Oh dear god.

[spatch]

Most every time I ride a Scrambler ride, at one point or another I either think or say "Wouldn't it be cool if you could put like giant markers under each car and make a Spirograph drawing?"

Well, someone's gone and done it with airbrushes instead of markers. It's beautiful to see the ride's pattern come out, isn't it?

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[ruthling.livejournal.com]

that's awesome!

[mhaille.livejournal.com]

That's really cool. (And I just rode the scrambler today, too.)

[kissoflife.livejournal.com]

Fan-tas-tic! (Dr. Who Nine) Yay, colors. That's loveliness, that one placed splitting so high along wall and floor there. glee!

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.

I don't cope well with rides that go up, but things like Scrambler, Himalaya (the ride of the thousand names -- this may not be a useful one to you), and Tilt-A-Whirl delight me.

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

Ditto -- or rather, it's kind of okayish when they go up, but when the come back down it is unhappy times.

I was obsessed with Spirograph as a kid. Round and round and round and round!

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I usually didn't have the manual dexterity or patience to make a whole Spirograph drawing without letting the gears slip and mess it up somewhere. (But looking backward, I find that my parents let me play with the set when I was remarkably young, considering it was an age when many kids would be in danger of swallowing the little pins.)

Later, they made gadgets that made it easier.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...Also, googling for "Spirograph" reveals many fine Java applets.

"do you want to go backwards? I can't hear you!"

[spatch]

The Himalaya is known by many names in the wild: Polar Express, Musik Express, Thunder Bolt, ah yes. Mostly the names help denote what model of SPINNING AROUND REALLY FAST RIDE it is: are the little cars mounted freely so they spin out when the ride gets going, or are the seats mounted in the frame so the thing looks like a giant spinner from the Game of Life?

They just took the one at Canobie out. I am sad! It was one of the better Himabolt Express rides around. The Tilt-A-Whirl is one of the few rides that can really get me, and that's mostly due to the fact that once you get it whipping around and the Gs are pressing your head against the seat back, I like to turn my head to the person next to me and go "ISN'T THIS FUNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHR I shouldn't have done that."

Re: "do you want to go backwards? I can't hear you!"

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

While the Scrambler's no big deal, some of those Tilt-A-Whirl-ish spinning rides are worse for me than roller coasters.

But it's the swinging-boat rides that really distress me (even the ones that don't go all the way over--the ones that do, I can't even contemplate riding), and anything like the Rainbow/Da Vinci's Cradle that involves free-ish fall in that particular way makes me really sick. Even though loop-the-loops and big drops on roller coasters, I can take--that's just good screamy fun. I'm not sure what the distinction is, if it's the speed or the way the g-forces work.

Re: "do you want to go backwards? I can't hear you!"

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

I have been on a swinging boat ride once. It was extremely unhappy. This had nothing to do with nausea and everything to do with acrophobia. The part at the high point where your butt leaves the seat from inertia left me sheet white.

About a fourth of the way through, I apparently started chanting "I am going to kill you, Joanna. I am going to kill you. I am so going to kill you...." under my breath as I struggled to stay sane until it was all over.

Not doing that again! (And boy, Joanna never tried to convince me to go on one again, either. Can't imagine why.)

Re: "do you want to go backwards? I can't hear you!"

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

My mother took me and my brother on the Tilt-A-Whirl from a very young age (two?) I rode it on a yearly basis every time the fair came to Kalamazoo, and it was all good.

However... there was one year when my brother and I both got off the Tilt-A-Whirl and couldn't walk. (I was... maybe nine, he was maybe six?) We were wandering around in spinny circles and falling down. Neither of my parents had gone on the ride that time, so it was sheerly bizarre and a bit worrying to both of them. (We did recover.)

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

[thebitterguy]

It's awesome when you get to say "someone's gone and done it". That is a neat little piece of art.

[pecosy.livejournal.com]

I haven't thought of Spirograph in a long damn time. Theose patterns are so pretty pretty!

[dogofthefuture.livejournal.com]

This is the fucking awesomest thing I have seen in at least a week.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

That's cool!

[tyopsqueene.livejournal.com]

totally ace!

[invisibelle.livejournal.com]

holy crap, that is awesome.

[gismonda.livejournal.com]

Neat-o!