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In your opinion, what's the worst amusement park or carnival ride?
Wooden rollercoasters.
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Wooden rollercoasters.
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That rickety-ass wooden rollercoaster at Miracle Strip in Panama City BeachIn your opinion, what's the worst amusement park or carnival ride?
Wooden rollercoasters.
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There are many awesome wooden coasters. Thunderbolt at Kennywood is a standout!In your opinion, what's the worst amusement park or carnival ride?
Wooden rollercoasters.
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You mean the drive into the park?That car ride at Epcot was painfully awful.
I'm about 25min from Hershey Park. The Wildcat was their oldest wooden roller coaster, they are shutting it down after this summer and dismantling it. I assume they'll put another high speed monster like they have done every other year or so. I was ok with wooden coasters, they have their thing. But the world moves on.
Growing up, I loved the Gravitron or other spinning rides that sent you out against the walls. Helped feed my interest in physics. Sometime after my 20's (binge drinking era) I lost my ability to spin. I get nauseous just looking at rides like that. There was a cousin to that, I think the travelling fair called it the zipper or something? You are put in a 2-3 person roll cage that can spin you in a summersault, and all the cages were spinning on a fixture like a giant Ferris wheel, it may be that the ferris wheel part was more like a long stick that moved the cages around that track in addition to the larger Ferris wheel spin thereby wreaking havoc on your individual cage spins. I always hated that one.
Middle school memories man. That place was awesome. Shipwreck Island in the day and then come back at night for Miracle Strip.That rickety-ass wooden rollercoaster at Miracle Strip in Panama City Beach
Worst ride? I think her name was Brenda but it’s still a bit foggy.
but when the thing came down on my head I could barely move my arms because of how tight the seat was with the dividers.
We would stay in Mexico Beach every summer and make the trek over to The Miracle Strip and Petticoat Junction.
One time - ('76 I think) my buddy and I were going to try The Zipper at Petticoat Junction and as we were about 50 feet away, we hear a loug groan and a SHOWER of vomit begins flowing from one of the top cars. Looked like a rainshower of mushroom soup.
Kept walking right on by while suppressing the gag reflex.