Because amusement park roller coasters have height requirements (and 30″ isn’t going to cut it), this is a video of a mother giving her young daughter a ride on a virtual coaster using an overturned chair, providing all the thrilling drops and turns herself. Damn, that looks like a GOOD
This is a video of an appropriately space themed LEGO roller coaster built by Youtuber Half-Asleep Chris (I’m 100% Passed Out) being launched into and operated in earth’s stratosphere. The ride manages to operate a full 24 laps before malfunctioning and sending the ride carts and minifigs hurtling back to
This is a first person POV ride down the Jais Sledder desert mountain roller coaster in the United Arab Emirates. The video captures the full experience, including the single rider car’s 7-minute climb to the top, so I embedded the video to start at the actual downhill part at 7:10.
This is a first person POV trip down the Rail Runner, America’s first (and currently only) single-rail mountain coaster, located at Anakeesta adventure park in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The coaster is 1,600 feet in length, has an elevation change of 400 feet, and each car holds a single rider, with a
This is a first person POV ride aboard the front row (back row?) of a reverse roller coaster at Gröna Lund in Sweden. The coaster goes backwards along a series of vertically dropping switchbacks, all but guaranteeing everything I ate waiting in the queue line is going to come right
Three years in the making, these are a couple videos of the Mario Kart themed LEGO roller coaster constructed by builder scottmakesmocs. Now that is impressive. My last LEGO build? It was not that impressive, and my mom said if it was a finger painting it wouldn’t make the refrigerator
This is a first person POV ride on a Vekoma motorbike coaster in operation at Toverland in the Netherlands. The coaster launches riders from 0 – 46.6MPH in 3 seconds. And while there are certainly faster coasters and ones with quicker acceleration out there, the motorbike coaster is unique in
This is a 5K, 60FPS ride in the front row of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Shellraiser roller coaster at the Nickelodeon Universe amusement park in New Jersey. The coaster’s most unique feature is a steeper-than-straight-down 121.5-degree drop (seen at 2:00 in the video), that would almost certainly have me