![]() ![]() The pulling up and dropping cycle repeats several times - just how many is random. your elevator drops at a faster than gravity speed and then is pulled up again. Tower of Terror at the Studio also has a high 'make you sick' factor. I got my tag from describing it ("It's like combining the teacups with a roller coaster" in red under my signature - thank you, Tag Fairy). It looks like a tame little roller coaster, but it also spins randomly. Primeval Whirl at AK is one that is deceptively rough. Probably not much in terms of G forces though. There are also a lot of times when your ride car is going slowly and then abruptly speeds up or turns in another direction - all with the possibility that you might be 'turned into dinosaur food' or 'crushed/burned' by an asteroid. R&R has drops and things, but it is a smooth ride (you are in a limo, after all, rushing to a concert).įor roughness, I would rate Dinosaur at AK as rougher and it also has a high scare factor (get the adrenalin going). I would not do the more intense (Orange version) it adds the whole ride spinning to the roughness, so it would have the same effect as the fair ride that Mary wrote about. MS (the green version that does not spin) is still very rough and it has the element of scaring you (don't want to give anything away, but there are some tense moments when your 'mission' is in danger. Of course, everyone's health concerns are different, but it might help you to double check one more time before you go.Ĭlick to expand.Both of them are very intense. Also, the intense (Orange) version of Mission Space produces high G-forces as well. We're going to double check before our next WDW trip, because more of her testing should be back by then. Nevertheless, I've been nervous about coasters that go upside down (like Rock n Roller Coaster) since that experience. The doc said it might be a result of the high G-forces produced by the ride, but he wasn't sure it was a problem with her heart per se, since that type of ride could make anyone sick like that. She's a complete thrill ride junkie, but on after this ride she felt dizzy and nauseous afterwards, and her heart rate was extremely high. ![]() Her cardiologist initially said that she didn't have any ride restrictions, but then we took her to the local county fair, where she went on that ride that spins so fast that you stick to the walls when the bottom falls out. ![]() The other type of corner – the one that’s used more often – is a banked corner, where the corner is tilted up so that the outside of the corner is higher than the inside.My DD is being evaluated for heart problems as well (she also uses a wheelchair, but that's a completely different story). Generally, they’re used when the car isn’t travelling too fast, and when the idea is to bump and shove the passengers around! Until I figured out that I needed to use banked corners, I got very high “intensity” ratings on the rollercoasters I built on RCT, as the horizontal “g-force”, the force that acts inwards, was massive! You also feel it when it stops and you’re on a straight bit of track again, which is why you get bumped and shoved around so much on a flat corner, and why they aren’t used all that often. You might feel like you’re being pushed to the outside of the corner, because it’s a matter of perspective: to you, you’re being pulled out, although the force has to be pulling in, otherwise you wouldn’t be going round the corner!Īs you can see, the centripetal force is at right angles to the gravity/weight of you and the car, and you feel its full effect pulling you inwards. The force you feel when you’re going round a corner – the centripetal force – pulls you in towards the centre. When a rollercoaster car goes round a flat corner, all of the centripetal force is acting at right angles. ![]()
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