What is the most profitable ride in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2?

Making money is fun, but which ride makes the most money of all?

Background music: RCT2 Gentle style
Outro music by Panorrrama:

[MarcelVos]

For those of you curious: An art-deco food stall in a maze trap with 9600 guests (the vanilla guest limit) can make about €135k per hour if you charge €4.10 for the noodles and €4.40 for the lemonade. Not a ride so it doesn't count and it also won't allow for any other rides in the park to make any money, but it's still very high and outperforms the the single-station vertical drop coaster.

[somekindoflandcow]

I like how we've resorted to simply scamming the guests by charging them $20 a pop and immediately kicking them off the ride. They love it.

[MadMovieMakers]

Marcel has more "Oh yeah, one more thing" moments than Columbo

[evanclark]

I sat down, all excited and ready to go for a ride on the monorail. All of a sudden, time stopped around me. After a brief moment of complete tranquility in time and space, I found myself outside of the exit again.

Despite the crowded queueline with no personal space and sweaty entertainers forcing me to smile, 10/10 experience. Worth the €20.

- Park Review of Guest 437. Probably.

[restorasenrisei]

Hey Marcel. Something you didn't consider about the Maze. It gets increased stats for every single tile of maze in the ride (up to 100), so you can optimise the maze even further by having an inaccessible 99tile garden adjacent to your 1 tile maze.

[Quenlin]

A constantly-moving queue is one of my most basic principles when I design a coaster. That coaster at 15:00 is pure art to me.

[GlassbrainZ]

I always run a free carousel at the entryway of every park I run. Not because it does anything all that useful, but I feel like everyone should be able to go on a carousel once in a while. I also like the music.

[Noxxa]

I like that while most ride designs of this sort naturally end up looking like grotesque abominations of nature designed purely for profit in a dystopian way, the coaster design at 14:53 actually looks both very elegant and practical at the same time. Nicely done!

[louisathellama]

After the eternity coaster I'm not sure why I'm still surprised that Marcel goes above and beyond using mechanics I'd never think of to answer RCT questions, but I'm still impressed

[DJAvren]

Taking a moment to appriciate Marcel called his Enterprise flatride after the Federation Galaxy class ship from Star Trek TNG

[TheDoctorOfThrills]

There's something arcane about learning that the monorail somehow has the biggest profit potential in the game

[Likian]

Imagine being a guest in that monorail queue and wondering why the line never seems to stop moving despite the train never going anywhere

[MegaTankv]

I know you did a guide on the effect that a guests mood parameters have, but I'd like to see a guide on how guest actions affect their mood: how do rides affect their happiness/nausea? What increases and lowers tiredness and what have you.

[roelofsoeter]

>20jr geleden voor het laatst gespeeld. Dankzij YouTube algoritme bij een van je filmpjes terecht gekomen. Afgelopen dagen bijna al je filmpjes bekeken, vandaag op de iPad de hele middag met mijn zoons pretparken gebouwd. Tijdloos spel, zit echt heel goed in elkaar.

[UntouchedWagons]

Every time Marcel says "Or is it?", take a drink.

[Psychonautical]

I'm deep enough in the game to where little surprises me anymore, but you usually manage to blow my mind once at least per video.

In this one, it was "guests dont buy a photo the first time they ride a ride."

[sashakindel]

For the purposes of maximizing photo profit, maybe you could set up a mechanism that allows guests to ride a roller coaster at most twice. A ride with two stations, one of which can only be reached by riding the ride via the other.

[eothh]

0:52 i love the little jokes or references in the names you put everywhere

[McCaileanMcNaughty]

Never knew that the flowerpower bumperride would have that ridiculous high bonuses. But i think the answer lays in the 2nd last word of my first sentence.

[SemiHypercube]

So one of the best ways to make a profit is to trick the guests into riding a boring ride for 20 euros because it hasn't been tested yet