What ride absolutley terrifies you?

I hate to admit this because I have never been scared on a ride since I was a kid but Skyscraper was not fun to me. I almost pooped my pants on that one.

Skyhawk and Maxair - same thing bothers me on both: the combination of being very high, on my back, inverted....and the pause as the ride starts to swing the other way. If they only went as far as 90 degrees I'd be fine with them - it is that extra bit beyond horizontal that does me in. Looking up over my head to see the ground is not a sensation that I care for.

I've ridden both, I am sure I will again when my daughter drags me on them.

Oh, an the restraint system on Skyhawk - no over the shoulder restraint and really nothing to hold onto - such a demonic design to heighten the perception of risk....and it works on me.

Go on, ride it, I'll be in line for a coaster while you do that.

Great thread...

I don't think anyone has mentioned drop towers yet... they are my least favorite of any type of ride. I'm not really scared of any coasters, regardless of how tall they are, but drop towers freak me out.

That drop tower on the side of Kingda Ka... yeah.... that thing would give me an anxiety attack. And my home park Busch Gardens has Falcon's Fury now. I've heard people say it's tamer than it looks but I'm still not riding it. Especially since it tilts your seat so that you face the ground. Yeah, no.

I'm pleased to see I'm not the only one bothered by Windseeker, either. I haven't made up my mind yet whether I want to ride it when I'm there in a couple weeks, but I'm leaning toward no. It's not the drop on a drop tower that's scary... it's the height. I don't like being up that high and feeling like I'm just out in the open with not much restraining me. So Windseeker isn't much better than a drop tower as I see it.

Last time I was at Cedar Point I absolutely loved Maxair and Skyhawk and I can't wait to ride them again. Maybe because they start slowly before they gather much height. But they are both really fun! TTD I think will intimidate me until I ride it once. I remember it was tied for my favorite coaster (with MF) from my last visit.... so I will just keep telling myself that if I freak out waiting for it! I know once I do it once, I'll want to do it again and again.

I was at Kings Island early in the year. Slingshot was 5.00 (4.50) with a Platinum pass discount. It was now or never. I always had this thought that the cable could snap. When we bought the ticket it was down for some reason but they hoped to have it up soon. If they didn't, I could get a refund. I told my daughter who rode it with me....lets not be the first on it after it comes up!!! Ride isn't as intense as I imagined. When you are going up you are facing the sky so you don't have a frame of reference to see how high or fast you are going. The couple of rollovers it does at the top were the worse. But I was glad to be back on earth.

The lack of anything to hold on to on Skyhawk freaks me out too. Not fond of looking straight down at the pavement either. I think I've only ridden it once. Sometimes I think about riding it again but never have. I've never been on Maxair, seems like a lot of Skyhawks features but spinning with shoulder harnesses.

Sadly, very few if any rides "terrify" me anymore. The 2 last rides that I can remember honestly scaring me were Acrophobia at Six Flags Over Georgia and surprisingly the drop tower at Waldameer... There is no pause at the top of the tower, you drop immediately, and the vehicles are built as such so you can't see when you are reaching the top. Also if you sit facing the lake it feels much, much higher than it is due to the park being on a bluff overlooking Lake Erie.

As for Cedar Point, Demon Drop used to give me butterflies just due to the "rickety" nature of it, and Skyscraper and Ripcord still make me a bit nervous.

Power tower and Dragster for sure. Drop towers terrify me. I am terrified of heights (yes, I know it is ironic because I'm a coaster junkie) but it's just the surprise free fall that gets me. Then there's the Dragster launch.

I'll be the first to say this but Blue Streak is up there. I have no idea why. I just always get butterflies when going up the hill. I think it is because of all the ejector air time on a rattling wood track.

Shoot the Rapids...because you know, what happened... and that I'd rather not drown.

I'm not necessarily scared of these rides, they just make me nervous (which I guess is kind of the definition of scared but you know what I mean).

Windseeker- but only if I look at how high up we are on the tower

Thunder Canyon- you may laugh but our boat hit a bumper once and jerked me so hard my seatbelt came undone and my friend grabbed on to me to keep me in.

Power Tower- only the drop side, must be the anticipation and quick drop with the click when you reach the top.

Dragster- Mainly anticipation of the launch.

Giant Wheel- being at the top.

Sky Ride- same reason as those listed.

STR- Okay, maybe not, but hey, seems kind of dangerous to me. ;)

Since nobody else has said it yet... Wicked Twister. It's a really fun ride but my stupid brain always imagines the train flying off the tracks. Also not a fan of MaXair but I will usually ride it at least once every season. The drop side of PT absolutely terrifies me and I literally cried last time my family made me ride it with them. But the RED side is something I have to do every time I'm in the park!

Another one for the dragster launch. I always take the extra time to ride in front, and my entire time from seating to launch is asking myself why the hell I'm doing this. (I tried steeling myself by noting there's a slight pullback and, I believe, a five-count before NYOOM. It doesn't help much, still scream my face off in terror followed shortly by delight. )

There aren't really any rides that terrify me. Sky Ride makes me nervous, and Windseeker makes me anxious, but not terrified.

What does terrify me are rowboats. I'm not getting in one of those floating death traps, period.

Pretty much all carnival rides make me want to cry and I don't know why I ride them every year. The one that looks like a little tiny Max-Air, except you face inward is probably the scariest ride I've ever been on.
For theme parks, I'd have to go with the Sea Dragon/Pirate Ship type rides. I hate the noise of the wheel underneath and I always think it's just going to stop functioning and we'll fly off or be left swinging forever. I think I went on one when I was way too young and it's forever haunted me. We may have ruined my two year old niece who rode the Sea Dragon this weekend, although she seemed to love it. Too young to have irrational fears I think.

Rowboats, no, but just looking at a kayak makes me suffocate.

Windseeker is the ride I love to hate. I find it very scary, especially if I look up, but I ride it every time.

The only time Skyride scared me was when it stopped during the ride. I was with someone who didn't want to go in the first place (oh, great....), so I had to put on a brave face when the cable drooped and sent us on what felt like a tiny free fall. The delay wasn't long, maybe a minute or two, but the re-start was a special thrill, too. My friend went white as a sheet.

Power Tower Up is my ride of choice over there. The sudden pop is thrilling and fun. Power Tower Down, however, makes me scared and once again, especially if I look up. If I'm in a seat that faces the center of the tower it's all over. I don't find the drop down fast enough to be scary, but I'm always glad to get the hell down from there.

I've never ridden Skyscraper because I know better. Give me a fully enclosed cage and something sturdy to hang onto, then maybe, but the open seat and hands folded on the lap make me say no. On my last visit I watched a couple of big guys take a spin and they had continuous face plants as they went around, screaming their heads off. The fact that's it's an up charge further justifies not wanting to put myself through all that.

Waiting for Dragster to launch gets me every single time. Not terrifying, really, but heart pounding for sure.

Finally, haunts. I was damaged as a child, so I don't like them. And I don't care how lame it is, I wind up being a crumpled mess after spending an exhausting time screaming like a big girl. So if I go I volunteer to hold everyone's stuff and have drinks waiting when they come out. I've been known to take the long way around the park to avoid a scare zone. Make fun of me, I don't care, I ain't goin'.

I used to be able to spin and flip all day long. I should head over to the aging thread now...

When i was younger i was terrified of basically everything. Roller coasters and log flumes top of my list. I always thought that in-between the belts of the lift for log flumes the log would come up and fall down the hill and all die.

A problem i still have today is not the a ride itself but the stairs up to a ride. Mostly at the water park, but on coasters like Hades where the stairs are only attached to the side off the roller coaster supports and nothing under them i freak out. Probably sounds crazy tho.

I'm also not a big fan of drop rides

I second Wicked Twister. I havent ridden it in over 10 years but when my husband and i were there Wed we rode it and it was just as scary as i remember. We rode again and were front row and i thought i was going to die, i love it but am terrified.

When it comes to haunts and scare zones I'll be with RCMAC holding everybody's stuff. I don't like to be startled. If you come up behind me and say "boo!," I'll jump a foot. The only time I walked through the scare zone on the Frontier Trail I thought I'd have a heart attack--come to think of it I might have had one. Four weeks later I had heart bypass surgery.

Skyhawk scared me from the speed you're propelled towards the pavement, and how there's nothing in front of you. Now it's been down for repairs so many times, I'm more scared of it than before.

Was at the park the evening of 5/29 with my daughter. Looked at Skyhawk running both sides and without any line at all....and kept right on walking. Had the girl pushed I might have gone, but she was focused on getting to MF.

Anyone remember the giant slide with the burlap sacks? That thing scared me when I was a kid, had to go down with my dad, they'd scare me now, too. I'm afraid of big water slides, too. I've done a couple at the water parks but mostly just pass. Just seems too out of control, like I'd go the wrong way and end up breaking my neck.