View Full Version : Rollercoasters - what are your thoughts?
AnnieK
11-08-2023, 01:03 PM
My son is currently in Thorpe Park with his cousins and keeps sending me photos of the rides he's been on. I have watched the rides on YouTube and they are all terrifying to me. I used to ride anything when I was younger and now I'm older I'm scared of everything :laugh:
Do you like the big rides or not?
I'm a bit up and down with them Annie...depends on my mood.
Crimson Dynamo
11-08-2023, 01:29 PM
Love them
As a kid i loved the Wild MOuse at Blackpool (no longer there). My Dad took my Mum on it on their Honeymoon and my MUm hated it and never went on any rides like that again:joker:
The cars were tiny
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AnnieK
11-08-2023, 01:43 PM
Love them
As a kid i loved the Wild MOuse at Blackpool (no longer there). My Dad took my Mum on it on their Honeymoon and my MUm hated it and never went on any rides like that again:joker:
The cars were tiny
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I remember the Wild Mouse - my mum would never let us go on it - until they said they were removing it and we went on it then. It was wicked.
We went to Blackpool and Alton Towers every summer as kids and went on everything - last year I took the boy and his friend to Blackpool and was traumatised by everything I went on with them.
The rides are Thorpe Park all look terrifying - but he is having the time of his life right now. :laugh:
i could never go an any of those rides that went really high and swung about. I was fairly ok with going on the other ones, most of the time
Crimson Dynamo
11-08-2023, 01:54 PM
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AnnieK
11-08-2023, 02:38 PM
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Its my boys dream to go and ride this :worry:
He's going alone :laugh:
arista
11-08-2023, 02:42 PM
Yes love them going through the Water
Don't have any thoughts. Never been on one.
I did once go on the Runaway train at American adventure land on a School trip. But that didn’t have any huge drops or loops.
Not a big rides fan.
Anyone been on the big one at Blackpool?
Mystic Mock
11-08-2023, 09:38 PM
Not for me.
Cherie
11-08-2023, 09:39 PM
used to love them but not so much now
Don't have any thoughts. Never been on one Anyone been on the big one at Blackpool?
I think LT did in 1992
LaLaLand
12-08-2023, 02:52 AM
I don't like the upside down/vertical/mega-fast/thrash you about rides.
I love the big wooden/big dippers and stuff like that though. Nothing extreme just a car, a track and some big hills. Great fun!
LaLaLand
12-08-2023, 02:54 AM
Love them
As a kid i loved the Wild MOuse at Blackpool (no longer there). My Dad took my Mum on it on their Honeymoon and my MUm hated it and never went on any rides like that again:joker:
The cars were tiny
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2HK4G1B/legacy-dslr-images-of-pleasure-beach-blackpool-including-the-old-wild-mouse-ride-amanda-thompson-pre-icon-ghost-train-big-one-infusion-ice-2HK4G1B.jpg
Loved this as a kid! Loved Blackpool Pleasure Beach back in the 90's. Was even brave enough once when I was about 8 years old to go on the Big One at Blackpool - I don't know how, I could never be brave enough to do it now! :hehe:
Redway
12-08-2023, 06:05 AM
Love them well enough. I’ll ride pretty much anything.
Vanessa
12-08-2023, 09:10 AM
I'm scared of them :laugh:
But recently I have done some smaller ones and a drop ride.
It was called The Hangover. Terrifying :bawling:
thesheriff443
12-08-2023, 09:35 AM
A ride with excitement fear and danger for me usually comes with a pair of legs
thesheriff443
12-08-2023, 09:36 AM
I think LT did in 1992
Was that the first mrs lt?
AnnieK
12-08-2023, 09:55 AM
I've been on the Big One a few times when it first opened. I spent ages watching it and then bottling it then a little kid got off it and wanted to go again so I decided to stop being a baby and go on. Loved it once it was over lol.
Last time I went to blackpool it broke down half way up and everyone had to walk back down....that would kill me off I think
Crimson Dynamo
12-08-2023, 10:06 AM
I’ll ride pretty much anything.
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Redway
12-08-2023, 10:47 AM
I've been on the Big One a few times when it first opened. I spent ages watching it and then bottling it then a little kid got off it and wanted to go again so I decided to stop being a baby and go on. Loved it once it was over lol.
Last time I went to blackpool it broke down half way up and everyone had to walk back down....that would kill me off I think
I went on a Big One simulator in north Wales once (which was quite nice) but I haven’t actually done the Blackpool thing properly yet.
Redway
12-08-2023, 10:48 AM
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Head out of the gutter, man. Come on.
Crimson Dynamo
12-08-2023, 10:52 AM
Head out of the gutter, man. Come on.
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user104658
12-08-2023, 09:22 PM
Loved them as a teenager, pretty sure I'd lose my lunch on one now.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach is celebrating the centenary of its Big Dipper ride.
One of the oldest wooden rollercoasters in the world, it opened on 23 August 1923.
Andy Hygate, head of operations at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, described the Grade II listed structure as "very special".
"Amusement parks change and adapt but you hold on to those things that are magical," he said, adding: "It's the history that's attached to it."
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