Scary/Awesome Russian Amusement Park Ride

That seems like a fairly slow version of rides I’ve seen, and been on, at various fairgrounds in the UK. With added really bad music!

Actually, that looks more like a training film for passengers who will someday have to fly Aeroflot (the Russian Airline).

I think I’ve been on that… Valleyfair? With a fountain under that splashes you

Who needs the fountain – you’d be splashed with vomit while riding that thing?

Give me the old-fashioned wooden coasters.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen one of those rides elsewhere, though I don’t remember where, nor do I even remember if it was in real life or in a video.

There was an earlier model in the Seattle Center that did all the flipping, but without the bending arms. I sure recall it being faster than this.

Oh hella hell to the no!

The bending arms make this ride much more awesome than the old version, but there’s no way I’d ride it. I can’t stand rides that hang upside down. If I’m upside down, centrifugal forces need to be pushing me into the seat.

I watched the first rotation and knew my answer was no. But some of the later stuff looks like fun…

I’m fairly certain I’d puke all over myself, my neighbors, and anyone on the ground. And then go catatonic from fear.

So no…

Who need waterboarding when we have this?

At first I thought no way, but it didn’t move that fast so I’d do it.
I’d puke on everyone downhill from me.

Barf-O-Rama !

I’m in.

Maybe if it had AC/DC cranking in the background and I hadn’t eaten in the past 12 hours…

I’ll be the first to complain. Am I the only one who gets irritated that people post vidoes where nothing happens for the first 25 seconds? Don’t the websites allow you to crop these things?

Why, yes, I am one of the hyper-entertained hopelessly ADD generation.

Hey, that’s the buildup! The ride is the release! Plus that awesome Russian band Nyet is playing in the background the whole time.

I’d ride it if there were a way to guarantee I wouldn’t get puked on.

Oh, I’d ride the *hell *out of that.

  1. Well, as others have said, the slow speed means you’re not held in your seat by centrifugal force. You just dangle there. That’s freaky. But maybe have it suddenly speed way up at some point, just when people are getting used to the pace. Yeah, I’m liking that.

  2. Totally disagree. If I hadn’t seen this comment, I would have thought exactly the same thing:

And as I watched it, I was thinking, that part probably doesn’t feel half as scary as it looks, unless, of course, you’ve already seen that horribly wrong-looking moment while waiting in line, and you’re just biding your time, waiting for it to happen to you. Ideally, I think, the line should be oriented so you only get a chance to see it operate once before you ride, so you don’t get used to it.

But this? Genius. Especially if they act like everything is normal right up until that one arm drops…

Sure, you say that now. :stuck_out_tongue:

My inner ear doesn’t like me so well anymore and I can’t handle that quantity of spinning, but I’d have ridden it in a heartbeat when I was 17 or so. Whoever designed that thing did an amazing job.

Me too, and I hate roller coasters. That thing just looks too wild to NOT try.