Theme park rides which you found too excruciating to enjoy

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Let's be honest, even if you love rollercoasters and thrill rides, there's probably been at least one ride which you found too much to deal with and left you slightly traumatised.

For me, that was yesterday, and even though I've done loads of rollercoasters and other "thrill rides" over the years, it was a ride called Aeronaut at Winter Wonderland which pushed things over the edge. If you want to seek out videos of the thing, please do so, but it is so much worse to actually do and is quite deceptive when you're just looking at the ride as an observer.

I have to remember never again to go on any ride that spins you in the air. I ****ing hate it, and yesterday was no different. I spent half the time with my eyes closed and it took me about 1-2 hours to psychologically recover.

What other rides have you done which pushed things a little too far for your own comfort zone?

To end on a positive note... the best thrill ride/rollercoaster I've been on is Colossus at Thorpe Park. It's such a beautifully designed rollercoaster with loads of variety.

Oh, and I should give a shout out to Waltzers as a positive addition as well, those spin but are actually fun since they're on the ground, but they can be pretty intense. Again, simple but deceptive.

EDIT: The ride in question

 
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The swings that go stupidly high, never look like they've been built correctly. Done it once, never again.

Pretty sure one snapped a while back too.
 
I haven't been on any rides since being a teenager that have made me scared in any way. I still find most of them fun but I think like Freddie off Top Gear, my heart rate will barely raise.
 
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Rip Ride Rocket at Universal Studios in Orlando. It should be fun but the rate that it throws you about in the seat is enough to re-arrange your skeleton. Cheetah Hunt at Busch Gardens because of the daft harness restraint it uses which doesn't cater to tall people. I'm 6'5 and came off the ride with both my shoulders in absolute agony, granted one of them had been surgically repaired about 6 weeks prior! :D
 
Rock n roller coaster at disneyland Paris is just a pure assault on the senses, I was ok but some of the riders were traumatised.

Not a rollercoaster but the worst was this. I don’t really like heights so I will never know what possessed me to go on this.

 
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Only one was The bullet at Flamingo land that now doesn't exist. Your head would head rolled around like it was in a tin can and bounced everywhere off the headrest. Came off dizzy.
 
Haggisman said:
I love roller coasters, e.g. will happily go on the Smiler multiple times back to back, but anything which spins = instant dizziness and travel sickness :(
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I am like this, I went on a waltzers at Drayton Manor I think and it took me 2hours+ to be able to do anything else.

Now I just don't bother with theme parks.
 
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Last time I went on a ride was some kind of octopus/orbiter that was spinning me around in the air and wiggling up and down. I wasn't remotely properly secured in and felt like at any moment I'd become a newspaper headline. I hung on for my life, survived it, threw up, and vowed never to do it again. Not worth the risk.
 
Went to Phantasialand while in Cologne for the chrimbo markets one year. One of the first rides we went on was Crazy bats, a VR rollercoaster.

Soon I discovered VR was very much not for me when combined with motion, felt sick as a dog...

Decided to take it easy with a flat ride, and randomly chose the Feng Ju Palace, thinking it was a walk around mad house type thing like another in the park. Nope. Full spinning room. https://www.phantasialand.de/en/theme-park/one-of-a-kind-attractions/feng-ju-palace/

Possibly the most excruciating minutes I've spent on a ride. Stared at the non-moving table in front as closing my eyes or looking around did not do me wonders.
 
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Begbie said:
The swings that go stupidly high, never look like they've been built correctly. Done it once, never again.

Pretty sure one snapped a while back too.
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There's one at Winter Wonderland called Star Flyer. It's 70 metres up and is just chairs attached with chains.

I went on it one winter and it felt like the chair was going to swing round on itself and twist the chain. I mean, it probably wasn't but it felt like that and it wasn't fun.

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Star Flyer

Take in the views from the top of the giant 70 metre chair swing...
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Interestingly, rollercoasters like Maus [which I've been on three times now, I think] are actually designed so you think the car will fall off the edge of the track, even though it won't.

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Wild mouse - Wikipedia

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VincentHanna said:
Weirldy I am alright on rollercoasters that spin around though, like the Spinball Whizzer at Alton Towers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinball_Whizzer or this at 6 Flags California:
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I think I prefer rollercoasters because you're on a track. But anything which suspends you in the air and throws you around is a massive no-no.
 
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HecFam said:
Decided to take it easy with a flat ride, and randomly chose the Feng Ju Palace, thinking it was a walk around mad house type thing like another in the park. Nope. Full spinning room. https://www.phantasialand.de/en/theme-park/one-of-a-kind-attractions/feng-ju-palace/

Possibly the most excruciating minutes I've spent on a ride. Stared at the non-moving table in front as closing my eyes or looking around did not do me wonders.
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To be honest that looks pretty ****ed up.
 
Montu, Busch Gardens, Florida. It is huge and when walking towards it, as the ride goes literary over your head, feel need to duck just in case to get hit on the head by the dangling legs.

Dad (obviously too old for rides now) - his face went pale on the sight of it. He was mid 40s then.

He never reacted to other rides like that
 
robfosters said:
Not a rollercoaster but the worst was this. I don’t really like heights so I will never know what possessed me to go on this.
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This is literally the worst kind of ride for me. There's one called Blizzard which is the same deal. Just a straight pin with cars at either end which throws you around a fulcrum. Blizzard also has these turbines which whine as it goes around which just makes the experience so much worse. I can hardly even look at that ride, let alone go on it.
 
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