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Your Top Worst Coasters

My list;

G-force at Drayton. Incredibly short and underwhelming, combined with being uncomfortable while riding and queuing make it horrid.

Vampire- The ride itself is quite fun, but the seats make it really uncomfortable and Chessington seem to run it on a low capacity so it takes forever to queue for!

X at Thorpe park- Boring, cramped and outdated. Needs replacing IMO.

Infusion at BPB- Rough, meh layout and again rough as hell!
 
Seen g-force mentioned a lot here. Only been on once so I might of just had I good ride, but I didn't find it particularly painful (uncomfortable, yes, but not enough to ruin the ride). Will agree that it has a fairly boring layout, it's too short, and that the ide of an inverting lift hill is terrible, but who does the pain affect most (tall people, larger people, etc).


I find it hard to rate bad coasters, just as I struggle to rate my favourites. They can be bad for so many reasons - painful/uncomfortable, boring layout, cheap gimmicks, but I can safely say these are some of my worst:
  • Collosus, thorpe - painful, repetitive ride that does nearly nothing but invert (yet, I like the smiler). Gets insane queues, and ends with five inversions that don't add much. Shame, it's one of the best landscaped rides I've ever seen, but it's yet another example of one of the times intamin hasn't done so well
  • Rita, towers - think I've managed to get over the pain on rita now I've learnt how to brace, but it turns out the pain was distracting me from how bland the layout is. Like any accelerator, the launch is fun (though wouldn't push to "thrilling", as I would for stealth), but after that it's just meandering round corners trying to use up its speed. In the right seat, maybe you'd get a little air time, but I've never experienced it myself.
  • Rattlesnake, chessie - I'll admit, when it's not trimmed to death, it can be fun. But there's the problem... It always is. Feels like your being punched every time you hit the trims, and the brake run tries to crack your ribs. Add to that that every corner throws you into the side of the cart, or the person next to you, and it's just beyond uncomfortable. On top of this, it's just a generic mouse coaster. Poor throughput, a less than thrilling ride (not matching the height restriction), and something you could experience at a travelling fair.
 
G-Force, Drayton Manor
Poor train design, shocking throughput due to operating on just one train, lift hill is just bizarre, and it's just not a pleasant experience. Queuing in the station building in the height of summer is not at all fun, I can assure you.

Insane, Gröna Lund
Just...WHY does this thing exist?! No lateral G-force whatsoever. Just going backwards, forwards, up and down is not fun. It's rough and uncomfortable, and I was so glad to get off it. It's a pain in the backside to try and get into and out of if you're short. It's definitely not an improvement on its smaller cousin at all, with only two rides of each type in existence (the smaller ZacSpins are at Terra Mítica in Spain and Linnanmäki in Finland, and the only other larger one is at SFMM) somewhat demonstrating why this is the case. Plus it's just a dreadful ride. :p
 
Leah said:
Seen g-force mentioned a lot here. Only been on once so I might of just had I good ride, but I didn't find it particularly painful (uncomfortable, yes, but not enough to ruin the ride). Will agree that it has a fairly boring layout, it's too short, and that the ide of an inverting lift hill is terrible, but who does the pain affect most (tall people, larger people, etc).
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Anyone on the larger side gets crushed to an inch of their lives..
 
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I'm 6ft 2 and I didn't find G-Force particularly uncomfortable, it's not a brilliant ride but I find it much better than Infusion, Magnus Colossus and Baco.

I can't look past Baco as my least favourite, the only positives is that it looks good off ride and the queue line is quite nice. Apart from that it's almost unrideable for me.
 
El Condor at Walibi Holland. SLC's are notorious for being dreadful, but as the first SLC it makes its younger relatives feel like glass smooth B&Ms. It made me realise I've actually had comfortable rides on Infusion in comparison. Never again.
 
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El Condor at Walibi Holland. SLC's are notorious for being dreadful, but as the first SLC it makes its younger relatives feel like glass smooth B&Ms. It made me realise I've actually had comfortable rides on Infusion in comparison. Never again.
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Seconded!

Never again will anyone complain of Infusion's rattles and jolts. El Condor is the single worst coaster I have ever ridden.

This isn't a ride. It's a torture device. I have to assume that it has aged very badly. If not, I genuinely have no idea why any park ever bought another. It's brutal.
 
Insane at Grona Lund. Ouch. Pins you in, you can't physically move on it. As soon as it goes over 90 degrees, feels like it will snap your thighs in two, and tightens during the ride on in *cough* not very pleasant position. Also has a death cred clone.
 
I could have sworn I’d posted in a topic like this before, but this was the newest one I could find and I haven’t posted in this one. My apologies for bumping the thread, but I was thinking about this tonight, so I thought I might as well give it a go.

I’ve currently done 113 coasters. I’ve ranked all of the coasters I’ve ridden, and I’ve also rated them all out of 10 to give a rough idea of “tiers”. As such, I’ll contribute all of the coasters I rated 2/10 or lower into this, which as of right now is everything ranked #99 or lower.

Without further ado, then, my “worst” coasters are as follows:
99) Euro Mir - Europa Park: This might surprise some, as I know it’s quite well liked in many circles, but I found Euro Mir horrible. It was brutally rough every time it tried to twist or turn a corner, and while it had forceful moments, I didn’t even find the layout to be anything overly interesting. It’s definitely Europa Park’s weakest link for coasters, for me. 2/10
100) Grand National - Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Grand National has a decent layout, but my last experience on there was just ridiculously rough. It was absolutely brutal to the point where roughness and being battered was pretty much the overriding sensation throughout the ride. It’s a few spots higher than it might have been due to its decent layout and actually having some half-decent airtime, but it was just so, so horrifically rough and brutal in a way that totally ruined the ride for me. 2/10
101-107) Reverchon spinning wild mice - Various: I’ve ridden 7 of these coasters, and I don’t like them at all. I’m not a fan of the harsh laterals the wild mouse ride type provides, and while these aren’t quite as bad as some of the standard wild mouse genre, I still don’t like them. These coasters are also often very rough and janky even putting aside the laterals, and on the whole, I’m not a fan of this common clone. In terms of specific ones, I’ve found them to vary slightly, with Crazy Coaster at South Pier Blackpool ranked highest at #101 and one side of the late Primeval Whirl ranked lowest at #107, but these are only subtle differences, and I find them all pretty awful. 2/10
108) Bulldog Coaster - Brean Theme Park: I was not a fan of this one, I’m afraid. While it’s an admittedly impressive headliner for a park of Brean’s calibre, I found it very rough and I found the ride car horrifically cramped and uncomfortable. I’m not exactly tall at only 5’10”, but I found the OTSR really tight and I found the ride car horribly cramped to sit in, which really exacerbated every bump on the ride. 2/10
109) Steeplechase (Right) - Blackpool Pleasure Beach: I admit that Steeplechase is unique, and the racing element is good fun, but I’m afraid that I just didn’t overly enjoy it at all. I found it very uncomfortable and found the harsh laterals painful, and I found it to have few redeeming features aside from uniqueness to make up for this. 2/10
110) Rattlesnake - Chessington World of Adventures: Similarly to the Reverchon spinning coasters above, I don’t like the wild mouse ride style, and on my one ride back in 2014, I remember this being a particularly bad example of it. I remember finding it very rough with the harsh laterals and braking, and I have distinct memory of coming off it with a bright red elbow from being slammed into the side of the car repeatedly! 2/10
111) Sand Serpent - Busch Gardens Tampa: Similar to above, except this one had some particularly vile braking that really hurt and lowered it another level beyond Rattlesnake. I sorry to say that I don’t miss it now it’s gone. 2/10, but I was mildly tempted to go to 1/10 because of the awful braking.
112) Infusion - Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Standard layout SLCs have been long hyped as awful, and this did not disappoint in that regard. The layout isn’t half-bad, to be fair, but my word, the headbanging and roughness was just completely relentless, and it was horrible… 1/10
113) Hero - Flamingo Land: Hero is an interesting one to have at rock bottom, because I’d actually argue that while undeniably rough, it isn’t as traditionally rough as some of the coasters ranked above it… but I’m sorry to say that I just found the whole setup completely grotesque. I don’t massively rate flying coasters at the best of times, but I found the car on Hero to make the B&M Flying Coaster trains feel like a B&M Hyper with clamshell restraints. Clambering onto a ladder, haphazardly putting your head through a hole and having a weird flimsy panini press mechanism holding you in is not comfortable in the slightest, and it is made even more uncomfortable by being flung around the really rough, tight turns in the layout. Hero is undeniably… different, but I’m sorry to say that it wasn’t for me at all. 1/10
 
Turbo, Brighton Pier - Tried to break my jaw, not recommended. Also cost a fortune.

Mumbo Jumbo, Flamingo Land - The top restraint is appalling and painful, really really hurt especially the upside down bits. Bonus for trying to snap my neck at the end.

Vértigo, Parque De Atracciones De Madrid - Imagine a Wild Mouse where half the brakes don't work and the other half have been turned up to 300%. Recently did the mirror of this coaster and it was one of the best mice.

Furius Baco, PortAventura - Corners about as well as a haddock on ice skates, whilst smashing your head to bits.

Mine Train Roller Coaster, Funland Amusement Park - The lift slipped. I think my discs slipped.

Viking, Energylandia - Spinning Mouse with added OTSRs. Hideous.

MP-Xpress, Movie Park - SLC Concussion machine.

Stampida Red, PortAventura - Crashes and slams like prime CCI but in a Kumbak train that seems designed to hurt you.

Bandit, Movie Park - One of only 2 rides to make me feel ill courtesy of slamming the restraint into my stomach so hard I felt like death.

Infusion, Blackpool Pleasure Beach - The other ride to make me feel ill. The head trauma of this pile of awfulness is another level.
 
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