Funny things you have heard the GP say

[Freddie1]

I saw this thread at sfne.com, and thought I would start a similar one here. So, whats the funniest thing you have heard the GP say? Mine was in the Q for Boulder Dash, the lady behind me said to her son as she watched the train come down the first drop "wow, that doesn't look safe. It's not even steel, it's made of wood. How is that safe? Look at the whol thing move when the train comes." Meanwhile, about 25-30ft back, a big sign at the start of the Q reads: "Boulder Dash: Voted #1 WOODEN coaster blah blah blah." Another classic is when standing in the Q for any Vekoma Boomerang, they say "it goes BACKWARDS?!?!?"

So share your funniest GP moments.

[Harpo]

I've heard far more than I have time to share here!

Two of my favorites...

On a rainy day at Cedar Point, a lady turned to her friend and said, " The weatherman said there was a chance of thunderstorms. He never said it was going to rain." Of course, rainless thunderstorms are so remarkably common, I could see where she could be confused.

Near Cedar Point's Thunder Canyon, a teen turned to his friend and said, "See, I told you. It's that thing where you sit in the thing." Now, who could argue with that? I've never heard a clearer description for any ride.

[Small Print]

When queueing for nemesis, my friend goes "I feel sick, my stomach wont take it".
I said "Yes it will, weve just been on rita for god sake"
Then he said "yeah but this ones got a drop in it."
:weird: and went out the queue.

[BorisTheFish]

funniest one i heard was for Slammer @ Thorpe Park, next to some chavs.....in the queue its not hard to miss the fact this ride inverts, but somehow the chav didnt realise, got on the ride, and half way through the turn said "No one told me this goes upside down"

i know i've heard more, its just my memories screwy lately

edit: actually - same thing happened to my sister @ BGT on the Pirate ship next to Wild Mouse.

[RCT2head]

i gotta say one of the best i've heard recently was when i was going to my room in hotel Breakers... i know that really doesn't count as a queue... but the lady was like "i'm all sunburned, but I did use 60 Proof." I wonder what's in that suntan lotion...

[Freddie1]

oh heres a good one I just remembered. At SFNE, a small kid (probibly 6 or 7) asked his mom if he could go on Superman Ride Of Steel. She said no, and he said "is it because people die on it?"

[MrPKI]

Here's one I heard on another board. I personally didn't witness this, but if I had I would have been cracking up.

Some guy said he was standing in line for Face/Off at PKI (Vekoma Inverted Boomerang). Here's what he overheard in the queue.

"This is taking forever. How come they don't run more than one train."

I'll have to think if I've ever overheard anything weird.

[Your_Name_Here]

"Shei-Kra doesn't go straight down, it curves"




wtf? :bulb:

[Harpo]

Woman in her 30's, talking to her little girl, and pointing to the kiddy-sized Dodgem cars: "Would you like to ride the pony, dearie?"

Person walking up to a weight guesser, where the guesser (who happened to be me) was standing in front of a 7 foot tall scale: "Can you tell me where them things is where you get yourself weighed?"

(Incidentally, on that one, I couldn't help myself... I turned to take a good look at the huge Toledo scale, then turned back to the man and said, "I have no idea." He then proceeded to walk away.)

Small child comes running up to weight guesser, bouncing wildly from one foot to the other: "Excuse me, sir. Can you tell me where I can find a bathroom?" (I'll give the kid credit. In spite of having an obviously desperate need for the bathroom, the kid was polite! Again, the role of the weight guesser was played by me.)

[BorisTheFish]

dunno if this counts, but when at my nearby zoo, the little kids there say the funniest things (so do some of those teens)

1) (looking in Elephant enclosure) "See that poo mum, that's elephant poo"
2) (looking at elephant enclosure at the fence with 1 foot gaps between horizontal rails) "can't the elephants escape through such large holes in the fence?"
and the best one ever:
this animal was in an enclosure: http://www.totallywild.net/images/animals/hoofstock/bongo1.jpg
and some kid ran up to the fence and said "Look mum, a Giraffe!" (there were no Giraffes in this park anyway)

[Kadillac]

In line for Poltergeist, it launches and it gets launched through a tunnel and the screams echo and they sound really loud and the guy in front of me goes 'God they scream like little girls!'. So once they launch his train, he had the most annoying high-pitched scream and I knew it was him because he was in the outside car and screamed before anyone else.

[David Ellis]

My favourite, which I have heard on many occasions is "let's sit in the back seats...it goes faster than the front"...to which I usually reply "think about it, when was the last time the back seats arrived back in the station first" (of course this doesn't work on X:\ No Way Out at Thorpe Park...which runs backwards!

David.

[WoddenWarior]

In line for Thunder Run at SFKK (a woodie coaster where you can see the entire track from the ground) I overheard someone say "Does this have a loop?"

Yeah! It's one of those invisible ones!

...here's yur sign! :p

[Kadillac]

well maybe they thought there was a part of the track you couldnt see

[WoddenWarior]

Originally posted by Kadillac
well maybe they thought there was a part of the track you couldnt see

'Twas a woodie. There's only one in the world that loops. Coaster n00bs are annoying. :p

[Italianpnoy112]

Funniest one I've heard was, "Mommy the coaster broke, I don't want to die can I not go?" It was on medusa, it was just stuck on the lift :weird:


Once I overheard someone saying, "Kong is sooo cool, it does like 10 loops!" I was like, wth, look more closely.:haha:

[BorisTheFish]

Originally posted by David Ellis
My favourite, which I have heard on many occasions is "let's sit in the back seats...it goes faster than the front"...to which I usually reply "think about it, when was the last time the back seats arrived back in the station first" (of course this doesn't work on X:\ No Way Out at Thorpe Park...which runs backwards!

David.
runs backwards, and occasionally goes slightly fowards....the biggest WTF coaster in the world!

[MrPKI]

I thought of one now. My brother and I were in line for Flight of Fear at PKI and these two maybe 20 year-olds behind us started arguing about whether it was wooden or steel. We finally had to tell them it was steel. lol! Launched Wooden Coasters:haha:

[WoddenWarior]

Originally posted by MrPKI
Launched Wooden Coasters:haha:

BOY! You'd have to replace the track quite a bit!

[SnooSnoo]

Heard by TTD:


"The Second Hill is the best on this ride"


Heard COUNTLESS TIMES, and even thought of by myself... accidently...

"1/4 hour wait, so its 25 minutes?"


Heard in line for Millennium Force (I wanted to so tell this guy he was so wrong, and my friends agreed, but he turned the corner before we could say anything)

"I heard CP is running out of room, so they were going to move Magnum and Blue Streak over to Geauga Lake for more space. Those rides aren't any good anyway."

[Kadillac]

Originally posted by WoddenWarior
'Twas a woodie. There's only one in the world that loops. Coaster n00bs are annoying. :p

Are you callin me a noob? I was saying what they mighta thought. Cuz my dad or mom dont know that there is only one woodie with a loop/

And now that is funny. WTF was they talking about? Magnum and Blue Streak are the best ones they got.

[nickdaegg]

Dunno if this counts, but a girl got her hand stuck in the RITA fence at Alton Towers trying to get a 5p! Her dad had to break the fence to get her hand out. *Evil Laughter*:noob:

[Plokoon111]

Hmmm, this 22 year old was in line onto a wildmouse, and he says with his friends "This is scary, Im not going on it!"

and this boys mom says, "Your not going on the hymulaya!" later , "Your not going on the Tornado ride!" And most recently sadi, "No going in the darkride!" the boy thats about 12, says, "mom, god dangit, cant I go on something fun!"

[Freddie1]

I just remembered one from a long time ago. It's kind of pwning my dad, because he said it. This was either the Yankee Cannonball @ Canobie, or the Comet @ Hershey (can't remembber). Ok, going up the lift, my dad looked at the hand rails on the side (you know the rails on a woodie for the maintence workers) and said "those little 2x4 rails are supposed to stop the train from falling off if it derails?" It was a long time ago, (I was about 7, so I didn't think anything of it) but now that I remember it had me rotfl. :haha:

[KingdaKa1]

I aggree. Coaster newbies are so weird. Heres one, heard this from a friend in school.

Kingda Ka originaly was supposed to launch at 150 MPH, but when they tested it, three water dummies came out, so it went down to 128.

Here this one from a kid on the Lax Team.

My cousin just rode Kingda Ka, it's been open since Febuary.

First of all, SF isn't even open in March, and he said this 2 months before Kingda Ka opened.:weird:.

[Harpo]

A girl (about 8 years old) and her mom came up to my Guessing Game location, with the girl wanting me to guess her birth month.

I guessed it exactly right. Then, I said, "Why don't we give Mom's birthday a try to see if she can get you a prize?"

With that, the girl started crying. I asked what was wrong. She said, "It's no fair! You're psychic!"

I said, "What makes you say that?"

She responded, "You knew my birthday, and you knew her name is Mom!"

Somehow, it didn't help when I then said, "I call everybody Mom, even my own!"

[Small Print]

are you wieght guessers pshycic, or just study for years on the human anatomy?

[David Ellis]

an interesting question that...I have always wondered about the "science" behind weight guessers...are you able to give any clues?

David.

[Harpo]

Like the directions to get to Carnegie Hall....

Practice, man, practice!

I did have one amusing episode, however, where I guessed some lady's birthday right on, and said to her an old line of: "Hey, you guessed what I wrote! You must be one of them there psychics!" Her response was, "Actually, I am."

Although I kept this opinion to myself, I was thinking, well, if you didn't know what I wrote such that you could change your answer to win the prize, you must not be a particularly good psychic! :D

[jonnyrocks]

Well their building a new ride at my local park (Progect stealth, Thorpe park) and I was looking up at Salisbury Cathedral, which is right by my school, and wondering out loud how tall it was so I could compare it to the new, 200ft coaster.

My friend, who was standing next to me remarks, I dont know, about 400ft, buti went on this ride at Alton towers, called Oblivion, and i think it was 401ft or something...........

And this isn't a person who likes to show off or anything. He genuanly thought it was!:haha: :haha: :haha:

[littlelolligagged]

Originally posted by Harpo
A girl (about 8 years old) and her mom came up to my Guessing Game location, with the girl wanting me to guess her birth month.

I guessed it exactly right. Then, I said, "Why don't we give Mom's birthday a try to see if she can get you a prize?"

With that, the girl started crying. I asked what was wrong. She said, "It's no fair! You're psychic!"

I said, "What makes you say that?"

She responded, "You knew my birthday, and you knew her name is Mom!"

Somehow, it didn't help when I then said, "I call everybody Mom, even my own!"
That's hilarious. :) I can totally picture my daughter doing something like that.

[Freddie1]

Originally posted by jonnyrocks
Well their building a new ride at my local park (Progect stealth, Thorpe park) and I was looking up at Salisbury Cathedral, which is right by my school, and wondering out loud how tall it was so I could compare it to the new, 200ft coaster.

My friend, who was standing next to me remarks, I dont know, about 400ft, buti went on this ride at Alton towers, called Oblivion, and i think it was 401ft or something...........

And this isn't a person who likes to show off or anything. He genuanly thought it was!:haha: :haha: :haha:

LOL. well, 200ft above ground is quite different than 150 ft underground. he is in for a wake up call >:)

[RTCnoob384]

some kid at school thought apollo's chariot was the tallest coaster in USA... had to tell him it was kingda ka...

[RCT2head]

i'd slap somebody if they said that... unless they've never been... :D

[Your_Name_Here]

Originally posted by RTCnoob384
some kid at school thought apollo's chariot was the tallest coaster in USA... had to tell him it was kingda ka...

Kingda Ka doesn't count.


but still, Apollo's Chariot isn't the tallest even if you don't count TTD and KK.

[MDEKing]

In line for Raptor.

"This was the first one to go under the tracks." It was a younger one so I didn't bother to say anything.

You hear some interesting stuff when you're waiting in line.

[Freddie1]

Originally posted by MDEKing
In line for Raptor.

"This was the first one to go under the tracks." It was a younger one so I didn't bother to say anything.

You hear some interesting stuff when you're waiting in line.

Meet some intresting people too. I met a guy and his daughter (probibly 11 or 12) who were very nice. Got to talking to them, and talked about the coaster we were waiting in line for (Wildcat @ The Lake). It seems fine to fire up a conversation with a completely random person in a Q. I got to talk to some ACEs, and have a bit of a conversation with them too. I find a ride Q to be a very friendly place. :)

[live_the_thrill]

Originally posted by David Ellis
My favourite, which I have heard on many occasions is "let's sit in the back seats...it goes faster than the front"...to which I usually reply "think about it, when was the last time the back seats arrived back in the station first" (of course this doesn't work on X:\ No Way Out at Thorpe Park...which runs backwards!

David.

Actually, I said that a few times, before I realised it was al-wrong. From now on I say it is more intense at the back!

Thinking about it, I feel like an idiot.

In queues, I am normally behind or in front of some loud kids, who won’t stop talking about how big they are. What is funny is that they try to scare you, saying all this stuff, but when you get on the ride, your having fun, and they are screaming like mice!

[RCT2head]

like @ BGW a while back...

'hey, this is the one that shoots you straight out, right?'
'hey, let's go see if the gondolas send u to a rollercoaster'
'i won't ride wilde mause, too scary... but apollo's chariot isn't'

[Your_Name_Here]

Originally posted by live_the_thrill
Actually, I said that a few times, before I realised it was al-wrong. From now on I say it is more intense at the back!

Thinking about it, I feel like an idiot.

Usually when people say that it's faster in the back, they mean that it gets off of the lifthill the last, so that it's going faster longer than the front I guess.......I don't know, thinking about it makes my head hurt. :p

[TheSkipper]

In line for Kraken the day I rode it 52 times. I was in the front seat Q which is marked and has a few signs stating that it's longer wait, etc. The people behind me asked why people didn't just go and get in cars further back.

Another trip, another batch? "Oh, this is the front seat line? I don't want to ride there because of all the wind"

On Hurler, 1996, my 48th B day, to girls 23 & 24 seated behind me.
Aproaching the station afterwards, one said, "I think we are getting too old for coasters, don't you?" to her friend.

Kraken, late afternoon, met some California people who said that all the best coasters they had ridden were east of the Mississippi.

[Your_Name_Here]

Originally posted by TheSkipper

On Hurler, 1996, my 48th B day, to girls 23 & 24 seated behind me.
Aproaching the station afterwards, one said, "I think we are getting too old for coasters, don't you?" to her friend.


Wow, you can never be too old for roller coasters, man. :p I mean, unless you're dead......and unless your dying wish wasn't to have your body permanently attached to a roller coaster.... :bulb:

[live_the_thrill]

I met a lot of people like that Skip, people asking if this is the queue for the front line!

On “Shockwave” at “Drayton Manor” they have a sign like all others, stating that there was a separate queue for the front row. My friends and me queued, then some people in front kept wishing they would get the front row!!

Then at “Alton Towers” queuing for “Rita”, we queued for about 3 hours. Without shade from the sun overhead, we were bored to say the least. There was the girl in front of us; we thought she was part of a family. She queued along with us for the front line, we started talking, and she said she was a single rider. So instead of queuing for 3 hours on her own, she could of queued 10minuted in the single rider queue. Geez, some people.

[David Ellis]

Originally posted by Your_Name_Here
Usually when people say that it's faster in the back, they mean that it gets off of the lifthill the last, so that it's going faster longer than the front I guess.......I don't know, thinking about it makes my head hurt. :p

It can't go faster longer in any part of the train, as the whole train will travel at the same speed throughout the ride (i.e. the distance between the front and back car should remain pretty constant wherever you are on the circuit).

The feeling of going faster is more to do with the combination of the speed and the position on the drops. At the front you edge down the drop (sometimes with "hang time") but reach maximum speed after you have hit the bottom of the drop, often pushing you over the next hill. At the back, the maximum speed is achieved on the way down, thus it feels like you are travelling faster as you are pulled down the drop.

I am no good at physics so cannot explain in scientific terms, but I believe that is the reason for the comments.

David.

[Harpo]

Originally posted by TheSkipper
On Hurler, 1996, my 48th B day, to girls 23 & 24 seated behind me.
Aproaching the station afterwards, one said, "I think we are getting too old for coasters, don't you?" to her friend.


Working at Cedar Point in 1988, I met my coaster "hero." A guy came up to my Guessing Game asking me to guess his age. Well, I almost never wrote a guess over about 55 to 60, for fear of getting someone who looked 90 but was 55, like the then-manager of the Detroit Tigers, Sparky Anderson. So, I wrote this guy down as being in the upper 50's, which made his day -- he was 89. (He did look good for his age, but I also was limiting myself by the "Sparky Anderson" factor, as I called it!)

He told me that he still rode all of the coasters.

I can see myself at Cedar Point when I'm 89, riding on the coasters, as well! It'll be interesting to see just what develops at the park over all those years!


As for the "back is faster" type of thing.... here's an engineer's perspective. The train is moving slowest when the middle of the train is at the top of the hills, and fastest when the middle of the train is at the bottom of the hills. (Note: middle would actually be defined as the point of the center of gravity, which may or may not be the same as the physical middle point of the train.) So, when reaching the top of a hill, the front of the train reaches the top when the train is in the process of slowing down. When the back of the train reaches the top of a hill, the train is in the process of speeding up. As soon as the train's angle of ascent or descent starts to change, the train's speed will start to change. Therefore, the most extreme G forces will be felt in the front and back seats.

The front gets more of a "pushed" sensation, while the back gets more of a "pulled" sensation. As a result, when you're in the front, the visual gives the expectation that you should be slowing down when reaching the top of a hill, and speeding up when reaching the bottom of a hill, and the reality matches that visual. When in the back, however, you're in the process of speeding up when going over the top of the hill, although the visual has your mind thinking that you should be slowing down. So, the disconnect between what your mind is expecting and what the body is doing adds to the disorientation, which is, in part, responsible for the extra "whipping" feeling of the back.

The whipping is not all perception, however -- some of it is real, as a result of the back being pulled by the train versus the front being pushed by the train.

[Your_Name_Here]

Originally posted by Harpo
When in the back, however, you're in the process of speeding up when going over the top of the hill, although the visual has your mind thinking that you should be slowing down. So, the disconnect between what your mind is expecting and what the body is doing adds to the disorientation, which is, in part, responsible for the extra "whipping" feeling of the back.


^Why I love riding in back. So awesome.

[Freddie1]

Originally posted by Your_Name_Here
^Why I love riding in back. So awesome.

Indeed. As mentioned before, im a big Boulder Dash fan, and did the back 10 out of 12 times last time at The Lake. I did it in one click once, in the back, and that was an awesome experence (yes I know what happened on Raven). Anyways, yes, back has always been my favorite too.

[fathorse]

I was on Skyride at CP when it broke down. So I'm stuck in front of the Coliseum (highest part for those not in the know) and some little girls yelled over from the car across from us and asked if we were going to die. I, being a responsible adult, confirmed their fears and assured them we would die soon, and probably painfully.
I made no friends on the Skyride that day, but I did get instantly to the front of a 2 1/2 hour MF line with my pass for being stuck for 1/2 hour.

[nickdaegg]

Being stuck on a skyride is horrible, especially when trying to get across the park by running before the queue for your fave ride closes.

[fathorse]

The only thing that made it bearable was a cell phone and the fact that college football was on that day, and that Michigan was losing.

[SnooSnoo]

I, being a responsible adult, confirmed their fears and assured them we would die soon, and probably painfully.

lol nice.

btw... GO BUCKS!!! :)

[RctGirl45]

Originally posted by SnooSnoo
lol nice.

btw... GO BUCKS!!! :)

Ewww! You're disgusting! Liking OSU!

j/k!

I haven't heard many. I heard this one on Wicked Twister:

3..
2..
1..

We seem to be having Technical Difficulties..Whoosh!

That would be sweet!

[KingdaKa1]

Thought of a bunch more.

Twas the most awesome evening, pre-season 7th row tickets to the Jets-Giants game, right behind the NYG bench. I had to take my bro to his seats in upper deck (sfu). Some teens in Giants Jerseys:down:, were like "Hey, did you ride KK, isnt supposed to be like 456 feet and go something like 128 MPH. Those guys need to watch more TV, advertizing.

Heard this from my friend

"When I lived in Brooklyn, me and my friends would ride the Astroland Cyclone every day. Its the tallest and fastest wooden."

I think he meant oldest, which isnt right.

While im thinking... btw... GO MICH!
Cmon SnooSnoo, u know who the team really is. We've even got our football uniforms the same as them!

My mind has gone blank, think of more soon.

[RCT2head]

i love it when ppl confuse ride stats, it's so funny...

and go Hokies!

[okinawaboy11]

"Raging Bull goes under ground 5 times and is 300 feet tall"



:sour:

[Harpo]

Originally posted by KingdaKa1
"When I lived in Brooklyn, me and my friends would ride the Astroland Cyclone every day. Its the tallest and fastest wooden."


Speaking of the Cyclone, any idea if it is back up and running after its September accident?

[KingdaKa1]

Heres a ridicoulus one.

"Nitro is as tall as the Empire State Building

[Small Print]

Someone said pepsi max goes over the clouds.:bulb:

[Harpo]

Well, from a scientist's point of view, on days when there is a thin layer of low-lying fog, it is true that the ride would go over the clouds. I do not know if such conditions are common in Blackpool, but, around here, it does happen, but very rarely. (Thick layers of fog are more common, where the coaster would be in the fog, but wouldn't make it over the top of the fog cloud.)

I must say, I think it'd be quite interesting to see a coaster that's taller than the Empire State Building... Introducing, the world's first 1454 foot tall coaster, dropping 1450 feet, with a 90 degree angle of descent! Woohoo! The ride is 18,267 feet long, with 28 inversions, reaching speeds of about 300 miles per hour. Yeeeeeeee haw!

[live_the_thrill]

Originally posted by Harpo
Introducing, the world's first 1454 foot tall coaster, dropping 1450 feet, with a 90 degree angle of descent! Woohoo! The ride is 18,267 feet long, with 28 inversions, reaching speeds of about 300 miles per hour. Yeeeeeeee haw!

Is there a single rider queue?

[Small Print]

youd come off a skeleton.

[RCT2head]

woohooo! i'd be the 1st in line!:D

[SnooSnoo]

I'd definitley ride that puppy... except it would be faster then 300. If TTD, for example, goes 120mph... it would be around 420mph, that is... if its a rocket coaster :)

[Kadillac]

Originally posted by SnooSnoo
lol nice.

btw... GO BUCKS!!! :)


WOW! Go Buckeyes! They aren't that good this year though. The loss to Penn State...Smith!!!!! Where's Zwick?

[Harpo]

Actually, I goofed, but in the wrong direction. In the calculation, I did not make the assumption that it was a rocket coaster. Actually, it'd be more like a freefall tower, with the way I calculated it.

The calculation went like this:

The final velocity (v2) is acceleration (a) times time (t).

Assuming a zero initial velocity, the time of the fall (t) can be computed as the square root of (the distance (d) divided by the acceleration(a)). Acceleration due to gravity would be 32.17 feet per second squared, but I just used 32 feet per second squared, because I was feeling lazy at the time!:D

Plugging them in, we get
v2 = a * sqrt(d / (0.5 * a)) = 32 * 9.5 = 305 feet per second. That would actually correspond to merely 208 miles per hour.

With friction, and the fact that it'll have to curve rather than freefall the entire 1450 feet, the ride wouldn't even go quite that fast. However, it probably wouldn't start at 0 MPH, either, so it would gain something from the initial speed.

[Kadillac]

Dude, I would probably barf all over the queue line and blackout 5 million times due to the G forces. You'd better have a nurse on duty for after the ride is over. I'd need to be carried out of the queue on a stretcher because there is no way I'd survive that.

[fathorse]

Ok this one's just funny because little kids are funny.
At CP, waiting to get on Woodstock Express (kiddie coaster, 1 train) the train pulls in and a family of four get off. The two kids are probably 3 and 8.
The 3 year old is jumping around and begging his dad to go on it again. The 8 year old is obviously scared crapless and struggling desparately not to cry.
Both parents are talking to the 3 year old, the older kid is trying to say something, all the while his upper lip is quivering.
Finally the older kid just blurts out "Who farted?" and then breaks down crying.
I don't know why, but it was the funniest damn thing I've ever seen in my life.

[RCT2head]

Originally posted by Kadillac
Dude, I would probably barf all over the queue line and blackout 5 million times due to the G forces. You'd better have a nurse on duty for after the ride is over. I'd need to be carried out of the queue on a stretcher because there is no way I'd survive that.

can't u put some magnetic brakes on the drop to keep it within a set parameter of g forces and speed?

[Harpo]

The G forces would actually be more of a function of the curvature on the pull-out of the dive (although brakes could also be used to lower the G forces). While doing the free-fall, the G forces would be 0 all the way until the pull-out. If you used brakes, you could make a tighter pull-out turn, but you'd also be experiencing G forces in the braking area, where the weight of the riders would be against the lap bar and/or shoulder harness, which might be more uncomfortable than a smooth large-radius pull-out curve.

Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster is actually a good demonstration of that principle. In spite of going 120 MPH and having a 400 foot drop, it experiences lower G forces than many coasters, including the loop on Corkscrew, a ride which only goes 48 MPH. The curvature of the track at the points where Dragster is going the fastest are such that the riders do not get subjected to excessive G forces. You're very likely to feel far greater G forces by plopping yourself down in a chair, or diving onto a bed!

[gigafreak30]

Well, I wasn't there to witness this, but my friend came back from disneyland paris, and he had told me that it is like 1000 feet tall and it goes 500 mph! lol
(The ride was that indiana joens (or what ever) backwards looper.

[okinawaboy11]

Who cares, it's not gunna happen :rolleyes: