Roller Coasters

[Pike]

Are great.

Tilt-a-Whirl is my favorite non-roller-coaster ride, though.

Where are my amusement park ride junkies at :cool:

[Pike]

Oooh we have something similar to that, I think it's called Gravitron? "Finnish Fling" is a much better name.

[Sephex]

I love roller coasters, but I hate it when the gravitational forces gives me that weird elevator feeling in my balls.

Having said that, Six Flags Great America is a fun place.

[Fonzie]

The Houston roller coasters got turned into a parking lot when I was twelve. :(

[Yar]

Cedar Point is in my backyard, so I love coasters!

[Freya]

The first roller coaster I ever rode was with My Little Pokey at Cedar Point! We rode tons! I loved them :D

[GhandiOwnsYou]

I had both Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Kings Dominion within 45 minutes of my house. It was pretty awesome to be a coaster buff where I'm from. My favorite memories were the laps we'd run on older rides on slow, bad weather tuesdays. The whole park would be empty and we'd just stay in the same seats on The Grizzly, an old wooden coaster that's kinda away from the main drag at Kings Dominion. We made it 15 times in a row one day without leaving our seats. We also had a full loop swinging ship ride, they called it the Beserker. It was right by the exit and rarely had a line, so we used to each each an ice cream cone and smash a funnel cake, then ride it over and over to see who puked first.

[Bubba]

Here in the UK, Alton Towers has some pretty awesome rides. It's only about 90 minutes drive from my house as well.

If we're talking very local then the park down the road has some pretty awesome spring horses...

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[Parker]

i am too much of a wimp for roller coasters... i can't even handle the spring horses without getting queasy

[Peegee]

Rollercoaster....of love
Rollercoaster ooh wee wee wee

I lub me some coasters! Thanks for the date idea piku <3

[NorthernChaosGod]

Six Flags Magic Mountain is pretty much the best thing ever. I love the new roller coasters they've built in the last few years.

[Peegee]

Six Flags Magic Mountain is pretty much the best thing ever. I love the new roller coasters they've built in the last few years.

can I go when i visit?

[Sephex]

Did anyone else get thrown off by Parker posting right after Bubbaforever? Then again I suppose the way their avatars work off each other makes sense for this kind of thread.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Six Flags Magic Mountain is pretty much the best thing ever. I love the new roller coasters they've built in the last few years.

can I go when i visit?

It's required.

[Bubba]

Did anyone else get thrown off by Parker posting right after Bubbaforever? Then again I suppose the way their avatars work off each other makes sense for this kind of thread.

I would change my Avatar but I'm too attached to the awesome Sig that Kaiserdragon designed for me.

[Old Manus]

Rollercoaster 1 has broken down

You just heard the little beep

[Peegee]

Six Flags Magic Mountain is pretty much the best thing ever. I love the new roller coasters they've built in the last few years.

can I go when i visit?

It's required.

It's still opened? It's rather late in the year n___n

if it's open we're going. I'll even pay for rubahs (but not you - you're a man and make 133% more money than every other woman combined)

[NorthernChaosGod]

I know they're still open weekends in December, so maybe they'll be open November too.

[Jinx]

I know they're still open weekends in December, so maybe they'll be open November too.

california lol

[NorthernChaosGod]

Why is that lol? :colbert:

[Fuzakeru]

I'm supposed to go conquer my fear of roller coasters this year sometime. I'm not looking forward to it. I live in Atlanta now and Six Flags is ridiculously close by.

[fire_of_avalon]

Fuza,Six Flags in GA is a blast! I hope you really enjoy yourself when you go.

As for me, I love roller coasters. Except Nighthawk, at Carowinds. I've NEVER thought I was in any real danger on a coaster before that ride.

Basically it starts as a standing ride. You kind of straddle the little bicycle seat thing and then put this really loose vest on - it's connected to the back of the seat. So it's kind of like a harness. After that this plastic t-shaped thing comes up and it locks in across your hips.

Dead center, where short arms can't reach, on that plastic thing is a knob. That is the only handhold on the entire ride.

So once you're secure, the ride begins. By laying you flat on your back. then you go up the standard roller coaster hill. But at the top... at the top the track twists 180 degrees. And you're staring at the ground.

And then I screamed for 45 seconds straight. The looseness of the vest is what does it. I tried to curl in a ball and get as much of my mass behind that hip harness as possible. Scared the shit out of me. ME.

And now that I think on it more, I wanna go again. xD

[Shlup]

I had an annual pass to Six Flags Magic Mountain for three years. X-2 and Tatsu are crazy goddamn coasters. The first time I rode Tatsu (my favorite coaster), I was laughing and almost crying for my life at the same time. That ride is nuts.

[NorthernChaosGod]

foa, that sounds really similar to Tatsu at Magic Mountain. I fucking love that roller coast.

[fire_of_avalon]

taking a look at the rides, they do seem very similar. It seems like one might be in a seated position on Tatsu? At any rate scare the shit out of foa time.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Yeah, you're seated, but it doesn't help much when you're flipped and spun around a lot over the course of the ride. :excited:

[sharkythesharkdogg]

There's this ride at the amusement park where I live called Finnish Fling.

I thought Rantz was from Sweden. :jess:

[Jinx]

There's this ride at the amusement park where I live called Finnish Fling.

I thought Rantz was from Sweden. :jess:

stfu sharky

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[Sephex]

Why is that lol? :colbert:

The "lol" in this case does not stand for "laugh out loud." I imagine it is a crude text drawing of a guy raising his hands as he goes down a big drop on a roller coaster.

WEEEE
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lol

[Chris]

The oldest amusement park in the entire world, happens to be no more than an hour away from my home.

Dyrehavsbakken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyrehavsbakken)

One of the oldest coasters in the world and incluced on American Coaster Enthusiasts list of legendary coasters.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5256/5508698676_783cfddcc2.jpg

[leader of mortals]

I went to Cedar Point as a Physics trip in High School, and I had a lot of fun. Really, the only major roller coaster I went on was the Magnum. The problem was, I had to take off my glasses. I had 20/400 vision without my glasses at that time, and my glasses were in another friend's bookbag. I did not see that the Magnum went up so high in the air, nor did I realize that I would be going so fast. I was told of how high it went, when I was on my way up to the top. I screamed. Loud. Then I went on it another 3 times in a row.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

There's this ride at the amusement park where I live called Finnish Fling.

I thought Rantz was from Sweden. :jess:

stfu sharky

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:kakapo:

[Araciel]

BAH I hate 'em... Just when I get comfortable, we start moving around too fast. Too scary for me.

[Peegee]

BAH I hate 'em... Just when I get comfortable, we start moving around too fast. Too scary for me.

awe

[~*~Celes~*~]

I LOVE ROLLERCOASTERS SO MUCH! The Magnum at Cedar Point was my first major roller coaster. Unfortunately, when I go this summer, no rollercoasters for me :(

[Laddy]

Roller coasters kick ass!