Welcome to For Your Amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world class. I'm Ryan Bergara. I'm Baran Marin.

And for today's episode, we're ranking the top 10 ride vehicles in the world. And now, when we say

ride vehicles, we are judging ride vehicles on three different facets, a three-pronged approach.

Number one, the ride system. What kind of ride system does it use? Is it a trackless vehicle?

Is it a standard roller coaster train? You know, whatever.

Number two, the vehicle aesthetics and how those aesthetics fit into the rides story.

So, you know, if you're on an E.T.

ride vehicle, you're on the bike.

You're flying, you know, you get it.

And number three, this is kind of like number two, but basically, does this shit look cool?

That's it.

So, you know, and is it recognizable, I suppose?

Like, for instance, if you were to see somebody, if you were walking by a co-worker's desk and they had a little mini version of the ride vehicle on their desk, would you recognize

and it'd be like, holy, holy shit, that's, you know, so-and-so. I don't want to give any spoilers

away, so I'm not going to say a reference. Our top-ten list is a consensus between the two of us,

formed by a point system. Byron and I each made our own top tens, and a ranking of first is worth 10 points, a ranking of second

is worth 9, and so on and so on and so on. And then I tallied up all the scores to create this

aggregate ranking top 10 list. As such, only I know the contents of this list, and the rankings

will be revealed not only to you guys, but to Byron as well.

This also means that this list can be vulnerable to what we refer to in the business as a muscle job in which somebody purposely lists something higher than it should be so they could sneak it on to the aggregate list.

I don't think that was ever the case in this one, to be honest.

No, but I, like, two attractions have already just crossed my mind while you're explaining.

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