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Now, we all love going to theme parks, be it with our mates, or with family, hell, maybe on your own if you're a bit of a weirdo, but everyone I've met has an interesting story about something that happened to them or something they saw at a themepark thats always stuck with them.
I'll start with a few of mine:
Disneyland Paris: Rockin' Roller coaster
Rockin roller coaster is an indoor roller coaster located both at disneyland in paris and walt disney world florida. It is a roller coaster themed around the band aerosmith.
This one's not very interesting, but on the "launch" sequence, I somehow managed to do something stupid.
The best video I could find was the Florida version, which I have been on and they're virtually the same ride.
The ride attendant told us to push up on our safety bars before the countdown, which I didn't do til the countdown actually started. When I did push up on it, I heard a loud click and found out that I had unlatched my safety bar somehow and it had locked about 4 sizes too big for me. Luckily the ride had some weird safety feature that prevented the ride from starting whilst my safety bar was unlatched. Was pretty fucking funny tbh, the music started without the ride even moving and staff had to make sure I'd relocked my safety bar and override the rides failsafe for it to begin.
"Flamingo land: Hero"
We went to flamingo land twice with my high school when we went on a week long end of year "Holiday" trip to scarborough. On thursday of both trips we went to flamingo land, which is basically a slightly less expensive version of Chessington world of adventure with better rides. Now, I went on this one twice, and on both occasions, I only managed to injure myself.
Not my video, but it shows the premise of the ride, also, if you read the comments, you'll get to the point of the story a lot quicker.
On both occasions it fucking REEKED. Staff need to fucking clean this thing hourly it seems because its gross as fuck. The second time I went on this, I came off with fairly moderate bruising to the shoulders and chest, and I don't bruise easily. The first time I went off this, at the end of the ride I fell flat out when the safety thing opened up because you come off a shaky as fuck roller coaster where you're lying on your chest the whole ride and are expected to get out of a moving object best described as a fucking bear trap. The actual ride itself is pretty fucking fun though but if you find yourself at flamingo land be warned that this thing is basically BDSM, the ride. Probs why I enjoyed it ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Disneyland California: Leprosy shirt
Now, This one could come as no surprise to some people. I wore a T shirt in disneyland california that depicted the album cover of one of Florida's most famous heavy metal acts "Death". This stories not very interesting but at the entrance of Disneylands "California adventure" park, I was told by security to cover up my shirt with my arms and go to the customer helpdesk and ask if its "Appropriate" to be worn in a disney park. The helpdesk called a manager down to check if it was "Ok" and he said that it was but I should "try not to draw attention to it" whatever the fuck that meant.
This was the shirt. Its understandable that they had to "check" with staff, but the whole experience made me not wear this shirt to Disneyland California again. When I went to Eurodisney last summer I wore this without any issues however.
I have more stories I'll share at a later date but I want to hear some of yours!
I'll start with a few of mine:
Disneyland Paris: Rockin' Roller coaster
Rockin roller coaster is an indoor roller coaster located both at disneyland in paris and walt disney world florida. It is a roller coaster themed around the band aerosmith.
This one's not very interesting, but on the "launch" sequence, I somehow managed to do something stupid.
The ride attendant told us to push up on our safety bars before the countdown, which I didn't do til the countdown actually started. When I did push up on it, I heard a loud click and found out that I had unlatched my safety bar somehow and it had locked about 4 sizes too big for me. Luckily the ride had some weird safety feature that prevented the ride from starting whilst my safety bar was unlatched. Was pretty fucking funny tbh, the music started without the ride even moving and staff had to make sure I'd relocked my safety bar and override the rides failsafe for it to begin.
"Flamingo land: Hero"
We went to flamingo land twice with my high school when we went on a week long end of year "Holiday" trip to scarborough. On thursday of both trips we went to flamingo land, which is basically a slightly less expensive version of Chessington world of adventure with better rides. Now, I went on this one twice, and on both occasions, I only managed to injure myself.
On both occasions it fucking REEKED. Staff need to fucking clean this thing hourly it seems because its gross as fuck. The second time I went on this, I came off with fairly moderate bruising to the shoulders and chest, and I don't bruise easily. The first time I went off this, at the end of the ride I fell flat out when the safety thing opened up because you come off a shaky as fuck roller coaster where you're lying on your chest the whole ride and are expected to get out of a moving object best described as a fucking bear trap. The actual ride itself is pretty fucking fun though but if you find yourself at flamingo land be warned that this thing is basically BDSM, the ride. Probs why I enjoyed it ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Disneyland California: Leprosy shirt
Now, This one could come as no surprise to some people. I wore a T shirt in disneyland california that depicted the album cover of one of Florida's most famous heavy metal acts "Death". This stories not very interesting but at the entrance of Disneylands "California adventure" park, I was told by security to cover up my shirt with my arms and go to the customer helpdesk and ask if its "Appropriate" to be worn in a disney park. The helpdesk called a manager down to check if it was "Ok" and he said that it was but I should "try not to draw attention to it" whatever the fuck that meant.
This was the shirt. Its understandable that they had to "check" with staff, but the whole experience made me not wear this shirt to Disneyland California again. When I went to Eurodisney last summer I wore this without any issues however.
I have more stories I'll share at a later date but I want to hear some of yours!
