Still afraid of some coasters?

if you get in line and the wait is long, you have been standing there so you might as well ride it. otherwise youu just wasted a lot of time.

this solved my magnum phobia and now it is my favorite!!!!

Last time I was scared of a coaster was before riding MF. I usually never get scared before a coaster, just before drop rides. They just freak me out, though I'm making myself go on Supreme Scream in few weeks.

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Steel: 1)MF, 2)Goliath, 3)Magnum
Wood: 1)Villain, 2)Beast, 3)Roar(SFMW)

The top most 3 scary roller coaster moments in the last year

1. Millenium Force- filrst time i rode it scared the crap out of me

2. Superman Ultiment Escape- Front Car second time up the front spike. I still think I'm gonna fly off the top.

3. Raging Wolf Bobs- I was in the last car the last ride of the night on Fright Fest. Pitch Black. I hit the hill after the first turn around and flew out of my car. grabed on for dear life. Scared the **** out of me.

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usually i get slightly nervous before certain rides. for instance my ride on hypersonic today was the first since last september, so i got a little nervous on that one, but volcano didnt bother me a bit.

if i forget how a certain coaster feels over a period of time, going back to it makes me a little nervous, but not really scared. unless its something completely different, i can ride it with ease.

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#1-MF #2-S:RoS #3-WT

I'm usually not afraid of coasters but when I was in line for Millennium Force, I started to freak out. When I was going up the lift, I was like having a heart attack. It was fun from then on though. I still freak out every time I am at the top of the lift though. I rode Top Gun at PCW this weekend and was scared, and rightly so. This was my 70th coaster and one of the worst. It is the most head banging experience ever for me! Serial Thriller at SFWOA and Mind Eraser at SFNE are much smoother. I waited over an hour for pure pain! I don't get scared that often but when ever I am about to drop, I still get butterflies. Almost forgot, I was scared on a night ride of Big Dipper at SFWOA, the air on that ride is so intense that I was standing. Fun ride though.

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Hypersonic only (well, and skycoasters! - drop towers and hypers are easy). Not even a great ride IMO, but every time we round the turn and just inch towards the tower it is crazy. Plus, the yellow drag lights take forever, and I can never tell when it will launch.

Add me to the "scared of heights but not afraid of tall roller coasters" category. 200-300 foot first hills? No problem. Lean over an 8 story building and look down? EEEEEEK.

Millennium Force is the only coaster I've ridden in the last ten years that REALLY got me worked up. I guess it was the mental thing of a 300-foot coaster or something. I haven't had butterfiles in my stomach like that since I was a kid that was terrified of coasters.

Since I only got one ride on MF last summer, I'm curious as to how I'll react this summer when I get to CP.

I'd also have to add Batwing @ SFA to this.... not because of the height, but because of the restraint system. I know it's perfectly safe, but there was something about riding a coaster where I'm constantly pushing on the restraints that kinda freaked me out a couple times.

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Another here in the "afraid of heights but not tall coasters". I can go one better than TiggerMan... I can take any height of coaster, but I can't even stand on top of a two-step step stool with out getting dizzy!

I will also second TiggerMan's thoughts on BatWing. It isn't the height but the fact that my entire weight is pressing against a restraint. There is something I have against the thought of the restraints being all that hold me into a coaster train. On a normal coaster train, except for air time, you will have gravity and the restraints holding you in (i.e. gravity will keep your butt in the seat unless you are doing some weird element that will throw you out). On Batwing you have the restraints holding you in, but gravity working against the restraints as it tries to pull you out and slam you into the ground. Its the same reason why I try to avoid Power Surge rides.

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Kind of hard to take a post as objective if a park or coaster name is part of the "user name"

Last night I was at PKI riding front seat last ride of the night Beast. It was running INSANE mode. I felt like the train was just gonna explode goin down into the turn before the second lift.

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Raging Bull. The frist time I rode it it was my first coaster over 200 feet. When we were going up the lift hill I was mummering "... i'm not going to die i'm not going to die... "

I was so scared now I'm not so scared. But my first Flyer could be a differnt story...

Ok...I take that back. The Hi-Miler scares the hell out of me: The shopping cart wheels, ultratight turns and airtime inside a cramped little car, and rickety structure. I keep having premonitions of meeting the parking lot up close and personal.

Still love it though!

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"If the beats were made of meat then they would have to be me ..." - L.L. Cool J

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The Hi-Miler... Theres nothing like riding a coaster that is about to fall apart. ;)

I was afraid of some coasters for a long time, but I have progressed to the point that I will ride any coaster.

I would be nervous before riding an Intamin Giant Drop, particularly Acrophobia. I am used to Supreme Scream and Maliboomer, but those I think have a different sensation.

The only rides i'm scared of are Giant Drop rides like S&S towers and Intamin Giant Drops. I ride them and being scared adds to it like alot of other people have said.

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Top 5 coasters
1)Beast
2)Millennium Force
3)Magnum XL 200
4)Raptor
5)Legend

I remember being pretty scared of Maggie.....seems pretty silly now, but it WAS my first hyper.....now even Millie doesn't really "get" me like it should....

But I'll have to agree with Raven....and add in Cornball.....there's something viscerally frightening about that air in IN....;)....then again, maybe it's just being THROWN from the train that scares me.....

bill, clicking his heels 3x, "I wanna go to Indiana...I wanna go to Indiana..."

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I am not afraid of coasters, but am afraid of heights and some drop and flat rides. a couple of weeks ago when I was at PKD and we went to the top of the Eiffel Tower I was SCARED. I did not get near the edge!

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Top 5 steel: 1)S:UF, 2)S:ROS(SFA), 3)Alpen.BGW) 4)AC(BGW)5)Hypersonic; wood 1)Rampage, 2)Roar SFA, 3)Grizzly PKD, 4)G Cyclone SFOG, 5)Wild One SFA
CCI 1992-2002, 36 rides.

Count me in on being one of the ones who was scared of riding MF. I knew I was going to ride it but I was really scared. I don't really even know why either. I was only scared until we go out of the first overbanked turn though. Then I was thining "This is the best damn ride I've ever been on!"

The first time I rode Millennium, going up the hill I thought "What the heck did I get myself into." I think that the fact that there are no steps on the side of the lift hill adds to the fear.

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The worst day at Cedar Point is better than the best day at work.

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I'm not afraid of any coaster. I'll ride anything out there. The only thing I'm nervous about are Skycoasters, ripcords ext....

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Valleyfair Security 2002! 4years Security :). 8Years working at Valleyfair :)! "As everyone says got to get to Cedar Point and ride it"

I have ridden MF plenty of times but every time i go back to ride i get butterflies as though i have never ridden this ride before.

I feel a little nervous when I'm about to get on the MF'er. Especially in the front seat.

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