I love roller coasters. The rides that make you go upside down will make me a bit queasy. I stay off of 'em. I also have a preference for classic wooden roller coasters…they just have a nicer feel.
There is infact a flight and motion simulator that will take you completely upside down. It’s called the M-4… I have been the owner/operator of this ride for over 16 years since it was introduced to the world. We travel the US visiting air shows. If your lucky, you will see us at an airshow near you. This is the BEST Simulator in the US. Universal would kill to get their hands on the technology behind it, which we have safe guarded and patented the design. If you see us some where… mention this post and I’ll give ya a free bee.
I love them, except for the backwards ones. Don’t like not seeing where I am going. But I was thrilled a few years ago when we went to Disney in Cali and my brother was just as fearless as me, and we sat in the front row in every coaster. Most of my life I end up with scaredy-cat people who don’t want to go on any ones…which is fine, but I do kind of wish they had told me BEFORE we went to the amusement park!
I used to, but these days if I want to be in fear and thrown upside down, I’ll go to my dentist.
I went to a carnival a couple of years ago. I went on a ride that’s like like a tilt-a-whirl except I was lying on my stomach. That was about my speed. My companions went on the ferris wheel. There’s no way in hell I’m getting on one of those. (I have a thing about heights.)
As a kid, I could not deal with roller coasters. Now I can appreciate them, to a limited extent, if they’re not extreme. Will not go on anything that turns me upside down.
I get motion sickness just riding in a car on a straight road, so I avoid pretty much all amusement park rides like the plague.
I used to love them, but then once a ride took me the wrong way and I got really sick. Ever since then I don’t seem to be able to tolerate the really good ones like I used to, but I still like a nice tame rollercoaster.
I liked extreme thrill rides a lot when I was younger and skinnier and reckless-er, rode everything Great America and Sandusky, Ohio had to offer. But once I passed the 175 pound mark (I’m quite short), some of the belts got hard to buckle. So I stopped riding them in order to avoid the embarrassment of being told I couldn’t ride. And now that it’s been years since I rode on one, I don’t think I’d like that out-of-control feeling anymore. I think they would make me hurl now.
I’d probably ride a water ride, and waterslides are fun, but that’s it.
I have to take dramamine, but when I do, I love roller coasters. I especially love wooden ones, with The Voyage at Holiday World in Santa Claus, IN being my favorite. I don’t mind the ones that go upside down, but since they are always steel, they don’t feel as out of control and I don’t think they are as thrilling. I don’t care that much for spinning rides, though. I can tolerate them if I have taken the dramamine. I do like freefall and double-shot rides.
If I had others in my family that liked coasters as much as me, I would probably be like Jman, traveling around the country to ride different coasters.
I’ve heard nothing but good from friends that have tried your machine(one thought your P-51 simulation was top notch!). When will you be in Oregon?
Love roller coasters; like Yankee Blue, especially the classics. No problems with up and down, upside down, over and back. No nausea, no vertigo, no fear. What I cannot tolerate is the ones where your head goes side to side left and right, with head restraints so you end up banging your head repeatedly on the side walls. Instant migraine and I am done for the day. Escape from Gotham at Six Flags Astroworld, I’m looking at you.
I just found this coaster simulation. I should send a link to my cousin. We rode that 27 times in one day.
Any KC residents remember it?
I’m 47 years old and have yet to outgrow my love of rollercoasters. Wood, steel, upside-down, backwards, whatever – bring 'em on!
Drop rides, too. The Tower of Terror at Disney? I’ll go on that 4 or 5 times in a row, and laugh harder every time. I can’t explain why, I just can’t get enough.
Simulator-type rides: depends. Good ones can be really fun (the old Star Trek ride in Vegas was great, and I always liked Star Tours at Disney), but some can make me queasy. I think if the visuals and the motion aren’t synched up just right, it messes too much with my equilibrium.
I used to enjoy the spinny rides quite a bit, too. Then about a decade ago my body decided, ugh, I’m done with those. I keep waiting for the same thing to happen with rollercoasters, but so far, thankfully, it hasn’t.
I haven’t been on a roller coaster in over 20 years, so I imagine I have missed a lot of the new tubular steel technology. But I liked coasters when I went to amusement parks. I remember the wood Sea Serpent roller coaster at POP in Santa Monica, and the 1921 wood coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah, and the Giant Dipper wood coaster at Belmont park in San Diego. They were noisy, and they shook a lot, which added to the thrill.
I love the IDEA of roller coasters, the CONCEPT, but due to vertigo I can’t go on them. I can take the old wooden ones that never go upside-down, though not if there’s a lot of zero-gee involved. Even other rides, like the ferris wheels where the cars spin around, I can’t take those either. I wish I weren’t this way, because I truly love the idea of distressing people’s bodies and minds that way.
shudder I’m not a fan of rides. Roller coasters are fun on the sharp turns but the drops hurt my heart and unnerve the bejesus out of me.
I always figured my risk assessment bits were broken. Amusement parks fill me with cold, slick terror but I love kayaking, flying helicopters, and driving like an idiot.
Bingo.
Roller coasters? Bring it on.
Spinning rides like the teacups? No thank you. If I want that sensation I’ll just go and get hammered.
I love all of the amusement park rides except the ones that spin around and around and nothing else. I’m looking at YOU teacup rides!
I hate hate HATE them (although I do like the Rainbow, which I ought to hate, but I think that’s because you always look straight out, never down at your doom.) A couple years ago I went to the fair with my boyfriend and he didn’t know I don’t do the fucking roller coasters and I DEFINITELY do not do the pirate ship. So he begged and pleaded and emotionally blackmailed me to get on the Crazy Mouse, you know, the little kid roller coaster? (Honestly, he thought I’d have fun if I just tried these rides out - he’s not a monster or anything.) Well, on the Crazy Mouse you share a car with some other people, which for us was, like, three seven year olds. Who I terrified absolutely with all my carrying on - I just do not enjoy it and really hate the “getting air” bit where you hit zero g in your stomach.
But then we tried the Rainbow, which I LOVED. So I was emboldened. And volunteered to do the pirate ship. I would have clawed all the skin off his arms only I was holding onto the bar too tight to hold onto him. He honestly, actually thought I was screaming because it was fun and not because I was scared out of my damned mind. So, never again.
I love spinny rides, though - the teacups and Tilt-a-Whirl are my favorites!
ETA - and HELL no no drop rides. Don’t even suggest it.
I love rollercoasters. I like the upside downs, the no floor ones, in pitch black ones, whatever.
But the ones that I am most passionate about are the old-fashioned wooden ones.
I once used vacation time to go to central Pennsylvania to ride the official oldest rollercoaster still operating. It’s called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap-The-Dips Leap the Dips.
I fell in love, and rode it again and again. More or less had to because the rest of the amusement park was such a dump. I wasn’t disappointed though, since the last side-friction rollercoaster up and running was why I came at all.