What's the scariest ride you've ever been on?

Felt like conducting my own little straw poll :) What does everyone think is the scariest ride in the world? My vote goes with Oblivion at Alton Towers (hence the name) :p Has anybody ever looked at a coaster/ride and backed down at the last minute? Does anybody have any good stories of innocent looking rides that have concealed a punch far greater than their appearence suggested?

For me it was X without a doubt. I was comfortably sitting back looking at the park waiting to fall over the lift. The train starts to move faster then BAM you are racing straight down towards the ground. I can't tell you what a relief it was to be inverted upright and knowing I had made it past the first drop.

probably MF. I've heard that the Ripcords are pretty freaky but I haven't gotten around to doing one yet.

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Six Flags, the only chain of parks that can manage to have stacking with a one train operation.

X, without a doubt. I backed out of riding Magnum when i was 8, so i guess that would count. But X is just the scariest experience ever, my arms and legs were shaking, which was either from anticipation or the 40* weather.

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Since Jeff made Track Record a "perk" for CB members i'll just post my count here: Coasters:99 Parks:14

For me, it was Xcelerator! I wasn't scared at all waiting in line, but the launch is so fast that it's FREAKY!!! Going over the top hat was pretty scary too cause you feel like you could just fly out and plummet to your death. I was hanging on for dear life.

Also, my first time on S: TE, i was pretty scared. Don't ask me why, all you do is go up and come down, but 415ft in the air??? I got pretty scared to where I was shaking and I almost backed out.

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Six Flags Marine World.......home to the new "not so vertical anymore" V2!

#1, Slingshot.....#2, not even close....Katanga......#3, Skycoaster.....

Any carny ride. those things are scary.

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Rob

"Some people spend an entire LIFETIME wondering if they made a DIFFERENCE. The MARINES don't have that problem." -President Reagan 1985

I've done three slingshots and everytime i get scared to death.

Python at Efteling, a simple Vekoma loopscrew... but i was 7 years old and it was my first coaster. Never been scared anymore 'till three weeks ago when i did my first Ripcord

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I'm proud of ALL my mayor malfunctions!

The scariest ride I have ever been on is Deja Vu. Just going up the first Vertical spike is scary.

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I am proud to say my homepark has 3 B&M's, soon to be 4, hopefully.;)

Looking at X, when i first drove up and saw it testing, it took an hour to roll my tounge back up. Then i was so scared getting in, i stapled my self and could barly breathe. But now its good!

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Veck
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I would have to say X. Its the only coaster that gave me a lump in my throat.

Not been on X yet, but to this point, Hypersonic XLC. And I thought I was scared on MF!

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~I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket

CC1, the front-row ride on Hypersonic certainly was a scary moment (eternity) waiting to drop down the far side of the tower....it ranked right up there, esp. considering I kept the lapbar a little on the loose side - "nothing wrong with a little airtime"....;).....

Nice to see some other Beck fans out there....Beck Hanson, no relation to the other Hanson, thankfully....:)

Definitely PKI's Eiffel Tower for me. Heights without the individual restraints scare me more than anything else at parks.

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PLEASE READ: This post wasn't meant to offend or anger anyone; I apologize in advance if it does. So please don't post a reply just to rant about it. :)

1st time-Top Gun at PGA

2nd time-Superman:The Escape

3rd time-Titan at Space World

4th time-Katanga

5th time-Steel Dragon:2000

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*** This post was edited by Vertigo on 8/7/2002. ***

1MillenniumForce

2X

3Deja-vu

No coasters really scare me, but thrill rides REALLY scare me sometimes. Drop Zone/Drop Tower rides scare me to no end, and skycoasters are pretty frightening as well. I am just thankful that my friends finally got me on Drop Zone, because I loved it.
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"There's no such thing as a mistake. There's what you do, and what you don't do."

Skycoasters all the way. I was scared to death the first time in Kobe, Japan, but the one at Valleyfair put me over the top. I don't know how Mamoosh could even verbally commit to riding the one at Kissimmee:)
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I think Skycoasters are the scariest to me not, I still haven't ridden one. Power Tower still scares the crap out of me.

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"The opposite of war isn't peace, its creation," Rent.