Top 25 Theme Parks in the World (Part 2) 

The fact a small park in Germany is no. 3 says much about dedication and creativity. You can have all the money in the world, but it’s hard to beat one that carries more heart than many major players. Love Phantasialand

I 100% agree with Islands of Adventure being at the #2 spot. Even though I missed a LOT of major rides, the ones I got to do were so amazing that I called it my favorite theme park anyway. VelociCoaster is truly one of the great defining pieces of art to ever come out of the amusement industry, and is worth a trip for that alone. I can't say enough amazing things about this park, it's just insane. I advise every one of you to make a trip to Orlando and go to Islands of Adventure if you haven't already, it's truly a magical experience, moreso than any of the Walt Disney World parks.

I love the list and especially the whole experience you presented and not just the coasters like 89% of the other channels. I wish more channels were like yours and dang it, I loved the personal touch you added about your own personal experiences. Great job boss!

Phantasialand is my favourite place ever, I even cried when I was leaving it

I'm super happy with your number one. I am a huge rollercoaster lover but man Disney parks just have this magical feeling that no other park gives me

Great list! While I haven’t been to many theme/amusement parks myself, I’d say my favorite that I have been to is Magic Kingdom at Disney World. Basically the way you felt about Disneyland is how I feel about Magic Kingdom, it’s vibes are immaculate and every ride there is a classic in its own way. I just can’t imagine being at Magic Kingdom and not having a great time.

I like how Efteling tries to be more international, but foreign people still pronounce their rides the Dutch way 😂

Really enjoyed these list! Great to see Efteling so high! I love that place soooo so much!

YES, Phantasialand on No. 3! And yeah, everybody agrees: The place needs to get bigger! Happy new year, Marc!

Great list! I’ve enjoyed your year-end videos quite a lot! I feel that it can only be a matter of time before I run into to you at a park somewhere.

Great list, your top 5 to 2 are exactly my top 4 parks I've visited, couldn't agree more on that order there.🙌🏼 I haven't visited annaheim yet, but I don't think I would rank it in my top 10, but that's just because I'm not into Disney that much. It still looks great and I'm looking forward to visit it some day. It was definitely great to see so many european parks on your list, that just shows how thankful I can be having these amazing parks so close to me🙌🏼

Great video! I enjoyed watching!

The day before yesterday I spent my birthday in phantasialand. I can't imagine anything nicer. Especially in the dark with the lighting and so the park is just indescribably beautiful! 🤩😍

Islands of adventure is so magical - it’s my favourite park I’ve ever visited

Silver Dollar City has really started to capture my interest recently. Generally, this is one elite top 10 parks!

Great list. I went to KI for NYE and it was a blast. Happy New Year CD!

Amazing content!

I feel like Cedar Point this year was harder to enjoy due to some operation issues, but it does still have the best roller coasters for sure and your ranking of it is very fair.

We live in Wheeling WV and have been to Kings Island and Cedar Point quite often. They are great day trips!

The whole Phantasiland space thing. I've recently been thinking about that a lot. The whole issue that they have with the neighbouring town, nature reservoir and the motorway close by is pretty known by now. But I was wondering, the way that they create these mad immersive areas would they have done that as well to such high detail if they had more space? All of their recent coaster expansions do something truly unique and blend into the environment as much as they do. This obviously ties in with the limitations that they have to cope with. But what if they didn't need to. Would they still deliver such immersive experiences if they had more space to play around with? In saying that, hyper coaster would look totally out of place in the park right now. Would love to see them do something with a woodie even though I doubt that this would pass the noise check.

I agree with islands of adventure, except for the good operations point on specifically hagrids. i can remember standing in the same spot for at least 10 minutes 3 separate times while in line.

Disney world as a whole and staying on property would be my number 1. It feels amazing to be in that Disney Bubble!

This is his list : 25 : Six Flags Mexico 24 : Disney California Adventure 23 : Carowinds 22 : Hansa Park 21 : Holiday World 20 : Disney's Hollywood Studios 19 : Disney's Animal Kingdom 18 : Busch Gardens Tampa 17 : Kings Dominion 16 : Canda's Wonderland 15 : Busch Gardens Williamsburg 14 : Knoebels 13 : Hersheypark 12 : Six Flags Magic Mountain 11 : Six Flags Fiesta Texas 10 : Europa Park 9 : Energylandia 8 : Efteling 7 : Kings Island 6 : Silver Dollar City 5 : Dollywood 4 : Cedar Point 3 : Phantasialand 2 : Universal Island's Of Adventure 1 : Disneyland

Happy new year! Currently my favorite park is either SFMM or Hersheypark. Im not a big fan of dark rides, so I actually thought Disneyland was kinda boring, but it is definitely well themed.

Nice one

only 45 mins from Kings Island and i make the most of it every year!!! happy new year.

Happy New Year, Marc! I absolutely love your vlogs from Europe! I hope your planning on visiting SE Asia within the next few years!

Nice to see me homepark of the efteling in the Top 10. I defently agree with your assesment of Europapark i had the same feeling about it. Well i'm gonna do a lot parks in the USA the next couple of years since i pretty much done all of the parks i wanna do in mainland Europe so i'm curiuos if i have the same openion as you have about those parks. Probable very close cause you seem to enjoy the same things as i do. At least you got the European parks in the same order as the are on my list.

Wait was great adventure on the list

Marc: " I haven't been to every every theme park in the world - *_nobody has_* " Richard Bannister: *_laughs in 79 countries, more than 1000 parks and 3044 credits_*

You need to visit Alton towers in England my friend. The first B&M Invert in Europe. The Prototype B&M Dive coaster. The Prototype B&M Flying coaster. The Prototype Vertical Free-Fall Drop coaster. The World Record (14) inversion coaster. As well as one of the greatest themed GCI's, a launch coaster, a spinner, a mine train, a Vecoma Mad House dark ride and lots of other family attractions. Set in historic grounds and some immense theming due to the constraints placed on the park.

Aww man.. i didn’t see a plopsaland.. but its ur opinion nice work!

You NEED to visit the UK, go to Alton Towers, Thorpe Park and Blackpool Pleasure beach. You should also visit Chessington. We have the worlds biggest Legoland. You can miss Drayton Manor, Flamingo land, Gulliver's world, Oakwood and Paulton's Park. But the 3 or 4 I said at the start are go toos. Alton towers has the smiler. The most inverting coaster in the world and also at alton, all of the main rollercoasters have either broke records or been first in Europe or ethen the world (take that cedar point). Thorpe and Alton have amazing coasters and I have no idea how Blackpool fit Icon in. Chessington is a bit like Animal Kingdom. Hope to see you come soon (ideally after Nemesis has it's re-track finished and Hyperia opens)

I'm really happy with phantasialand ranked so high by you. But I'd like to point out the problems I have with it (likely because it's my home park😅) I really hope the management now goes back to building darkrides because that's what the park is really lacking right now(and it's also the thing that made them popular in the past), also I think they should update/refurbish some attractions and areas: maybe update the screen portions of maus au chocolate, update the theming in the whole fantasy area because it's looking a bit cheap at the time and crazy bats isn't fitting at all(but it seems they are putting some work into that part at the moment) and also China town is still cool but it's attractions are more than outdated and are by far the least popular in the park

I live in a dinky little town in Utah and I went to Germany back in August of 2022, Phantasialand has been by far my favorite park. I tried going to walibi Holland but we couldn't figure out how to get there from Amsterdam. Even as a kid I didn't really like the universal and Disney parks, good list though.

River Rapids ride, I'd say Thunder Canyon at Dorney takes the cake for getting soaked lol It's just waterfall after waterfall

Great video as always my man 💪 😎 sending the good vibes from Winnipeg !! Have you ever visited Mount Rushmore? I went as a young kiddo and got to visit Wonderland cave, it was pretty neat! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!🎉

In the future, is there a chance you can do a list of your top fairs in the world? I can see the San Diego County Fair being high on the list!

Disneyland is just incredible.

Hi Marc, been a subscriber/viewer for a while and I am always grateful for your content! Thank you for your ranking of European Coasters!! I have only been to 6 amusement parks outside of the U.S. i went to Tripsdrill, Holiday Park and Europa Park in Germany. In addition, I visited Thorpe Park, Alton Towers and Chessington Worlds of Adventure in the UK. I am starting to research a new European trip (Germany, Holland, the Netherlands and possibly Denmark). How did you plan your routes and travel? I just started to plot parks (thanks for your suggestions) on Google Maps, but am finding the app somewhat limited. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks again! 😍

I love Islands of Adventure and Disneyland. 🤙🏽

Great top 10, Pretty much agree with it. But where would you place disneyland tokyo you think?

I think, i can be happy with Phantasialand as home park :)

Havent been to a lot of parks, but have been to a few parks many many times. 1. Islands of adventure / Universal studios orlando - pretty much one park to me they are right next to each other; usually go to both same day 2. Magic kingdom 3. Cedar point 4. Busch gardens tampa 5. Epcot 6. Seaworld orlando (big gap) 7. Animal kingdom (gap) 8. Hollywood studios Park operations/park experience does play a role

phantasialand at no. 3, over cedar point it makes me proud of my home park and probably for ever no. 1

My top 10 as of last year: 1) Cedar Point 2) Islands of Adv 3) Kings Island 4) Hershey Park 5) Magic Mountain 6) Busch Gardens Tampa 7) Carowinds 8) Dollywood 9) Great Adventure 10) Knotts

How come Lake Compounce isn't listed

I love the ways the Dutch rides were pronounced

you should go to the uk parks. the three top parks are some of the best.

I love the Disney parks too! I actually prefer Magic Kingdom to parks like Cedar Point, Magic Mountain, and even Islands of Adventure which many thoosies probably don’t agree on

I've only been to parks in the US and I've been to pretty much all the big parks, but this is the year where I'm looking to go international. Here is how I look at the parks I've been to in the US: (Top 25): 1. Cedar Point 2. Dollywood 3. Silver Dollar City 4. Six Flags Magic Mountain 5. Busch Gardens Williamsburg 6. Busch Gardens Tampa 7. Hershey Park 8. Holiday World- 9. Six Flags Fiesta Texas 10. Carowinds 11. Islands of Adventure 12. Kings Dominion 13. Six Flags Great America 14. Knotts Berry Farm 15. Kings Island 16. Six Flags Great Adventure 17. Six Flags Over Georgia 18. Knoebels 19. Sea World Orlando 20. Lagoon 21. Silverwood 22. Kentucky Kingdom 23. Kennywood 24. California Great America 25. Indiana Beach I'm more into thrills, so you won't see Disney parks on my list. But some parks settings are really good and help them up my list.

Phantasialand is my favorite park overall, followed by Tokyo Disney Sea, Europa, Efteling, and SDC-I actually prefer Kings Island over Cedar Point. I work at WDW and visit DL often, so it’s hard for me to judge those parks-and the rest of the FL parks-so I just leave them out of my rankings.

come to UK next year after project exodus opens at thorpe park

My list is 1: Cedar Point 2: Islands of Adventure 3: Kings Island 4: kennywood 5: Universal Studios 6: Casino Peir 7: Sluggers and Putters 8: Fun times fun park

i am surprised knott's berry farm wasn't here

How are you able to rank all of these parks? I've only been to a handful of parks, but I can't rank them at all. My n1 and 2 are Europa parks and Phantasialand. I can't choose 😩. Then, it starts to get hard to rank. Probably something like: 3. Efteling 4. Toverland 5. Hansa park 6. Walibi Holland 7. Walibi Belgium 8. Bobbejaanland 9. Plopsaland de Panne 10. Heide park

I love energylandia it is amazing. I wasn't on zadra or hyperion or mayan or speed but abyssus and formula were amazing. I didn't like to much roller coasters bc i live in Prag and in Prag we have only Matějská pouť but this is only with flying atractions like booster, extreme and like this. Only 1 coaster is wild mouse and i don't really like it so i tought all of the roller coasters ar the same. But give the roller coasters chance so i found some of the good theme parks near Czech Republic and i found Energylandia so we went here and it was very very good. (it was my first and only one theme park where i was) sorry for my einglish grammar

I like how enthusiasts complain about coasters like Orion while I’m out here in Victoria Australia with gumbuya world being the biggest and only sorta good park in the whole state

IoA moving up dang

I hope you make it to Six Flags Great America in 2023. I'd be interested to see whether it would make the Top 25 or not. Trust me when I say it's that great.

Noice

i find it criminal that knott's was not on the list at all. i know it comes down to opinion but i feel like it deserves it

You forgot to mention about the 1 litter beer you can get at Phantasialand for about only 10 Euro which is so damn cheap for beer 💯, for that alone that park is the 🐐

Happy New Year :)

As someone who's taking his car in 2 hours to go to his anual Phantasialand trip, i agree :)

Definitely agree that Disneyland is number one. While I love coasters and I enjoy my trips to Cedar Point, Hersheypark, Kings Island, Magic Mountain and similar parks, I still like dark rides even more and Disneyland has an unmatched dark ride collection. They also have quite a few water rides, most slow moving but they are still excellent. I only wish Disneyland would fix their Tomorrowland. Magic Kingdom never killed theirs so it's just so much better but Disneyland just destroyed their version in the late 90s and it's never recovered. That said, for two months out of the year I think one park surpasses even Disneyland. Dollywood at Christmas time is just unbeatable. It is the best Christmas festival at any park (sorry SDC and Knotts.) And the shows somehow get even better. I know that's a weird caveat but technically my number one park experience is Dollywood in November/December but Disneyland is the best during the rest of the year. One other caveat, in my opinion EPCOT (when it was EPCOT Center) was the best theme park of all time. I was fortunate enough to visit when Future World was good and The World Showcase didn't include Disney characters. Rides like Horizons, World of Motion and the orginal Journey into Imagination were among the greatest attractions Disney ever built. And The Living Seas was much better before the retheme, as was El Rio del Tiempo and Maelstrom. The original EPCOT Center remains the greatest park experience I've ever had.

Early comment lol

I hope Jurassic Park river adventure at island of adventure wil be the same theming and layout as Jurassic World the ride at Universal Studios Hollywood.

Here's my top 10 parks: 1. Phantsialand 2. Busch Gardens Tampa 3. Europa Park 4. Energylandia 5. Universal Islands of Adventure 6. Alton Towers 7. Parc Asterix 8. Walibi Holland 9. Animal Kingdom 10. Wiener Prater

Great list my list is 1.Cedar Point 2.Kings dominion (it was 105 degrees so the rides her so warmed up) 3.Kings Island 4.Carowinds 5.Dorney park 6.Michigans adventure I am hoping to go to a PA trip next year to the Waldemeer, Kennywood, Knobeols and Hersheypark

For me islands of adventure is easily number one It has Velocicoaster Incredible Hulk coaster Hagrids Amazing adventures of Spider-Man Forbidden journey Jurassic park river adventure Ripsaw falls Bilge rat barges Even Seuss trolley train ride is decent

I think Disneyland would be up there on my list if it was not so horrendously expensive. They charge double of any other park I can think of and they are just not as good as other parks since they only have kids rides.

Personally I care more about the rides than I do the theming because at the end of the day that's the majority of what I will be doing. Going on rides

My No1 is: Phantasialand

First

Bro where is Alton towers 😭

Disneyland is way better than Magic Kingdom and people here in the Midwest and east coast just don’t get it. But if you go you will know the difference. It isn’t even close.

How dare you not mention ET at islands of adventure lol

Bro was talking about Disneyland for half the time 💀

'My brother thought Efteling was one of his least favourite parks of the trip' Beware Marc, I think your brother may be a psychopath.

I don't care for theming as much as most other people do so my list would be different from yours.

Both Busch gardens should be higher and Disneyland doesn't belong on the list

Disney is so overrated. I'd much rather do kings island, Hershey, or cedar than anything Disney has to offer. Heck universal is more fun

IOA should not be that high...

disneyland #1....Nope!!