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I will never ride any of those giant drop towers that just lift you up and then drop you. I went on the tower of terror once and that was enough, and that was indoors. Outdoors, no thank you. What won't you ever ride?
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I will NEVER go upside-down on a roller coaster.
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Jul 29, 2022 19:46
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Jack-in-the-Bach posted:I will never ride any of those giant drop towers that just lift you up and then drop you. I went on the tower of terror once and that was enough, and that was indoors. Outdoors, no thank you. Same, but mostly because there was a high-profile case of a cable snapping on one and whipping around some poor girls legs, causing her to lose one of them. Sorry to be a downer!
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Jul 29, 2022 19:58
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Chakan posted:Same, but mostly because there was a high-profile case of a cable snapping on one and whipping around some poor girls legs, causing her to lose one of them. Sorry to be a downer! Oh drat. I'm more afraid of it not stopping, obviously.
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Jul 29, 2022 20:01
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I rode Falcon's Fury at Busch Gardens Tampa while I was down there. It's a ~330ft drop tower, with the gimmick that when the ride car gets to the top, all of the seats lift inward causing you to look straight down at the ground for a solid 10-15 seconds before it drops. I loving hate drop towers but I felt I had to ride it to face my fear. It sucked the entire time and I hated every second of it, but I'm glad I rode it so I could at least say I had done it. I will NOT be riding Falcon's Fury ever again, thank you very much
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Jul 29, 2022 20:01
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Those dumb kiddie rides like dumbo or whatever, that shits boring
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Jul 29, 2022 20:09
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Teacup style rides.
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Jul 29, 2022 20:09
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Edward Mass posted:I will NEVER go upside-down on a roller coaster. this. never got over the fear
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Jul 29, 2022 20:09
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Cyclotrons like Mission to Mars at Epcot. drat thing gave me a nasty headache the one and only time I ever rode it.
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Jul 29, 2022 20:33
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Boogaloo Shrimp posted:Cyclotrons like Mission to Mars at Epcot. drat thing gave me a nasty headache the one and only time I ever rode it. I'll do any ride once, but there's some I won't do again. Mission: Space is one of them. It's a literal centrifuge and I feel like poo poo afterwards. Same for those pendulum rides like Crazanity at Magic Mountain. I feel hosed up for a couple hours after that. That poo poo doesn't bother me on roller coasters though. I love those things. Give me all the G's.
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Jul 29, 2022 20:37
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I went on one of these once and I almost puked: Literally no other ride has ever done that to me, though, including other spinny things that people have trouble with like Mission: Space. Not sure what the deal is.
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Jul 29, 2022 20:38
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Roadie posted:I went on one of these once and I almost puked: What the gently caress is that thing? Do the ride vehicles (cages?) rotate freely and randomly while it goes along the track?
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Jul 29, 2022 20:40
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Any carnival ride. I wouldn't trust them not to fall apart with me on it.
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Jul 29, 2022 20:41
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I used to like the Gravitron as a kid, but at some point in my teenage years they started making me barf, so I stopped riding those.
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Jul 29, 2022 20:46
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Any roller coaster with a pitch black indoor section. I end up clutching my head for dear life, can't handle it at all. My brain is absolutely convinced I'm going to hit my head on something.
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Jul 29, 2022 20:54
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Jose Oquendo posted:What the gently caress is that thing? Do the ride vehicles (cages?) rotate freely and randomly while it goes along the track? It's like a chainsaw that spins https://youtu.be/-8JYmGZgz14
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Jul 29, 2022 20:58
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I fear nothing, but I am now old. Roller coasters, drop rides, etc. are no issue. The one ride that fucks me up is the classic Scrambler, which shows up at basically every amusement park and state fair ever. Something about that ride just causes lunch to exit. All the other classic spin-n-puke carnival rides, like a tilt-a-whirl or tea cups, I can handle okay. Not so for the Scrambler.
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Jul 29, 2022 21:03
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Theme park rides I’ll get on anything. I like spinning rides, upside-down rides, rollercoasters. But the fair rides are another story… The octopus is my nausea nemesis.Jose Valasquez posted:It's like a chainsaw that spins That weird saw thing is the zipper btw. I think it’s so bad because it’s unpredictable exactly when your individual cab will rotate.
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Jul 29, 2022 21:13
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Jose Oquendo posted:I'll do any ride once, but there's some I won't do again. Mission: Space is one of them. It's a literal centrifuge and I feel like poo poo afterwards. Same for those pendulum rides like Crazanity at Magic Mountain. I feel hosed up for a couple hours after that. Same. I’ll give almost anything a go at least once. Not too keen on vertical drop rides but will happily go on any and every roller coaster around. It helps that I live 20 minutes from a major US theme park, so grew up with easy access.
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Jul 29, 2022 21:24
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Those enormous swings where they winch you up to the top of one side look terrifying to me.
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Jul 29, 2022 21:47
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Vertical drop rides, and those roller coasters where you're just going back and forth between two points over and over? hell nah
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Jul 29, 2022 21:51
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The rides a Busch Garden in VA used to be dangerous. There was a pendulum ride but it was not a swing, nor one where you'd go upside down, nor spin and it wasn't a pirate ship. Just a basic one that went back and forth, higher and higher, then over the top. The ride itself was quite old. The safety mechanism to keep you in the seats were over-the-waist seat belts like those you would find on an old airplane or ride. Most of them did not buckle. When they did buckle, none of them could be tightened past the point of someone with a large waist/stomach. They were also difficult to unbuckle because the mechanisms were so old and rusted. The operator would start the ride almost as soon as people were seated, not really caring if their belts were buckled or not, they did no pre-ride check. The belts hardly worked at all, anyway, and when you got air you could slip them.
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Jul 29, 2022 22:01
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I tried something at Paul Bunyan Land in Bemidji, MN, that I will never ride again. This was a long time ago and I’ve never seen it anywhere else, so I’ll have to describe it as best I can: It was a trailerable ride with a huge fan compressor, just like a skydiving simulator. Instead of skydiving, though, it went into a vertical tube with a ball that was almost the same diameter. They would latch you, one person at a time, into the seat in the ball. Then the fan would get turned on and it would repeatedly shoot you up OUT THE TOP. It had a wider part sorta like a funnel to catch you and they could only run it with no wind. Basically ‘Human Cannonball - The Ride’. Never again. Edit: I managed to find a picture! It was called the ‘Space Probe. IIRC the wider part just below the top would extend up; that’s the ‘funnel’ part. It’s attached to doors down low to enclose the tube; when you’re loading that lets the fan spin without picking up the capsule. . 
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Jul 29, 2022 22:02
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I loving hate water rides
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Jul 29, 2022 22:53
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Does it count to say that I will never, ever get on the swinging section of the Ferris Wheel at California Adventure again?
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Jul 29, 2022 23:31
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Freakazoid_ posted:I used to like the Gravitron as a kid, but at some point in my teenage years they started making me barf, so I stopped riding those. I can't imagine what it would feel like now, as an old. Back then I could spin around in a swivel chair indefinitely with no ill effects, now... not so much Roth posted:Does it count to say that I will never, ever get on the swinging section of the Ferris Wheel at California Adventure again?
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Jul 29, 2022 23:35
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I didn't get nauseous, but for me the thing that makes it uncomfortable is that it really doesn't do a good job making you feel safe like every other ride I've been on.
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Jul 29, 2022 23:38
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Gravitron kicked so much rear end as a kid, can't even imagine going on it now.
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Jul 29, 2022 23:41
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I rode this once and that was more than enough https://youtu.be/RLTdt-j-ais Rides where I'm constantly thinking about how I'm completely screwed if the restraints fail bother me. Conceptually I know if the restraints fail on a rollercoaster I'm done as well, but not in such an easily visualized way. Superman at six flags gets me for the same reason
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Jul 29, 2022 23:45
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Oh yeah someone mentioned the pirate ship and I don't think I've ever rode one. As a kid I always saw it linger upside down for too long. Also I've never rode any crappy fair rides, other than a ferris wheel.
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Jul 30, 2022 00:08
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Space Shot at Walibi Holland hurt my shoulders so much that I feel it for the rest of the day. Hating on El Condor(or Vampire if you're Belgian) is pretty much the favorite pastime for any Walibi visitor but as a tall person, I'd pick either of them over having the old S&S shoulder bars try to tear off my arms again. Don't get me wrong, the ride itself is nice and it arguably gives a better view of the park than La Grande Roue but I just physically don't fit inside it properly.
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Jul 30, 2022 00:12
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The Hellhole at Coney Island came apart in '95 and people got thrown out of it and hit with shrapnel and poo poo, we weren't allowed to ride any gravitron type thing after that
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Jul 30, 2022 00:26
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i remember reading about some family's insanely grisly and hideous death on a water 'rafting' ride when one of the dinghies overturned on a section where it gets winched up a hill by submerged machinery. Definitely put me off the whole concept
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Jul 30, 2022 00:29
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Sivart13 posted:when I discovered the Gravitron as a youth I wanted to do it over and over and over and over again The Gravitron is pretty boring ... unless it's mostly empty and the carny running it doesn't care. Little me got a kick out of climbing across the moving seats. Jack-in-the-Bach posted:Oh yeah someone mentioned the pirate ship and I don't think I've ever rode one. As a kid I always saw it linger upside down for too long. Got on one of those once a long time ago where no one was checking height requirement too closely and went right to the end section. Of course, the lapbar didn't come down tightly so the next few minutes were white knuckle terror trying to hold on to that bar without slipping out. Those long upside down pauses were the worst. It was a few years before I got back on that ride. e: Content - roller coasters might be fast, but at least there's something securing you in place. Beware water slides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verr%C3%BCckt quote:The 2018 indictment against Schlitterbahn wrote that Henry and Schooley "lacked technical expertise to design a properly functioning water slide" and did not perform standard engineering procedures or calculations on how the slide would operate. Instead they used "crude trial-and-error methods" to test its performance, out of haste to launch the ride. According to court documents, Schooley conceded that, "If we actually knew how to do this, and it could be done that easily, it wouldn't be that spectacular." AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Jul 30, 2022 |
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Jul 30, 2022 00:38
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El Loco here in vegas launched a lady out of her seat and maimed her and its still running i will never ride that monstrosity
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Jul 30, 2022 00:40
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I like thrill rides. I like going upside down, I like centrifuges, I like drop towers. They're fun. I rode Zumanjaro once. Once. Never again. The drop is actually quite fun! Being winched up as you slowly go higher... and higher... and higher... and higher, until you're so high up you can literally see the Philly skyline? Not worth the drop.
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Jul 30, 2022 00:41
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Roth posted:Does it count to say that I will never, ever get on the swinging section of the Ferris Wheel at California Adventure again? Oh yeah my wife and I thought it'd be a gentle, breezy swing but instead it's like an annoying little roller coaster The barf bags were ominous FWIW she'll never do the Goofy sky school ride because the perspective tricks made her feel like she'd be decapitated at any minute
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Jul 30, 2022 00:44
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i've never ridden a drop tower and i don't think i ever will. i'd need a full tour from the engineer who designed it of all safety features to even think about it
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Jul 30, 2022 03:46
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:i've never ridden a drop tower and i don't think i ever will. i'd need a full tour from the engineer who designed it of all safety features to even think about it if you wanna knock your fear of heights out in one go the big shot at The Strat in vegas is a great place to start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59caVJuXRZk
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Ramases Revenge at Chessington World Of Adventures is/was a big spinny thing, and probably the best ride in an otherwise very tame park. Unfortunately, when I was a kid, I saw one of the handles that riders were meant to hold fall off, so gently caress that.
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