Moments of Horror

[The Flyboy]

Welcome to...MOMENTS OF HORROR!

When were you scared the most on any ride?

Not at Disney, but at IOA, I was on Dr. Doom when the guy does seat belt check. He rushes by so fast he knocks my seat belt out, leaving the shoulder restraints hanging up. I start yelling desperately at him to come back! He eventually does. No more trouble after that, but for me, truly a...MOMENT OF HORROR!

 

[Danauk]

I got stuck at the top for this for 20 minutes once. We stopped just before the ride tips over the edge.

The scary part was we didn't know when we would suddenly move into the tipped position to drop.
This is the view from the tipped position. I'm glad it is impossible for the ride to get stuck here!

 

[tifandjim]

I got stuck at the top for this for 20 minutes once. We stopped just before the ride tips over the edge.

The scary part was we didn't know when we would suddenly move into the tipped position to drop.
This is the view from the tipped position. I'm glad it is impossible for the ride to get stuck here!

OK!! That would definately be MY moment of horror, because it would take an army to get me on that in the first place!! Once I am on, there should be no stops or I would panic!! I could just see me on there, knowing that the "Black Hole to Nowhere" was just below me, and I have time to think about it!! NO WAY, NO HOW!! LOL

 

[Danauk]

I've ridden the ride too many times to find it remotely scary now! I've probably ridden it about 50 times. As you hang over the edge there used to be a voice saying "Don't look down" and then you would drop. Only they had to turn the voice off as it made people scream too much and the locals complained!

 

[MaryKatesMom]

For whatever reason, I got it into my mind that the Space Mountain car didn't sound right. I'm sure my mind was playing tricks on me but I spent the whole ride in absolute terror that we were going to fly off the track.

I'd been on it before and after and didn't experience it again.

 

[MickeyMouth]

My DW was sitting next to me on RNR and my brother (a 49 year old kid) was sitting directly behind my wife. Well, when she tried to pull down her shoulder harness he was holding it up from behind. She looked at me with a look of terror The moment only lasted a split second but for her it was scary. Our family still laughs about this 2 years later

 

[DisneyRocks=D]

I got stuck at the top for this for 20 minutes once. We stopped just before the ride tips over the edge.

The scary part was we didn't know when we would suddenly move into the tipped position to drop.
This is the view from the tipped position. I'm glad it is impossible for the ride to get stuck here!

Wow I love Oblivion! It must have been very nerve-wracking being up there for 20 minutes though. When I was younger I FINALLY plucked up the courage to go on Nemisis (It seemed awfully scary to me at the time lol) and that broke down while we were on it. Luckily we were near the end of the ride when it happened

 

[marypops!]

going on back to the future

i was really scared with the dinosaur And wouldn't go onto the men in black ride after

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Yes ma'am I have a story. When I rode the TOT I had never ridden any kind of free-fall ride before. Keep in mind, I'm a paraplegic, and can't anchor my feet on anything. That being said, when we fell the first time, my butt came off the seat and I went absolutely bananas!! And not the dancing kind!!! I was 19 or 20 years old and I was screaming "Get me off, get me off," the whole ride.

I can laugh about it now though. When I rode it all there was was a lap bar. Now they say the lap bar is gone and is replaced w/ a seat belt. Now if there was BOTH I would ride it again. But when my butt came off the seat I really feared I was going to get hurt.

 

[SKELATOR THE PIRATE]

Mine is just riding the TOT for the 2nd time and all I can think before the 1st drop is "WHY AM I HERE". The embarassing part is my 4.5 year old laughing and having a great time. He is trying to talk me into riding it with him again...

 

[Danauk]

DisneyRocks=D, I have been on Nemesis when it has broken down too and I have been stuck on air for 15 minutes too. We had just completed the circuit on ait though and were stuck in the break run in the flight position!! I got stuck on the Haunted House once too (when it was Haunted House not Duel.) They turned the lights on after about 5 minutes and we had to walk out (that was over 10 years ago.) Last year we got stuck in the middle room of Hex for 15 minutes as well. They turned the lights on then too. As you can probably tell, I love going to Alton Towers!!

 

[Rob_b]

CP: Top Thrill Dragster

Yea its only about a 10 second ride. First time I ever thought about backing out while waiting inline. Watching the car launch before you and not making it up the lift hill and rolling back down was nerve racking. Rode it 3 more times that day.

Rob

 

[sanctus]

You have to understand. I'm a thrill ride junkie. The faster, the higher, the better, right?

The first time I took by 4 year old on a ferris wheel, and he was seatbelted in, is the most horror filled moment of my life. It was like, I suddenly thought, *anything* could happen, and here was my baby way up high. What if the belt broke? What if the machine, I dunno, fell apart? It's funny now, but it was like all my protective instincts went into overdrive, for only the second time in my life.

The first time was on the way home from the hospital with my first baby, when I suddenly realized all those other cars were around us, and those lines that marked the lanes were JUST PAINT and not gonna stop anyone from coming over and hitting us. LOL

 

[shanleal]

Funny you should mention being scared when you took your first baby home! I was the same way. I sat in the back seat horrified while my husband drove us home.

Secondly there is a new ride on top of the Stratosphere in Las Vegas. Not the one that shoots straight up that my 9 yr old road but one that now comes off the side of the top. I wouldn't ride it for a million dollars! Just watching it from the top observation was bad enough!!

 

[blitzkrieg048]

Jurassic park at Universal. My bil said it wasn't bad. It's on the idea of Splash MT. I though it was just a small drop. Well at the end of the ride when they open the the doors to drop all I sae was sky. Not good.

 

[ImagineMeDisney]

These terrifying moments aren't mine, but my younger sister's (11 year age difference, she was 11 when this happened).
We live in Sandusky, OH, about 10 minutes from Cedar Point. I used to take her there yearly, and the Gemini (a very old, but fun racing coaster) was the only coaster she'd ride. Well, DH and I decided it was time for her to spread her wings a bit. after some prompting (and a little threatening..I'm a mean sister..) we got her on the corkscrew (upside-down twisty coaster, tame enough..) she was screaming the whole ride(1:30sec) "I hate you! You're so mean!" the second we got off she wanted to do it again!!
We hauled her on to more and more rides, each time she declared her "hatred" for me, but wanted to get right back on..we topped off the evening with a little ride called Millenium Force. At the time, it was the tallest, fastest, etc etc. and even I was a bit scared to ride it at first. On the way up the hill she was so scared she was shaking, but the priceless moment was the second the car tipped down to go over the first hill. She turned as white as a ghost and her eyes just about popped out of her head, a true moment of panic. I thought she was going to break my hand, she was squeezing so hard!
If they'd had a camera at the top of that hill to take pics of the passengers, I would have definitely forked out the money!! Needless to say, my extreme meanness as a sister has led her to become a coaster junkie..the next time we went to WDW she rode everything she was too afraid to try the year before. So all's well that ends well. I have many many other stories of my DH and I terrifying my poor sis, but I'll save those for another time.

 

[muguet27]

The first time I rode Dinosaur I didn’t have any idea what to expect. It was a very fun and exciting ride…until that huge dinosaur lunges at you out of the dark. Good gravy!!! I absolutely panicked… I really wasn’t expecting that. It took a second for it to sink in that it was part of the ride…I thought a dinosaur was tipping over onto us! And of course that is right where they take your picture. 5 years later I am still disappointed that I didn’t get that picture…it was hilarious.

When I was a teenager we visited Six Flags Great America and rode a wooden roller coaster called American Eagle. As we started going up the first big hill and the train gave a lurch, the car we were in lifted up a few inches. I was convinced that our car was disconnected from the rest of the train and we were going to flip off the track. Every bump we hit we could feel the car lift. I love roller coasters and could ride them all day, but that was the only time I ever wanted to get off one immediately!

For a while I was afraid I would have to stop riding roller coasters that went upside down because every time I would get that “pressed down into the seat” feeling, my vision would go black. I thought I had a problem with low blood pressure or something. I talked about it to my stepbrother one time and he said to tighten my stomach muscles to keep the blood in the upper part of my body (he’s a pilot, so he learned about that kind of thing in training). It turns out I was just too relaxed on the rides! I was kind of bummed about that, because I like enjoying the feeling of the G’s…I didn’t want to fight the feeling. But, I don’t black out anymore, so I guess I can handle it.

 

[dizprincess717]

There's a ride in an amusement park near where I live, Dorney Park, which is owned by Cedar Fair who also owns Cedar Point in Ohio. Anyway, they have this ride called the Dominator. Ours is three towers put into a triangle formation and the towers are 200 feet high. When you're on the ride you're in open air and only held in by a shoulder harness. Your feet dangle. The red tower holds riders at the bottom and suddenly launches them upwards on the 200' tower. The green tower slowly lifts riders up 200' in the air, locks them in, holds them for a random amount of time and drops them.

I've been on the green tower three times and each time I hated it more than the last. It's the worst feeling ever when you're held up there and don't know when you're going to drop.

Which is why I never even stepped foot near ToT. But I did this trip! And it doesn't even feel like a free-fall like on Dominator.

The most scared I've ever been on a ride was sitting on the top of that tower just waiting to drop!!! Never again. But I'll go on the red tower any day!

 

[erinch]

1)at one of the water parks my 5 yo DS rode down a twisty tube slide ALONE for the first time in his life. Not that great swimmer and severe asthma.

I came down first and was waiting to receive him. i waited AND waited and WAITED.

Finally down came the TUBE by itself. No Graham. More wait. I'm starting to scream for the lifeguard when up he shows, scooting along on his but and disappeared into the splash pool.

2) This same DS, now age 11, we are on the Jurassic Park ride at IOA. DD, age 4, was big enough to ride it, loves the splashing boat ride at Cedar Point, and we'd gone through a huge battle to get her on, because she was just tall enough.

Just as we came to the drop, there was a spitting dinosaur which spit water at you. My dear DS grabbed his eye and starting screaming, "My Eye! My Eye! It spit acid in my eye! My eye is gone!!! Meredith, he's going to get your eye NEXT!!!!! DD started screaming, the boat went plunging down, she hit her head on the bar hard enough to raise a lump, and when we got down the entire park was saying, "See, that's what you get when you take a child who's too short on the ride."

My DS, now 17, STILL doesn't that that is Horror-able.

 

[txSleepingBeauty]

The first time I rode Dinosaur I didn’t have any idea what to expect. It was a very fun and exciting ride…until that huge dinosaur lunges at you out of the dark. Good gravy!!! I absolutely panicked… I really wasn’t expecting that. It took a second for it to sink in that it was part of the ride…I thought a dinosaur was tipping over onto us! And of course that is right where they take your picture. 5 years later I am still disappointed that I didn’t get that picture…it was hilarious.

I agree completely. I've probably ridden Dinosaur 10 times, but EVERY time it scares the bejeezus out of me at the end, EVERY photo shows me cowering, hunkered down and hiding!
That's the only ride that's ever scared me, otherwise I'll pretty much ride anything