tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post89151616968545238..comments2024-03-28T08:32:02.663-04:00Comments on Jungle Red Writers: Thrill RidesJungle Red Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16646429819267618412noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-43735795398158014412017-06-04T20:33:39.148-04:002017-06-04T20:33:39.148-04:00Loved the Flying Dumbo ride at the happiest place ...Loved the Flying Dumbo ride at the happiest place on earth. I remember going on wild rides too. Something about pirates of the carribean? My cousin and I went on Alice's tea cup ride, which was dizzy, though it was so fun! I think the roller coaster is the only one I would not ride on, though I did like the Indiana Jones ride. It was not really a roller coaster, right?<br /><br />However, roller coasters is a different story. Never wanted to go on one. I think I would get a better thrill from NASA gravity testing room than roller coasters.Bibliophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07764234701385787238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-90303660478087040652017-06-04T07:48:15.038-04:002017-06-04T07:48:15.038-04:00Coney Island is the one at the end of our street! ...Coney Island is the one at the end of our street! They brought back a lot of the rides awhile after KI opened.Karen in Ohiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13846039203123720312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-757639134859656742017-06-03T21:23:15.140-04:002017-06-03T21:23:15.140-04:00LOVE them but I have noticed I don't get my eq...LOVE them but I have noticed I don't get my equilibrium back as quickly as I did when I was younger. Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03214926031147370862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-43413296447508548372017-06-03T20:48:26.407-04:002017-06-03T20:48:26.407-04:00Oh, Ingrid, the end drop on the Jurassic Park ride...Oh, Ingrid, the end drop on the Jurassic Park ride at Orlando was a big shock, too!Kathy Reelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17004247271452356577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-82944277788570029582017-06-03T20:20:39.254-04:002017-06-03T20:20:39.254-04:00My sister had a friend who was in phenomenal shape...My sister had a friend who was in phenomenal shape, and the only thing she would eat at Disney was the turkey legs. She said they were the healthiest option. You were on to something, Ann!Ingrid Thofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063912686011336076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-18771851500785368272017-06-03T17:11:30.573-04:002017-06-03T17:11:30.573-04:00What a fantastic trip, Kathy! Your granddaughters...What a fantastic trip, Kathy! Your granddaughters are so lucky to have such an adventurous grandmother! I'm sure they'll cherish the memories.<br /><br />I rode a Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios in California, and that was a huge mistake! There was a final drop that was incredibly steep, and we ended up soaked at the end! Of course, there was a small child in front of me who was cut from the same cloth as Isabella: he had his arms in the air and was loving it.Ingrid Thofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063912686011336076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-590212985435960262017-06-03T17:08:49.283-04:002017-06-03T17:08:49.283-04:00Hank sounds like she just got off a roller coaster...Hank sounds like she just got off a roller coaster!Fintahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17087809450585073206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-13282372412047551432017-06-03T17:06:33.053-04:002017-06-03T17:06:33.053-04:00The turkey legs are delicious, hard to eat a whole...The turkey legs are delicious, hard to eat a whole one, but even if you do, no guilt is served.<br />Fintahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17087809450585073206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-44475056041474248752017-06-03T17:05:43.468-04:002017-06-03T17:05:43.468-04:00Flora, we used to vacation at Cedar Point when I w...Flora, we used to vacation at Cedar Point when I was a kid. We stayed in that grand old hotel there, swam in Lake Erie (which was so nice and clean then), and visited the amusement park. I have fond memories.Kathy Reelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17004247271452356577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-14578364586967278192017-06-03T17:03:48.286-04:002017-06-03T17:03:48.286-04:00Kait, have you read the fiction book Palisades Par...Kait, have you read the fiction book Palisades Park by Alan Brennert? It's a fantastic book!Kathy Reelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17004247271452356577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-35133495465368980192017-06-03T17:00:13.978-04:002017-06-03T17:00:13.978-04:00Karen, are you too young to have gone to Coney Isl...Karen, are you too young to have gone to Coney Island, the park before King's Island?<br />Kathy Reelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17004247271452356577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-66110459760149851872017-06-03T16:59:11.323-04:002017-06-03T16:59:11.323-04:00Coming in here on this Saturday afternoon, what an...Coming in here on this Saturday afternoon, what an appropriate topic! I just returned from a trip to Universal Studios Florida with my daughter's family of herself, her husband Eli, daughter Olivia (16), and daughter Isabella (7). I am a chicken about roller coasters or any rides that jerk, drop, tilt, or swing you around. But, I was determined to try some of the rides at the two Harry Potter sites, Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade. I wanted to enjoy the fun with my granddaughters. Interestingly enough, the sixteen-year-old is quite the chicken, too, but the seven-year-old is fearless. Isabella is the one who wants to sit in the front row and loves the drops and speed. Olivia and I sat together during the rides and held hands and screamed. Isabella sat with her parents, and all three were those people who hold their hands in the air from time to time. So, I did the Forbidden Journey, the Gringott's ride, the Hippograff (which was falsely advertised as mild), the Jurassic Park water drop ride, King Kong (which I surprisingly enjoyed), and the Transformers (worst one, jerked my head off). Of course, one of my favorites was The Cat in the Hat in Seuss Land. It told the story with the ride going through scenes of the story, and it was adorable. Oh, and the Minion ride and a ride in Simpsons' Land were also good. I would not sit foot on The Mummy's Revenge, which the rest of the family loved, even scaredy-cat Olivia. The Mummy was intense, from what they described and the pictures I saw. My son-in-law is a roller coaster junkie, apparently, and rode the big one called The Rocket Ride (I think that was the name). No thank you please. No upside down for me, loop after loop. My daughter and he also loved The Dragon Challenge in Hogsmeade, which were dueling roller coasters, with that horrid upside down stuff. I think the youngest like Gringott's best, but the Mummy was a close second. I think Gringott's was my favorite. The teenager liked the Mummy best, which I thought was a real betrayal to our pact of not riding the really fast coasters. <br /><br />So, I rode more rides this past week than I had in years and years. I survived, but I'm in recovery mode now. Walking miles and miles every day and riding those physically punishing rides takes a toll on those of us older kids. It was a vacation that we all enjoyed and will remember for a lifetime. I'm so glad that I pushed myself to go on as many rides as I did. I want my grandgirls to remember the rides with me as a part of them. <br /><br />Oh, I should throw in that the amusement park for when I was growing up was Coney Island right outside Cincinnati. It was the precursor for King's Island. The roller coasters at Coney Island were The Wildcat and the Wild Mouse. It seems like there was another one, but I can't remember the name. I did ride The Wildcat twice, but even growing up, I didn't like roller coasters. I did love the skee ball there and the milder rides, especially the log ride that went into the water. When we took our kids to Disney World, it was my husband who went on Space Mountain with them. Kathy Reelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17004247271452356577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-88617862705855511832017-06-03T14:28:37.977-04:002017-06-03T14:28:37.977-04:00I like the fried dough at carnivals, and I always ...I like the fried dough at carnivals, and I always crack up at the enormous turkey legs people eat at some parks. They're huge, but I've not tried one so I shouldn't knock it. It looks like something the Flintstones would eat!Ingrid Thofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063912686011336076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-22447366486486925772017-06-03T13:52:05.659-04:002017-06-03T13:52:05.659-04:00Count me on the side of those who love roller coas...Count me on the side of those who love roller coasters. It did take me a while to get up the nerve to go on my first upside-down coaster, but I did it many years ago at Great America in Santa Clara CA (close to home). Among my favorites are those where the passengers are hanging from a track above. But I do have my limits. When our children were young, we went on a coaster called (I think) the Viper at Magic Mountain. Something about the motion got to me--it seemed there were several weird sideways turns in the middle, up in the air. When I got off, I had to look at the ground to keep myself from getting sick. And, of course--what did the family want to do? Have lunch! I sat outside the restaurant for a few minutes, then felt good enough to go inside and have some nachos with them. But I declined to ride the coaster the following day, along with my older son. I know when I'm licked.Margie Buntinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10120666616254809025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-46239548166466954232017-06-03T13:45:15.228-04:002017-06-03T13:45:15.228-04:00Ooh, do you have time to tell one of those stories...Ooh, do you have time to tell one of those stories? As a public service?<br /><br />Deb Romano Deb Romanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01650858888197217258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-1965367021425436072017-06-03T12:21:35.807-04:002017-06-03T12:21:35.807-04:00Love them. I wold go on any rollercoster, any time...Love them. I wold go on any rollercoster, any time. The are l4ss scry, I think, when you re ON them than when you are looking up at them. I will go on any ride, actually. EXCEPT in one of those traveling pop-up shopping lot carnivals. Nope nope nope--done too many stories about those.Hank Phillippi Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07630366214207785339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-229050052589601102017-06-03T12:01:55.791-04:002017-06-03T12:01:55.791-04:00Do you remember Tilt a World? My sisters and I us...Do you remember Tilt a World? My sisters and I used to love it as kids, but one of them went on it recently and said it was completely sickening. Kind of like swinging on swings at the park. We used to think it was great fun, but now it just makes us sick to our stomachs!Ingrid Thofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063912686011336076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-47739650202498673392017-06-03T11:59:03.447-04:002017-06-03T11:59:03.447-04:00I've never heard of the Wild Mouse ride. We&#...I've never heard of the Wild Mouse ride. We're these in traveling carnivals or part of permanent amusement parks?<br /><br />I'm trying to picture what adventures a wild mouse might have...Ingrid Thofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063912686011336076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-79991869070680363332017-06-03T11:56:50.807-04:002017-06-03T11:56:50.807-04:00I thing Big Thunder Mountain is the most perfect r...I thing Big Thunder Mountain is the most perfect ride ever, Cathy. I don't even mind Space Mountain (although I think my back would.) I tried Splash Mountain once and did not enjoy it. That drop at the end was too much!Ingrid Thofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063912686011336076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-87525663682628948222017-06-03T11:56:13.374-04:002017-06-03T11:56:13.374-04:00When I was a kid I loved roller coasters. Back the...When I was a kid I loved roller coasters. Back then they were all the "classic" wooden ones. Either in high school or college I found myself on a tall one at Ponchartrain Park in New Orleans. My girl friend and I were at the very top of the first climb and I found myself asking what in the hell was I doing up there? I don't think I got on any more after that. The Matterhorn at Disney doesn't count! Or Space Mountain. I don't do upsidedown and I don't do any ride I consider a throw up ride. Usually ones that spin. Now that I think about it I don't think I've been to an amusement park since we went to Cedar Point 20+ years ago. Wait. I take that back. I've tagged along in the past ten years to a couple of American Society for Industrial Security annual meeting. One year it was in Anaheim and the big dinner was at Disneyland in Frontierland. So the park was closed but Frontierland was open to ride all the rides. That was cool. And then the same in Orlando. ASIS was at Universal (?) and we could ride rides and do all the Harry Potter stuff. Double cool. Although the simulated ride on Harry's broom made me ill.Pat Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12732230586783432052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-46675076875735691082017-06-03T11:03:50.358-04:002017-06-03T11:03:50.358-04:00I used to love roller coasters. In fact The Girl a...I used to love roller coasters. In fact The Girl and I rode that Rockin' Rollercoaster when she was 8 and we both loved it.<br /><br />Then the benign positional vertigo set it and no more rollercoasters--or indeed any kind of thrill ride--for me. =(<br /><br />Mary/LizLiz Millironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04919409969263609919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-83462771828590052017-06-03T10:28:38.402-04:002017-06-03T10:28:38.402-04:00If Joan is the queen, I am surely the princess. Ev...If Joan is the queen, I am surely the princess. Even as a kid I was too chicken to ride the roller coaster, and there were no inversions on that old wooden one. We live a mile and a half from the nearest amusement park, and the only rides I've ever been on there were the teacups and the paddleboats. That's my speed. Hey, somebody has to take the littles, right? <br /><br />I'll never forget one of my daughters begging to go on the small coaster at Kings Island, the first summer she was tall enough. I didn't want to go, so my brother volunteered. She was white as a ghost when she got off! She's also the one who bungee jumped off a bridge in Australia. Twice.Karen in Ohiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13846039203123720312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-80205227554053547752017-06-03T10:27:40.899-04:002017-06-03T10:27:40.899-04:00I live 5 minutes from Busch Gardens in Tampa. The...I live 5 minutes from Busch Gardens in Tampa. The closest I will come to a roller coaster is watching it from the street outside the park. On the other hand, I love the wet water rides. They are necessary when it hits 90 degrees, with 95% humidity. <br />I draw the line at the spinning tea cups when I am at Disney. Deb said it well, thrills and chills are best found between the covers of a good book. Coralee Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06691335135691119400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-51047202782239954962017-06-03T10:20:40.195-04:002017-06-03T10:20:40.195-04:00I love amusement parks and I used to take the kids...I love amusement parks and I used to take the kids on the "up and down"rides... garden variety roller coasters. Like Thunder Mountain at Disneyland. My husband took them on the 'round and round' rides because they make me throw up. But I do not do "upside down" rides. Newp. Got to draw the line somewhere. Hallie Ephronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759439029582054503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-36076269126207999262017-06-03T10:12:55.472-04:002017-06-03T10:12:55.472-04:00That sounds like a deal to me, Ann!That sounds like a deal to me, Ann!Gigi Norwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00495357787099352860noreply@blogger.com