Quoted from TheRudyB:

When you get to Cedar Point, I’d also recommend Millennium Force.

Quoted from EchoVictor:

Screaminr,
Some great sites to help you in your research;
1) If you want to know where any roller coaster is, anywhere, start with the Roller Coaster Database ( https://rcdb.com ). Completely searchable, and has links to park sites as well as maps
2) If you're curious about what us coaster crazies think is the "best", there are several Top 10/25/100 lists to look at (be sure to look at both Steel and Wood polls);
- https://coasterbuzz.com/RollerCoasters/Top100
- https://www.ellocoaster.com/poll-results
- https://coasterpoll.com/results
These are the rankings by people (like me) that travel all around the world just to ride these damn things. The poll algorithms are pretty well done, and rank coasters based on mutual comparisons (I rode "A" and "B", and found "A" to be better, etc.).
If you're interested in more of a "general public" type of poll (which winds up being more Popularity than anything elsey), check these out;
- http://goldenticketawards.com/2019-gta-winners/
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/america/theme-parks/2017/09/07/12-most-thrilling-roller-coasters-usa/638289001/
3) If you're looking for what's coming soon, a great aggregator of amusement park/coaster rumors is http://screamscape.com/
Place tells you a lot about what's going on in the industry.
4) For details on visiting each individual park, my best suggestion would be to look through Trip Reports from places like https://coasterbuzz.com/ or https://www.themeparkreview.com/. Lots of folks do write ups about their experiences in each park, and you can gain a lot of insight reading their commentary.
Of course, if you have any specific questions, you can just post it here, and I can hopefully point you in the right direction!
Later,
EV

Quoted from TheRudyB:

I'd recommend three days given what I understand about your goals:
Day 1: Tour the entire park and get a good lay of the land. Be sure to make at least one complete tour from opening to closing. Along the way, ride anything and everything you like that doesn't have an hour+ line in addition to anything you'd gladly wait that hour+ for. Back in your room that night, get out the park map and plan ...
Day 2: Identify all your must-do's and work out the best way to hit them all, allowing for on-the-spot repeats and the route you'll take to hit them. Then think about how you will do ...
Day 3: Hit only your most favorites. Ride them as many times as you can whether that's in multiple on-the-spot re-rerides or you set up a tour of just your ultimate favorites and keep repeating until closing. FYI: one my friends went there last year and ended up riding Millennium Force 17 times in a single day. He'd do a couple of on-the-spot re-rides at every stop on his favorites tour and then repeat that tour, often eliminating some in subsequent loops so he could ride his ultra-ultra-favorites even more.
Three tips for Cedar Point:
a. Mondays through Fridays are the least busy days as you might expect. Do note that Mondays and Fridays can be slightly busier since many folks will make it a long weekend by adding one or both days to their trip. And don't forget to account for US holidays.
b. Be sure to have your bug/mosquito repellent with you (there's ... ahem ... a little fresh water around Cedar Point) but make sure that you ride plenty of the coasters at night. It's naturally the same ride, but it's a different and cool experience.
c. Best advice I can give to make your daily experience as good as it can be: Cedar Point is on a peninsula in Lake Erie. So overall the park is long and narrow. So be at the gate when the park opens. Once you're in, ignore everything else and get to the far end of the park furthest from the main gate as soon as you can. Steel Vengeance is at that end. You will be able to ride it several times before the crowds get there - because the majority of people will stop at other things along the way. Then work your way back towards the front of the park to hit other coasters and stuff. These will be things that a lot of the guests will have already rode as they were heading to the opposite end of the park. After that, you're on your own to revisit anything you want.

Quoted from AndHart120:

It has been amazing to me as a coaster enthusiast at how these two hobbies seem to mend together. I know several other coaster enthusiasts that are also pinball collectors. Pretty cool!

Quoted from ReadyPO:

Here is an itinerary for you to hit four major parks in one trip:
Day 1: Melbourne to LA, LA to St. Louis
Day 2: Six Flags St. Louis
Day: 3/4 Holiday World
Day: 5/6 Kings Island
Day: 7/8 Cedar Point
Day: 9 Cleveland to LA, LA to Melbourne
Only about 3-4 hours between parks by car. Add in Days of rest as you see fit![quoted image]

Quoted from finnflash:

My son has a channel where he reviews coasters. He is an extreme enthusiast but we have not been to as many parks as some of the other youtubers. We do have Magic Mountain and Knott's coming up in March.
Here is a link to his channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzW6_DrFdkcCgis0viovL8A

Quoted from TheRudyB:

It depends on the time, schedule, goals and financial resources screaminr has for the trip. Given the significant travel distance to just get to the U.S. and the large number of parks worth seeing, those factors will have to be balanced accordingly. Plus it might be wise to take Saturdays and Sundays off not only to avoid the most crowded days, but also to schedule intentional downtime. Don’t want to burn yourself out with an “always on” plan. I’d even suggest arriving in the U.S. on a Saturday and then taking the rest of that Saturday and all day Sunday off just to deal with jet lag, time zone change, etc. Then dive into your first park on Monday.

Quoted from Yoko2una:

So for PoV’s Theme Park Review is very good (you just have to accept the guy’s “Weeeeeeee” through most of them). He has a lot of older videos on coasters that are now defunct and newer ones he usually does multi angles and typically hard mounted. Also for oddball Asian coasters you’ve never heard of MiyaPA Masane has some incredible videos.
I’d also HIGHLY recommend Defunctland and Expedition Theme Park for history videos. Both similar in content, different in delivery, but great.

Quoted from PinMonk:

Just like when Disney under that moron ex-GAP CEO Pressler went from scheduled preventative maintenance and parts replacement to "replace only when needed" and killed people on Thunder Mountain Railroad. Disney had it right for decades before he got there, but his extensive experience in denim told him there was a better way...and people died.

Quoted from jaytrem:

Yes, the guy standing is the brakeman.

Quoted from GLSP3022:

Just a note to roller coaster fans. Lakemont Park, home of the world's oldest roller coaster is open this summer. And Leap the Dips is ready. The rides are open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays thru August.
If your traveling thru Central PA, you can knock that one off your list.