Royal Pacific/2.5 Days at USO

[MaddieinWonderland]

Originally posted by damo
You might want to check out these awards by Amusement Today for 2003. These awards were chosen by "experts" who have been to most parks. Universal and IOA did much better than Disney.
http://www.amusementtoday.com/GoldenTicket/the_list.html

The Golden Ticket Awards are a popularity contest, in my opinion, and though I'm aware of their existence -- they're just meaningless to me.

How do you define an amusement or theme park expert in the first place? Is it someone who works there? Visits a lot? Designs them? Operates them?

In some capacity or another, I've done all of that, but nobody asked me for my input on the awards. I understand that people love IOA and think it's the bee's knees. I think its theming is subpar at best for myriad reasons. Being among the minority doesn't make me wrong -- just among the minority.

I think it's great that the parks get positive attention and I hope that it drives them to raise their standards and then raise the bar.

(Edited to be a bit less confrontational. )

 

[TimeWarp]