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Blackhole6670

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Have you ever wanted to ride a ride but could not for reasons? Post what rides you wanted to go on here but could not. The ride that I wanted to ride but could not because it is leaving is the power surge ride at beech bend park. The rides can include any kind of ride including roller coasters.
 
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Many a coaster has spited me, perhaps most painfully The Coney Island Cyclone and Xcelerator at Knotts Berry Farm.
 
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Other than El toro, and the whole of coney island a few years ago, I've been quite lucky - although I missed out on noahs ark, the frisby and a thunderbolt reride at kennywood because it was rather busy.

One I do remember from when I was little was "Super Looper" at great yarmouth - it was like a Fireball. Mum wouldn't let me on it because she didn't think I was old enough - and the year she said yes before we went, was the year they'd taken it down! (I don't think I've done a fireball type ride - but I should get the (utterly unique!!!) one at SFGA this year.
 
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Half the stuff at CP, SFA, and Hersheypark cause of time

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Falcon's Fury. Opened just after I got home, spite.
 
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Off the top of my head would be the stupid kiddie woodie at Rye - http://rcdb.com/232.htm?p=0 - They don't let adults on it and only sometimes during ACE or NAPHA events will they let limited numbers of adults ride it... I guess it bugs me as I've been to the park a dozen times and still don't have it. It's also the only operating woodie I've seen but not ridden (and one of just 19 wood coasters in the US I've not ridden...)
 
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^ Those trains look so fab! <3

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Lake Compounce Kiddie Cred and Great Pumpkin Coaster at Kings Island both need kids for. I had my cousin Joe at Kings Dominion so I got on that Great Pumpkin but Jarrett wasn't enough to get me on the one at KI.

Tons have opened after I have visited the park and I haven't been back since.

A rare one that CanobieFan is familiar with is Rockin Rider at Canobie. There is a picture of me on the tilt a whirl when I was a kid and In the background was Rockin Rider and I never went on it. I never thought I went when it was around until I found the picture.

Jr. Gemini because my cousin didn't want to ride with me and I didn't know I could get a pass like Jarrett did.
 
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Kiddie Coaster at Rye Playland, I probably wouldn't of have fit in those tiny ass trains anyways.
 
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There were some spites during the years, but the one that I still wail a tad about is Sierra Tonannte. We've visited Mirabilandia twice back when it was still operating. First time, back in 2003, when I was 6, riding it wasn't even an option. I was too small, dad was sick and mom was never a fan of 'extreme thrills'. Then we've revisited the place 2 years later, that time with my older cousin. I did want to ride it that time around, but they had some funky age restriction posted (basically, you had to buy a full-price ticket to ride it), so, paired with a rather long queue, I have annoyed everyone else (bar my mum, who didn't wish to ride it anyways) not to ride it. It is something that still annoys me to this date, since I can guess that the age restriction was never really enforced there...

Other notable spites include: Montu (down for maintenance), Shockwave at Brean (technical difficulties) and a couple of creds I had to skip, since I was running a bit short on time (Avalanche in PBB, Green Lantern at SFMM).
 
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Virginia Reel at BPB. Couldn't ride it because it was demolished 20 years before I was born!
 
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^So were a lot of other coasters.....

For me, Big Dipper and The Smiler, even though I'd been on both before. Big Dipper in 2009, when it was being re-tracked (or whatever), after a series of accidents and The Smiler last July on a school trip in the single rider queue. It moved extraordinarily slowly (I've heard since that the Smiler's does that.....) and I ran out of time.
 
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Son of Beast closed the week before I got there. Probably a good thing.
 
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elephant58 said:
^So were a lot of other coasters.....
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Kind of, but...

Blackpool's was they last off the Reels and maybe 20 years is a long time, but when the others were destroyed 50+ years before and on different continents, in context it's kind of reasonable... Kind of...

It's certainly the ride I most regret either not riding or not having the memory of riding (I went to Blackpool five years in a row before it was demolished and I was tall enough to ride it, but I have no memory of if I did or not, but I remember Morecambe at the same age clearly [/frustration] )

It was unique at the time. A relic from a prior age that I doubt will every be repeated.

I console myself by pretending it probably ride the same as a bloody modern spinning mouse ;)
 
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Coney Island was one of the biggest spites I've yet to experience. We spent ages getting there on the metro, only for it to be closed due to the weather. The worst thing was, it opened later in the day and there was no time to go back.

I really wanted to go to Lightwater Valley to ride the Ultimate during my many visits to the UK, but never got to.

Another really sad one was wanting to polish off the rest of the creds at Seaworld Orlando. I have Journey to Atlantis from ages ago, but last year when I went to Florida with AJ I had to arrive a day later than he did due to work, meaning he got to go and I didn't. Bummer because we pulled up to it in the parking lot on the shuttle bus to Islands of Adventure, which added insult to injury.

Lastly, I really wanted to reride Montu and Kumba, but the weather and idiotic park operations put that plan to rest.
 
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Only one I remember vividly was as a younger lad, Expedition Everest had troubles, so it slowed the line down to a stop for like two hours, and then they closed it anyway. Devastated.
 
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I've been pretty lucky really. There have been a few rides scattered around that I was too tall for, but obviously they weren't anything more than a +1. In terms of anything major:

Eejanaika - I missed the opening by about week on my first Fuji-Q visit, and it was down for the day on my second visit a few years later.

Journey to Atlantis (Orlando) - Down for scheduled maintenance, which I didn't know about beforehand

Gwazi - Missed it by about 2 weeks

I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of anything else off-hand at the moment.
 
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Quite a let down at an otherwise great park was that I was not allowed to ride the Intamin Invert Tornado at Parque De Attraciones Madrid last year. I has a ridiculous max height of 1,82 meters. I rode the Intamin Invert at Sarkeniemmi in Turku, Finland which had a max height restriction of 1,95 meters... :evil:

But restrictions were overall quite low. The Maurer X-Car Abismo had a 2,05 meters restriction while Skyline-Park and Linnamaki allow 2,15 meter riders. Must be thing about ultra-careful Spanish authorities.
 
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^ 1,82m? That's ridiculously low! Are they branding it as a kids ride or what? I mean, that's like *just* above the average male height in most of the European countries (Spain possibly omitted, since I have a feeling they are a tad smaller on average than rest of the continent is).
 
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My biggest spite is Pegasus at Efteling <//3 I was too scared to go on coasters and only got into them after it was demolished. It will always be my biggest regret no matter how **** it was :(
 
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