You could not PAY me to ride this...

[lordlundar]

Not even under general anaesthesia.

Yep, I'm a wuss.

Well if you have a low tolerance for G-forces, you could get your general anaesthesia and the ride in the same run.

[Pixilated]

Well, maybe...if the check was good and had enough zeroes on it...

Not even under general anesthesia.

Yep, I'm a wuss.

[mjr]

They did?! Aww.

Yep. And the renovation cost almost twice as much as the coaster did to build originally...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Giant

[shopgirl15]

I'd ride it. This one, on the other hand, hell no:




Insanity the Ride is basically a "massive mechanical arm extending out 64 feet over the edge of the Stratosphere Tower at a height of over 900 feet, this Vegas ride will spin you and several other passengers in the open air at speeds of up to three 'G's."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Ci3Z8SD7csY

Read more at http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t...DxTrSVO6vAW.99

[BookstoreEscapee]

I live about half an hour from there. I've never been on that one but a couple years ago my friends talked me into going on Nitro. I felt like I was choking and it almost gave me a panic attack. Don't think I'll be doing that again. (I used to be able to handle roller coasters better; even some of the looping ones, but the really tall/fast extreme ones I just can't do. We had two kids with us for part of the day that day, and the rest of the group wanted to go on the Batman coaster; the 10-year-old was tall enough to do it, so I volunteered to take the 5-year-old to Bugs Bunny Land while the rest of them went on Batman.) I do like the wooden coasters better...Rolling Thunder was always my favorite at Great Adventure, and they have a newer wooden coaster that I wanted to go on when we were there but we didn't get over to that side of the park.

[PepperElf]

Exactly! People do not understand how I can ride coasters but not acceleration coasters. I love coaster's but even the old acceleration loops (the ones that just shot you through the loop and back) I couldn't do.

No, I understand. I have a friend who loves coasters but she can't do the electromagnetic ones cos it affects her head differently than the other coasters. (brain tumor)

Or like me and loop-de-loop rides that go in a giant arc or circle and keep leaving you upside down etc. Enough of those and I'll vomit. But a straight-drop / freefall ride doesn't affect me. Except in being awesome. (and coasters - those don't make me sick either)

[Akasa]

Some are now "Hybrid". Like at Six Flags Over Texas, they re-did the Texas Giant, so it now has a wooden structure, but steel tracks.

They did?! Aww.

[KhirasHY]

Some are now "Hybrid". Like at Six Flags Over Texas, they re-did the Texas Giant, so it now has a wooden structure, but steel tracks.

I used to love the Giant back when it was 100% wood...went there all the time when my dad was still alive.

I would totally go on this one though...I'm an amusement park junkie, so there's no ride too crazy. I've even gone on the Zipper, which AFAIK causes the most injuries of any amusement park ride out there

[Titi]

I'll do coasters, but not the acceleration ones. I rode whatever Six Flags NJ had for one back in the late 90s (maybe Batman and Robin?), and it just destroyed my inner ear for the following day. I was fine until waking up the next morning, and as I was getting up fell out of bed. The world just spun and I couldn't make my brain understand which way was up. Not fun. And I've not tried another one since.

Exactly! People do not understand how I can ride coasters but not acceleration coasters. I love coaster's but even the old acceleration loops (the ones that just shot you through the loop and back) I couldn't do.

[PepperElf]

That was a pretty short ride

i don't mind wild coasters - i road one electromagnetic one that was WILD - but... i'd prefer something that was longer than that one

[FormerCallingCardRep]

Here is the video for Top Thrill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAOQBlDDC7M

[iradney]

Moved to CIO

[lordlundar]

I think it's supposed to be more about the speed and the height than the length of the ride.

That almost sounded sexual...

Some designers often us "orgasmic" as a term for some of their rides soo...

[Ophbalance]

I'll do coasters, but not the acceleration ones. I rode whatever Six Flags NJ had for one back in the late 90s (maybe Batman and Robin?), and it just destroyed my inner ear for the following day. I was fine until waking up the next morning, and as I was getting up fell out of bed. The world just spun and I couldn't make my brain understand which way was up. Not fun. And I've not tried another one since.

[mjr]

Meh. Too short.

I think it's supposed to be more about the speed and the height than the length of the ride.

That almost sounded sexual...