What's your favorite Flat ride?

What's your favorite flat ride? (if this thread has already occured, my apologies.)

My fav are the FlyingScooters, of course.

Small Flat : Huss Troika (Shake Rattle and Roll - PKI) - Large Flat : Intamin Gyro Drop (Drop Zone - PKI)

Shortbus

 

 

Enterprise

 

KMG Afterburner is without a doubt my fav flat ride. I also like Waltzers when theres some crazy ride-ops spinning the cars :mrgreen:

Me like:

The KMG Afterburner/Fireball. Great ride. Awesome view. People staring because I am sitting in a perfect lotus position. Ahhh... Memories...

Swinging ships. Especially well-themed, over-a-lake, making-everyone-but-me-barf versions of it.

The pirate ship or magic flying carpet thingy....

 

Rob

I'm going to go with the Afterburner as well.

Chaos or a Frisbee. I'm looking forward to trying some new and interesting flatrides in Europe...

 

dt

Favorite flatride(s) would have to be

Falling Star-They produce a nice moment of airtime and tummy tingles

Frisbee (Tazmanian Devil)

Enterprise

Wipeout

Hammer-head inverter rides (Whatever they're called, I dunno.)

any kind of freefall tower

and lastly, Rock-o-Plane

 

BTW, why are they called 'Flat Rides' anyway when they aren't at all flat? They should be more known as "Twirl-n-hurl" or "Spin and Puke"

Small - Flyers

Large - Giant Frisbees, Drops, and Screaming Swings

BTW, why are they called 'Flat Rides' anyway when they aren't at all flat? They should be more known as "Twirl-n-hurl" or "Spin and Puke"

I've wondered about that too, and I came to the conclusion that the term originated back when flat rides was indeed, flat, as in not moveable on several axis as modern flat rides often is. Flat ride has a nice ring to it, is short, and is more or less fitting. A more fitting term would be "stationary attractions", but as you might notice, it is alot longer. 8 syllables versus 2 is a competition won before the match has started.

The term "Flat" has to do with the ride's plot, the vast majority of flat rides sit on a flat concrete plot

I have a wide range of favorites:

 

chance zipper

kmg afterburner/fireball

zamperla hawk

any kind of drop tower (which some people consider flat rides, but i personally do not)

s&s power air launched screamin' swing

chance wipeout

any kind of simulator- but i really enjoyed the MaxFlight FS2000 Two-Seat Flight Simulator

Frank Hrubetz Paratrooper

Edited March 26, 2005 by vertgforces

Many coasters sit on a flat plot of land also. I'm pretty sure also that it originated from the flat rides that were really flat.

Best flat ride eh? Mine would probably be Zipper or Tango, a Top-Scan.

Ooh, do I have to choose one? I like just about every flat ride that exists, besides Gravitrons and other wash machine spin cycle rides. Falling Star's always have excellent air time, especially the one at Adventureland which always seems to be set at the insane setting. You can never go wrong riding a Tilt-A Whirl. I ride every Til-A-Whirl I see, even if there is mroe then one at a fair, I'll ride both. Sidewinder, a Moser version of the Afterburner is pretty fun, too. Tivoli Orbiters (Typhoon and other names)) are cool because they are scary as hell to watch, as they spin so out of control very fast, but riding them is such a thrill. I could go on and on with this, but I'll stop for the sake of bandwith!

The Bug was another favorite of mine, but Conneaut's is broke, (last 3 summers ) and i haven't been to KW...

Power Tower at Cedar Point....The Green One By Far

 

http://gallery.mzwp.com/albums/album49/Power_Tower.jpg

I miss Tampico Tumbler!

I totally forgot about the Rock-o-Plane that came with the fair last year. That ride was the craziest, funniest, most painfull ride Ive ever been on. I cant decide if I love it or hate it...

I enjoy riding the Afterburner/Fireball type of rides. I always seem to end up on S&S shot towers for some reason. I don't do very many flats, unless it has a short line or a flat I've never been on.

I love Zippers. I like the sound of change bouncing all over the structure as it sucks the change out of everyone's pockets.

 

Though I don't get to ride them very often as they are mostly in those low income fairs that I'm hesitent to go to.

 

I've always wished that some major park would put a zipper in.

Western Playland used to have a Zipper.

Intamin freefalls are awesome

Giant Drop

Intamin freefalls are awesome

Yep, me too, I love Intamin Freefalls! Here in Belgium the Dalton Terror and especially the one in Germany (High Fall) are amazing!