Welcome to November, and the final two months of the year.
Today is the day when we open voting for the annual Theme Park Insider Awards, which we will announce on January 1, 2026. We invite all Theme Park Insider readers to vote in our year-end polls, which will determine the best attractions, best roller coasters, best new attraction, and best theme park of the year.
The polls also will determine the order of the reader rankings on our theme park visitors guides - our one-page overviews and advice for visiting the top theme parks around the world.
You can find links to vote in the four categories on themeparkinsider.com/vote. Or you can click directly to each ballot form here:
You must be registered with the site and logged in to vote. That's how we limit everyone to one ballot per category. Once you submit, you can edit your vote anytime until we close the voting on December 15.
Last year's winner for Best Theme Park was Tokyo DisneySea, on the strength of its new Fantasy Springs land. But we have an entire new theme park in the mix this year - Universal Orlando's Epic Universe - as well as enduring popularity from many past winners to consider.
It's all up to you. Please vote in each of the categories, as your input helps us to present the best possible reader rankings on our visitors guides.
And, as always, thank you for reading and being part of the Theme Park Insider community.
It will be interesting to see how Epic fares, but I worry that folks will simply rate it and its attractions high simply because it's new, even if they haven't experienced the park. Personally, I'm not putting Epic or any of its attractions on my rankings because I have yet to visit the park, and would hope others will similarly refrain from ranking rides and parks they've never personally experienced.
Something at Epic will definitely win best new attraction. Other than that, who knows? Are these all the categories or will more roll out? I experienced Epic, and while it is a great park, not a lot of the rides made it into my top 40. It still has the curse of too many screens like other Universal parks, even if this is the best version of screen based ride they've done.
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this is going to be interesting, as with epic universe come many amazing top tier rides and I'm interested to see what place they will take overall, perhaps to gauge how good it truly is. I would cast my vote to say monsters unchained will trump ROTR from top spot, but we will see...