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I went on "real" roller coasters for the first time in my life on Monday. Prior to that I had only been on the kiddie ones -- until I got too big for them....

I posted this in another thread, but it bears another look. I highly recommend Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure, the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world - a first-person video. In fact, Nitro, Superman, El Toro... almost any of the coasters at Six Flags GA are great.

Mikey wrote:I posted this in another thread, but it bears another look. I highly recommend Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure, the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world - a first-person video. In fact, Nitro, Superman, El Toro... almost any of the coasters at Six Flags GA are great.

Give me another 18years . A bunch of incoming freshman for my university decided we should all get together before college starts so we spent the day at Hershey Park. I hit up all the wooden coasters, Lightening Racer (both tracks), Wild Cat, Comet -- after the initial "HOLY SHIT!" moment looking down the hill, it was actually quite enjoyable.

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Mikey wrote:I posted this in another thread, but it bears another look. I highly recommend Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure, the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world - a first-person video. In fact, Nitro, Superman, El Toro... almost any of the coasters at Six Flags GA are great.

Give me another 18years . A bunch of incoming freshman for my university decided we should all get together before college starts so we spent the day at Hershey Park. I hit up all the wooden coasters, Lightening Racer (both tracks), Wild Cat, Comet -- after the initial "HOLY s**t!" moment looking down the hill, it was actually quite enjoyable.

I love Hershey park. Haven't been in a while.

Mikey wrote:I posted this in another thread, but it bears another look. I highly recommend Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure, the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world - a first-person video. In fact, Nitro, Superman, El Toro... almost any of the coasters at Six Flags GA are great.

We used to make several trips there a summer until my father effectively substituted a couple of Mets games a season (the baseball season is mostly in summer). Since then we've had a few week-long vacations in which we visited an amusement park along the way, either at piers at an NJ resort town (Wildwood) or the last time, at Disney in Florida. Hence, I haven't been on coasters much recently, and specifically haven't seen GA in some time, accordingly losing familiarity with the latest generation of coasters there. I'm sure that if I went there tomorrow I would barely recognize the place.

It's still fun to get to the games (and easier on my aging father ) and the new ballpark the Mets opened this season is amazing, and an enormous improvement over their former home, though it'd be nice if the team's management would grow a neuron or two - but just the same I sometimes miss the rides.

I haven't been to Hershey Park in a cuple of years, which is a shame since my sister-in-law lives pretty close to it. I always enjoyed it, even though the coasters aren't quite up to Great Adventure "oh sh*t" factor.

if you want an "oh sh*t" factor, you have to ride the "SheiKra" at Busch Gardens (Tampa)...It takes you up 200ft, turns you 90* toward the ground and drops you....It's particularly freeky from the front row, b/c the part that connects to the track is behind you, so the track dissappears beneath you before you suddenly drop.

definatly #2 on my list.

Dude - Kingda Ka does that, but over 500 feet up and at over 100 mph.

I cannot stand theme parks. Waiting in line for god knows how long to go on a 13 second ride? (example being Stealth that everyone here rages about). Fuck that. Unless my wait to get on is under 13 seconds (which is a statistical impossibility with how popular it is) then i am not going to even bother.

Reliant121 wrote:...Unless my wait to get on is under 13 seconds (which is a statistical impossibility with how popular it is) then i am not going to even bother.

How about 0 seconds? My mom won a radio contest to go to Disneyland when I was 9. The best part? Only other winners allowed in the park that day. Disneyland is cool, but a little strange with only 1,000 people in the whole park.

Also, my uncle worked for GTE, and I attended Knott's Berry Farm, and Six Flags' Magic Mountain on a few other occasions with only company employees and family. Nothing better than walking straight onto a roller coaster, finishing, then walking right back onto it.

meh...I just never really found the enjoyment in spending a few seconds, minute at the most, going very fast on a track. I might as well go on a train.

Reliant121 wrote:meh...I just never really found the enjoyment in spending a few seconds, minute at the most, going very fast on a track. I might as well go on a train.

That statement, to me, suggests that you haven't ridden any high-performance coasters with novel designs.

From Magic Mountain:

Ninja

Colossus

Revolution (one of my favorite rides ever )

Viper

From Knott's:

Boomerang (those negative G's are a b*tch)

And, from Universal Studios (Islands of Adventure) Florida:

Hulk

Rollercoasters are awesome.

Most of those are US based are they not?

Slight problem.

My parents dont believe in holidaying...for some reason. They are like...allergic to foreign countries

Reliant121 wrote:Most of those are US based are they not?

Slight problem.

My parents dont believe in holidaying...for some reason. They are like...allergic to foreign countries

Okay then, ones from Thorpe Park:

Nemesis Inferno

Colossus

I'm not a fan of rollercoasters myself.

The theme parks in Florida have some pretty good rides. I went there a few years ago.