Happy Christmas Eve to all Theme Park Insider readers. As we approach the end of 2024, we are opening the final-round voting for our Best Attraction award.
Based on your nominations this year, here are the 12 finalists for this year's Theme Park Insider Award for Best Attraction, including the defending winner Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. Your collective vote here will determine the winner of this honor, which I will announce January 1.
In case you missed them, votes are now open for the other three categories in this year's awards:
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'Rise of the Resistance' dominates this category.
I think Rise of the Resistance is greatly diminished by the K.R. animatronic. Give me a live actor or next gen Tupac Hologram. Looks like a Halloween prop outside a neighborhood you might not allow your kids to get candy from. Maybe lighting needs adjusting. I think Universal will nail their stuff at epic universe BTW.
Rise in new condition operating at 100% would stand tall above the rest. In its current state, however, it's still in the conversation, but personally I feel a few older attractions at both Disney and Universal have withstood the test of time better and are more deserving.
Last time I rode Rise the only two things I noticed being down were the cannons (which seems to be semi-permanent) and Kylo's lightsaber in the ceiling. But the animatronic was working. Still my favorite ride.
I remain jealous of Tokyo Disney though, Enchanted Tales of Beauty and the Beast looks fantastic and I wish we could get a dark ride like that. Hoping Encanto is of that caliber.
Last time I rode Rise the only two things I noticed being down were the cannons (which seems to be semi-permanent) and Kylo's lightsaber in the ceiling. But the animatronic was working. Still my favorite ride.
I remain jealous of Tokyo Disney though, Enchanted Tales of Beauty and the Beast looks fantastic and I wish we could get a dark ride like that. Hoping Encanto is of that caliber.
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4 years ago, this would have been no contest, but the degradation of RotR over the past couple of years makes this a tough choice.