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Post August 17th, 2005, 1:46 pm

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mine has to be when i rode white canyon at yomiuriland in japan in a thunderstorm that thing was baaaaddddddddddd!!! it has to have roll cages on the cars after some unfortunate head choppers in the process

Post August 17th, 2005, 4:37 pm
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my worst experience? Hmmm... lemme think... Do fair rides also count? Then i had a pretty bad experience on a tango ride.
When waiting for dispatch it started to rain cats 'n dogs, then we actually did start when the rain started to get even worse. Went up and rotating, then the rain went even worser over in hail from like 2cm thick (about 1inch). I actually left the ride with about 5-7 bruises. Just it was really ouch!

For a bad coasterexperience i don't have a clue atm. Lemme think about that...

Post August 17th, 2005, 4:41 pm

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when i rode the Great Nor Easter at morey's piers. Ouch. I had sunburn on my ears and my and my friend sat in the front. Worst experience on a coaster i've ever had.


BTW, it's an SLC

Post August 17th, 2005, 5:54 pm

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When I rode Kong at SFMW, I had no idea why I rode it when the ride was over. It was just so rough and lame and I didnt think anything good of it.

Post August 18th, 2005, 1:53 am
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its not rough, but it's the roughest: El Condor WWO

Post August 18th, 2005, 4:19 am

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roughest expierence: sfne's cyclone (every time i ride it it gets worse and rougher!) and just about any togo ride.

Post August 18th, 2005, 8:28 am

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i think some togo's can be quite smooth, i rode bandit and that was quite smooth but then theres manhattan express ( OUCH ) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Post August 19th, 2005, 7:07 am

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When I rode Ninja at SFOG I got stuck at the top of the lift, staring toward the blinding sun for about 20 minutes, when the chain broke. I knew it was going to be a bad ride from the start, because when I saw the person before me get out of the seat, the whole car shifted over to the right about four inches under his weight. The maintenance guy came up the evac. steps to reassure everyone before finally letting the ride op. start the lift again. I actually wish I had been let down the evac steps, because after the train started up again, I had the worst ride I had ever had on any coaster. I tried pushing my head back, but the train was wobbling so much that I still had to endure terrible headbanging. At one point in the ride, I felt a painful pop in my neck. I'm glad the ride didn't have an onride camera, because I had a look of pain on my face the entire time. After I got off the ride, the case for my glasses had been broken. Luckily, my glasses were fine. SFOG should have told B&M to put the layout of the new coaster right through Ninja so that they could demolish this piece of crap.

Post August 19th, 2005, 7:30 am

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My worst experience would have to be Viper at SFGAdv. It hurt a LOOOOOTTTTT!!!! In some was I am happy it is gone for good but I will miss it because I only rode it once which was my first time at six flags so I will miss it. I also don't like the Great American Scream Machine at SFGAdv and Laser at Dorney Park but I would do it again and I have for the Scream Machine but not Laser because I have only been to Dorney once. The reason I don't like them is because they give me headaches and Laser caracked my neck on the bank after the sencond loo. Those are my worst expiriences.

Post August 19th, 2005, 9:57 am

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How can Laser crack your neck? Were you riding limp? Theres only a lap bar there!! Its a quick transition, just be more "prepared" when riding coasters. Its not every ride you can totally relax on :P

Not sure what to list. Something of a tie between rides that have given me a pretty good headache afterwards: Mean Streak, Kingda Ka (sorry), Raging Wolf Bobs (before the retracking) and Rolling Thunder.

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Post August 19th, 2005, 1:31 pm
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I have never had to bad of an expieriance, but when I was at mrytle beach with some friends we rode a wooden coaster called hurricane. It is a twisted sort of out and back. We rode it about 10 or 11 times and every time about half way through the ride we would all get terrible headachs from all the banging. It was a nice ride, just way to rough. Here are some pics: http://www.rcdb.com/ig595.htm

Post August 19th, 2005, 2:09 pm

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for me it must be the grand national at bpb, its an ace coaster but i decided to ride it with the lap bar slightly up to get the airtime but on the first double drop i got lots of ait time and managed to land on the seporater in the middle of the seats. very very painful and swolen nads for 2 days.

Post August 19th, 2005, 10:46 pm

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Python at Busch Gardens Tampa has the worst headbanging of any looping coaster I've been on. I think it gave me a headache for the rest of the day.

Post August 20th, 2005, 9:59 am

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^^IF you could ride it 10-11 times, it wasnt rough then. Even some of the smoother wooden coasters I have been on if you ride them that many times, just the little vibration gets to you. Plus the G-Forces as well. Hurricane is one of the little known CCI coasters so Im sure it has decent to intense forces.

Post August 20th, 2005, 12:09 pm

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The Absolute worst experience was Viper and Georgia Cyclone @ SFOG, Jack Rabbit @ Kennywood, The Biggest wood ride @ Dorney Park, and I'm not kidding, X @ SFMM. The worst of these rides was the ones at SFOG, Jack Rabbit wasn't that rough but I was put into the last seat everytime( I wanted the FRONT!) It has more airtime than turbulence on a plane. The second raven turn on X left me a huge bruise(near ear). Oh, GASM(Great American Scream Machine) @ SFGA, It is just unbelivably bumpy.

Post August 20th, 2005, 12:43 pm

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Well at least the Jack Rabbit has Buzzbars and the ride ops don't check the whether the belt is tight or not. Since I haen't been on too many coasters (only like 38) I have to say Mean Streak at CP, but I do like it as a ride (or at least two years ago when it had some airtime, maybe the trim malfunctioned or something.

Post August 20th, 2005, 1:57 pm

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Python at Busch Gardens Tampa has the worst headbanging of any looping coaster I've been on. I think it gave me a headache for the rest of the day.


I was just going to say that. That first turn out of the station gave me a headache, let alone the corkscrews.

As far as woodies go, The Boss is the roughest even though its my favorite. The part before the MCBR is fine but the section past the station is pure hell with the helix.

Post August 20th, 2005, 2:27 pm

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Viper at SFMM was pretty rough. It banged and banged and banged. I rode it two times in a row because the line was no wait. After the second ride, I had a moderately bad headache.

Post August 20th, 2005, 8:50 pm

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Originally posted by Jimmy Yoshi

Well at least the Jack Rabbit has Buzzbars and the ride ops don't check the whether the belt is tight or not.

Those aren't buzzbars. They're some sort of fixed bar, and they are lower but more far away from your body than buzzbars are. I like them a lot, and on the double drop in the back seat your thrusted right into them (though not too forcefully, but its still some great airtime). Its too bad that the rest of the ride is nothing though. Same with the other woodies at Kennywood, they have their moments, but as a whole don't do much of anything at all. Not that I dislike them or anything, as they do exactly what they were intended to do (especially Racer, which a family coaster), I just think they're overrated.

Thats off topic though.

Anyway, coasterbuzz36763, I would hardly call getting the back seat on a ride instead of the front a bad experience. Is that really one of your WORST experiences on a coaster?

Post August 24th, 2005, 10:39 am

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it wasnt nessiceraly a bad experience, but i thought SCREAM! at SFMM was rought. It was the bumpiest b&m ive ever been on and thats out of about 20.

My worst coaster experience was on Poltergeist at Six Flags Fiesta Texas.The train got stuck on the brake run because of an power outage.To make it worse it rained a ton and I was stuck there for about 30 minutes.Besides it was night.Coooooooold

Post August 24th, 2005, 4:24 pm

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i have to say, i feel terrible doing it, but, Shivering Timbers. Everyone who hasn't been on it expects it to be an awesome airtime experience. but when i went on, it was a dread of misury, pain and torchure. At the end, when we pulled in the station, the operator yells "Welcome Back! HOW WAS YOUR RIIIIDE!!!" everyone but me said "YAY!" and "YEAH!" and "WAHOO!" but i sat there with my arm raised in the air as high as possibe with the thumbs down signal and SCREAMED "BOOO!!!" that was THE absolute WORST coaster expeirence ever. and to top it all off, i had a huge bruise in my groin area from the huge metal seatbelt buckle being squished by the restraint. Shivering Timbers (and the other 2 woodies) are the biggest waste of (those poor :( ) trees on EARTH! IMO, Michigans Adventure is a horrible amuse park. they have 3 steel coasters (one is a jr. so that doesnt count, so 2 steels), and those were both awesome. but all 3 woodies SUCKED BA**S. if you are planing a trip there, i advise you NOT to go!

On a whole other note; my friends recently went to Kings Island. They said the Son of Beast felt like you were in ten rounds of professional boxing. ouch! If you just read this whole thing ill give u 5 bucks, lol

Post August 24th, 2005, 4:43 pm

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