What's your most and least favorite amusement park ride?

In My Humble Opinion
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And by this I mean any ride, from high-tech multimillion dollar coasters to the rink-a-dink local fair “hold-my-cotton-candy-while-I-hop-on-this thing” kind of rides.

My favorites:
The Witches’ Wheel - the one that takes you in a big vertical circle so you’re upside down half the time.
The Double Ferris Wheel
The Pirate Ship
The Himalaya
This crazy semi-newish fair ride (can’t remember the name)that looks like a section of bleachers held on both sides by huge arms that take the whole thing up holds you upside down for a few seconds and spins it around so you go head over heels. Took me a while to work up the nerve to get on it!
Any roller coaster with a corkscrew, especially Alpengeist at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg. Whaaarrgggh! :eek:
The Free Fall at Gröna Lund in Stockholm. It’s one of those that takes you way, waaaay up and drops you. Takes three minutes to go up and three seconds to get down. During the 80 meter climb to the top, you’re treated to an aerial view of one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Definitely worth the hour long wait (and R-n-R hates waiting!)

Least favorite:
The Zipper (puke-inducing - BAD!)
Anything that uses g-forces to pin your back to a wall, like those indoor flying-saucer-looking ones, or the one that takes you in a horizontal circle and the bottom drops out. Ooh, my neck!
The Octopus (dangerous. It doesn’t take much to make one of those arms snap. Don’t believe me? Ask any carnie, they’ll be glad to tell you their pet horror stories!)

So list yours and tell any good stories you have to go with them if you got one! I love crazy ride stories, me…
Cheers,
R-n-R

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Well, a new must to ride is the Millenium Force at Cedar Point. It’s tres sheik!!! I had my hands up the entire time and screamed my head off it was so good. But the one you absolutely don’t want to ride is the corkscrew…unless you don’t want you neck to be killing you for a month or two.

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I my gut of steel, has quickly turned into the queas-o-matic.

I’m still big on roller coasters… but anything that turns me upside down for longer than the quick seconds that a good coaster takes you… vomit city. ick. :stuck_out_tongue:

The only ride that used to make it through my gut o’steel was… believe it or not… the Tilt o’ Whirl. I don’t know why, but that thing did it to me every time. I can’t even watch it in action.

Rides I love…
I like the Octopus… much fun
That Viking ship thingy that swings back and forth
the one that spins around… and then lifts up, so you’re stuck to the wall… (similar to Gravitron), but then you go spinning way high above the ground

Sorry I don’t know the names.

Screeme

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I like big, old-fashioned wooden roller coasters. The bigger and faster the better. Do NOT get me on a ferris wheel, tho…unless you want to see what I had for lunch.

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Any and all. Bring’em all on. Woo Hoo

Roller Coasters, Gravitron, Tilt-a-Whirl, you name it i’ve been on it and loved it.
I actually talked an operator into letting me stand on my hands in one of those g-force rides that the bottom drops out of, can’t remember the exact name. Nuttin like being stuck to the wall upside-down looking down when the bottom drops out. Talk about a wild ride :smiley:

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You mean there are other rids besides roller coasters?!?

Yer pal,
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Since I have probably been on Disney rides more than one person ever should be, I will end up picking all of mine from there. I’ll count pretty much anything there as a ride, even if there isn’t much riding.

Faves

  1. Haunted Mansion
  2. Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
  3. Space Mountain
  4. Test Track
  5. Muppetvision 3D

Least favorite

  1. This list begins and ends with It’s a Small World. It could only be more evil if that infernal song was voiced by Britney Spears.
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least fav - any spin-an-puke rides
most fav - waterslides & alpine slides and rides which I can have some control

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Rock-n-Rolga,
The Double Ferris Wheel= I love that too! I haven’t seen it anywhere in years though.

More fav’s:
Raptor at Cedar Point
Mind Eraser

The only one I hate and won’t go on is the Zipper. Wow, that was a horrifying experience. I was screaming the whole time.

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I love the coaster. If you get the chance, go to Kings Dominion in Northern Virginia. They must have 7 or 8 coasters. With a 50-50 split between wood and metal. The Anaconda – Big metal coaster, lots of upside down, through a tunnel (under water) what a gas. They have one where you hang from he bottom, a double coaster. Great park. On the bad side, the Octopus. My first and only experience was when I was 10, I screamed, cried, got sick. My dad made the carnie stop the ride to let me off. I have never been back on one.

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Favorite: The Flip Side, at Six Flags. You sit with your feet hanging free, upside down, flipping around, it’s the best. I love taking my shoes off and letting my toes flap in the breeze. I rode it 17 times last time I went.

I also enjoy the any roller coaster, unless it’s wood. They just don’t look safe to me!

Least: The GRAVITRON. Makes me puke. Also, the Tower of Doom at Six Flags. You ride straight up 200 feet and then fall. While waiting in line I heard a story about a girl whose hair got stuck so that she was scalped. Add that to the free fall, and eeeeesh. I was off the ride and puking in a bush before my friends realized we had landed.

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I was once lured onto the Zipper. It was horrible.
I quite seriously thought I was going to die.

The scariest ride I can handle is the Tilt-A-Whirl.
Love it. It does make me queasy, but I never feel like I’m about to get mangled.

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Motorgirl *
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Not only was it a terrifying machine, it was at one of those fly-by-night carnivals that sprout up in mall parking lots. The Tilt-A-Whirl probably wasn’t even safe at this place!

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Favorite: The Merry-Go-Round. Need you ask? I sit there sidesaddle, reaching for the Brass Ring, while my straw-hatted beaus are off buying me flavored ices or saving me a seat for the band concert.

Least Favorite: The Felcher. It’s dark, scary, and you get wet.

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I totally agree!! :slight_smile: The Millenium Force is a bad devil. I’ve ridden it four times and it’s still cool. I will always live the Gemini (also at CP, twin racing wooden coaster, very cool.) Actually, I love all roller coasters EXCEPT the Mean Streak. It’s just waaaay too rough.

I also love the Gravitron, espically when they let you climb the walls after the floor falls out. I also loved The Power Tower, both up and down.

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Feh. Child’s play. Cedar Point, in Sandusky, OH, has 14 coasters, including:

Millennium Force, mentioned above by CarmenLucia. It just opened this year, and we moved from Cleveland June 10, so I haven’t had a chance to ride it, but it has an initial drop in excess of 300 ft.

the Blue Streak, a great old woodern coaster. Lots and lots of hills and dips here.

Magnum XL-200, a terrific steel coaster including an initial drop of 205 ft. First coaster to break 200.

Gemini, a two-track wooden racing coaster. The ride is 2 minutes, 20 seconds, pretty long by most standards.

Iron Dragon, a suspended coaster with some terrific twists.

Corkscrew, built in 1976, the first ride ever with a 360-degree vertical loop and two helical curves.

Mantis, a standing coaster with a 2 minute, 40 second ride and 4 complete inversions including a vertical loop.

Mean Streak, one of the greatest wooden coasters I’ve ever ridden.

My least favorite ride, by the way, is the Ferris Wheel. I’m not afraid of heights, I just don’t care for it.

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I never really liked the old wooden rollercoasters (i.e. Colossus, Cyclone, etc) cuz they gave me a sort of “unsafe” feeling. However, the more sleek and not-so-wooden rollercoasters I can dig (i.e. Viper, Batman, et al).

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First off: Kings Dominion is not in Northern Virginia; it’s only about 1/2 hour from Richmond. That said…

I love the Hurler there…it’s not big, no inversions, but it never slows down. Madly fun.

Anaconda is good, too.

Still want to go on Volcano, and I have to make it out to Busch Gardens some time soon; it’s been over ten years.

I liked the Magnum at Cedar Point too…rode it the first year it was open. The Blue Streak is a fun older one, especially if your seatmate is about 200 pounds heavier than you, so the lap bar doesn’t go all the way down and you fly out of the seat on all the the bunny hops near the end.

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Great America in Ill. had a ride called “The Edge”. It kicked ass! But some people got hurt on it and they tore it down! :frowning:

My son & I went on a ride at Summerfest in Milwaukee, 2 weeks ago. I think it was called the “Starburst”. It looked like a real puke inducer. But It was a punk! It didn’t even make us dizzy! Cost $3.50 apiece to ride it too!

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Favorite Ride; Bumper cars, why? Cause I can work out a few of those agressions without getting my automotive insurance involved.

Roller Coaster; The Beast, it is long, fast, and gives you a thrill everytime.
Least liked ride; fast spinning rides, only good if you want to see just how far you can spread your puke with a single heave.