Best Roller Coasters in the World Ever?
 

What's your favorite?

My favorite will always be The Beast at King's Island. First car, last ride of the night...you're flying through the dark woods, in and out of tunnels. With no cars in front of you, you feel like you're manning some crazy space vehicle.

It's been awhile since I've been anywhere to rollercoast. I was at Cedar Point some years ago when The Millennium Force was new and I loved that too.

But we spent so much time at KI when I was in HS...it will always be my favorite.

side note: my dad was a foreman on the roads crew when they were building KI. We went that first year it was open. My first coaster was The Racer, and I was just tall enough to ride. My dad said I could scream but I better not cry. I realized what he meant (because I was thinking that you're even MORE scareder if you're screaming, right?) when I got off the coaster and immediately wanted to go again. He has 8mm footage of much of the park at the time. Pretty cool.

Sadly I've not been to any big theme park.
The only ones I've been on that count were at Blackpool and Alton Towers.

Given my druthers I'd have a woodie though.
The one at Great Yarmouth has a special place in my heart as it was my first. It's still there - I'll be going on it again in July :)
Mum went on it when she was pregnant with my sister (although she didn't know it at the time). The story would be better if she had been pregnant with me of course, but that would have been out of season... In those days there was a brake-man on it. Dad taught me that the seat behind him was the best seat, because you got the full benefit of the drops.

I love Nemesis at Alton Towers, because it is fast and furious rather than high. I dislike Oblivion because it is the opposite - one enormous drop and whoosh, it's over.

I really want to go to America to go on rollercoasters!
My bro often brings me back footage with makes me seethe with envy.

Ahh yes...car position matters. During the DAY at King's Island you wait for the LAST car, because you are totally flying going down that first hill.

I've got it down to a science. An art, really.

I would love to win the lottery and hit rollercoasters all over the country.

The Beast is an all-time favorite of mine too, and that first car is essential. I liked the Racer too because you could get some damn good air time. My first ever favorite was the Whizzar at Great America. My current favorite is the Rapter at Cedar Point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Island

I HAVE to get to KI this summer. I just HAVE to.

The Comet at Hersheypark (where the chocolate comes from).

I thought it was WAY better than the SooperDooperLooper (since dismantled) and the Lightening Loops and Rolling Thunder at Great Adventure.

FUCK.
ME.

I'd heard ot The Beast, knew it was American, but had NO idea it was a woodie, or that it deserved the name.

WOW!

I wanna.
I SO wanna.

Win I win the lottery, you're coming here and we're going to see The Beast! :)

edit: I'm keeping the typo. It's prophetic. Not WHEN I win. Win, I win! :lol:

And win I win you're coming over here for an extended tours (of the pubs!) and we'll go to Blackpool Pleasure Beach and eat proper chips and battered sausages.

(I likey win I win)

I can't wait until win I win because a trip to your neck of the woods is on the topz of my agendaz!

It's a date. Any time after 15th August.

Up at 5:30 headed to Cedar point Tomorrow.....

Bring back coaster reports!

Blue Streak
Millenium Force
Mean Streak
Shoot the Rapids
Wicked Twist
Magnum
Gemini
Mine Ride
Thunder Canyon
Mean Streak encore
Top thrill dragster
Millenium Force encore
Mantis
Raptor

don't think I missed any there.

now let me tell you about my crotch rot......

btw Nemesis at Alton towers = Raptor at CP = Thunderhawk at Michigan's Adventure and Kraken at Seaworld, but Busch Gardens' Manta is by far the best floorless coaster with 7 inversions.

The Corkscrew is the Corkscrew world over.

SG I agree muchly re Nemesis over the sheer drop one, but I did really enjoy the Dragster today

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/med...agster-yes.jpg

I am a rollercoaster fan.
I am.
I adore them.
But that.... thing.... above.
That's not a rollercoaster. It is a nightmare.

I'd go on it of course, just because it scares the bejesus out of me.
I am actually afriad of heights.
Which is why I went bungee jumping and will do it again if necessary.

Just looking at the Dragster makes me feel sick.

No, it's not a roller coaster. but it's very, very fast. :D

Bringing together two of my favourite things - rollercoasters and JB.
The qulaity is very poor, but at least it made it to Youtube - it was on a couple of months ago and I kicked myself for missing it.

John on Colossus


On Detonator


In interview, so you can see how much we missed in the previous clips

When he says he's not scared of anything it is supposed to be tongue in cheek. For example he is afraid of flying. Although not too afraid to be a frequent flyer, he is not a good traveller by his own admission.

Pump Me, Thump Me and Drive Me Home...? Hmmmmmm

Is there no thread safe from this hideous obsession of yours? :lol:

Erm....
No :)

I'm converting the world, post by post. I think I may have Limey & DanaC on board already.
Wait til Torchwood starts on Starz! America will know his name!

(I edited, because I'd suggested that John Barrowman would marry Prince Harry. But then I felt bad because JB is already married to the gorgeous - and taller - Scott Gill. He's not a ginger, but that's excuseable.)

He is seriously appealing.

Another sister has seen the light.
8th July on Starz - Torchwood: Miracle Day.

D'oh, I don't get Starz...but maybe I could for a month.

Monster, did you guys go to the Soak City too? Did you do the pool with the bar? It was the highlight of the trip for my husband and me. Booze, water and sun...oh yessss.

8th graders and bars? TBH, soak city looked lame from the Magnum compared to other water parks we have visited.

I did miss one: Disaster Transport

crotch rot is better today, thanks for your concern......

I did some fire/EMS work at Cedar Point last October. If you want to see something awesomely gross, look at the headrests on Top Thrill Dragster. There is a cartoon-like reverse outline of a head.. made by squished bugs haha.

Also don't take your phone on that ride. We treated a girl who was struck in the head by someone's Blackberry that launched off that ride. Not even kidding. The thing went up like the space shuttle, then dropped back down to earth smacking this poor girl right on the top of her head.

You didn't miss much with Disaster Transport. I've heard good things about the new ride Windseeker though.

I really need to go to Cedar Point. I've been to King's Island about four times in my life and loved every ride but never made it to Cedar Point.

I meant i missed reporting that I went on it. but I agree with your summary.

Hebe loved Windseeker, just not my thing. Not scared, but would be bored and perhaps get motion sickness.

Reminds me of this one.

Ewwwwwwww!

What's up with the woman next to him?
His face is covered in the blood of a bird smushed up by his chiselled features and she's all, "Oh look! Funny!!"

Sorry not to enquire about the crotch rot Monster.
I didn't want to objectify your snatch.

Just never walk around for ages in wet clothes on a humid day unless you are blessed in the gap department.

back in the day when astroworld was here, the Texas Cyclone was tha bomb!! i would go to astroworld and do nothing but ride that coaster all. day. long. from open to close! sorry to see it's demise. here is a vid i stumbled across just now...



and the full ride on the cyclone:



now here's a funny story regarding another ride at astroworld. greased lightning.
rumor had it that if you dropped something from the top of the loop it would hit the person behind you. i used to chew tobacco. beechnut. wintergreen. BIG wads of the stuff. yep. it's true! i spit out my wad of tobacco at the top of the loop and it hit the person behind me. right in the face! that was totally awesome!

Yup, kids and bars don't mix. We were able to let the boys go off on their own on that trip. Ive only been to a few water parks. They used to be problematic for me because of my glasses. A serious pain in the ass having to deal with them...being able to relax at the pool with a beer made my day on that trip. Now, after lasik, I can really enjoy myself a lot more.

Well, the only amusement park I ever went to with regularity was Kennywood. I love that place. The Thunderbolt, the Race, JackRabbit, and any one of the many incarnations of the phantom roller coaster. I haven't been to an amusement park in years. I really need to go again.

Filthy, the Texas Cyclone looks like the big brother of the one in Gt Yarmouth.

This is what I will be riding come July.
I'll take lots of photos during the trip, but I doubt I could better this video for the coaster.
Esp as it now costs a fortune and the best seat for riders is behind the brakeman :)

While I haven't been fortunate enough to ride any of these northern coasters, as a life-long Floridian I've been on all of the ones at the Disney parks, all but one at Busch Gardens Tampa, and all but one at the Universal parks. Out of all those, my favorite is Expedition Everest at Disney's Animal Kingdom. It is so wonderfully smooth, it feels like flying.