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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
Roller coasters
3D rides
Thrill rides
RC Racer - This was just a half-pipe meets a roller coaster, but it was fun.
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Rides
It's A Small World - Not exactly a thrill ride, but it's a ride. Memorable for how surreal it was.
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