World's 5 Scariest Theme Park Rides
We've learned about the different types of Amusement Parks. Read about the World's Tallest Waterslide. Even saw that The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, in Orlando, would soon open. Now, let's look at the five scariest theme park rides in the world.
Lets star with Colossus, a roller coaster at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England.
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Colossus was the world's first roller coaster with ten inversions. The world record for having the most inversions (14) on any other roller coaster in the world was achieved by The Smiler at Alton Towers in 2013. Alton Towers is in the county of Staffordshire, United Kingdom and the flagship attraction of Merlin Entertainments in the United Kingdom.
The rider experience's a vertical loop, a cobra roll, two corkscrews and five heartline twists. For a real ride experience, however, you have to be there. If it isn't the vertical loop or the feeling of a headchopper effect, before pulling sharply upwards into a fairly intense cobra roll, that thrills you perhaps it is quickly being pulled through two corkscrew elements and then confronted by four consecutive clockwise heartline rolls before an unexpected final inversion (a counter-clockwise heartline roll) thrusts you close to the surrounding foliage.
Don't take my word for it, see for yourself
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| Kingda Ka
Kingda Ka is roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, United States. It is the world's tallest roller coaster, reaching a height of 456 feet, and the second fastest, 128 miles per hour in 3.5 seconds. The park recently opened the Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom, a drop tower standing 415 feet tall and attached to the existing Kingda Ka roller coaster. It billed as the tallest drop tower ride in the world.
What is it like? Well, at the end of the launch track, the ride, or 'train' as it is called, climbs the main tower and rolls 90 degrees to the right before reaching a height of 456 feet. It then descends 418 feet straight down through a 270-degree right-hand spiral, climbs the second hill of 129 feet, producing a moment of weightlessness then makes a left-hand U-turn. All in about 28 seconds from the start of the launch. Phew!
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Scream is a drop tower in Heide Park, Soltau, Germany. With a height of 338 ft, it is considered the tallest "gyro drop" free-fall ride in the world. If you should lose a shoe on your ride up you can retrieve it at the bottom because your travelling time is only 82 seconds, two seconds of which are the actual fall. The deceleration phase lasts for 5.5 seconds. You can watch a two-minute film about Scream, the ride here.
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The Tower of Terror II is roller coaster located at the Dreamworld amusement park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. When the Tower of Terror opened on 23 January 1997, it the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world but now is the 4th in the tallest roller coaster rankings, 3rd in the tallest roller coaster drop rankings and 4th fastest.
Here is what happens. Sitting in a new 5-metric-ton passenger vehicle, called the 'Escape Pod', that seats 14 riders you are accelerated to 100.0 mph in seven seconds along a 676 ft launch tunnel then pitched up 90 degrees to the vertical and pulling 4.5Gs. You are weightless during the entire vertical section of the ride for about 6.5 seconds, 3.25 seconds going up and 3.25 seconds falling back down. If that isn't enough, the car then pitches back down to horizontal and enters the tunnel. The Escape Pod continues to hurtle back into the station where it comes to a fairly rapid stop.
Sounded like fun but I watched Tower of Terror II then changed my mind.
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Insanity is one of four thrill rides belonging to Stratosphere Las Vegas, a tower, hotel, and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Dangling the riders over the edge of the tower and then spinning in a circular pattern at approximately forty miles per hour, it is the second highest thrill ride in the world. The other three thrill rides are the Big Shot (highest thrill ride in the world), the Sky Jump (a controlled descent, Bungee jumping-like ride) and X-Scream (third highest thrill ride in the world).
You can watch others taking the ride or take about 32 seconds and do it yourself . Me, I'll watch.
Honorable Mention
I wasn't going to include the SkyJump Las Vegas, an 885-foot controlled free-fall thrill ride, because it is really only scary to some people, me for example. But here it is anyway:
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