
Two launches, 1,320 m of track and the most immersive rockwork of any coaster in Europe.
TypeMulti-Launch Coaster - 11
El Toro
The gold standard for wooden coasters — a 76-degree drop and airtime that lifts you clean out of the seat.
TypePrefabricated Wooden Coaster - 12
Ratatouille: L'Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy
Shrunk to rat-size, riders skitter through Gusteau's kitchen on trackless vehicles.
TypeTrackless 3D dark ride - 13
Phantom Manor
Paris's darker Haunted Mansion, with a genuine gothic narrative and a Vincent Price laugh.
TypeOmnimover dark ride - 14
Expedition Everest
Disney's most expensive coaster: a Himalayan mountain, a broken track and a backwards plunge in the dark.
TypeLaunched mine train coaster - 15
Iron Gwazi
North America's tallest hybrid coaster and the world's fastest and steepest, with a 91-degree drop off a rebuilt wooden structure.
TypeIBox Track - 16
Haunted Mansion
999 happy haunts, Pepper's ghost illusions and the most quotable script in the industry.
TypeOmnimover dark ride - 17
Indiana Jones Adventure
The EMV ride that made jeeps feel alive, with a queue as good as the attraction.
TypeEnhanced Motion Vehicle dark ride - 18
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
The benchmark themed drop ride: a haunted service elevator with randomised drop profiles.
TypeDrop-track dark ride - 19
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
A rotating-vehicle indoor coaster that spins riders toward each show scene as it launches backwards.
TypeOmnicoaster - 20
Nemesis Reborn
Britain's most revered coaster: a terrain-hugging inverted layout retracked and relaunched in 2024.
TypeInverted Coaster - 21
F.L.Y.
The world's first launched flying coaster, threaded through the rooftops of Rookburgh.
TypeFlying Launch Coaster - 22
Fury 325
The definitive modern giga: 99 m, 153 km/h and a first drop that runs the whole length of the midway.
TypeHyper Coaster - 23
Pirates of the Caribbean
Walt Disney's last attraction, and the animatronic boat ride every dark ride since has been measured against.
TypeBoat dark ride - 24
Mario Kart: Koopa's Challenge
Augmented-reality visors turn a physical Rainbow Road set into a playable Mario Kart race.
TypeAR dark ride - 25
Millennium Force
The first giga coaster and still the benchmark for relentless, cable-lifted speed over water.
TypeGiga Coaster
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