scbt Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 ^Superman: Ultimate Escape at Geauga Lake did have a retractable floor. I assume it was eliminated on the other impulse coasters to cut down on costs of construction and maintenence. Does it still have a retractable floor after being relocated to Dorney? It doesn't have a retractable floor, you have to do a hop to get up in the seats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_s Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 The time on Drachen Fire I thought maybe I broke my neck. I loved the ride, especially the "our own private coaster" aspect that often occurred. The biggest problem with the ride was the big piece of steel covered with about 1/2 mm of rubber right at jawbone level for the midsize rider. There were other problems, but this was so obvious and easily correctable it shouldn't have ever even opened that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmerleeberry Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Okay, I have another bad coaster experience and it happened at Wisconsin Dells. I was riding their coaster at Timber Falls Adventure Park and I paid for a wristband that included unlimited golf, unlimited rides on both bumper boats and log flumes, and five rides on the coaster. The roller coaster was the first thing I did and I rode up in front. That thing was rough, and at one point I bumped my knee hard against the front panel. The other attractions were fine, but I would ride the roller coaster two more times, but with a few hours in between rides to help me recover. Compared to this coaster, all the other coasters located in Mt. Olympus were much smoother, especially Hades 360. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beni_Rodriguez Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Okay, I have another bad coaster experience and it happened at Wisconsin Dells. I was riding their coaster at Timber Falls Adventure Park and I paid for a wristband that included unlimited golf, unlimited rides on both bumper boats and log flumes, and five rides on the coaster. The roller coaster was the first thing I did and I rode up in front. That thing was rough, and at one point I bumped my knee hard against the front panel. The other attractions were fine, but I would ride the roller coaster two more times, but with a few hours in between rides to help me recover. Compared to this coaster, all the other coasters located in Mt. Olympus were much smoother, especially Hades 360. Hellcat. I rode it ( 30 ) times in one day this year. The last few rides tested out my leg strength. On one of the last few rides my body was thrashing back and forth as my legs could no longer take it. That is not to say it is not a great ride. At times it is my favorite wooden roller coaster that I have been on. When it's running rough not so much so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mater Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 The one time I went to Cedar Point I both bashed my new industrial ear piercing on Raptor going through the cobra roll, and got the worst leg cramp of my life on Mantis. Which is strange because CGA is my home park and I wouldn't necessarily call either of those more intense than Top Gun or Vortex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillseeker4552 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Vortex at Kings Island. It was just awful from beginning to end. I'm fairly tolerant when it comes to coasters, but I got SO excited when Vortex hit the brakes. The I realized I had a double corkscrew, a batwing, and a helix left to endure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSum1_55 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 My by far worst ever coaster experience was on a ride I normally like. Having a migraine kick in mid ride will ruin any coaster. I dealt with that while riding Tatsu. One second I was enjoying the ride, but right after exiting the pretzel loop my vision immediately went out of whack. I have ridden Tatsu 30-40 times since it has opened, and I could not even tell whether I was still in the barrel roll or on the the last helix at any point after the migraine kicked in. Once they lowered the seats, I felt like I was about to faint. I could barely walk down the exit stairs without tripping. After sitting in the shade for an hour while slowly drinking water, but this did not help. Eventually, I just decided to head back home, though I find it to be a miracle that I was able to drive safely under the conditions I was in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooooobbe Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Have to say my 2nd ride on Colossos at Thorpe park. Our first ride was in the middle of the train and it was actually pretty smooth. The 2nd ride was in the back and damn I regret reriding. Both me and the gf got a bad headache for few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamingPro941 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I went on a Vekoma Boomerang when I was 11. Should've left it until I was 12... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTA_Shawn Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 2003 we were at SFNO and riding the Zydeco Scream (Vekoma Boomerang). Had rode it numerous times and never had any issues. This time we decided to ride in the last seat. Made the outing trip just fine including the back jarring 2nd chain catch which was nothing unusual. The return trip was fun until we came through the station wide open and the station brakes never activated. We made it a good ways up the first hill, dropped back into the station at a good rate of speed. Fast enough the brakes couldn't stop us in the station. We ended up going partially through the cobra roll and then headed back to the station (so we thought). The brakes ended up being shut and we didn't make it into the station. The first car or two made it, but us being in the last car, we were in the drop-out of the cobra roll in a uncomfortable inclined (almost vertical) position. That would have been fine and dandy, but they couldn't figure out how to unlock the station brakes. It took quite a while to get maintenance out there while we were baking in the New Orleans July humid heat with our bodies pressed up against the shoulder harnesses. That was the worst 35 minutes I have ever spent on a coaster or even waiting in line for one. But we did get free dinner that day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuckInSD Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Most rides you see at county fairs are from extremely sketchy to okay at best, and unless it's a Schwarzkopf, the roller coasters are usually the sketchiest of the bunch. Rusted tracks, coupled with the constant swaying of the ride itself (as in the entire track), made me extremely uneasy once I boarded. Now granted, Giant Dipper isn't really all that different except that it's made of wood... and actually has some decent structure, but an experience similar to that would've been fine. Unfortunately, I was the fat guy of our three-person whirling dervish of death that was called the Crazy Mouse. Easily the worst thing I ever did for $3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam_sparks1 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 My worst coaster experience was at Thorpe Park fright nights last year on the front row of Colossus. As soon as we got on the train the heavens opened and the rain was the hardest possible... And in England thats alot... With the roughness of Colossus anyway the rain made it twice as painful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonsaiisuperstar Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Son of Beast cracked my C7 vertebrae. It healed naturally over time but my neck has never been the same since. I didn't let KI know because i was on LSD at the time and was afraid of police and ambulance lights. Ahhhh the good ole days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoshiCraft2011 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 I rode the Vekoma Boomerang at Knott's. It's a "unique" ride (despite it being cloned everywhere), but it doesn't age well. The headbanging alone made this ride simply unenjoyable. It was rough during the inversions and was rough otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GwaziBSRider1 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 I could go with some of the obvious ones here (i.e. Green Lantern, Son of Beast, Boomerangs, etc.), but I think the absolute worst was Ninja at Six Flags St. Louis. I was in the magic seat and it was still incredibly awful. The worst part was it was my #300, so I always have to remember the experience! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flefty18 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 I got my arm stuck between the restraints on Gatekeeper on the first drop. The entire ride I was wondering if I'd just lose my arm Befause every inversion put more pressure on it. Not fun. Second ride on it, no arms up, much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier148 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 To this day I still don't know why I rode GASM at Six Flags Georgia. I've been apologizing to my legs and back ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXCcsc918Xx Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Ninja, Six Flags Over Georgia Back Seat Its hell on earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharman19 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Speaking of H*** on Earth, Raptor, a B&M Invert turned into a Vekoma SLC itself when I rode it back in may. I sat all the way on the left in the front car. I did it because there were a couple taking the 2 left seats, so I gave them space. I never expected deep fried H*** on a stick! (Just giving my honest thoughts.(Now I know what Alpengeist is like(Sort of))) EDIT: Added this image. Don't sit here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbill Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 I think I ended up in that exact seat more often than not on our 3 day trip to Cedar Point last weekend. The ride was amazing as always and headbanging was minimal (and only happened in the cobra roll and the last turn).... I don't get why people think Raptor is rough. Raptor is everything an awesome invert should be... long, forceful and amazingly snappy. Much like Alpengeist I'll take an invert with a snappy cobra roll that knocks your head into the restraint once or twice over a forceless and crappy invert like Silver Bullet. I don't find the 1 or 2 moments of headbanging on Raptor to be painful anyway... usually it just makes us laugh. The restraint has a lot of give and it's not really that jarring. To each his own though, shorter lines for me. if you thought Raptor was rough I hope you didn't ride Corkscrew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djboss302 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 I think I ended up in that exact seat more often than not on our 3 day trip to Cedar Point last weekend. The ride was amazing as always and headbanging was minimal (and only happened in the cobra roll and the last turn).... I don't get why people think Raptor is rough. Raptor is everything an awesome invert should be... long, forceful and amazingly snappy. Much like Alpengeist I'll take an invert with a snappy cobra roll that knocks your head into the restraint once or twice over a smooth and crappy invert like Silver Bullet. I don't find the 1 or 2 moments of headbanging on Raptor to be painful anyway... usually it just makes us laugh. The restraint has a lot of give and it's not really that jarring. To each his own though, shorter lines for me. if you thought Raptor was rough I hope you didn't ride Corkscrew. Same here, I love Raptor, as it is my number one coaster (at least for now, I am going to BGT in a couple days). I never understood why people think that. However, I haven't ridden it since 2012, so I can possibly see it becoming rough. But what coasterbill said, shorter lines for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcjp Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 ^I agree. Rode it last year and was silky smooth. I think sometimes people mistake one or two snappy transitions where you may hit the restraint with roughness, which it totally didn't have when I rode it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrocoasterkid Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 Manhattan Express in 2003. Hands down the worst ride I have ever been on. Adding insult to injury that it was $13 even back then. It really is every bit of bad that TPR video shows. I showed that whole video to my family a few years after we rode it, and we couldn't stop laughing because we all felt the EXACT same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GwaziBSRider1 Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 I've never had much trouble with Raptor, either. I always thought it was smoother than the Batman clones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generic Name Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 Manhattan Express in 2003. Hands down the worst ride I have ever been on. Adding insult to injury that it was $13 even back then. It really is every bit of bad that TPR video shows. I showed that whole video to my family a few years after we rode it, and we couldn't stop laughing because we all felt the EXACT same way. I'm assuming that was with the old TOGO trains? And for those who have ridden it recently, how do the new(er) trains compare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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