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Biggest misnomers in the theme park industry

Hyperion megacoaster which is actually a Hypercoaster
Pulsar named after a rotating neutron-star, but actually a watercoaster. Typhoon would be way more fitting
Colorado Adventure Is actually located in the Mexican themed area and has nothing to do with Colorado at all
blue fire megacoaster lacks about 6m in height (and a Lifthill) to be considered a Megacoaster
 
To be fair, megacoaster, hypercoaster etc aren't official terms, exemplified by the B&M gigas being their hypercoaster model.

Colorado Adventure was even weirder when it was Michael Jackson's Colorado Adventure however...
 
Heth said:
Maybe not a complete misnomer as it is fast, but Speed at Energylandia. When I think of a water coaster, its speed isn't the defining characteristic I'd choose to name it after.
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Its sister ride in Mirabilandia is an even worse example. You'd think you're getting a ride with a 90° drop with Divertical, yet it's probably the shallowest drop for a ride of its size. I feel that whoever named it thought they were getting something like Drenched, ordered the wrong thing from the catalogue, but still went with the originally intended name.
 
Kind of a misnomer but more of a generic hate is when a park gets an IP and just names it - (Insert IP here) : The Ride.

Batman The Ride
Saw The Ride
Heidi The Ride
Superman The Ride
Speed The Ride

It's just so lazy and an unoriginal way to incorporate the IP into the name. For example as bad as Mandrill Mayhem is at least it's original and they didn't just name it Jumanji The Ride.
 
spicy said:
Kind of a misnomer but more of a generic hate is when a park gets an IP and just names it - (Insert IP here) : The Ride.

Batman The Ride
Saw The Ride
Heidi The Ride
Superman The Ride
Speed The Ride

It's just so lazy and an unoriginal way to incorporate the IP into the name. For example as bad as Mandrill Mayhem is at least it's original and they didn't just name it Jumanji The Ride.
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I'd argue that most of those aren't misnomer as they ARE themed to their respective subjects.

However Batman THE Ride might be the exception as the 'the' implies it is the only Batman ride, when there are actually many.
 
Heth said:
I'd argue that most of those aren't misnomer as they ARE themed to their respective subjects.

However Batman THE Ride might be the exception as the 'the' implies it is the only Batman ride, when there are actually many.
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They should change their names tbh. Here are some ideas:

Batman: The Ride
Batman: The Ride 2: Electric Bogaloo
Batman: The Ride: Oh Hell No!
Batman: The Ride vol. IV
Batman: The Ride (again)
The Last Batman: The Ride: It's About Time
 
rob666 said:
Enthusiasts...Large numbers of them do not seem very enthusiastic at all.
Top pick must be Matt's in the opening post...Icon...it just isn't.
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I unironically stopped dreaming of being able to visit theme parks constantly because sometimes it seems like when people ride coasters every day it's not fun anymore and they just start analyzing how elements were not as fun as their #1
 
The trick is to take each ride individually. Focus on its individual strengths and enjoy it for what it is.

I do get your point though, and I'm getting to that with escape rooms. I've done so many that a bad room is now really bad.
 
After the announcement of Loup-Garou’s RMC replacement today and my post in that thread about how RMC conversions are gradually diverging more drastically from their predecessors, I’m going to bump this thread today with what perhaps technically isn’t a misnomer per se, but is more a lazy naming choice with no real good reason for it, in my view; Iron Gwazi.

Now why do I single out Iron Gwazi when many other RMC conversions have used a similar naming convention, I hear you ask? Well, I would argue that earlier RMC conversions that did this at least maintained some semblance of a relation back to their predecessors such that you could argue it represented a rebirth of the original ride. New Texas Giant, for example, broadly retained the same sort of footprint, layout outline and scale as Texas Giant. Iron Rattler retained the key USP of the drop off the cliff from Rattler. Twisted Colossus retained the key USP of a duelling feature from Colossus. And many others didn’t use this naming trend at all, plumping for a different name entirely; this naming trend for RMC conversions has mostly confined itself to legacy Six Flags parks aside from Iron Gwazi and Wildcat’s Revenge.

But let us consider this; Gwazi was a duo of modestly sized GCI wooden coasters that interacted and duelled with each other, named and themed after a mythical lion/tiger crossbreed to specifically reflect the duelling nature of the ride experience, with the tracks being named Lion and Tiger to reflect this. Iron Gwazi… is a 200ft coaster with no tangible duelling features themed to crocodiles that happens to use bits of the old support structure. Where is the tangible relationship with old Gwazi other than the plot of land and a use of a few of the old supports? There isn’t one, I would argue; I’d suggest that Iron Gwazi stretches the definition of “conversion” a little, basically being a new ground-up coaster that happens to use some of its predecessor’s old supports.

I’d argue that a unique name completely divorced from Gwazi would have been more reflective of the ride experience. Even if we did have to continue the USA trend of inserting “Iron”, “Steel” or “Twisted” somewhere in the name, why not go with something like Iron Gator? Or… anything else?

I know it seems random, but I only just thought of it upon seeing the Loup-Garou announcement!
 
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