Best/Worst Roller Coaster Experience

[Dr. Thrax]

The Manta in Sea World Orlando.

Spoiler

Going through that Pretzel loop in the very beginning... Oh jeebus, plunging head-first and then riding on your back, staring at the sky, quite relaxing.
From the very moment you get tilted forward on your face, my adrenaline starts rushing, and when it's all over, I'm laughing as I peel myself out of the seat.

Worst? So far? None.

 

[scw55]

Worst is Air in Alton Towers. I was going round with a petty twatkid who I pitied for being hated by everyone. I was nice and waited for him when he rode various rides.
When we got to the Forbidden Valley I suggested walking towards Air to have a look to which he replied "No way in Hell am I riding that".

I didn't say ride on it. I said take a look... I would have ridden on it perhaps, but I wanted to see.

Lets just say I hate the tool with seething hatred.

Worse- Runaway Mine Train in Alton Tower. That ride is pretty much a kiddy ride compared to the many other awesome tracks in Alton Tower.

Technically the Mine Train isn't a Coaster because the train is powered. A rollercoaster train is not powered. It is dragged/launched to give it energy.

 

[Rule Britannia]

Leviathon at Canada's Wonderland. I haven't been to any other roller coaster park other than Canada's Wonderland.

The hour long line up was definitely worth it

 

[Padwolf]

Best one for me is Nemesis at Thorpe Park (I haven't been on the one at Alton Towers yet!) I always sit in the front. It's such an amazing feeling. Or going on Stealth. It only lasts 10 second, but damn it feels good!

Worst for me is the Saw coaster at Thorpe Park. I expected a lot more from it. I came off and said "was that it?" I expected it to be terrifying. I expected the huge drop to be scary. But it just wasn't.

 

[Cpu46]

Best: The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster at the MGM park in Disneyworld. Mainly because I had no idea that one was going to do upside-down (it's an indoor roller coaster), so I found out the hard way that going upside-down in a roller coaster isn't so scary after all. I've been braver in trying roller coasters since then.

Me and my family did that one five times in a row while everyone else was at a Disney hosted Marathon. Entire park was almost empty, it was awesome.

OT: Best... That's a tough one. There have been so many, most at the local Six Flags and A few at disney. Raging Bull was awesome but way too short for me to say 'best' so I must give the honor to the ride American Eagle. Wooden Coaster with two side by side tracks that are often "raced" against each other (They start at the same time). Nice thing is they don't make it a big deal or purposefully alter the 'winner', it all depends on the number of passengers and the quality of the track on that particular run. Also they sometimes load cars backwards for added thrill.


Worst: Some crappy roadside tourist trap roller coaster. The thing had 90 degree turns, no padding on the massive metal harness that gave your head about an inch of clearance on each side, and was shaky as all hell despite being a metal coaster. I got off that ride and laid on the grass for five minutes holding my head till the pain settled down to a bearable ache. I left as soon as I could and never went back.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Best: The Space Mountain in Disneyland Paris
Worst: Thunder Mountain in ...Disneyland Paris

Yeah I haven't been to many :/

 

[Supertegwyn]

My best rollercoaster experience was a tiny one in Tivoli, Copehagen. Can't remember what it was called.

Worst: Anything else.
I loathe rollercoasters, and amusement parks in generals. I don't find any amusement there.

The small one that looks like a train, or the big one that loops around the park?

OT: I hate rollercoasters.

The one that imitates coal wagons going through a mine, I think.

Yeah that's the small train one.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Best goes to Fahrenheit at Hershey Park.

Worst? I don't really know.

I was at Hershey Park yesterday but then rain and thunder happened...

My favorite is actually Great Bear which is also at Hershey Park.

My least favorite is probably Mouse Trap (or is it Wild Mouse?) which is also in Hershey Park.

 

[Cybylt]

For my best I gotta say the Tatsu at Six Flags Magic Mountain.

Spoiler

You start off in a sitting position but just before you're pulled out of the station the back end is lifted up and you go through the whole thing laying down, facing the ground. The whole thing is amazingly smooth and comfortable and gives a really unique feeling on the turns and flips.


For worst I'd go with the Ghost Rider

Spoiler

I love wooden roller coasters, have all my life, I love the simplicity of them and the feeling of riding through the structure as it passes through itself. Anyone who complains about the rocking and creaking just doesn't understand that that rocking is exactly the way it's supposed to work, if the wood wasn't able to bend it would snap from the pressure.

Anyway, this thing has the worst cars I've even been in, cramped, no padding whatsoever and the turns are so sharp you smash your ribs against sides at every one of them.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Worst was The Beast at King's Island. That shit is loud, and it has the wooden coaster problem of dishing out horrific back pains.

Best was, on the other hand, The Diamondback at King's Island. Felt like you were flying, and the safety on that coaster was questionably small.

 

[Darren716]

I forget the name of it but in Darian Lake theres a free hang coaster and it was amazing (to those wondering why I didn't but the superman at Darian as my best, well it was closed the time I went because a veteran who had no legs got launched from it about a week before and died.) My worst would have to be the Comet at the great escape because I chickened out on that thing 3 separate times which was pretty damn humiliating.

 

[Ljs1121]

I quite love the Mr. Freeze at Six Flags St. Louis. I haven't ridden it since it was converted into Reverse Blast. I can imagine it would be awesome.

My worst experience was riding the Screaming Eagle for the first time (also at Six Flags St. Louis shut up I don't go anywhere very often). No one told me it was a rattling death trap made of wood that looked on the verge of collapse.

However, after I rode it I learned to love it. :3

 

[pikmaniac]

Just to be clear here, I have recorded my experiences on roller coasters before with no problems at all, but one time on my family's annual trip to Knoebels in Pennsylvania, I was recording on The Phoenix, and i dropped my camera on one of the hills. I was heartbroken, even though it was a relatively cheap camera. I had a 16gb card in it and it was chock full of family/assorted photos. :'(

 

[GenericAmerican]

Lol, wow my worst experience was actually the same as yours. I swear I broke my neck on that thing.

As for best. . .meh, roller coasters don't really do it for me. I find them, boring, for lack of a better word.

 

[bandman232]

Best would probably be Millennium Force at Cedar Point. amazingly fast and the curves are just so graceful.

Worst would probably be the Blue Streak at the same park. When I was 7, I was really small. After the first drop, I slid and nearly fell out of the ride. Afterward I had a massive fear of them I didn't get over until I was about 18.