Where did the rush go?

[Jds03]

The only ride that can continuously deliver the dropping feeling for me is El Toro, as for other rides, I try to make myself hyped before the ride just to see if I can still get a rush. Millennium Force can give me the rush on the drop about 1/3s of the time, but as for any other coaster that’s not necessarily new, allot of the first drop rush is gone. El Toro REALLY delivers though; I’d say at least 90 percent of the time on the drop I get a rush, and at least half of the rush is the most intense dropping feeling I’ve ever experienced.

[atem122]

And now to revive this thread:

 

I really tend NOT to get the feeling anymore, I just rode Supreme Scream for the first time ever a month ago expecting to get the stomach in mouth feeling, nothing. It just felt like really fun airtime.

[dcxs]

I didn't know that the effect wears off after time, I just came back from Walibi world and I thought there was something wrong with Goliath(first time on it btw) but I guess its just me first drop was good tho

[Franc]

I have been on almost 120 different roller coasters and, fortunately for me, I still get that 'butterflies' feeling in my stomach. I'll be very happy if I never get used to it and have the chance to enjoy roller coasters as any non-fan would.

 

My mother (who gets on every coaster with me) doesn't get it anymore.

[doh91105]

I rode Supreme Scream when it opened (a decade ago?) and kind of hated it because of the crazy nervousness and dropped stomach feeling. Then I took family from the UK there recently thinking I would skip that one and just watch, but I went on anyway. Being up at the top of that tower was terrifying but the drop did nothing for me. Rode it three more times and no funny stomach feeling at all -- it was more about the awesome view than anything!

 

I got the feeling on California Screaming at DCA but not on Tower of Terror, and since Freefall is gone (that ride would do it EVERY time), there is nothing at SFMM that has that effect on me.

 

But what's also interesting is that spin and puke rides never used to bother me -- but as I've gotten older, I can still ride them, but I definitely feel much worse than before I got on. I took a bunch of kids on Spin Out at SFMM and thought I was going to die afterward.

[Franc]

But what's also interesting is that spin and puke rides never used to bother me -- but as I've gotten older, I can still ride them, but I definitely feel much worse than before I got on.

 

Same here. I actually avoid spinning rides now, something I had never done in my life before.

[some sort of coaster dude]

i lost the spinning stomach feeling fairly quickly

 

though i might still get it a little, i mainly ride coasters because i can, and accept that they are usually not terrifying to me, however

 

el toros drops were incredible

 

launches certainly do that for me!

[jslim39]

I don't ride rollercoasters to get scared anymore, in fact I never did.

 

I can't deny that I was DEATHLY afraid to ride KW's Jackrabbit when I was young but that was my first rollercoaster EVER!!!

 

Now it's just about having fun for me. Now I'm not sure if 45 coasters ridden is alot, but I've had fun on ALL of them (except when one nearly breaks my back/ribs). Whether it's a huge freefall drop (Millenium Force, Cedar Point) or BEASTLY ejector air (RoS, Darien Lake), or just a nice, speedy ride through the woods with a little bit of airtime and fun drops (Jackrabbit, Seabreeze), I still love every coaster I've been on.

 

I think being a rollercoaster enthusiast is more about having fun on every coaster I can get on, and enjoying every aspect of the ride, not trying to ride the biggest one and critisizing every single minor flaw you can possibly find about it. Heck, I even manage to enjoy an SLC, while most enthusiasts tremble in fear about them

[Myself]

Are we defining "rush" as the "butterflies in your stomach" feeling, or just a release of adrenaline?

 

For me, I never get that "butterflies" in the stomach feeling at theme parks (although, I still sometimes do get it before going to a poker session if I'm on a bad downswing...). However, I still often get the adrenaline rush.

 

The big rides (El Toro, Nitro, Superman: Ride of Steel, etc etc) will always give me the adrenaline rush and get me very exciting. New rides/roller coasters always get my blood pumping as well, but as for the "butterflies", those are long gone in theme parks. Anyways, I don't really care for the "butterflies", its all about the adrenaline for me.

 

I guess, though, it does suck a little that a lot of us no longer get adrenaline on normal/small coasters.

 

Exactly. I love the rush you get from coasters, but I hated the stomach feeling when I was younger and it was what kept me from riding coasters until only a few years ago.