Top 10 Non-Coasters List

Everyone loves a good coaster, but dark rides, water rides, and simulators are also a large part of the theme park industry. So, why don't we share our top 10 lists. What qualifies as a "non-coaster" is pretty much any attraction that tells a story, features water, or has some sort of theme, but does not have roller coaster features. Below is my list, including the parks in which I have experienced them.

Notable Mentions: Pirates of the Caribbean (Disneyland and Magic Kingdom), Timber Mountain Log Ride (Knott's Berry Farm), and Jurassic Park River Adventure (Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal's Islands of Adventure)

10) Transformers The Ride 3D (Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Florida)

9) Soarin' (Disney California Adventure and Epcot)

8) The Haunted Mansion (Disneyland and Magic Kingdom)

7) Splash Mountain (Disneyland and Magic Kingdom)

6) Test Track (Epcot)

5) The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man (Universal's Islands of Adventure)

4) The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (Disney California Adventure)

3) Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey (Universal's Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios Hollywood)

2) Radiator Springs Racers (Disney California Adventure)

1) Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye (Disneyland)

1) Beer man at BGW

2) Beer man at King's Island

3) Beer man at Carowinds

4) Beer man at Cedar Point

5) Beer man at BGT

6) Beer man at SFGam

7) Beer man at SFoG

8) Beer man at SFMM

9) Beer man at WoF

10) Beer man at SFSTL

Honorable mentions:

Moonshine in the parking lot of DW

Beer fresh from the cooler in the parking lot of Holiday World

(buck up and serve alcohol you freaking hicks!)

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Okay. I'll bite. I should probably load up on Disney and Universal rides but more likely than not get ready for a bunch of Flumes and Knoebels flats.

I'm not counting up charges even though I'm tempted to include skyscrapers and that sick Kissimmee sky coaster.

1) Safari Off Road Adventure (Six Flags Great Adventure)

2) Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey (USO)

3) Zoom Floom (Morey's Piers... I'm on a Zoom Floom high after riding the crap out of it yesterday with the fiancé and Boldikus. Lol)

4) Shenandoah Lumber Company (Kings Dominion)

5) Scooters (Knoebels)

6) Pirates of the Carribean (WDW)

7) Flyers (Knoebels)

8) Haunted Mansion (WDW)

9) Amazing Adventures of Spiderman (USO)

10) Giant Flume (Knoebels). I almost said Splash Mountain but I'm a sucker for actual log Flumes so I went with this despite the insane theming of Splash. I'd rather be in a single file log going through the woods. Lol

Honorable mention to the chairlift at Lake Compounce.

1. Pirates of the Caribbean @ SHDL

Journey to the Center of the Earth @ TDS

Mystic Manor @ HKDL

Tower of Terror @ TDS

Indiana Jones @ Disneyland

Soarin' (New and old) @ Epcot, DCA and SHDL

SpiderMan @ USJ

Forbidden Journey @ USJ

Radiator Spring Racers @ DCA

10. Blue Fall @ Sea Paradise

1. Tower of Terror (Florida)

2. Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man (Florida)

3. Justice League Battle For Metropolis (SFSTL)

4. Jurassic Park River Adventure (Florida) I love the movie

5. Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey (Florida)

6. Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye (California)

7. Radiator Springs Racers (California)

8. Test Track 2.0

9. Haunted Mansion (Florida and California)

10. Star Tours (Florida)

Honorable Mentions:

Pirates of the Caribbean (FL and CA), Test Track 1.0, Transformers (FL and CA), DINOSAUR (Florida), Splash Mountain (FL and CA)

1. Maelstrom (EPCOT)

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Nah, just kidding of couse!

As with rollercoasters I don't do rankings, but here are 10 non-coasters rides that I really like (in no particular order):

Splash Mountain - WDW

SpinSpider - Tusenfryd

Test Track - EPCOT

TRANSFORMERS: The Ride–3D - Universal Orlando

FlumeRide - Liseberg

Fritt Fall - Gröna Lund

Pirates of the Carribean - WDW

Tower of Terror - WDW

Star Tours - WDW

Mechanica - Liseberg

I hops we get a lot of input from Europeans and world travellers on this one, since there are so many unique candidates outside of the US

I'll admit, that I'll probably change this when I see what others post and realize what I forgot.

1) Auto Scooters: Knoebels

2) Flyer: Knoebels

3) Pooh's Hunny Hunt - Tokyo Disneyland

4) Journey to the Center of the Earth: Tokyo DisneySea

5) Tower of Terror: Disney Hollywood Studios

6) Room of Living Dolls: Joypolis:

7) Astrosphere: Funtown Splashtown

8) Indiana Jones Adventure: Tokyo DisneySea

9) U571 - Movieland Studios

10) Valhalla: Blackpool Pleasure Beach

1. Tower Of Terror WDW

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in no particular order, because I just cant:

Splash Mountain: WDW

Timber Mountain Log Ride: Knotts Berry Farm

Flume: Knoebel's (amazing setting)

Coal Cracker: Hersheypark (a flume with airtime!)

Dinosaur: Animal Kingdom

Haunted Mansion: WDW

Haunted Mansion: Knoebel's

Pioneer Train: Knoebel's

Falcon's Fury: BGT

Kangaroo: Kennywood

and JUST missing the top 10:

Curse of DarKastle: BGW

Noah's Arc: Kennywood

1) Beer man at BGW

2) Beer man at King's Island

3) Beer man at Carowinds

4) Beer man at Cedar Point

5) Beer man at BGT

6) Beer man at SFGam

7) Beer man at SFoG

8) Beer man at SFMM

9) Beer man at WoF

10) Beer man at SFSTL

 

Honorable mentions:

Moonshine in the parking lot of DW

Beer fresh from the cooler in the parking lot of Holiday World

 

(buck up and serve alcohol you freaking hicks!)

This.

Not in any order:

Dudley Do-Rights - IOA

Jurassic Park River Adventure - IOA

The Simpson's Ride - Universal Orlando

Thunder Creek Falls - Dorney Park

Demon Drop - Dorney Park

Dinosaur - Animal Kingdom

Test Track - Epcot

Pirates of the Caribbean - Magic Kingdom

Escape from Pompeii - BGW

Giant Canyon Swing - Glenwood Caverns

These are only in the order that I thought of them... for now.

1 ~ Droomvlucht ~ Efteling

2 ~ Pooh's Hunny Hunt ~ Tokyo Disneyland

3 ~ Journey To The Center of the Earth ~ Tokyo Disney Sea

4 ~ Hex ~ Alton Towers

5 ~ Valhalla ~ Blackpool Pleasure Beach

6 ~ Mystery Castle ~ Phantasialand

7 ~ Ratatouille ~ Walt Disney Studios

8 ~ Alice In Wonderland ~ Disneyland

9 ~ Sinbad's Storybook Voyage ~ Tokyo Disney Sea

10 ~ Pirates of The Caribbean ~ Disneyland Paris

Runners Up:

~ Spinning Vibe ~ Walibi Holland

~ Le Défi de César ~ Parc Asterix

Disneyland Paris PotC, Sept.2015

1. Tower of Terror WDW

2. Mission Space

3. Falcon's Fury

4. Test Track

5. People Mover of course!

6. Dinosaur

7. Haunted Mansion

8. Midway Mania

9. Pirates of the Caribbean

10. Zumanjaro

Dominated by Disney besides Falcon's Fury and Zumanjaro

Hmm...I could definitely try some more non-coaster rides!

DHS Tower of Terror

DCA Tower of Terror

CGA Drop Tower

DL/MK Splash Mountain (tie)

DCA Grizzly River Run

DCA Toy Story Mania

DL it's a small world

Santa Cruz Double Shot

CGA Centrifuge

DL Monorail

The below are/were spectacular:

Giant Drop @ Dreamworld, AU

Acrophobia @ SFOG

Black Widow @ Kennywood

Battle for Metropolis @ Local Six Flags

Indiana Jones @ Disneyland

Grizzly River Rapids @ Disneyland Cali Adventure

Log Flume @ Sea World San Antonio (RIP)

Wild Wild West (flume) @ Movie World Australia

Tower of Terror @ You Know

Tomb Raider:TR @ Kings Island (RIP)

In no order

Mine of Lost Soul- Canobie Lake Park

Haunted Mansion - Knoebels

Corkscrew Hill - Busch Gardens Wiliamsburg

Journey to Atlantis - SeaWorld Orlando

Terminator 2: 3D Battle Across Time - Universal Studios

Jurrassic Park - Islands of Adventure

Dudley Do-Rights Ripsaw Falls - Islands of Adventure

Amazing Adventure of Spiderman - Islands of Adventure

Haunted Mansion - Magic Kingdom

Obviously I'm way behind the times on dark rides and such. These are the ones that stand out to me as exceptional at the time I did them.

Thunder Canyon, Cedar Point

American Plunge (pre-Wildfire), Silver Dollar City

Justice League: Battle For Metropolis, Six Flags St. Louis

Gobbler Getaway, Holiday World

MaxAir, Cedar Point

Any ARM drop tower

Any S&S Screamin' Swing

Any Zamperla Disko Coaster

Any Chance swinging ship

Any Chance Falling Star

Thunder Canyon, Cedar Point

American Plunge (pre-Wildfire), Silver Dollar City

Justice League: Battle For Metropolis, Six Flags St. Louis

Gobbler Getaway, Holiday World

MaxAir, Cedar Point

Any ARM drop tower

Any S&S Screamin' Swing

Any Zamperla Disko Coaster

Any Chance swinging ship

Any Chance Falling Star

This guy gets it. I would replace a couple with Cyclos at KK, a zipper and a log flume

Log Fume

Zipper

Cyclos

Chance Chaos

MaxAir, or any pendulum ride

Any ARM drop tower

Any S&S Screamin' Swing

Any Zamperla Disko Coaster

Any Chance swinging ship

Any Chance Falling Sta

In no particular order:

Uppswinget (Liseberg)

Monsunen (Tivoli Gardens)

Test Track (Epcot)

Fritt Fall (Gröna Lund)

Splash Mountain (Magic Kingdom)

Spaceship Earth (Epcot)

Kali River Rapids (Animal Kingdom)

Wildwasserbahn (Hansa Park)

Jaws (Universal Studios Florida) [RIP]

Soarin' (Epcot)

I tend to do only the coasters, but the two that immediately come to mind are Ripsaw Falls and Popeye at Islands of Adventure.

Trying to come up with this list made me realize how much of a coaster enthusiast I am. Trying to come up with my favorite "everything else" took forever.

Skyhawk @ CP/Screamin Swing @ Moreys/SSs in general

It @ Morey's

Zumanjaro @ SFGAdv

Apollo @ Dorney

Bayern Kurve @ Kennywood

Curse of Darkastle @ BGW

Demon Drop @ Dorney

Skyscreamers (in general)

Acrophobia @ SFOG

Zoom Phloom @ Moreys

bonus: MaXair @ CP

edit: I don't think I did this right. Do they have to be themed? Is it not just non-coaster faves? I'm confused. I don't give a sh*t about themeing. That I can tell you.

Hard for me to come up with a list since I usually will divide all the non-coasters up into flat rides, dark rides, water rides, etc. I never thought about just lumping them all together in one list. But here's what I came up with for now.

10. Lex Luthor @ SFMM

9. Transformers @ USH

8. Radiator Springs Racers @ DLR

7. Acrophobia & High Fall @ SFOG & Movie Park Germany

6. Indiana Jones @ DLR

5. Tower of Terror @ DLP (Also at DLR before Guardians of the Galaxy)

4. Fritt Fall @ Grona Lund

3. The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman @ Universal Orlando

2. Test Track @ WDW

1. Tower of Terror @ WDW

1. The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman

2. Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls

3. WDW Tower of Terror

4. Max Air- Cedar Point

5. Falcon's Fury Busch Gardens

6. Psycho Drome and Astrosphere (Canobie Lake Park and Funtown Splashtown)

7. The Enterprise

8. S&S Screamin' Swing

9. Jimmy Neutron Nicktoon Blast (RIP)

10. Jurrasic Park River Adventure

1. Tower Of Terror - WDW

2. Test Track (The original. Not the Tron edition)

3. Justice League: Battle For Metropolis (SFOT)

4. The Curse of DarKastle (BGW)

5. The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man (USO/IOA)

6. Jurassic Park River Adventure (USO/IOA)

7. Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges (USO/IOA)

8. Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls (USO/IOA)

9. Lost River Of The Ozarks (SDC) ... (Only because I have been on it so many times, and I enjoy it)

10. Great American Plunge (SDC) ... again... (Only because I have been on it so many times, and I enjoy it)

This is a little hard for me as i might not remember everything but Ill put down what i remember having the most fun on.

1.Falcon Fury drop tower-BGT

2.Drop Tower-Kings Island

3.Giant Drop-Six Flags Great America

4.Sky Hawk-Cedar Point

5.Apollo's Swing-Mt Olympus

7.Dudly Doos log flume-IOA

8.Jarrastic Park river ride-IOA

9.Double Shot-Indiana Beach

10.King Chaos-Six Flags Great America

Thunder Canyon, Cedar Point

American Plunge (pre-Wildfire), Silver Dollar City

Justice League: Battle For Metropolis, Six Flags St. Louis

Gobbler Getaway, Holiday World

MaxAir, Cedar Point

Any ARM drop tower

Any S&S Screamin' Swing

Any Zamperla Disko Coaster

Any Chance swinging ship

Any Chance Falling Star

Wow. This is a bit eye-opening. That was my list before going to Disney and Universal. Let me update that just a little bit:

Grizzly Falls, Disney California Adventure

Timber Mountain Log Ride, Knott's Berry Farm

Splash Mountain, Disneyland

Jurassic Park, Universal Studios Hollywood

Pirates of the Caribbean, Disneyland

Haunted Mansion, Disneyland

Gobbler Getaway, Holiday World

MaxAir, Cedar Point

Tower of Terror, Disney California Adventure

Any S&S Screamin' Swing