Scariest or Most Intense Roller Coasters you've been on. - Would Blake shit his pants on the Top Thrill Dragster.

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Unless you live in the East Coast, Western Europe or SJW California. Getting coaster credits it much harder than ever. My 10 year old self was too stupid to realized Six Flags Magic Mountain was also near Los Angeles when I took a trip there otherwise I would've ridden coasters like X2 and Viper. I have also planned to go to Cedar Point in 2015 but never got to it. Had I, I would've gone on Top Thrill Dragster and Millennium Force. Unless I am a Robb Alvey out of nowhere, getting a lot of coaster credits is hard especially when the federal reserve runs the bank keeping everyone in debt. However, I have been on many coasters notable for being pretty intense and terrifying. I've been on pretty significant well known coasters like Manta, Aftershock and Silver Bullet but 2 of the coasters I've been on are contenders for the top place. Xcelerator is my current to date tallest coaster I've ever went on which is not much compared to coasters like Kingda Ka and Intimidator 305. But there was a coaster I went on that I haven't gone back to due to it's roughness of the ride. Mindbender at Galaxyland was notorious for it's 1986 crash but is currently the most intense ride I've ever went on and pulled off a lot more G-Forces (around 5.2 but others say it goes high as 6) than most other coasters out there in the world. It also looks really intimidating and is one of only 2 coasters to have a minimum 59 Inch Height requirement, the highest observed on any coaster, the other one being Tornado and M&D's in Scotland which is notorious for it's extremely rough ride. I really wanted to like Mindbender and I hope I could fulfill this if I ride it again.
 
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Rollercoasters are fun, it's the ones that take you up ridiculously high in the air and just drop you like the one that big boy died on a few weeks ago that really scare me. I rode one that went up to ~300 feet. They pause at the top to make you take a look and think about how high in the air you are with your feet dangling then drop you. Feels like your colon is coming out of your throat on the way down. I will never ever in my life ride one of those slingshot things. I don't like heights.
 
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i've been on almost every ride at cedar point, the millennium force and maverick were really fast and probably scary for a lot of people.

the top thrill dragster was fun but short. i don't really get "scared" on roller coasters but they'd probably scare the wind out of some people

i want to go on the slingshot this summer.
 
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Nitro at Six Flags Great Adventure. Kingda Ka is the obvious choice but Nitro is also tall, fast, and most importantly the seat is a tiny little moped that feels like it couldn't hold down lunch, much less an adult human. Truamatizingly fun.
 
I was peer pressured into going on this log ride coaster as a kid in my single digits. I vomited right after I got off it. Hated every second of the ride.
 
The Voyage at Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana. That woodie is utterly relentless. One of the best examples of a terrain coaster if there ever was one. I'd consider it Gravity Group's magnum opus.

 
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Lol, the worst part was that when I was there a few years ago, the train like two or three ahead of the one I ended up on had a rollback (which apparently happens a lot) because the launch system didn't quite have enough juice to get it over the drop. There were like 20 people who were at the end of that long-ass 2.5 hour line who just noped right the fuck out after seeing that. Here's a video if you want to see what that looks like from the rider perspective:

 
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Lol, the worst part was that when I was there a few years ago, the train like two or three ahead of the one I ended up on had a rollback (which apparently happens a lot) because the launch system didn't quite have enough juice to get it over the drop. There were like 20 people who were at the end of that long-ass 2.5 hour line who just noped right the fuck out after seeing that. Here's a video if you want to see what that looks like from the rider perspective:

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Holy SHIT. I love rollercoasters. Fuck, I’ve got almost 200 jumps (skydiving) to my name. That - nah. I did Kingda Ka a few years ago and if I would have seen this, I would have noped out of there too.
 
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The Georgia Twister, or something in Atlanta Six Flags. All wood, extremely rough ride. The day after cracking ribs from a high fall. I probably fucked myself for life because of that.
 
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Holy SHIT. I love rollercoasters. Fuck, I’ve got almost 200 jumps (skydiving) to my name. That - nah. I did Kingda Ka a few years ago and if I would have seen this, I would have noped out of there too.
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Skydiving is on my list of shit to do before I die. And where I live, probably relatively cheap, though assuredly not as safe as it would be in the US. Any advice for a first timer?
 
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Skydiving is on my list of shit to do before I die. And where I live, probably relatively cheap, though assuredly not as safe as it would be in the US. Any advice for a first timer?
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Do it. That’s the best advice I can give. It’s an amazing experience that I cannot accurately convey with words.

For your first jump (and subsequent 99), you’ll be connected to a tandem instructor. I would highly recommend you check out peer reviews for the instructors in your area. Most of the reviews via Google or Yelp are going to be focused on the aircraft itself and the instructors. No matter how much of a hard ass you think you are, staring down out of the aircraft for the first time is going to spook you. The harness you connect to the instructor is very secure and connects at four points, both shoulders and both sides of your hip. A lot of new jumpers are apprehensive toward the tandem instructors because, yes, you do get a long spiel about necessary safety procautions, etc., but once you’re falling, you’ll forget they exist until they rip that cord.

Got carried away there - I just really like to talk about skydiving. Anyway, advice:

- scope out reviews. Make sure that the instructors are given positive notes and that the aircraft doesn’t suck.
- gauge weather carefully and wear accommodating clothes. My first jump was kind of miserable. I jumped out of Cape Canaveral on a very hot day and wore a few layers of clothing, thinking that being higher up would mean that it’s colder. This was false, and where I thought I had pissed myself when everything was said and done, it turned out to be sweat.
- bring friends if you can. The experience is amplified tenfold with pals. Something that will be brought up in random conversations for years to come.
- don’t buy the egregiously overpriced GoPro footage. Seriously, it’s not worth it. It’s taken from the perspective of the instructor and has very little to do with you other than muffled screams.
 
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Do it. That’s the best advice I can give. It’s an amazing experience that I cannot accurately convey with words.

For your first jump (and subsequent 99), you’ll be connected to a tandem instructor. I would highly recommend you check out peer reviews for the instructors in your area. Most of the reviews via Google or Yelp are going to be focused on the aircraft itself and the instructors. No matter how much of a hard ass you think you are, staring down out of the aircraft for the first time is going to spook you. The harness you connect to the instructor is very secure and connects at four points, both shoulders and both sides of your hip. A lot of new jumpers are apprehensive toward the tandem instructors because, yes, you do get a long spiel about necessary safety procautions, etc., but once you’re falling, you’ll forget they exist until they rip that cord.

Got carried away there - I just really like to talk about skydiving. Anyway, advice:

- scope out reviews. Make sure that the instructors are given positive notes and that the aircraft doesn’t suck.
- gauge weather carefully and wear accommodating clothes. My first jump was kind of miserable. I jumped out of Cape Canaveral on a very hot day and wore a few layers of clothing, thinking that being higher up would mean that it’s colder. This was false, and where I thought I had pissed myself when everything was said and done, it turned out to be sweat.
- bring friends if you can. The experience is amplified tenfold with pals. Something that will be brought up in random conversations for years to come.
- don’t buy the egregiously overpriced GoPro footage. Seriously, it’s not worth it. It’s taken from the perspective of the instructor and has very little to do with you other than muffled screams.
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Thank you very much for the tips!

I actually live at 9000 or so feet elevation, so even on the ground here it isn't super warm. I've been in the higher mountains here, and it isn't that much colder, maybe 10 degrees F or so. Speaking of which, what is a typical height for a first tandem jump? As in plane to ground?

And as far as the GoPro thing, I have the same philosophy about that as I do pictures from coaster rides: I have a perfectly functioning brain that can remember shit (unless I'm drunk of course), what the fuck do I need a picture or video of something I can remember perfectly well on my own? And I'd imagine the wind noise from a GoPro on a skydive would pretty much eliminate any chance of hearing anything,
 
In the early to mid 2000s I loved going on coasters, me and my gf made a few trips around to different places, but Great Adventure and Cedar Point are the best places.

As it goes for scary or intense roller-coasters go.... Viper and Rolling Thunder were the best of the worst... I don't know exactly how to describe this. My gf would say a ride like Kingda Ka was scary/intense, but I didn't really agree. It was too fast, there was no pageantry to the experience.
Viper on the other hand was a really poorly designed coaster, having multiple negative G points and snap backs. The coaster would essentially spin you one direction and immediately launch you back the other way. It was painful and there for kind of intense.
Rolling Thunder because it seemed old, but it was a throwback kind of woodencoaster, which I'm a huge fan of. It has wooden trussing that was within arms reach if you were brave enough to go for it. There is just a charm to this kind of coaster, it could be dangerous without much effort on my part, which is exciting.
Kind of the issue with coasters is they are pretty much safer than sitting in your own living room, which really knocks down what I consider scary/intense.

But if I had to choose best coasters I've been on, Nitro, Great American Scream Machine, El Toro, Gemini, Millennium Force, Medusa, and Lightning Racer.
 
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