I'm sure that a vast percentage of us on here prefer a coaster to a flat ride, and I am most certainly one of them, but every now and again you get a cool flat ride that you just can't ignore.
However, they seem to have quite a short life span, and once you can remember the name for one it buggers off into the land of extinct flat rides. If you had the opportunity to bring one back, what would it be?
My number one is the Break Dance. About 5 years ago they were everywhere, and I took them for granted. Now when I find one I get so bloody excited, but chances are it's defunct or in pieces. The last one I rode was in La Rone (Montreal) in 2007. Before, you could've gone to Pleasure Island (Cleethorpes), Alton or Chessington and be able to ride one. Even when I went to Port Aventura a year ago I eagerly went to their Break Dance, just to find it in different pieces behind a wooden fence. It's a great shame.
Another one (which is more a particular ride than a 'breed') is Energizer/ Bone Shaker at Alton. A brilliant flat ride, and I wish those rumours about it going to Chessington were true because it would've fitted in like lettuce in a salad. I didn't even ride it until it was Bone Shaker. Such a waste of good flat ride years!
So what about you? Which flat rides do you wish were still as popular as the once was? Or which flat rides do you feel are on the break of extinstion, and now we take for granted but in 5 or so years we'll be wishing they were as easy to ride as they are today?
What do you think?
However, they seem to have quite a short life span, and once you can remember the name for one it buggers off into the land of extinct flat rides. If you had the opportunity to bring one back, what would it be?
My number one is the Break Dance. About 5 years ago they were everywhere, and I took them for granted. Now when I find one I get so bloody excited, but chances are it's defunct or in pieces. The last one I rode was in La Rone (Montreal) in 2007. Before, you could've gone to Pleasure Island (Cleethorpes), Alton or Chessington and be able to ride one. Even when I went to Port Aventura a year ago I eagerly went to their Break Dance, just to find it in different pieces behind a wooden fence. It's a great shame.
Another one (which is more a particular ride than a 'breed') is Energizer/ Bone Shaker at Alton. A brilliant flat ride, and I wish those rumours about it going to Chessington were true because it would've fitted in like lettuce in a salad. I didn't even ride it until it was Bone Shaker. Such a waste of good flat ride years!
So what about you? Which flat rides do you wish were still as popular as the once was? Or which flat rides do you feel are on the break of extinstion, and now we take for granted but in 5 or so years we'll be wishing they were as easy to ride as they are today?
What do you think?
