Scariest Ride You've Ever Ridden

Going up the first spike on Deja Vu still gets me. I don't really enjoy it one bit.

superman, thanks for the reply.

I know what you mean about the staff, but as I understand it, German fair staff are just about the same as theme park staff - they're not neatly turned out or the most approachable of people, but they're excellent at their job, and I suspect are still nothing like what many people expect from normal fairs.

Regarding Eurostars' roughness, personally I don't doubt you. When I last rode Eurostar (about three years ago), it was fairly rough and threw me around a fair bit. There were several sharp moments, but I'm not normally that fussed by rough rides and found it just to be a challenging ride over something that you can ride passively. It didn't hurt, but it showed you who's boss.

Not sure what your tollerance for rough rides is (are there 'rough' rides that you didn't find too bad?) - but I can easily see that Eurostar has become far rougher since I've ridden it. I've heard a lot of reports to that effect too.

Eurostar is an incredible coaster, but it is so sad it has aged so quickly.

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chris, I agree with you about Deja Vu. I did Stunt Fall over in Spain which is the same, and the vertical climb really does get the adrenaline pumping, that's for sure.

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Only time I was anxious before the ride was Millenium Force. I will change direction a little. The scariest ride has to be in stunt planes. Just imagine dropping 2000 feet straight down just to accelerate up at the last second. And that is the most tamed part!

Drop Zone at PKD.

Let me break this into the times I was most scared on a ride during childhood and as an adult. The two rides that absolutely scared me to death as a child were the Pheonix @ BGT and a zipper at a school fair. I now love Zippers and I think that I could handle an inverting ship, although I've never had a chance to re-ride one.

The Pheonix freaked me out, but I was just tall enough to ride it. Pretty little kid. The restraints pushed down on my chest so hard that they left an imrint of the mesh shirt I was wearing (hey, it was the 80's) for 2 days. So I was also in pain for most of the ride.

When I rode the Zipper I was all alone. And being a little kid in a zipper by yourself is quite an experience. I basically just didn't trust the restraints and I had nobody with me. So I was scared. Now I love those things, but they won't let me ride by myself.

As an adult, I was pretty scared the first time I rode the down side of Power Tower and the first time I rode Drop Zone @ PKI.

But absolutely the scariest 'rides' I've ever taken was skydiving and bungy jumping. Nothing compares.

I'll agree with much of the consensus here. In my modern coaster enthusiasm, the only coaster that has scared me was Millennium Force -- just the sheer magnitude of the ride is astonishing and terrifying.

I too have a thing about drop rides, though. No matter how many I go on, the idea of not knowing when I'm going to fly up/drop down absolutely terrifies me. Good times, though.

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I'll jump in here with the Skycoaster. Any Skycoaster, to the point I don't ride them anymore. My heart just can't take the beating it gets on the trip up.

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So who here has been on a Hi-Miler? It's a wonderful ride, but you think the powers that be each time you get back to the station safely. :)

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This portable Looping Star at the Meadowlands Fair in NJ (non-Schwarzkopf). The harness rattled around like it was about to disconnect from the seat and it wasn't down all the way either. The ride looked like it was in bad shape too.

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CP's Skycoaster, Ripcord, scared me to the pint where I won't ride one again.

But, I was also completely freaked by coasters after my first coaster ride in 1962 when I was 8. Since my re-introduction on Blue Streak in the late 60's, I was scared of Gemini and Magnum on my first rides, but not subesquent rides. Magnum pretty much cured my fear of coasters.

I'm still working on my fear of drop rides. Power tower still scares me, I was shaking on the drop tower at SFGAm, and I have yet to ride the one at Kings Island.

Deja Vu freaked me a little on the pull up the first spike, but nothing like the fear I get on drop rides.

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Zippers are kinda scary because the door always rattles and stuff lol. I love Zippers though, But I never see them around anymore.

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The Kissimmee Skycoaster was easily the most mind numbingly insane experiance ever, I looked to the left and saw Disney, that was a bit frightning. Skyscrapers unerve me and S&S turbo drops unerve me and Intamin Freefalls unerve me but after my 3 hour stint on stuntmans FreeFalll At sfgadv, (don't ask why i didn't get off it will bother some of you) i became imune to the fright aspect of the first gens. My stint ended when it broke, I got a walk down :-)

The scariest ride I have ever ridden was Volcano: The Blast Coaster, I rode it with my cousin and I had no absolute clue that I was going to get launched. Yeah I know, its Volcano, the "Blast" Coaster but I still had no clue. That freaked me out, and I started cursing like crazy. It was also my first upside down coaster. It was fun at the end......

And then another ride that scared the crap out of me was Drop Zone a PKD. I was shaking at the end. I literally could not walk straight and my feet and legs were shaking, but man, what a good ride!

The Beast is also very scary because in that helix, its just like you are going to die.

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Williams Grove Cyclone--no question. Of course also no locking restraints, no correctly made track, no strait lift, no anti rollback, well yeah, that scared me.

Strangely enough Millie and TTD both didn't scare me at all. The skyride at lake C gave me a little scare just coming back down, it drops off so fast.

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"The Fly" at Paramount's Canada's Wonderland. I know it's a wild mouse, but at the time I had never been on one. I didn't realize what happened when you hit the curves up top. Me and my wife were scared to death it was gonna dump us out. Now, I've rode lots of WM coasters since 'The Fly", but I'll always remember that feeling for the first time!

Sky Streak at Boblo in 1973. I was eight and my mom was screaming in terror which didn't help. I didn't ride anything more than mine trains after that until 1976 and Pop goaded me onto Turn-of-the-Century at Marriott's Great America in Gurnee. Maybe I should head to Mexico to face the terror of Sky Streak/Titan again.

Desperado...headchoppers...'nuff said

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Rollercoaster: Deja Vu - my signature says it all! Being 200 feet in the air is scary enough, but being 200 feet in the air and having your feet dangle and facing straight down at the top of one tower and straight up at the top of the other...

Non-coaster: Giant Drop @ SFGAm - I first rode it in its opening year (1997), and even today my goosebumps have goosebumps every time I board it.
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