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Martyn B said:
I actually found Dinosaur at Animal Kingdom a little terrifying! It was quite nice actually, I hadn't felt that feeling on a dark ride for many years now.
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Same goes for me, I jump every time I go on it. To think it used to be even more scary.

Alien encounter was also scary.
 
marc said:
There different layouts one has more dips etc the other more corners so you get different levels of g (not that there's much)
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The only difference is they are mirrored. I've ridden that coaster hundreds of times. I could tell you exactly what you will experience from where I am now. Its a great ride even when it was really **** rough. I was on the last ride before it went down for rehab.

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Phoenix! Insane airtime on a ride with barely any restraints :eek:

For me personally I was pretty scared before riding Furius Baco too. Just hanging there, dangeling with your feet knowing you're seconds away of being launched into the fastest roller coaster of entire Europe..
 
KMG's Mission Space - I'd heard all about it beforehand and knew it was a crazy ride but seeing it up close was another matter entirely! I experienced similar anxious feelings prior to riding it, but once it started, I began to enjoy it and it was really good :)
 
Kingda Ka: the anticipation in line is the only time I ever felt true fear. Back in fifth grade.

Now, aside from the occasional first-ride-of-the-day-butterflies, fear isn't really a factor.
 
Bottom_Feeder_13 said:
Coaster basically had me crapping my pants from the first because of the restraint that was a good 20 cm above my thighs and amazing airtime. Two of the drops left my clinging to the lap bar every ride.

First ride on TTD was incredibly frightening but it isn't so much now.

X2 first drop was just **** incredible.

Tatsu's lift hill was another incredibly frightening experience the first time.

Skyrush when it started to remove my shirt on the first drop.
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Skyrush did that to me too! Which is why I tucked my shirt under the bar the second go-around. But, in the onride photo we bought from the second ride, it looks like I'm wearing short-shorts because it blew them back so far.
 
[quoe]The only time in a while I have been scared on a coaster was alpengeist, my restraint did not lock until we almost crested the lift.[/quote]

That happened to me on Alpengeist a few years ago as well, but nobody believes me. It was locked, then halfway up the lift it came unlocked and I had to keep pulling it back down until just before we crested when it finally locked.

Any tall launched coaster like Top Thrill Dragster or Ka are the scariest in my opinion. They're so daunting, especially when you're waiting to launch.

Vekoma Flying Dutchmen actually scare me for the simple fact I always feel like I'm slipping out of the restraints, but I wouldn't say they're scary rides.

Millennium Force and I-305 for their massive lift hills.

Skyrush for the simple fact that you basically die when you're on it.
 
I've had that latching thing happen to me a few times, it didn't come loose per se but it did pop out a notch, It doesn't really bother me because I am large enough that I straddle between the two notches, so half the rides have a looser harness while the other half are a little tighter. Now when the damn ride ops staple me....
 
If the seat belt is taught then it's unlocked, if it's not, then you're somewhere between "clicks". The B&M restraints always leave me with about two-three inches of "wobble" because I'm between the first click and the next one. The seem to have a large gap between one-click and the rest.

I've had conversations with UC about this and I can never remember the exact details. I'm pretty sure though that once the train leaves the station the "closed mechanism ratchet" is in operation. So the the restraints can get tighter and lock, but once they're in the "ratchet zone", they're locked.

The train can leave the station with the restraint open though and not "far enough down".

Somebody will know exactly how the locking mechanism works, but I'm pretty sure it's a simple system. When the train enters the station, there's that large runner that lifts and that pulls the "pin" that unlocks the restraint. When you leave, the runner pushes down and puts the restraint lock in place (or the ratchet lock mechanism). From that point, there's nothing to suddenly activate or deactivate the locking mechanism (except a key to unlock a restraint manually).

I think - please correct and add detail!

As for scary rides. Shot towers. I hate the anticipation because I hate the feeling of the airtime they give. They height doesn't help, but I find heights less and less worrying as time goes on.

Expedition GE Force made me nervous. It was the first "big ride" I'd really done since the US though, and there's something about the way the coaster suddenly dives off and away into the woods so far - it looks and feels much higher and more exposed than it is and there's slightly more anticipation than you get on say, Bizarro, because the track at the top just vanishes down into the trees and twists away.

Other than that, rides that swing "naturally" when up high. I don't like being high when unpredictable things are going on (so Star fliers, simple kids elevator rides, etc).
 
I did once hear that B&Ms have a locking thing which doesn't allow them to leave the station unless everything is locked up, but that's not to say things don't malfunction. I've been on enough B&Ms to know when something is just loose because it's between notches, or if it has come straight up, and I know for a fact the only thing that was holding the restraint down was the seatbelt. It eventually re-locked and I was able to pull it down right after it happened, but it was unnerving because it happened three quarters up the chain lift.
 
Busch gardens tour man said the restraints cannot be unlocked outside the station, unless there is a emergency. He also said there is like a pin that goes into the back of the restraint. I think there is a picture in my trip report, I can't post pictures on iPad.
 
Yeah, that's it pretty much. The ride can go out with the restraint not locked in by that pin though. However, when you pull the restraint down on the ride, it then locks into place because the pin is in.

So it's possible to leave the station and go up the lift hill with the restraint unchecked and unlocked. If you pull it down, or when you enter the first high-g element, it then hits the locking ratchet (the "pin") as the restraint presses into you. Once it's come down into the "locking zone" though, it's locked for good.
 
No, just slightly mistaken in your panic :lol:

If the lock "failed", it would have been failed right through. Yes, you could have gone out with the restraint fully "unlocked" though. It's just that when it catches into the lock, it's caught for good. The distance between open, locked and the next ratchet point can be huge though, so there's a chance you just didn't pull it down (in your panic :p ) to the lock point or to a tight enough ratchet.

The human brain is a million times more likely to malfunction than a simple locking mechanism ;)
 
LiveForTheLaunch said:
That happened to me on Alpengeist a few years ago as well, but nobody believes me. It was locked, then halfway up the lift it came unlocked and I had to keep pulling it back down until just before we crested when it finally locked.
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Good to know (or well, not good I guess) that someone else had something close to the same happen. Mine did not lock at all till close to the top, and yes it was unlocked and would not ratchet at all, I was not in between any clicks. The other 3 on my row had locked.
 
All drop towers over 200ft scare me. X2, the first time i rode it terrorfied me. The Big One's first drop always scares me because when you go over the first drop all you can see is the ocean plus the the cars rattle while going down the drop. Funnily enough, Big Wheels used to scare me, even not very tall ones, i haven't been on one for a while so they might not scare me now but i can't be bothered to ride any of them.
 
Call me a wuss if you may, but The Dark Knight Coaster at SFGAm scared the crap out of me. I have never felt more unsafe on a dark ride in my life. Sounds like a 150-year-old single-beam wooden structure under a 90-year-old iron beam track system.
 
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