Do You Like Rollercoasters?

I would never go on Oblivion for that reason. I need to get over my fear of negative G's cause I love everything else about rollercoasters.

I love coasters, but this has always been my biggest fears (granted this guy was an amputee):

http://news.yahoo.com/army-amputee-thrown-ny-roller-coaster-dies-044044948.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Vy_YzhwHE

holy shit

So, despite my love for coasters, I have mild acrophobia (that ironically, years of riding coasters helped ease), and falling from a coaster is a death I wouldn't want. I have to admit for me, the scariest part of the rollercoaster ride is not the ride itself, but the moment when I'm being strapped in. I'm always afraid of that Bart Simpson "that ain't good" moment, no matter how irrational and even minutely possible it would be for that to happen.

And then I read this article and....

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/07/arlington-police-fire-working-a-fatal-incident-at-six-flags-over-texas.html/

On Facebook, a woman who said she was next in line to ride the Texas Giant wrote that “the lady whose seat I was about to get into on the Giant wasn’t there when the red train came back!! Seriously! People in front row screaming when they came back that their mom was gone. We waited about 50 mins & now kids are freaking out.”

That is not just a tragedy, but a horror story. Fuuuuck.

Holy shit

https://kotaku.com/giga-roller-coaster-fury-325-carowinds-amusement-park-1850601248

Massive crack on Fury 325 at #Carowinds. I emailed the park and they told me, "The park’s maintenance team is conducting a thorough inspection and the ride will remain closed until repairs have been completed." Credit Jeremy Wagner pic.twitter.com/YrP0zhm3kJ

— Kaitlin Wright (@wxkaitlin) July 1, 2023

got really into roller coasters lately :)

anyone else like roller coasters? what are your favorites?

I just rode the “Top Thrill 2” coaster at Cedar Point two days ago. It might’ve been the most scared I’ve ever been in my entire life.

hell yeah!! I got to ride it twice a few weeks ago (though I was cold and grumpy so didn't fully enjoy it as much as I should have). It was excellent, much better than Kingda Ka which I assumed it'd be very similar to. Steel Vengeance still prob my fav coaster of all time tho, and Maverick in the top 5

I like them but don't know much about them and I almost never go to any parks! There's a pretty big theme + water park in my home down, I should try to go there next month.

which one??????

Idk maybe it's not THAT big, but considering when I was little it was just a place where you could hand-feed actual deer in an enclosure and it had, like, 1 teacup ride for kids, it seems big to me now!

miadventure.com

Went to Alton Towers many years ago and while in line for the then-new "Nemesis" we were nervously smoking and reading graffiti on the fencing. Someone had written "My brother died on this and no one will listen."

xp fyi I asked my coaster buds the best rides at Michigan's Adventure and was told:

1. Shivering Timbers
2. Shivering Timbers
3. Shivering Timbers

i only really go to Dollywood these days. my favourites there are Lightning Rod - a very fast, wooden coaster - and Wild Eagle, a coaster where you dangle your feet down.

apparently there's a new one called Big Bear Mountain which is the longest one in the park. Dollywood has really majored on rollercoasters lately - i think there's 9 in total.

dollywood is probably the only theme park i would consent to go to if i was in the area. i like rollercoasters but the whole theme park experience is v heavily NOT WORTH IT for me.