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Theme Parks
I like to visit theme parks. This is a list of all the rides (particularly roller coasters) I've been on in the past couple of years.
Seaworld
Seaworld (Orlando, Florida - March 2020)
Roller coasters
Mako - Orlando's tallest, fastest and longest roller coaster. 73 mph and up to 200 feet high.
Kraken - Orlando's only floorless roller coaster
Manta - Features a head-first, face-down inverted nosedive loop.
Thrill ride
Busch Gardens
Roller coasters
Tigris - Florida's tallest launch coaster. 150-foot skyward surge, and an inverted heartline roll, more than 60 miles per hour, 1,800 feet of steel track.
Sheikra - 90-degree 200 ft drop, 70 mph roller coaster whirlwind with an Immelmann loop, a second dive into an underground tunnel and a splashdown finale.
Montu -
First coaster in the world to incorporate an Immelmann loop (a simultaneous loop and roll) 60-foot vertical loop, weightless roll, seven inversions, unique Batwing inversion
Cobra's Curse - 70-foot vertical lift, 40 mph, 2,100 feet of serpentine-like track, traveling backward, forward and then spinning freely.
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Thrill Rides
Volcano Bay
Volcano Bay (Orlando, Florida - February 2020) Water park, so lots of ring rides and flumes, but this aqua coaster deserves a mention.
Krakatau Aqua Coaster - Uses linear induction motor technology - it launches the canoe uphill before it immediately sends riders into a downhill plunge.
Universal Studios
Roller coasters
3D rides
Universal Studios: Island of Adventure
Roller coasters
3D rides
Thrill rides
Las Vegas
Not actually a theme park, but we rode the roller coaster in the New York New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, July 2019
Disneyland Paris