Worlds Best Thrill Ride?
20 March 2006, 08:19 PM
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Worlds Best Thrill Ride?
After reading the Euro Disney question on this page i got a new topic!
What Is the best ride/ rollercoaster anyone has been on??
Mine is this.....The Incredible HULK coaster in Universal Islands Of Adventure in Orlando!!
What Is the best ride/ rollercoaster anyone has been on??
Mine is this.....The Incredible HULK coaster in Universal Islands Of Adventure in Orlando!!
20 March 2006, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Gutmann pug
Hulk was good ..... Bush gardens have better ones though.
This one hangs you upsidedown for 5 secs before it lets you drop.....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...5/DSCF0167.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...5/DSCF0221.jpg
old school
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...5/DSCF0220.jpg
and the hulk again
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...5/DSCF1364.jpg
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This one hangs you upsidedown for 5 secs before it lets you drop.....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...5/DSCF0167.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...5/DSCF0221.jpg
old school
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...5/DSCF0220.jpg
and the hulk again
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...5/DSCF1364.jpg
Gary
Oh bu99er, going there in July
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20 March 2006, 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Nat21
New ride opening at Thorpe Park this year is also gonna be good. 200ft straight up and 0-80mph launch in 2.5 seconds i think.
20 March 2006, 08:58 PM
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WHHAAAAAAT!!!!!!! How couldyou hate Kraken??
That was almost on par with the Hulk!!
Thought the 1st drop was ace!!
That was almost on par with the Hulk!!
Thought the 1st drop was ace!!
20 March 2006, 09:27 PM
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The best I've ever been on, at IMHO the best roller coaster place in the world - is Millenium Force at Cedar Point, Ohio. At the time, 310 feet and 93mph was the biggest and fastest about. Seriously cool in the very back row on a 10pm night ride with everything lit up, just finished in time for the firework and laser show.
Admittedly, I think the best ride of the day was this one, if you count things that aren't roller coasters. Even got given a free video of the thing as we were English and I gave the guy taking the video some tips about walking the West Highland Way.
Of course, nothing stands still, and they've now gone to a 420 foot tall, 120mph launched vertical coaster at the same place.
Admittedly, I think the best ride of the day was this one, if you count things that aren't roller coasters. Even got given a free video of the thing as we were English and I gave the guy taking the video some tips about walking the West Highland Way.
Of course, nothing stands still, and they've now gone to a 420 foot tall, 120mph launched vertical coaster at the same place.
20 March 2006, 10:06 PM
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This looks pretty good though. (Actually faster and taller than the one at Cedar Point mentioned above)
http://www.sixflags.com/parks/greata.../KingdaKa.html
http://www.sixflags.com/parks/greata.../KingdaKa.html
20 March 2006, 10:16 PM
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Nat 21
http://stealth.thorpepark.com/
Opened for special guests last week. I vaguely know one of the crew who filmed an ad for it. He says he thought his face was about to split on launch
http://stealth.thorpepark.com/
Opened for special guests last week. I vaguely know one of the crew who filmed an ad for it. He says he thought his face was about to split on launch
20 March 2006, 10:19 PM
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Yep - looks good. Give it a year or two, someone will have made one that's 500' and 140mph, though . . . .
I'll stand by my opinion that Cedar Point is the best park in the world for Roller Coasters, when you add up everything that is there, but Six Flags looks like it is closing fast and there's a few biggies in Japan now as well, I believe.
I'll stand by my opinion that Cedar Point is the best park in the world for Roller Coasters, when you add up everything that is there, but Six Flags looks like it is closing fast and there's a few biggies in Japan now as well, I believe.
20 March 2006, 10:43 PM
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Possibly the scariest ride ever, Looks like the oblivion design found its way onto the desk of a sadist. 
It's currently not operating, deemed too extreme!!
90 degree drop. NO OVERHEAD RESTRAINTS!! Just lap bars?
Are you man/woman enough??
Ladies and gents: Tower of Terror!
http://www.rcdb.com/ig1481.htm
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It's currently not operating, deemed too extreme!!
90 degree drop. NO OVERHEAD RESTRAINTS!! Just lap bars?
Are you man/woman enough??
Ladies and gents: Tower of Terror!
http://www.rcdb.com/ig1481.htm
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20 March 2006, 10:50 PM
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Last big one I went on was Kumba and Montu in Busch Gardens, actually Kumba 7 times in a row as it wasn't busy
Don't really cut it against the latest coasters now though!
Want to go to Cedar Point at some point.
Don't really cut it against the latest coasters now though!
Want to go to Cedar Point at some point.
20 March 2006, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by SlimJ_2005
Want to go to Cedar Point at some point.
didn't get back until at 3am, and was working at 7am on the Monday, but it was so worth it.
21 March 2006, 05:15 AM
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Busch Gardens in Tampa is the best theme park I have been to! Have been three times, and it's constantly being developed, aim to go this year for the first time since 2000.
I did the stratosphere rides last November, awesome, although I wouldn't do the one that tilts you over the edge in a single rollercoaster car, and you just stare down 1450 feet to the ground.
The seatbelt was about half an inch too short (seatbelts fault, not my GIRTH!!!!!), the lap bar fitted fine, but the belt wouldn't quite connect, so this young student part-timer was leaning on it telling me to shift here and there, trying to force it.
I told him not to worry, I'd skip it, and he says not to worry, he'll get it. You feckin' won't, mate, you expect me to hang 1450 feet in the air with a bodged restraint? Open it now! At that point my wife bottled it too, but my mate was sat at the very front and seemed to enjoy it....... I think!
I have heard similar to what HANES says. Some of the biggest rides are not in the places a British tourist would venture, some form of an unpublicised secret over here!
I did the stratosphere rides last November, awesome, although I wouldn't do the one that tilts you over the edge in a single rollercoaster car, and you just stare down 1450 feet to the ground.
The seatbelt was about half an inch too short (seatbelts fault, not my GIRTH!!!!!), the lap bar fitted fine, but the belt wouldn't quite connect, so this young student part-timer was leaning on it telling me to shift here and there, trying to force it.
I told him not to worry, I'd skip it, and he says not to worry, he'll get it. You feckin' won't, mate, you expect me to hang 1450 feet in the air with a bodged restraint? Open it now! At that point my wife bottled it too, but my mate was sat at the very front and seemed to enjoy it....... I think!
I have heard similar to what HANES says. Some of the biggest rides are not in the places a British tourist would venture, some form of an unpublicised secret over here!
21 March 2006, 08:17 AM
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Great Yarmouth pleasure beach - Old Wooden coaster with brake men on the cars.
Especially "thrilling" when you come round a blind corner and a brake man is standing at the edge waving our breakman to slow down as around the corner his car was stuck.
Smashing into the back of said car and having to walk down - that was "thrilling".
They don't make them like they used to.
ps Orlando in October - first time for 10 years
Especially "thrilling" when you come round a blind corner and a brake man is standing at the edge waving our breakman to slow down as around the corner his car was stuck
.Smashing into the back of said car and having to walk down - that was "thrilling".
They don't make them like they used to
.ps Orlando in October - first time for 10 years
21 March 2006, 08:28 AM
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my missus says im the best ride shes ever been on, and she's been on a few.
Seriously though for scare factor I dont think you can beat the mouse. Sharp corners on creaking wooden tracks strapped into a little cart...
Seriously though for scare factor I dont think you can beat the mouse. Sharp corners on creaking wooden tracks strapped into a little cart...
21 March 2006, 08:39 AM
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I'd have to say the Hulk purely for the first time you ride it and the beginning part (I wont say no more as I will ruin it for anyone in the future) basically wow!.
Kraken is good but I went back for a second day one year and rode it around a dozen times in a row while Shamu was on, ever since it has bored me.
Duelling dragons is awesome but there always seems to be something wrong with one side
Busch gardens is a great park and the rides are great (havent done the shekra one yet though)
I know they are not big coasters but spiderman and the mummy are brilliant at universal
Kraken is good but I went back for a second day one year and rode it around a dozen times in a row while Shamu was on, ever since it has bored me.
Duelling dragons is awesome but there always seems to be something wrong with one side
Busch gardens is a great park and the rides are great (havent done the shekra one yet though)
I know they are not big coasters but spiderman and the mummy are brilliant at universal
21 March 2006, 09:22 AM
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Saw this one on tv the other day, looks absolutely crazy! Top thrill Dragster at Cedar Point. Just look at how high the thing goes! Theres a POV video, looks nuts.
http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/par...ster/index.cfm
http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/par...ster/index.cfm
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This will sort the men from the boys!
http://www.rcdb.com/ig1481.htm?picture=3
Actually, it won't, cause as I said in my post above (with more pics of this insane creation) It's been deemed too extreme and closed for alterations.
Twisting 90 degree drop, 160 feet, only lapbars, 6.3G at the pullout of the dive.
Ns04
http://www.rcdb.com/ig1481.htm?picture=3
Actually, it won't, cause as I said in my post above (with more pics of this insane creation) It's been deemed too extreme and closed for alterations.
Twisting 90 degree drop, 160 feet, only lapbars, 6.3G at the pullout of the dive.
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22 March 2006, 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by 2000TLondon
I did the stratosphere rides last November, awesome, although I wouldn't do the one that tilts you over the edge in a single rollercoaster car, and you just stare down 1450 feet to the ground.
