Thanks, but that takes the fun away from guessing. I guess I could always try really hard to forget the true stats when I'm up at the top...its worth a job. Ignorance is bliss when it comes to the scientific part of thrill rides; for me anyway.
When you stand in front of that tower for an accumulated 3500 hours, its hard to miss the sounds it makes.
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Stickmassacre wrote:First off, I'm scared of heights. I don't freak out physically because that's just idiotic but I get a little freak mentally. I was six flags on the 20th with my friend and he went on GD and I just watched. It didn't look that bad but I chose not to go. He said it was really high but the drop wasn't that bad.
So I just wondering how intense is GD and does it really feel like you're extremely high up?
I can't ride Giant Drop either. Im only scared of heights if I feel totally 100% secure. Like, I can ride Top Thrill Dragster no problem because I feel 100% secure. But if u told me to talk the flag down on Sky Trek Tower, I would be standing there totally petrified.
Also, how is freaking out physically idiotic? People that do freak out physically can't help that. That just the way their nervous system handles the phobia. They can't control it.
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Some of them can. I'm not talking about the ones that can't that's stupid, of course they can't control it and it's not their fault. I'm talking about the ones that are melodramtic about it. Yes, we're 200 feet in the air and going totally batshit insane isn't going to help anything at all. Calm down.
But thanks for entirely missing my point by the way. I remember this being about how the giant drop is not an ethics disscusion on people that can't sit still.
Your problem wouldn't necessarily be the height, but rather that "stomach in your neck" feeling. You are right Tony (lol my names tony t0) I think everybody get's that stomache in ur neck, u think ur gunna puke, u get nervous and even dizzy sometimes just looking at the smallest coasters, it mesmorizes u when u watch it once u watch it over and over again, u realize how fun it looks and is much fun as it rides. Coaster phobics, in
other words they take one look. and they walk away, they cant stand it. ME in other words. when i see sumtin big i am scared s&&&Less just to try it, but then i go on and ill love it and then the intensity and fear level jsut doesnt go back to the same place. it winds back down a little bit lower than it already was, then makes me wanan get something more mennacing and higher the next.
Your problem wouldn't necessarily be the height, but rather that "stomach in your neck" feeling. You are right Tony (lol my names tony t0) I think everybody get's that stomache in ur neck, u think ur gunna puke, u get nervous and even dizzy sometimes just looking at the smallest coasters, it mesmorizes u when u watch it once u watch it over and over again, u realize how fun it looks and is much fun as it rides. Coaster phobics, in
other words they take one look. and they walk away, they cant stand it. ME in other words. when i see sumtin big i am scared s&&&Less just to try it, but then i go on and ill love it and then the intensity and fear level jsut doesnt go back to the same place. it winds back down a little bit lower than it already was, then makes me wanan get something more mennacing and higher the next.
Stickmassacre wrote:Some of them can. I'm not talking about the ones that can't that's stupid, of course they can't control it and it's not their fault. I'm talking about the ones that are melodramtic about it. Yes, we're 200 feet in the air and going totally batshit insane isn't going to help anything at all. Calm down.
But thanks for entirely missing my point by the way. I remember this being about how the giant drop is not an ethics disscusion on people that can't sit still.
And that's why I wrote about how I can't ride Giant Drop either in my first paragraph
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Stickmassacre wrote:So I just wondering how intense is GD and does it really feel like you're extremely high up?
See, this topic is directing to people that have rode it and know what it's like. Not saying how they can't ride it, I know how they can't ride it, I made this topic because I can't ride it.
But thanks anyways, it's just heights. I'm just to the airtime feeling but heights adds to the anxiety for me and I'm going to ride it for whatever. You need to do what I plan on doing; turn off your brain. Don't think about it don't imagine it just do it. Just ignore common sense for a bit and go with the flow.
^Or you could follow your common sense, which would tell you that the ride is 100% safe and secure and how the thousands of people who have ridden it are still living today.
Either way works.
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Aw man. PowerTower at the point is a kickass ride! The double shot at Indianabeach packs more of a punch though. You get shot up or you can go up slowly at the Point. At IB you get shot up, shot back down, then shot up again ,then the second shot down is alot harder, because you come up off the seat and hit the top of the shoulder harness. It's airtime bliss. Still not beter than sex though
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mschulz5 wrote:^Or you could follow your common sense, which would tell you that the ride is 100% safe and secure and how the thousands of people who have ridden it are still living today.
Either way works.
Wow, since I'm scared of a ride so it must be because I don't trust the ride not the fact that I'm bothered by heights but since you seem to know what my problem exactly is I should listen to you.
Stickmassacre wrote:So I just wondering how intense is GD and does it really feel like you're extremely high up?
See, this topic is directing to people that have rode it and know what it's like. Not saying how they can't ride it, I know how they can't ride it, I made this topic because I can't ride it.
On my first time on Giant Drop (which was also my first time on a drop ride) I thought it seemed rather high and it was intense enough that couldn't even make a sound during the drop and I got the stomach in the mouth feeling. (I don't get that feeling anymore.) You might have a similar or same reaction, but there's really no way telling of how exactly you may feel on Giant Drop because we all different reactions to different things.
the first time you go on it it seems so high...but i always look at raging bull to figure out when we're going to stop going up, since they are roughly the same height. the drop is intense but it only lasts a few seconds so if you don't like it it's not like you're trapped on the ride for 3 min. it's over quick. i also can't scream when i'm dropping i don't know why. if you don't eat before riding the worst that will happen is you feeling really shakey right after riding. i usually like that feeling though
you drop 3 seconds after you hear the click, and it will feel like youre at the top for awhile but youre just going up very slowly, and if you watch other coasters, you can see that theyre moving in comparison to other things (if that made sense), and then you hear a click, 3 seconds, and then you drop
why is everyone scaredof gd!!! raging bull has a way more intense drop than gd and to sedir :
On my first time on Giant Drop (which was also my first time on a drop ride) I thought it seemed rather high and it was intense enough that couldn't even make a sound during the drop and I got the stomach in the mouth feeling. (I don't get that feeling anymore.) You might have a similar or same reaction, but there's really no way telling of how exactly you may feel on Giant Drop because we all different reactions to different things.
my friends and i sing free falling on the way down and that doesnt phase us!!! and i rode it 15 times in a lighting storm (it was verry cold) and we had all just eaten a footlong sub from subway!!!!!!!!
8ive never been on it and i want to but im really scared its going to get stuck at the top and i will be there for ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so i will go on it but not very soon
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Stickmassacre wrote:First off, I'm scared of heights. I don't freak out physically because that's just idiotic but I get a little freak mentally. I was six flags on the 20th with my friend and he went on GD and I just watched. It didn't look that bad but I chose not to go. He said it was really high but the drop wasn't that bad.
So I just wondering how intense is GD and does it really feel like you're extremely high up?
dude don't worry i'm scared of heights to i still haven't done it so your not the only one