What rides scare you?

Drop rides really scare me. I had never even been on one 'till I went on SFKK's a couple summers ago. I would take one look, shake my head and move on.

Rides that scare me:

1) Inflatable slides and bounces, particularly the ones you can buy at *-Mart.

2) Almost any ride operating at **************************.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Feel free to laugh cause I'm sure some of you will get a kick out of this, but the scariest ride of my life was my first ride on disaster transport. I had no idea what type of coaster it was and when it let go of the lift and started to sway freely it scared the crap out of me. I thought the train was gonna flip over. Second was my first ride on FOF opening year, my first launch and that was scary too.

Lol that's hilarious bowtobuch.

Believe it or not, I THINK I rode Thunder Run at Carowinds at the age of 3 or 4. I don't remember being scared at all. I went on to ride Viper at Darien Lake soon after and I was scared at first of the loops but I loved it and that was the ride that started my love for coasters. I Viper is still my favorite Arrow Looper.

What scares me? Drop Towers.

I don't mind tower of terror, that wasn't as intense as I thought it would be but..

S&S towers scare me for a few reasons.

1. The restraints have a little 'give' which makes them move up and down maybe an inch or so, making me feel like they could pop up any second.

2. It goes up SO SLOW and at the top it makes a bump.

Intamin drop towers I love because they are actually freefall. I hate how S&S tries to mess with freefall and make it faster than freefall or whatever.

I like Demon Drop because it takes about 7 seconds to get to the top so I don't freak out as bad. It's nice and quick, and the drop sensatio is MUCH better than power tower.

anyone else? some of these are funny. lol i never did like the ferris wheel either. i olny got on it like once when i was little and it wasn't scary just boring.

Well, there is one other ride I fear, and just will not allow myself to ride ever again. That is the first Huss Top Spin The Texas Twister at GL.

Only because around the time it was put in, I went over to the ride, not seeing it operate until I was already up on it, then I noticed that it just swayed back and fourth and the main axis was pivoting in a circle. I said to myself, hell I can ride this.

Of course not knowing that it has 6 different ride patterns. Well the last few were the same, they had to be, because it just swayed. But of course, when I got on, it starts to go and then all of a sudden just breaks away and starts spinning like a M**** F*****!!!!!!!!! I was terrified, I thought at first the ride had broken and we were spinning to a death, but then it started to do different things and I realized it was just the ride.

After I got off I was like screw that, never again. nope. But I have no problem walking right over from it and getting on the Dominator. Figure that one out.

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Beast Tamer said:
water slides scare me. The vertical drop at boomerang bay got me. When i slid through i hit my forhead on the tub and slid down while knocked out. I want to do a looping waterslide though!

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Wasn't there a looping waterslide back in the old days of Mountain Creek? I'll have to look around for a picture of that thing, it was crazy.

as for me, while I don't mind heights on rollercoasters, i have problems on drop rides that keep you at a certain height for a prolonged period of time. Kind of for the same reason that I hate being in elevators and going on top of tall buildings *I almost fainted when i went to the top of the empire state building*. However, being the weird person that I am, I ride them for the thrill i get on the way down.

I love huss top spins!

That day has traumatized me from top spins forever.

Also, like he said above, I also don't mind the roller coaster heights as you are constantly moving. I actually don't mind the views you get while climbing a lift. But, rides that climb and stay up there for a while, or stay up there leaving you upside down for a while, I do not like those. I do have a fear of heights, but if I'm just constantly moving through the height I don't mind as much.

Tower Rides/Drop Rides, whatever you want to call them. I rarely go on them anymore unless it's a walk-on.

Xtreme Flyer @ PKD. The heights and the fear that the cable may snap on the way down.

Someone else mentioned this...the waterslides that appear to drop at a 90 degree angle. EEK! I did the black one @ PKD and it took me forever to get the balls to go down the darn thing. The attendant kept saying, "You can go now!"

Greezed Lightning at SFKK! Last year I had the scariest experience I've ever had on GL. On the return trip through the loop I had my hands up, and came up out of my seat further than I ever have before. I wasn't expecting it, and had to scramble to grab the lapbar.

My friend James said I was pale white when we got back to the station, but it didn't stop me from riding it again and again that day. Love that coaster!

Acrophobia scared the bageebus outta me the first time I rode it, probably because I didn't know the seats moved, and I realized it, and thought we were done for.

- Josh

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Chadley said:
Greezed Lightning at SFKK! Last year I had the scariest experience I've ever had on GL. On the return trip through the loop I had my hands up, and came up out of my seat further than I ever have before. I wasn't expecting it, and had to scramble to grab the lapbar.

My friend James said I was pale white when we got back to the station, but it didn't stop me from riding it again and again that day. Love that coaster!

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A very underestimated coaster indeed. Doesn't look like much, but when you actually ride its very fun!

Incidentally, and I'm sure I'm going out on a limb here, but does anyone else find wild mouse rides abnormally scary? Particulary roadrunner express at our park....that ride scares the crap outta me! Kids love it...but there's somethin about doing 90 degree turns at 30 miles an hour that freaks me out. LOL

also the flying eagles that got moved from pki scared me. I felt like i was going to crash!

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Beast Tamer said:
also the flying eagles that got moved from pki scared me. I felt like i was going to crash!

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The eagles got moved???? That was one of my favorite non-coaster rides there!!! I haven't been in a while, perhaps I need to make another trip there and brave the Delirium! lol

Alpine slides. (The concrete bobsled run built into the side of a hill).

The good thing is that you can control the speed. The bad thing is I have no self-control and always push the sled as fast as it will go. Needless to say, I've had several near crashes.

There's one east of Minneapolis that has a hidden airtime hill that I was NOT expecting. I probably only got about 6 inches of air, but it felt like 3 feet and I landed HARD. I was actually afraid I wasn't going to land in the trough.

That one also has some severely banked turns and I was going way too fast. I leaned so far to the left I scraped my left arm on the bottom of the trough and nearly lost control.

I wouldn't even mind wiping out if
1) I had a helmet and knee and elbow pads (concrete burns hurt!)
2) there weren't people coming down right behind me going just as fast

They're scary, but damned fun. A terrific adrenaline rush if you choose to push the limits.

The scariest ride is The Cyclone at Williams Grove!

One word: Insanity.

Yes, it is as awesomely crazy as it looks. This ride is just wrong. Horrible capacity, great ride.

I was very young at Conneaut and they had that Laff-in-the-dark-haunted-funhouse thing (I can't remember the name). But the scariest part was the one wall COVERED by gum chewed by previous riders. Ew germs.