Scariest Ride You've Ever Ridden
Black 7 said:
Williams Grove Cyclone.
You beat me to it :)
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Skunky
Later,
EV
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nothing said:
hey and uh pink monkey of doom what coasters have you been on?------------------
X- the coaster designed to break all the rules
It was just a joke. ;)
Can't wait to see if SFOG Freefall , Acrophobia or Skycoaster can get a scream outta me.
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Although jumping off a thirty-foot-in-the-air rope got me pretty good.
While not a coaster, my scariest ride ever was in my brother's '71 Pantera at Road America. With traffic all around, I accidentally downshifted to first going around Turn 12 (Canada Corner) and put the car sideways. Luckily, I was able to oversteer out of it and avoid having to tell my brother that I had smashed up his baby!
Later,
EV
I managed to roll a Formula Vee at the very same track on turn five. That scared me enough to never race again.
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Bob Hansen
Resident Airtime Whore
On apocalypse you are tilted forewards, hoisted 180ft up, held there for a few seconds and then droped.But the scary thing is you can do it standing or on fifth element which is stand up floorless.
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"Somebody give that man a coconut"
The staff already seemed quite dark-mooded and grunty. The last two cars where roped off... the whole train looked like a Batman train without the decoration parts common to B&Ms... the wires where visible anywhere. Looked rather scary.
I find Eurostar one of the most intimidating coasters I've ridden. I've ridden it countless times, but the haunting sound of the airhorn, the sombre staff and the lift really get the butterflies going. This coaster is completely unforgiving. It's very rough, but very, VERY intense - It's high-G-forces all around. It just never stops.
There was not 1 second to enjoy the ride because the rails obviously didn't fit together the way that they should
It wasn't THAT rough when I rode it, although it was a few years ago.
but had offsets of 2 cm and more (one must have been about 5 cm or more)...
This is impossible. The way the track fits together means that this cannot happen. I may have FELT like it was 5cm, but it certainly wasn't.
I wasn't sure if I should go to the doctor and sue or just notify the local newspaper about it. In the end, I ended up doing nothing. I know those coaster owners don't have an easy life, anyway
You're obviously fairly ignorant to the lives of German showmen. They're very rich - they're not gypsies who travel around in a load of battered up caravans and set up rickety rides. They're businessmen with Mercedes Benz and a huge entourage of rides and attractions.
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I am one.
I am Turbo.
Top Thrill in the front row... anything else is lame
Secondly, I worked at CP durring MF's opening season and was lucky enough to ride it the night before it opened to the public. A lot of employees were terrified. I know that some of the Park Opp managers feared it enough that they didn't ride it until a few weeks after it opened. We where the guinee pigs.
Lastly, Katuynga in Orlando, but it was happy fear. The velcro only seatbelt/sholder harness worried me a little especially while falling 160 feet up-side-down twards the water. What a rush.
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Skyliner is underated.
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"You're afraid of heights, but you love roller coasters...yep, you're weird alright."
A friend's response to my constant yelling at the top of Power Tower. And I'll ride it again and again...:)
Marcus Sheen said:
but had offsets of 2 cm and more (one must have been about 5 cm or more)...This is impossible. The way the track fits together means that this cannot happen. I may have FELT like it was 5cm, but it certainly wasn't.
OK, 5cm may have been exaggerated, I admit!
But I was able to see the bumps with my bare eyes standing outside of the ride, about 20 m away from the track.
It was hard to estimate, as the track and the wheels are really much more massive on this ride than one would guess from afar or from pictures.
I rode it on last years (2002) "Oktoberfest" in Cologne, Germany.
You're obviously fairly ignorant to the lives of German showmen. They're very rich - they're not gypsies who travel around in a load of battered up caravans and set up rickety rides.You may be right about that one, as well. It just seemed like the workers were underpaid people from Poland... somehow the whole feeling I got from this ride was also rough on a personal level.
Its very possible that the money-counting owner is sitting somewhere in his new Mercedes while his underpaid, ill-looking employees had to do the hard part of the job.
Or maybe they're not even underpaid, just roughnecks.
Maybe it is time that someone tells the true story about this.
When I was posting a comment about the Eurostar roughness on a German coaster site, people where ridiculing me and flaming me, telling me that "I wouldn't know how to ride Eurostar properly" etc.
I guess that it was in fact a showmen site and I had pinched the bees nest.
*** This post was edited by superman 9/23/2003 5:51:49 AM ***
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Awww, bad day? Take a different perspective on things. Try upside down, a barrel roll, a cobra roll or a corkscrew. Life can't be all that bad when your feet are over your head!
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Skydiving wasn't as scary as this ride! I came off shaking with fear and adrenaline, and had to sit for an hour to recover.
-seth
Since then the only coasters that bother me are inverts... just something about only air underneath that gets me sweaty.
1. Extreme SkyFlyer (PKD): If being dragged backwards and 150 feet upwards by a 'small' cable while horizontal and facing the ground wasn't bad enough, the head-first freefall that followed scared me so bad I forgot to scream.
2. Chance Zipper (Trimper's Rides): Sheer white-knuckle terror during the entire ride. It looked insane from the ground, but I honestly didn't expect the uncontrolled pandemonium that ensued once I entered that cage of death. The Zipper is still unquestionably my favorite flat ride.
3. Wild Mouse (Trimper's Rides): A steel Wild Mouse coaster used to reside where the Tidal Wave (Vekoma Boomerang) now stands. If I didn't know better, I'd swear by looking at it that the first steel coaster was built centuries before the Matterhorn, and this was it. The front wheels of each car were situated back near the middle of the chassis, which created the illusion of going straight at the beginning of each hairpin turn, and finally veering in the direction of the turn at the very last minute before seemingly plummetting to the ground below. That was scary in itself, but absolutely nothing compared to the fear of the not-too-unrealistic possibility of the entire ride collapsing underneath us.
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-Mike Buscema
'No matter how skilled the designer is, every time we push the envelope we learn new things about coaster design.' --Dana Morgan
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Oh, and people bouncing the cable didn't help.
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Jeff-Jeff
*** This post was edited by Jeff Finazzo 9/23/2003 1:34:50 PM ***
Vater said:
2. Chance Zipper (Trimper's Rides): Sheer white-knuckle terror during the entire ride. It looked insane from the ground, but I honestly didn't expect the uncontrolled pandemonium that ensued once I entered that cage of death. The Zipper is still unquestionably my favorite flat ride.
Vater, that's the Zipper ride I had with Moosh......wait, that didn't sound right...;). Anyhow, we got some NICE spinning going, and it was a GREAT ride.
Scariest three for me, though, Kissimmee's Slingshot, then Geronimo Skycoaster at WA, then Katanga on I-Drive...which would have been *scarier* had it not been so much FUN....
RIP, Katanga...:(
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