Top thrill anxiety

Terror is actually kind of what adds to the coaster experience

Coasters that scare me is a lot different than coasters that scare(d) me once upon a time. The coasters I still think "Aw sh%$" like before the X2 drop or TTD launch

For me, the longer (and steeper) the lift hill is, the more anxiety it provokes. I once got stuck on a Eurofighter lift hill for only 30 minutes, but I had a panic attack lol. And yeah, just looking at the magnitude of stratacoasters makes me shudder. First drops always take my breath away too. My body has no problem dealing with inversions and g force and such, but I can't even look out the window of a 5 story building without holding onto something haha. Coasters are exposure therapy for heights with me 🤣

X2 is a coaster that you didn’t mention that I was actually scared while riding. I don’t remember ever feeling that terrified (in a good way) before 😅 Besides that, Kingda Ka and Dragster both still get the butterflies going for me!

I think for Tatsu, since it sits on a hill, it really terrifies people who are afraid of heights, because Tatsu is so far off the ground. I mean 170 ft up that lift is amazingly high for a flying coaster :)

Height rarely phases me except on things like skycoasters. Hydraulic launches however still genuinely scare the hell out of me, but I love 'em to death. I absolutely love Xcelerator and Dragster, but no matter how many times I ride them, I'm still caught off guard by the launch. Definitely one of my favorite coaster models.

5:56 perfect way to describe the feeling of being on a roller coaster. The first time I went on Dragster, it was only a 20 minute wait, and I hated every second of it. Once we got to the station, I sat in my seat, pulled down the lap bar, and basically pouted like the angsty 12 year old I was. As the train rolled onto the launch track, I thought to myself, “why did I agree to this? I have so much left in life that I want to experience.” But it didn’t matter because the train started booking it down the launch. I didn’t have any time to feel scared. Once we reached the peak, I stared at the view of the park (which is honestly my favorite part of the ride) and then we started plummeting towards the ground. I got off the ride shaky and excited. I got back in line 3 more times after that.

Tbh the only coasters that legitimately freak me out are stratas

Top thrill dragster has to be my scariest. There’s just nothing else like it(besides kingda ka of course) Hey I just wanna say that i have videos on my channel of my homemade Rollercoaster that I’m building in my backyard and would really appreciate it if you checked it out.

I have a few that scare me. Intimidator 305, Top Thrill Dragster, All the 4D coasters, Tower of Terror at Gold Reef City, Blue Streak at Conneaut Lake Park, Coaster at Playland, and of course, Do-Dodonpa!!

Only tall lift hills scare me... especially Fury's. When you are going decently fast then randomly slow down on that lift hill, it scares me... but somehow the rides at the stratosphere (the only ones open were Xscream and their launch tower) didn't scare me too much.

The tallest coaster I’ve ridden is I305, so anything higher than that I still have a worry for, but I feel like I’m confident enough to take them on at this point.

Oh man. I remember in 2017 going to KD being completely GP knowing nothing about KD or anything about coasters in general. When I did I305 for the first time having no idea, I was absolutely FLOORED. My mind raced and I was so blown away.

Top Thrill Dragster is very terrifying. Storm runner is one of my favorite rides, and I was thinking about how much I liked it in the moments leading up to my first ride on TTD. But Storm Runner and TTD are two VERY different beasts. It was awesome though.

I'll say this - every single coaster I have looked at never scared after I had ridden Xcelerator. But to this day, I instantly get shivers looking at X2, especially when you drive up to MM and see it in person. I still have a hard time believing how that ride even exists.

Hearing you talk about Dragster is making me visualize what I’ll probably think waiting in line for Dragster if I ever go to Cedar Point (I love roller coasters but lots of major coaster get me really nervous until I actually ride them😂)

Dragster is hands down the scariest coaster I've ridden. I'll even admit that I was stalling to ride this when I went to Cedar Point with my friends last year. This thing made me scream so hard that I lost my voice, but it was well worth it.

The scariest parts of coasters are the wait in line and the anticipation while you go up the hill or wait for the hydro launch

Top thrill drags launch scared me more than the entire ride. I screamed 3 times

I felt that top thrill story to the CORE! Considering my first experience with it was a rollback, I’m still terrified 17 years later!

I remember the Top Thrill Dragster line in 04. You perfectly described the dreaded feeling that line gives you. From the sounds of the Dragster taking off to the repeat of "BABYIMREADYTOGO!" every time the train loaded at the station. Great Nostalgia friend thanks for the video.

This hobby has the steepest learning curve of anything. You can spend years practicing a martial art every day and not consider yourself an expert. Coasters? It takes one ride. My first "big" coaster with inversions (and only my second ever, 8 years after my first which was a simple Pinfari Zyklon) was Kraken at SeaWorld Orlando. I wasn't on the front or back row and I was scared to death, gripping the restraint's handles and holding my head back and not daring to move an inch. The Gs were painful. Afterwards I felt dizzy. I rode it again and already I was putting my arms up...

Dragster, and the launch into zero G roll on Incredible Hulk Coaster, but After that I'm fine. Lol

I think only X2 scares me even a little bit.

Standing in line for Maxx Force for the first time. I was super excited until I got to where I could see the trains just disappearing into the tunnel. Not even a couple seconds after the second train that I could see launched, they asked if there were any double riders. My dad and I were pretty far back, but we ended up being the first pair. They had us go over to the other line, and strap in. Now I'm super nervous. We pull up to the launch, and I nearly crap myself. It seemed like forever. Then I heard the clunks before launch. Again, felt like forever. Finally, we launch. The moment the acceleration kicked in it was amazing. The roll was insane. Once the train stopped I was just laughing because it was so fun!

The only rollercoaster I was scared of was the super loop

I was half expecting nothing to scare you and half expecting this list to be longer. Well done for facing your anxiety head on.

its not really a coaster but a ride that terrifies me are the slingshot and the drop towers.... i did a drop tower once, in france (nigloland) it was a 100m tall drop and god, i really diddnt likes the sensation. Else, i got last year my first ride on ttd and millenium force, and this was the first time i went up more than 45m (france parks dont have really huge coasters), and god, i did MF in the first row for my first experience and i wasnt that much scared about the drop but when the train got alll the way to the top, i realized that it was really high up there, and then, boom the drop, and holy cow it was intense and i will never forget it, as muchas the wind in my face and my shirt going back... after that i went to ttd and i got to the line, there were a 1h30 wait time, and we got to the line. It was my last day at the park so i really wanted to do it, and at the middle of the line, after 40min of wait, the train got a problem and a lot of peoples went back and started quitting the queue. I almost quited but after 35-45mins, the ride restarted and almost got a rollback. After 2 and a half of wait time, The time had come to me to enter the 2nd train, 3rd row, and boom, the train starts, goes slowly into the launch, and stop, the engine sounds start and my heart start pounding at the speed of light, and then, The light starts appearing and weaunch. I cant breath bu the sensation is amazing, then before i had the time to say something, were at the top of the tower, and i get a small airtime, then i see th amazing view, and the drop coming, and right after that, we hi the breaks and slowly lose speed, and i'm shocked by what just happened. U N F O R G E T T A B L E. it was maybe one of the best sensation i ever experienced, and i would gladly do it again. sorry for the wall of text, and for the english errors but i'm frencch :D

Lol imagine he went to Cedar Point and Top Thrill Dragster was closed.

I will never forget the first ride of X2 I was so terrified. I just hit 48 inches and I was with my best friend going up the lift hill backwards and on your back was terrifying then slowly tilting up to the horizon. The first pre drop holds u almost upside down with nothing to look at (this is the scariest part of the ride in my opinion) then getting flipped over to face the ground 200 feet in the hair. I never think I’ve had a bigger smile on that ride. I went from pure fear to pure adrenaline and excitement. Best ride on X2 I’ve ever had

When I first get to the park I get pretty anxious but I force myself on one of the taller ones at my park and then I’m ok.

I don’t usually find myself scared of rollercoasters, but flat rides really get me. I just can’t do drop rides and those crazy high flipping rides. They’re just way too terrifying for me to handle. It’s not a very pleasant experience when all you want to do is cry up there. There are some rollercoasters that I’ll never go on though, such as Superman Escape from Krypton, Top Thrill Dragster, Kingda Ka, and those Giga Coasters.

Dragster is a whole different story in person, it's very intimidating

There is no ride that put fear in me like millennium force did when I was a kid in the early 2000s

Sfmm is my home park and I have to say... No one is ever ready for the pretzel loop on tatsu. I've ridden dozens of times and every time I tell myself I'm ready for it but I never am, and neither is anyone else i bring on it. God i love TATSUUUUUUU. Oh yeah and the backwards ride up X2's lift is definitely anxiety inducing.

Kärnan scared me the first time I rode. It is this huge tower and because it’s in Schleswig-Holstein, it is one of the highest points in the entire area. But it’s an awsome ride!

Every dive coaster gets my heart going

INTIMIDATOR 305 WAS SO CRAZY I LOVED IT SO MUCH

When I rode Wicked Cyclone for the first time in 2016 and i had no clue about roller coasters at all and that ride terrified me because it went upside down with only a lap bar.... at the time i’ve never ridden a ride that went upside down with a lap bar before so it scared the crap out of me, but i loved it

That launch on Top Thrill Dragster is such a doozy, but it instantly falls away once you're up on the peak of the tophat and you're having a blast. I was laughing like a madwoman the whole rest the way down my first time.

I used to have the same feeling of fear you're describing here, but after riding so many rollercoasters over the past few years, I sort of flipped and now I often underestimate them .. which is WORSE! You're like "aah doesn't look that bad, and it passed the safety inspection do I'm sure it'll be fun!" And then when you're on there it's like "aaaah I've forgotten how intense this part was!! 😖😖”

I went to cedar point for my senior trip and didn't ride a single thing. I was deathly afraid of the coasters and was happy to watch everyone's bags while they went riding. The beach and adventure of being somewhere new was all I needed. Maybe one day I'll be braver.

honesty the coaster that scares me the most would have to be top thrill dragster and kingda ka. i don’t really have a fear of heights or anything but just the thought of it freaks me out so so so much. i don’t have a fear of launching so fast, i find that part super super fun. i think it might just be the fact that the only thing protecting you is a lap bar.

I’m not really scared of rollercoasters anymore. I kind of just get on without thinking. The only things I think can scare me now would be slingshots, sky coasters, vomatrons, and drop towers. Super Man Tower of Power and Scream scare me bc I don’t know when they’re gonna shoot up or drop down.

The only coaster that genuinely makes me nervous is Skyrush at Hersheypark. It's not thick thigh-friendly, and that ride is packed with so much ejector air time. You feel like you have to hang on for dear life

I was so scared of Top Thrill Dragster when I went in 2014. It never opened for me, and I was relieved, and I was disappointed in myself for feeling relieved. In 2018, it was my top priority, and I went for front row on my first ride. It was terrifying, but it was so exhilarating. TTD & Kingda Ka still make me nervous every time I ride. X2 also had me nervous, even for my rerides a couple months ago. i305 didn't really scare me, because I don't grey out much, and it didn't make me grey out. I actually rode it 24 times my last day there, 14 in the last 80 minutes, and could've kept going. Monster at Adventureland had me nervous, because it goes immediately into the beyond vertical drop without any hold.

Even after a back row ride on millennium and a back row an vengeance, dragster still scares the shit out of me

The only times I have felt scared on a coaster was going up the lift for Loch ness monster because it was my first looping coaster, waiting for the launch on dragster, and recently riding magnum in the 2nds to row because the insane ejector made it feel like I could fall out, and I wasn't sure if I set my lapbar too high, making it one of the most fun ride I have ever had on any coaster.

Top thrill still scares me every time I get in that line, but I still love it!!!

the scariest roller coaster experience is having a panic attack for the entire duration of steel vengeance.

I love that you did this video ! All those anxieties you felt I’ve felt on different coasters, almost every time I go to a six flags park I start getting that fear, but like you said once you get on, your confidence builds like crazy, that feeling of accomplishment is what makes these rides some of the best experiences of my life 👍🏼

i was so excited but scared to ride top thrill, and i remember waiting to launch in thr cart and trembling so badly, but the moment the lights turned green and we were accelerating i was like "that's it, i'm never going to be scared of this ride again" because it was so fun

Hypersonic XLC was probably the scariest rollercoaster of all time. The launch was insane but more importantly, the hill was very close with a shallow pull up. It looked like you were being launched into a wall of steel. On the midway you could watch the faces of people waiting to launch. Most had a look of pure terror.

The first time I saw dragster launch I literally feel to my hands and knees laughing in pure excitement!! Watching the lights to start dropping before take off is always my favorite part because I know what’s about to happen. I always suggest riding it multiple times in the same day just you can appreciate the 420’ drop otherwise you find yourself still trying to recover from the launch. Lol

I had a very similar experience with Dragster. It was the last coaster I rode because it was closed for the first couple days of my trip. On my third and final day it opened and I got on. I was terrified, but as soon as I started launching, I instantly relaxed and had a blast. After that experience I no longer have fear when I’m about ride a coaster.

those left to right and right to left transitions on I305 are fearful and exhilarating to me every time i ride....the grey outs on the first turn if you get it and coming to just to experience a massive section of airtime only magnifies the feeling and fear or intimidation of this ride....I only wish i could have rode it before it was nerfed.... "gentleman start your engines" pretty much makes me wet myself.....a good operator makes it even more insane.

Not a roller coaster, sure, but Falcon's Fury gets my heart pumping every time. When I let my legs go loose on that ride I constantly have a fear of falling out, even though I know that won't happen.

The scariest ride is the first. My first coaster was the hulk at universal orlando. I did single rider line and I ended up in the front row, not seeing or hearing any of the previous launches. It starts out at a slow and steady incline, as expected. I didn’t realize the thing would shoot me out like a cannonball. Then the fog tunnel made me blind for a minute. That, in the front row, plus all the fear of one’s first real coaster makes the hulk the scariest ride I’ve been on.

I agree with magic flyer as your number one scariest, but where is Woodstock express and road runner express?

I think heights can get my fear sense going. I don't usually get afraid on coasters but I'll admit that the lift hill of a giga coaster gets me anxious as I'm slowly ascending. That being said, I'm never afraid of the drop. And stratacoasters never scare me because you don't have time to get nervous while ascending. It's tall flat rides that get me. I always get nervous on the lift of drop towers. I find Windseekers quite scary. But no rides make my palms sweat like Star Flyers. The chains look really sketchy, like they're made of cheap necklaces. I've never been to the Statosphere but I imagine that would freak me out.

Yep, I’m totally with you regarding flying coasters. At my home park (Alton Towers), the flying coaster Galactica scares me so much more than the “thrill rides” (Smiler and Nemesis) as I feel like I’m going to be dropped to the ground. Hence it’s kinda my favourite ride there 🙂. And vertical lift hills are weirdly terrifying too. Great video.

It’s nice knowing I wasn’t the only one that nearly blacked out on Intimidator 305! That ride is intense and nobody to compare my experience with, being that I rode it alone!

as a coaster enthusiast I'm glad I'm actually scared of some rides. I road Kingda Ka at SFGA in 2016 and still scared of it today. Feel you man

Honestly, I’m still scared of rides like TTD and Fury 325. But what really scares me are drop towers. I can’t even get myself near them.

I’ve been on so many coasters that I’ve started to think of doing skydiving. Only thing more thrilling.

I went to a few parks as a kid. I remember the fear I had back then. In 2020, with the pandemic putting my brother and I out of work, we decided to stock up on season passes and hit every park we could. In the past year, I've ridden over 200 coasters. Sadly, the fear I had as a kid is gone. I love the thrill, and the forces, and the airtime... but I miss that knot you get in your stomach before getting on a ride.

The only coasters that terrify me are The Beast (for the last helix) and Skyrush (because of the thigh crushing), but I really love this last one!

Top Thrill Dragster and I305 are coasters I was going to ride for the first time this year. Of course that might not happen now, but I definitely share in your fear of them.

First time I rode dragster, I had so many mood changes in the line. Good times

I305 is at my home park and the first time I rode it my friends tricked me to getting on it bc I was terrified of coasters. After I rode it I was so proud of myself and I am now a coaster enthusiast. I305 is actually my number 1 ride to this day.

Once I got over my fear of coasters in general (my first was Medusa at SFDK) when I was about 12, no other coaster has scared me so much that I didn't get on it. SFMM was my next park and I got on every single one! Tatsu was my favorite and riding it in the dark was incredible! Though, I didn't get to X2 until the park was about to close, so I rode it in the pitch dark. Never again.

Im super scared of heights. So the top of the first drop always get me

Cedar Point is my home park, and I have ridden Top Thrill Dragster many times including first thing in the morning, and my anxiety STILL gets me every single time. I am a shaky mess by the time I'm walking up the ramp to the loading dock. Then we finally launch, and I am filled with pure bliss. I love it so much

Top Thrill Dragster was the most intimidating ride I've ever been on. I didn't know how that launch would feel, but it felt like I was getting ripped out of my seat because of the lap bars. It felt like the launch just kept going on and on. The airtime at the top was insane, even when I was assigned the 3rd row. I am gonna pray to get front seat next time I visit

My head & shoulders are terrified of Mind Eraser! My groin is terrified of Green Lantern at Six Flags Great Adventure! Only thing that would scare me is being on a coaster when it breaks down/stalls on the course ..... especially if I have to go to the bathroom!

I was really nervous on Storm Runner, but after the launch, I noticed this ride wasn’t scary at all. So I’m not scared to ride Mr. Freeze when me and my dad go to Texas.

One coaster I got really anxious before riding the first time was Superman the escape at SFMM. 400+ ft and 100mph. The line was 90 mins long, so all of the waiting really pumped up the fear!

Honestly, no particular ride gets me scared. But the thing is, the longer I have to wait in line, the more I start to stress out. If a ride is a walk on, I'm totally fine, but the longer I stand in line the more and more I start to get nervous. Its literally every minute I start to get a little more nervous. But its always so rewarding, there is nothing like ejector airtime that just throws you out of your seat.

Nothing has made me have such coaster PTSD as Superman: Ultimate Flight ay SFDK (the original skyrocket II). For context, I have only rode it once, but when I did it was in the very back (long lines lead to bad first time placement). The roughly 100ft drop into a 60 mph launch on an incredibly short launch track was one of the most intense experiences I have even been through. That, and after going through the incredibly fun and hangtime filled heartline roll, there is maybe 10 ft of track between you and the drop, and in the back, even with trims you get whipped over the 150ft 90 degree twisting drop. As much as I love coasters like X2 and Tatsu (not nearly as bad as everyone says unless you're in the back), this will always freak me out.

Honestly, Superman Ultimate Flight at SFGAm is the only roller coaster which has managed to terrify me on multiple rides. Having that flying coaster lift hill where you're just looking at the flat ground the whole time, as you slowly increase in height, with nothing but a harness holding you in, is just an absolutely terrifying experience unmatched by about anything else you can experience on a coaster (note: I haven't ridden a strata yet). Powerful launches like Maxx Force? Scary the first time, but not so much after that. I305 with it's massive, steep, and quick lift hill going into a blackout-enducing drop? Same thing. And I even really heavily black out on that thing (badly enough to miss half the ride). Honestly, I don't even think a second ride on Joker would top it (although I DID get beat up on that thing, so idk if I will ride it again). That flying coaster lifthill is just absolutely terrifying, and I would think that if I ever rode Tatsu I'd definitely rank it as the most terrifying coaster I've ridden. Strangely enough I had no problem on Manta.

Tatsu is amazing :D That Pretzel Loop is pretty intense tho ;)

When I went to Six Flags Fiesta Texas last summer, I went on Batman, and I was with my sister and the train, or car we rode in would never stop spinning, it was the most terrifying experience on that ride, I don’t think that I could ever ride that again!!! 😬😬😬

I’m surprised x2 isn’t on here even though it’s one of my favorite coasters i still get ridiculously nervous going up that lift hill

Honestly, I think the ride that freaks me out the most is Faclons Fury at Busch Gardens tampa. I did it once and greyed out, will probably never ride it again. It's funny you put Tigris in the video because I still get really nervous before that one despite about 20 rides.

"I'm not even a fan of Millennium Force." You just triggered ALL of the coaster enthusiasts.

I remember my scariest moment on a ride was on falcons fury. I just got off of Montu so my adrenaline was pumping and I felt invincible I got locked into my restraint and I instantly said “ what did I just do?” Even though I was scared I wasn’t super anxious, well until I got higher and higher and higher and started feeling that feeling in my stomach and to make matters worse I felt the seats start turning me towards my stomach and it just held me there just taunting me. Then WOOSH and I plummeted towards the ground at what felt like 100 mph and then it was over. Now filled with more adrenaline I decided to ride every other ride at the park. What a amazing day that was.

There are only 2 coasters that intimidate me that I have ridden. X2 and Xcelerator. Actually I have not ridden X2 yet but I’m so intimidated to ride it. I was waiting in line for it with a friend at the time the park was closing. I also didn’t bring a dollar with me so I might have been kicked out. Sadly my friends dad was in the pick up area so we had to get out of line. But when I was waiting in line, seeing the train go up the lift, it looked so scary. I knew what to expect but something just scared me. Now Xcelerator, the ride itself doesn’t scare me. What scares me about the ride, is the launch. Xcelerator has the most forceful launch on the west. Launch coasters in general intimidate me. But oh my god the launch on Xcelerator is incredible. I love it. Maybe I’m not scared, I’m just excited or nervous.

Only people that live in or have travelled to Australia recently will get this but DC Rivals in the backwards seat is pretty terrifying. Climbing a hyper coaster lift hill facing the ground with nothing holding you in but the restraints on your waste is freaky, especially as you know you're about to get flung over the first drop backwards. The airtime you experience is crazy.

I waited 16 years to ride TTD. Just did it this past summer. WTH was I waiting for? We then took a trip East and rode Kingda Ka as well as I305. I am a coaster enthusiast who is afraid of heights. I HATE the Eiffel Tower at Kings Island and Kings Dominion. But I will ride any and every coaster...even if my palms are sweating.

Dragster was probably one of the most terrifying roller coasters I've ever riden. Steel Vengeance is so so amazing, but the adrenaline rush i get from Dragster is like nothing else I've rode at CP, easily my favorite coaster there! (tho to be fair, I barley remember SV that well since SO MUCH happens on that ride that it's kind of a bur to me, definitely need to ride it more lol)

Not going to lie, ever since I rode my first coaster (Behemoth), I’ve never been scared to go on a rollercoaster since. Until I finally got to ride Top Thrill Dragster. Walking up to it, and seeing it’s sheer size made me nervous to ride it. Long story short, it’s now in my top ten coaster ever ridden. 😂

Ps. The first time I rode Top Thrill, I cried in the station, because I was so scared. 😂 But now everything I ride is either on par or less scary than Top Thrill. So that's how I got over my fear lol.

My first experience on Intimidator 305 was fairly blind. I visited in 2014 and was GP back then. I was waiting in line with my friends and we were next to go. As I secure myself in the car, I heard the previous passenger say “I didn’t black out this time” My heart sank. “Gentlemen, start your engines” played and I was sent up that hill. I rode it again in 2019 and has a blast

seeing this made me feel good bc i reallt love rollercoasters but heights teeeify me so theres only a certain amount of coasters i can ride 3: love woodies and indoor coasters :3

Tatsu is really the only coaster that gets me. I'm not a fan of heights so looking straight down is a bit unnerving but I have been on this coaster close to 100 times, so I'm kind of used to it, and I love listening to people's reactions on the first hill. When I first got back into coasters a few years ago, the first time I rode X2 and the first time I rode Top Thrill Dragster I was like what am I doing right before the TTD launch and X2 drop. Drop towers over 200 feet where it is a slow climb up and drop are really the only thing that gets to me.

My scariest is supreme scream. Just looking at it makes me want to die. But my favorite is either ghost rider or silver bullet, those rides are 🔥

Even in adulthood, having ridden a bunch of coasters, it took me a long time to work up the courage to get on my first vertical-lift/beyond-vertical-drop coaster. And I had to ride some other rides to work up to my first hyper (though one of those was my first RMC and was actually more intense). One of the things I tell myself is that being terrified while standing in line for a coaster, especially if it's a new type of coaster for me, is actually part of the ride experience. And it is, after all; the rides are generally designed to look impressive and scary from the ground. The ride has, in some sense, already started--might as well see it through.

I thought I was the only one that got sick of the, "Baby I'm ready to go!"😂🤣

Rides that do scare me the most are the drop tower rides. I can ride rollercoasters but drop towers make me hesitate to get on. Maybe I’ll go on if someone pays me good money lol I know I’ll cry or panic for sure