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  1. August 6th, 2002, 06:17 AM #1
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    I took my son to a theme park (Legoland) last weekend. Now, my son really loves rollercoaster rides, but I can't STAND them .. And where we were, they were very tame. Nothing really scary.

    The best one I came across was Space Mountain in Florida. My son was too small to go on it, but he wants to now he's old enough! Apparently you go upside down in the pitch dark or something....


    What's the scariest rollercoaster you've been on or know of? And can you describe it in terrifying death-defying detail??


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  2. August 6th, 2002, 08:05 AM #2
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    I've only been on a couple of hardcore rollercoasters at the theme park "Wonderland" near Syndey and I don't really find them scary but moreso thrilling. The two rollecoasters there was the "Demon" which has I think 2 loops and a twist and going on it was really cool and travels at a speed of 75kmh (45mph) in backawards motion. Also there is the "Bush Beast" which is suppose to be the largest wooden rollercoaster track in the southern hemisphere and it doesn't contain loops but it's still pretty cool.

    Also here's a non-rollercoaster that would scare the living **** out of people and that's the "Space Probe". This ride you are harnessed in a chair and the probe takes you up 27 stories and you drop at the speed of gravity which is really cool and you decelerate near the bottom at a force of 3gs.

    Also there's another theme park in Sydney called "Lunar Park". Now this park has been closed for years and then re-opened again in recent years. Anyhow my mother told me that back in the early 1970's she went to Lunar Park and went on this rollercoaster ride and it scared the living **** out of her. There was only a steel bar to hold the people in the coaster cars and the ride was really freaky. I'm not sure what this rollercoaster looked like as I've never been to Lunar Park but I guess the safety protection was inadequate seeing there's only a bar to hold people in the cars.

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  3. August 7th, 2002, 01:18 AM #3
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    The Big One in Blackpool, England, was the biggest & meanest of them all until the new champ got erected in southern Germany this year. I forgot the town but am sure to check it out sooner or later. Japan has a killer coaster, according recent tv special this one is the ultimate g force endurance test, worse/better like extremely severe The Dragon in Fuerteventura, Canary islands.

    Those Space Probe / Drop Zone / Space Shot etc rides are my faves, though, there's nothing like being shot up and then plummeting down a 80 meter high pole, screaming your head off almost certain this time something finally goes wrong and there'll be a spectacular disaster and you'll be squashed into pulp.

    An old skool favourite was the Hellhole. I'm sure every country had an incarnation of this device. You got pressed against a circular wall, the thing started to swirl very fast and then the floor dropped down, leaving you pinned and almost puking. To be "safe" the rotation of the ride had to be really fast so customers would not slide down to their deaths. I haven't seen these anymore anywhere so authorities worldwide must have come to their senses.
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  4. August 7th, 2002, 02:04 AM #4
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    Funky and Jussik,

    Thanks!!

    Sounds terrifying (and awful) to me!!! :grin: :grin:



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  5. August 7th, 2002, 01:41 PM #5
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    On 2002-08-06 07:17, jazz_pilgrim wrote:
    The best one I came across was Space Mountain in Florida. My son was too small to go on it, but he wants to now he's old enough! Apparently you go upside down in the pitch dark or something....
    Actually Jazz, Rock 'N' Roller Coaster at the Disney/MGM Studios of Walt Disney World is the coaster where you start out by going from 0 to 65 mph and immediately encounter a 360 degree loop. This coaster is indoors and mostly in the dark. The theme is that you're racing through Hollywood in a limo trying to get to a concert on time.

    Space Mountain (at the Magic Kingdom of WDW) seems scary because you are in the dark, but you only hit speeds of 35 to 40 mphs and there aren't any loops. Just some wild dips that still make you scream! I took my 8 year old nephew on it last year and he said he loved it.

    I love the California Screamin' roller coaster at Disney's California Adventure. It's not the biggest or scariest but it is an extremely smooth ride.
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  6. August 7th, 2002, 02:18 PM #6
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    I spent a day a few weeks ago at Cedar Point on Lake Erie in Ohio, where they have a coaster called the Millennium Force, which they advertise as the fastest and highest in the world. (Although I think I may have read that a newer coaster in Japan is faster and/or taller.) This coaster climbs 310 feet (almost straight up, I swear!) then plunges you back down 300 feet at 93 miles an hour! Easily the most intense ride I've ever been on.

    Yeah, I was scared big time climbing that 310-foot hill, and the drop feels lke you're never going to stop falling. But I couldn't wait to do it again! Although you have no choice but to wait, since you stand in line for an hour to an hour and a half. :sad:

    Luckily there are other several other great coaster-type rides at Cedar Point too (I think Magnum, Mantis and Raptor have all gotten high ratings too) but with the length of some of the lines you better plan on spending the day and on into the night.
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  7. August 7th, 2002, 02:30 PM #7
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    I prefer the "Love Rollercoaster".
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  8. August 7th, 2002, 02:34 PM #8
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    re Cedar Point...i have 2 friends from Ohio who swear by Cedar Point 'coasters....they brought me back the brochure and man o man htey look fun..it's a hike from NYC so i haven't been yet. About 15 years ago i happened to be in Kings Domininon in Virginia, where they have a great coaster that loops -d- loops so u are upside down over cars of people....as soon as i got off i got on line to get back on...
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  9. August 7th, 2002, 02:47 PM #9
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    On 2002-08-07 15:30, markydefad wrote:
    I prefer the "Love Rollercoaster".
    Yeah, Marky. I expected a comment from you after I wrote it was "the most intense ride I've ever been on."

    OK, the most intense ride that did not involve Helen St. John.
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  10. August 7th, 2002, 03:00 PM #10
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    Oh Jeff,

    I thought you wrote Mt. St. Helens!!! LOL!!! Pretty intense pressure ride I'd imagine. And HOT!!! (Could Cory Jay measure up to that???)

    I'm sure everyone is sooooo sick of our little jokes. :lol:
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    On 2002-08-07 16:00, markydefad wrote:


    I'm sure everyone is sooooo sick of our little jokes. :lol:
    dont worry marky being english half the time i dont know what or who youre talking about[cory who??!] the only time i log out is when you start to say "why back in st olaph.........:lol:
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    DD,

    Very apt reference. I guess I am sorta a combination of Betty White's "Rose" on "Golden Girls" ( the fictitious St. Olaf, Minnesota is VERY MUCH the real hick Wisconsin town I'm from) with Bea Arthur's nasty mouth. :lol:

    Cory Jay is a porn star I rather fancy. Jeff has met Mr. Jay on several occasions. So we have some private jokes that sometimes get made public here. We're just amusing each other. Sorry.


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  13. August 8th, 2002, 09:32 AM #13
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    On 2002-08-07 14:41, keefelc wrote:
    I love the California Screamin' roller coaster at Disney's California Adventure. It's not the biggest or scariest but it is an extremely smooth ride.
    I also like this rollercoaster, and I agree about it being a smooth ride. There's also Space Mountain at Disneyland. I like that you ride that one in almost total darkness. I know that there are a lot of "extreme" rollercoasters at Magic Mountain, but I haven't been there in years, and most the newer ones didn't exist when I last went there.
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  14. August 9th, 2002, 10:03 AM #14
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    AOL just happened to have these features on its home page today, so I thought I'd pass the links on to you coaster fans; the top link is for wooden coasters, the bottom one is for steel coasters.

    http://aolsvc.travel.aol.com/travel/..._wcoasters.jsp

    http://aolsvc.travel.aol.com/travel/..._scoasters.jsp
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