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Post September 5th, 2005, 3:56 am

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Does anyone know the Indiana Jones coaster at Disney Land Resort Paris?

Well as some may know the direction of the trains on this ride have been changing. When the ride opened in 1993 it began forwards, then in 2000 backwards, then finally 2005 forwards again!

So the question is which way was or is the best?

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Post September 5th, 2005, 4:35 am

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I've never rode that ride but it looks awesome.

Post September 5th, 2005, 4:42 am

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Its quite good but not frightening!

Post September 5th, 2005, 7:35 am

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Going backwards on any ride adds to the feeling of surprise and mis-judgement however well you know the ride. The backwards drop of Valhalla, although it's only about 15ft, can still add to that element of surpirse and really can feel like your just going to keep falling

Post September 5th, 2005, 2:16 pm
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i have only ridden the ride when the trains were running forwards, Fun track but sometimes backwards really sucks. I need to go back to disney sometime, but when.....?

Post September 5th, 2005, 2:19 pm

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I rode it this summer. The trains were forward. I would prefer forward. Or, since the ride has a 2 cars per train( I think. I don't remember) some could be forward and other backward.

Post September 5th, 2005, 2:40 pm

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Yeah that would be good 1 car forwards 1 car back!

Post September 5th, 2005, 2:57 pm
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well I have ridden the ride, but only forwards, as I went quite a long time ago when it was forwards obviously heh heh. It was a pretty cool ride (apart from the restraints kept lifting up which was bloody scary [lol]), I also know what going backwards down a drop feels like after going on Storm Force 10 at Drayton Manor, it just makes it a whole lot scarier, you actually don't know whats going to happen even if you know the layout already. So I reckon, from that, this ride is quite probably better when its going backwards, as I'm sure any ride would be.

Post September 10th, 2005, 1:40 pm

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Since this ride is getting mentioned so much I thought I would let everone konw its here!

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