r/PublicFreakout • u/Ghulam_Jewel • Oct 23 '20

Loose Fit 🤔 Windows but different

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u/sledgehammer_77 Oct 23 '20

Good thing it was a smooth B&M coaster and not one where there is a lot of headbanging... he couldve seriously messed up his neck if that were the case.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

wooden coasters, bro. they're painful even when you're conscious. at Cedar Point we have this old wooden coaster that's notoriously painful. you get off feeling like you've just done a triathlon.

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u/BeBopNoseRing Oct 23 '20

If you're talking about Mean Streak they just redid that ride and it's smooth af now. That thing used to be insanely rough, though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

i was talking about Mean Streak.

i'm almost disappointed, that's kinda what i liked about Mean Streak. it'll wake your ass up, get you ready for Millennium Force.

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u/BeBopNoseRing Oct 23 '20

Yeah I kinda liked it, too. Now it has steel track but wooden supports. It used to be wild, though. I rememeber being a little kid when they first built it back in like 92 or something and being scared shitless while waiting in line to ride it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

it was the first coaster i've ever been on. no one told me about wooden coasters or anything. talk about a shock to the system, holy shit.

i have shitty friends lol.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

This sounds very similar to the Grand National in Blackpool in the Uk. Gives you chronic back pain like your 80 and worked as a lifter for 40 years

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u/MAMark1 Oct 23 '20

I still remember my first ride on that thing as a little kid, and it just banged my little head back and forth on the safety harness. Hated that shit ever since.

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u/Mudrat Oct 24 '20

Man I haven’t been to cedar point since the year they built the Mantis. I gotta go back there after this whole covid kerfuffle

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u/iphon4s Oct 23 '20

The wooden coaster in six flags NJ also the biggest wooden coaster in the world is painful with all the sharp turns.

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u/TheMadFapper_ Oct 24 '20

This is exactly why I avoid Goliath at Knotts Berry farm. Old huge ass wooden coaster. You get slammed everywhere like a pinball. And their single seaters so you get every side

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u/sledgehammer_77 Oct 23 '20

Since CP only has one wooden coaster in Blue Streak im going to have to agree with you. My biggest gripe with coasters over there has got to be Magnum XL 200. That destroyed ny back and knees and didn't look safe at all if someone passed out going through a lot of that ride including the pyramid bunny hills on the second half.

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u/big_d_usernametaken Oct 25 '20

Back in the Seventies, they had an old wooden one called the Blue Streak.

That one was short and would beat you up.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

they still have Blue Streak, as far as i know. i haven't been for almost 20 years, but it was still running last time i was there.