Disney World Ride Madness: The Ultimate Attraction Bracket
Rope Drop Radio: A Disney Travel Podcast
Rope Drop Entertainment
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Sixteen of the most popular attractions at Walt Disney World enter the bracket… but only ONE can be crowned the ultimate champion. This week, Doug and Lauren go full March Madness as they debate the best ride in Disney World.
🏆 Disney World Attraction Bracket: Sweet 16 Ride Madness
It's time for the ultimate Walt Disney World attraction showdown. Inspired by March Madness, this week's Rope Drop Radio episode puts 16 iconic rides from all four Disney parks into one giant bracket.
We seeded 4 attractions from each park — Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom — then let the debates begin.
Who advances:
- Haunted Mansion
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
- Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
- Avatar Flight of Passage
… and which attraction is crowned the best ride in Walt Disney World?
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| 0:00.0 | This fast pass is harder. |
| 0:01.6 | Nobody agrees with you. |
| 0:03.5 | The world agrees with me, Laura. |
| 0:06.2 | Nobody agrees with you. |
| 0:08.5 | Someone agrees with me. |
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| 0:55.3 | radio sent you now let's rope drop helping you navigate the disney parks with the hope that it |
| 1:03.7 | will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world you're listening to rope drop radio |
| 1:12.6 | welcome to another ropeope Drop Radio. I am Doug McKnight here with Lauren Shields and |
| 1:17.6 | Lauren. We have an exciting show today because you, well, it's March. Yeah. And who beat |
| 1:25.3 | who last Thursday? So we're going to do a sweet 16 thing because both of our schools, our alma maters, |
| 1:33.3 | were in the sweet 16. |
| 1:34.9 | And there's 16 different schools. |
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