The Coastin' The Desert Awards Show: The Best & Worst of Our 2024 Middle East Theme Park Tour

Now that all 18 episodes from our epic trip across the UAE, Qatar, and Egypt have been posted, let's take a look back at the highlights and find the biggest winners and losers from all those parks!
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[@generic_username_here1]

Can’t wait for Coastin’ Through South America where you get to ride old Vekoma after old Vekoma after old Vekoma lol

[@NathanHydra]

And to top it all off Montezum, the largest rollercoaster of Brazil and the last RCCA that’s still operating that they haven’t ridden (and possibly the worst one)

[@allenrogalski336]

I miss the fun categories like "worst music" and "thirstiest moment".... But this was still fun to watch

[@CoasterStudios]

we will bring back sillier categories in the future!

[@CausiCoasters]

As a big Skyrush fan, Flying Aces definitely seems like something special.

[@FWDijk]

I rode Formula Rossa in 2023 and it was awesome. The launch is a . flying Aces was great for the launched over the hill. Turbo Tracl was great as we;; Speed is not everything. Mission Ferrari was great btw.

[@Tiger-fv3nl]

Y'all make that absolute best theme park content out there! Have been a fan since your early days!

[@michael7054]

Great video! This was really fun to watch! Im really looking forward to the next series!

[@JSXSProductions]

Gotta do a bonus coastin' through the desert in AZ where you just ride Desert Storm 100 times in a row now.

[@coastingthrills7297]

I would love to see one of the award show videos for Orlando, or Florida in-general once Epic Universe is open and you guys visit it!

[@FWDijk]

Fying Aces was amazing. The wing seat was so cool I want to do it again. Ride to Happiness in the next few days!l

[@Seabass764]

Considering how long formula Rosa has been closed, I’m starting to theorize that they could do a TT2 where they take out the hydraulic launch and replace it with an LSM launch. But hey, who’s to say what could happen?

[@theventuracountyrailfan]

I hope not I was at cedar point today and nothing happened with it

[@chumpX2929]

Hmm

[@CNSPORTZEDITZ]

Hey Taylor, you should've included the category of "Country that treated us like a celebrity the most" and the winner would have been Egypt.

[@firasabueida8424]

This was easily my favorite out of the coastin series! It felt like I was watching episodes on Netflix, but way better and way more detailed and entertaining! Please bring back coastin the desert next year for season two 😂

[@corybourrier9722]

Ahhh yes, I love the ring light reflection 😉 😂 just teasing Sarah lololol sending the good vibes from Winnipeg, you two should come to Canadas Wonderland June 26-28 !! Ill be there and it would be BAD ASS to meet up hahahah

[@ASDM_Gaming]

Loved this series!🎉🎉🎉

[@CancelHappiness]

You guys are back in time to do CTE season 3. CTD was good but CTE is immaculate.

[@FryGuy909]

When are you guys planning on going to The Great Escape for Bobcat?

[@CoasterStudios]

soon :)

[@chumpX2929]

I’m glad that you guys enjoyed my HomeParks ! I’ve went to all of those parks my whole life and they’re the best❤ glad you made this very entertaining video!

[@The-Urviech]

Hey Sarah, if you are so excited about being underwater you should definitely spend some time to get a diver's certificate, should be quite easy to do in Florida! I had to dive in cold muddy lakes here in Germany to get it :D

[@freddieopmeer]

Love the video, don’t get many people talking about my home parks

[@wf6190]

I don’t think Viaggio in Italia is THAT bad. I know the ride system is jangly and the screen resolution could be better, it’s still a decent chill ride just to admire the scenery. Nothing else

[@TheBologneGuy]

That Shrek ride is just🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✅✅✅✅✅🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌

[@HeatherC1212]

Great sum up video of that awesome trip! =)

[@brittariedel3446]

I would love to see a Ranking of the best themed queues worldwide and best stations too.

[@matthewblack2252]

I was fortunate to have all the roller coasters open on my trip to Abu Dhabi between Christmas and New years. Formula Rossa is so much better than anything else! The speed is something else. Flying Aces didn’t impress me at all!

[@27ozyboy]

No formula rossa. That's a shame. Test track was down all day when we went from AUS but we could live with that.

[@chopkix]

If any park in the us took the leap and built something on the grand scale of the Abu Dhabi parks it would easily be the best park in the United States, a Disney park on this scale of theming would be other worldly

[@mo.fried.u]

Great Video, although I would have liked to see a best charm category!

[@planetzoodle]

YAY BEST PART OF THE SERIES!

[@maxhagenauer24]

This series was so cool. I sure hope you get on FR next time.

[@reshardturner2369]

At 9:08 "I love how to train your dragon" 😂😂😂

[@JakeDavidRoberts]

Jais flight is the Longest zipline not the fastest. The fastest is Velocity 2 in North Wales!!!!

[@fadbob_]

very cool, I'm watching a video on it now

[@DaanBruins]

I still can't believe you went to Meryal Waterpark and you didn't do the world's tallest waterslides.

[@roller1235]

I'm pretty sure the Velocity zip line in Wales is the fastest zip line

[@Tasouz]

What a series btw what do u think of Hyperia

[@ASDM_Gaming]

They haven’t ride. It yet

[@fadbob_]

I prefer formula rosa over flying aces and I still stand by it. Maybe you'll prefer aces since you're more desensitized to sustained launches and record speeds

[@BobBob-sx8yi]

Dude they didn’t ride Formula Rossa did you watch the video?

[@simonpeschke6842]

They didn't ride Formula Rossa

[@fadbob_]

@@BobBob-sx8yi I'm speaking in future tense, hence the use 'maybe' since it hasen't happened yet. In the video they wondered how they would've ranked them if they had ridden them.

[@fadbob_]

@@simonpeschke6842 I'm speaking in future tense, hence the use 'maybe' since it hasen't happened yet. In the video they wondered how they would've ranked them if they had ridden them.

[@Godisgayallthetime666]

I agree. Flying Aces was good, but the intensity of Formula Rossa is absolutely insane. Has to be the most intense launch in the World now that Do-dodonpa is permanently closed.

[@joshuaeoff4402]

You should ride the tower of terror at gold reef city in South Africa

[@legend8429]

Did you know that Skyrush got new restraints and theming?

[@CoasterStudios]

yes! looks great!

[@gamingmamba2584]

No award for Matt on the waterslides? Booooo

[@fadbob_]

agreed here, matt deserves a physical medal

[@maxhagenauer24]

Good Gravy a new CS vid!

[@bigfoot12369]

Justice for lego land😭

[@KaiserEditz10]

I have been waiting for this since the beginning!

[@Finn-go7nl]

Still waiting for coasting around Asia

[@wildearth3992]

Well it’s very complicated to plan that. Asia is very far away and very different, for example you need a certain permission to film in China most of American app are banned too. Also the whole process to get a visa for Japan South Korea and Japan is very complicated

[@wildearth3992]

When are you riding Voltron

[@Hesohi]

Good Series.

[@bey630]

Coasting through Asia next?

[@wildearth3992]

It’s gonna be hard… Especially the China part… and a coasting to Asia will be significantly more expensive. Fly from America to Dubai cost nothing… New York - Tokyo flight is already 3000$

[@xcoasterenthusiast]

@@wildearth3992 Aged like milk

[@wildearth3992]

@@xcoasterenthusiast 🤣🤣🤣

[@jeremiahtriplett6271]

BRING BACK THE SILVER TICKET AWARDS!

[@superthrills7398]

I WAS WAITNG FOR THIS

[@WHOOOOOOOOCARES]

And the best coaster from the desert: the airplane ride over

[@Mig__Official]

this series was awsone ngl

[@JasiahRow-mn3pd]

Listen me being my petty self I hope formula Rossa closes so Ka can be the fastest

[@thedalekditto15]

Would have not even a single mention on anything going on in the Middle East in the whole series. I genuinely love your guys stuff and get happier every time you upload, but it has put a sour taste in my mouth that no mention of anything from qatars labor practices to UAE human rights record was ever mentioned. As a queer and obviously so I could not come here safely, and your image that you unquestioningly has made is that these areas are perfect tourist destinations for everyone, while that isn’t true. You would have gotten some backlash if you mentioned anything, and I am sure you did think about it, but it truly does lower my respect for you slightly that you decided to omit it all.

[@fadbob_]

oh my god! Why haven't they mentioned the rampant extremist right racists, the police brutality epidemic, or the rampant gun killings (some by those underage) due to failed gun control policies in a dollywood vlog? Or how about in poland why not mention their equally horrible human rights records, in their energylandia video? Nobody's complaining about that? Or what about in coasting through europe, were they obligated to also tell the audience that the UAE isn't alone in the fact for the first 50 years of MOST european countries used immigrant slave labour built the same infustructure that made the city what they are praised for to this day?

[@toastercoasterguy]

first off i did NOT order a yappachino and second off these are literally two people who like riding coasters, and lemme tell ya they dont wanna mention it KIDS watch this

[@fadbob_]

why is nobody complaining about coaster studios not mentioning human rights issues of poland in coasting through europe's energylandia episode then? Or in general, europe's use of immigrant workers to build the same infastructure people praise to this day during their early days, not mentioned in the whole of coasting through europe?

[@cpurr]

who cares bro 💀💀💀

[@CoasterStudios]

@@fadbob_ this sums it up well. if we talk about those things for one place, then we have to talk about it for all places. there are grotesque violations of human rights happening all over the world, even in america. should we have discussed the anti-LGBTQ laws that are getting out of control in TN when discussing dollywood? this channel is just to discuss the roller coasters and theme parks. we are not the sole source of information about the world. going places to ride roller coasters is not our stamp of approval to the place's politics. if that were the case, we couldn't go to like half of the US even! we have to stay on topic or it would spiral into something that we don't want. we are NOT blind to how cruel the world is, but our interactions on this trip (and all trips really) were entirely with normal, everyday people who are not writing laws or enforcing them. some spaces are just meant to be unserious, like a channel about roller coasters. but just because we don't talk about these things HERE doesn't mean we are apathetic to them.

[@MaleyHatthew]

This context is entertaining. However given the state of the Middle East and its policies toward peoples of various races, religions, sexualities, etc. these videos are incredibly privileged and ignorant.

[@owennelson5176]

@MaleyHatthew Saying their videos are ignorant when all they are doing is just travelling and visiting different places in the Middle East, dude why are you saying their ignorant and terrible for just going on a trip. The laws down there are absolutely horrible I agree on that part but saying the are IGNORANT for travelling to fun looking tourist destinations and having a fun time is such and rude and mean thing to say, they don’t control or make the laws, they were just having a trip that looked really fun. Despite all the awful labor laws, sexist laws, and anti-lgbtq+ laws I would still go visit the Middle East someday just to visit all these FUN LOOKING tourist destinations and attractions even if it might be a little risky and unsafe. I’m sorry but this comment just makes you look ignorant my guy and kind of a whole twitter brain rot comment to make. Just saying man don’t give people crap when the didn’t do anything wrong, and the vlogs are still cool anyways. 😊✌️