The Results Are In!

2011 marked the first year for About.com's Readers' Choice Awards for Theme Parks!

Park fans passionately embraced the awards and responded with an impressive voter turnout and boisterous comments and opinions.

Unlike a number of other park awards programs, what made About.com's a bit different is that it focused exclusively on achievements in the past year. Think of it as the Academy Awards or People’s Choice Awards for parks.

There was no prize... just the bragging rights that come with getting recognized by the readers of a leading website owned by The New York Times.

The winners are as follows:

Best New Water Park Ride of 2010: Wildebeest

Best New Roller Coaster of 2010: Intimidator 305

Best New Theme Park Show of 2010: World of Color

Best New Theme Park Attraction of 2010: Ghost Ship

Congrats to Arthur for running such a successful awards program!  You can find out more by visting his website!

CoasteRadio.com #438 - "Back To The Future" Weekends?

Disney's Hollywood Studios is in the middle of their immensely successful "Star Wars Weekends."

On this week's show, EB and Mike take a look at the pros and cons of such events and wonder if they affect the average park goer.

We also speculate on what other parks could do to join in on the fun. Do I hear a second for "Back to the Future Weekends" anybody?

The guys listen to trip reports from Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Carowinds and get into a debate about the Intimidator roller coasters that opened this year.

The guys also hear the listener's thoughts on what five ride types are necessary for the perfect park. There were some surprising answers.

Since Memorial Day is the unofficial kickoff of summer, EB and Mike relaunch The David Arquette Project by unveiling a new contest! Will 2010 be the year that we get David Arquette's attention?

Plus, the guys discuss the rumor of Hagrid being in a fist-fight and C-Pain stops by to review the series finale of LOST - autotune style!

It's all this week on CoasterRadio.com!

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CoasterRadio.com #431 - Season Pass Perks

We start of this week's show by reviewing what many say is the most anticipated ride of 2010...

Intimidator 305 at Kings Dominion.

We'll talk with Jason Deane who was one of the very first to ride the new roller coaster. We hear the ride is intense, but is it too intense?

We'll also hear from our listeners as they tell us what perks they would like to see included in their theme park season passes.

You'll be impressed by some of the innovative ideas!

We'll also go off-topic to give you a recommendation for an animated film and we'll talk about a new iPad device that started out as an April Fools Joke!

Plus, we'll have a live trip report from Hersheypark!

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First Ride on Intimidator 305

CoasterRadio.com listener Jason Deane had a chance to attend Kings Dominion's Media Day for Intimidator 305!

Here is some video of his first ride!

Intimidator 305 Media Day

Jason Deane sent in these photos from Intimidator 305's Media Day at Kings Dominion.

So far, the new roller coaster is getting great reviews! People are even saying that it's better than Millenium Force at Cedar Point.

Let the CoasterBoy debate begin!