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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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From:

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.

From:

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.)