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Worst coasters you've ridden (Bottom 5/10)

No particular order:

1. Temple of the Nighthawk - Phantasialand
This ride was so nauseating. It just endlessly meanders, and when I ride it the building was super hot with no air flow. I felt ghastly afterwards.

2. Manta - Sea World Orlando
That pretzel loop felt horrible on my head and did not agree with me at all.

3. Gwazi (original) - Busch Gardens Tampa
Ouch. It hurt.

4. EuroMir - Europa Park
I know this is a very popular ride amongst enthusiasts, but I felt it was way too intense when facing backwards, to the extent it was unpleasant.

5. Big Loop - Heide Park
This was a series of rough inversions with seemingly nothing of interest in between. No thanks.
 
Not in any particular order, just a few examples of stuff I hated:

Time Warp / any Volare.
Only ridden the one at Canada's Wonderland. Despite a couple of opportunities to get a couple more for the count, I've never ridden another since and never will. Disgusting.

Insane / any Zacspin.
As above.

Hurricane, Fun Spot Atlanta. Looks and rides like a homemade backyard coaster.

SLC's are bad. The worst one I've ridden is the one at Walibi Holland, but they all kinda suck.

Old school boomerangs are bad,. The worst one I've ridden is the one at Six Flags St Louis, but they all kinda suck.

Various old, crappy Arrows. Dragon Fyre at Canada's Wonderland, Demon at California's Great America, Anaconda at Kings Dominion. All bad.

Various old, crappy woodies. Nash at Blackpool, Hurler at Carowinds, Wild Thing at Six Flags America, Coney Island Cyclone etc...
One notable exclusion though - Bandit at Movie Park Germany. That one is so bad it's... actually kinda brilliant.
 
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No particular order:

Volares - torture chambers
Hades 360 - organ grinder
Furius Baco - brain haemorrhage
Pinfari Zyklon Loopers - neck snappers
Condor, Limit, F2 Fright Flight, T3 - The bad SLCs
Blizzard, Festival Land - 22mph of ****e
Kingda Ka - 128mph of ****e
 
Excluding most of my fairground kiddy creds (they are what they are but not horrid), here's a rough bottom five;
  • Flight Deck, Canada's Wonderland - Baaadddd SLC
  • Tibidabo Express - VR seemed so much better than the North American quality, that is until my headset died 5 seconds after leaving the station. With nothing to distract, the coaster was incredibly shaky, tracked poorly, and layout was nonsensical and unengaging. My companions (working headsets and all) enjoyed it though?
  • Thunderbolt, Luna Park NYC - Trains are horrible, tracking and profiling is horrible, somehow did the impossible happen and made hangtime painful. Ejector and some parts of the layout were cool though, just hard to enjoy. I speed ran Coney Island in 2019 and only had time for this and Cyclone, wish I'd allocated time for the Volare instead.
  • Frankie's Mine Train, Six Flags Great Escape - I feel bad harping on this particular ride since I was waived the child requirement by management themselves and haven't ridden other Zamperla Gravity Coasters, but it was extremely shaky and the last turn is unnecessarily painful. I don't think there's any other coaster where a single element can ruin the entire thing.
  • American Flyer, Dominican Republic fair circuit - Random ass B&A Schiff that is rented out to events with a few smaller rides in poor condition. Pretty sure it got a repaint right after my encounter but sheesh. Coughed up less than $2 at a rust bucket ticket box for 10 laps, went off to find someone to open the ride for me. Dude turned it on, didn't test anything, secured my lap bar only, and dispatched with everything moving around. I'd found loose screws and piss poor rail alignments where edges jutted out from each other, not sure why I still even boarded. It was absurdly clanky and gave me a migraine for the evening. But credit achieved, I guess?
 
Flight Deck - Canada’s Wonderland
Wilde Beast - Canada’s Wonderland
Insane - Grona Lund
The Joker - Six Flags Great Adventure
G-Force - Drayton Manor
 
I haven't been to that many parks so I will keep it to just one coaster.

I generally find something positive in most coasters, or if not I can tolerate them to ride them once and move onto something else without regretting my decision to ride that coaster too much. But my award for the worst coaster that I have ever ridden and in fact wish I had never ridden goes to Tonnere 2 Zeus.

My god that coaster is awfully rough. Does it have square wheels or something? Every valley was an almighty pothole and it had a continuous rattle that I thought was going to damage my teeth. I spent half the ride just wanting it to be over. I am generally pretty tolerant about roughness and I get that it is a wooden coaster but the ride I had actually felt like there was something dangerously wrong with the track or train.
 
I realise they're meant for children blabla - but is there anything (other than Coaster Express) worse than a mini SBF spinner?
I've had the misfortune of riding one hungover, but even when I'm not, the result is very much the same.
 
There are few rollercoasters (or rides) that I would not happily endure however rough or disliked they may be perceived by others, however:

Grand National (Left) is one of the only rides I've come off and truly considered if I was cut out for rollercoasters. The second was:
Grand National (Right)

After riding the left side, my spine sore, my head feeling like a chiropractor had tried removing it, I pondered for a solid 5-10minutes if I would brave the right side. My mistake was looking for the +1.

I will not ride this monstrosity again.
 
I have 16 coasters that I don't think I ever want to ride again;

Bandit, Movie Park Germany - extremely rough
Big Loop, Heide Park - extremely rough
Blizzard, Monty Hammond - extremely rough
Cyclone, Barry Island Pleasure Park - stomach-rearranging trim brakes and uncomfortable rattle on a boring layout
Dream Catcher, Bobbejaanland - generally really uncomfortable on a boring layout, generally feels like a chore to ride
Ednor, Ronde - very rough
Flight Deck, Canada's Wonderland - very rough
Infusion, Blackpool Pleasure Beach - very rough
Kopermijn, Drievliet - stomach-rearranging trims that are legitimately painful
Marble Madness, Pleasurewood Hills - stomach-rearranging trims that are legitimately painful
Mars, Energylandia - just makes me feel really sick and the tracking is horrendous
Pipeline the Surf Coaster, SeaWorld Orlando - landing from the airtime hills gives a brutal smack to the inner thighs
Rutschebanen, Bakken - the worst restraints I have ever experienced on any roller coaster, I had not wanted any ride to end more than on this
Speed of Sound, Walibi Holland - audio has never worked and tracks horrendously
Thundercoaster, Tusenfryd - the roughest roller coaster I have ever been on, almost to the point of actual tears from how much it hurt
Volare, Wiener Prater - absolutely diabolical turns
 
Usually, I'd happily ride even the most boring useless kiddie coaster rather than not riding any coasters. There are only 9 coasters I refuse to ever ride again barring major changes that would fix my issues with them (usually that they're painful). On my spreadsheet, these coasters are listed as "Hell tier".

Fireball, Adventureland NY - It's like a freespin but both worse and also less horrible at the same time. Not for me. No more rollerballs.
Volare, Wiener Prater - The other volare I've ridden so far (the one at Coney Island) was far from a good ride, but it wasn't as bad as I'd been told. This one definitely was.
Draken, Energylandia - I'm definitely too tall for this ride. That fact combined with the weird jerkiness of slowing down and speeding up due to the tiny elements made for a very painful ride.
Arashi, Nagashima Spa Land - There's something about the sensations you experience on freespins that I absolutely can't handle. I'm not sure what it is specifically, because I really enjoyed Kirnu at Linnanmaki. You couldn't get me on another freespin no matter how hard you tried.
Mountain Coaster, Rusutsu Resort - This one's simple, I'm just way too tall for the OTSRs and the layout does nothing.
Wilde Maus, Wiener Prater - Every turn and every airtime hill hurt on this. It's not the only Maurer mouse I've done, but it's the only one that was this bad.
Circus Coaster, Luna Park - A very similar situation to Draken, but much worse. It's like the trains are made for nobody bigger than a 10 year old.
Mars, Energylandia - Incredibly uncomfortable trains. Horrifying transitions. I got the 7-lap-special. Never again.
Thunderbolt, Six Flags New England - There is nothing good about this ride. It's the worst tracking coaster I've ridden, both in regular roughness and terrible transitions. The operations are horrendously slow. The operator shouted skibidi toilet. My back hurt for (no exaggeration) an entire week after riding. Get rid of it.
 
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Infusion at Blackpool is dreadful, only coaster to ever make me vomit. I don't know if I can do a bottom 5, but Tulereki at Linnanmaki is a piece of **** too. It's unique but not comfortable at all, but at least I was mostly amused by it rather than enduring how horrible it was. It's been a while since I've been on Colossus at Thorpe Park, but it was dreadfully rough when I last went on it and I don't find its layout particularly interesting.
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I can also add Hero at Flamingoland to this. It was bad in exactly the ways I thought it would be, except for the 2 inversions which were actually ok.

Mumbo Jumbo was pretty ****e too, just felt very pointless and I hated the shoulder pads, would have been way better without them.

Crazy Bats at Phantasialand is an honourable mention, it's not the worst thing ever but it is my only VR coaster so far and I absolutely hated the VR element of it. Going on it for the cred felt necessary as a first time visitor but also wasted time at a park with loads of banger stuff. If I ever get back there, it'll be one to skip.

It's funny I mentioned Tulereki at Linnanmaki as it was indeed bad but I've seen a few mentions of Ukko, the skyloop at the same park. However I actually enjoyed my one ride on it. Definitely liked it more than G-Force at Drayton Manor. The upside down view of Helsinki that high up when you're already on a hill to begin with is CRAZY if nothing else.
 
  • Chance Toboggan - [Traveling]
  • Viking Roller Coaster - Energylandia
  • Steeplechase- Blackpool Pleasure Beach
  • Stampida- PortAventura Park
  • Tulireki - Linnanmäki
  • Condor - Walibi Holland
  • Joker - Six Flags Great Adventure
  • Python - Busch Gardens Tampa
  • Corkscrew - Cedar Point
  • Wild Mouse - Blackpool Pleasure Beach
 
I can easily forgive the rough coasters if they have redeeming features, elements of fun etc. For example the roughest ride I ever experienced was Montezum but it has a great layout with good drops etc so it's not making this list. The ones I've ridden that are just bad with no redeeming features are:

- Tulireki at Linnanmaki - I have no idea how Mack got this one so wrong, it's somehow bland and forceless yet also rough and uncomfortable.
- Typhoon at Bobbejaanland - I'm surprised this doesn't get more hate, I found it borderline unrideable and it has a bad layout anyway so I think it would be just dull if it wasn't so rough.
- Viking at Energylandia - a well known awful ride
- Any Volare - ditto
 
Off the top of my head:

Green Lantern (SFGAdv)
Loup-garou
Hollywood Rip Ride Rocket
Tonnere 2 Zeus was shockingly rough last year
Infusion
 
This is my worst coasters I've done so far

214. ThunderCoaster - Tusenfryd
215. Iron Claw - Movie Park Germany
216. Cobra - Walibi Belgium
217. Viking - Energylandia
218. Euro Coaster - Hyde Park Winter Wonderland
219. Vampire - Walibi Belgium
220. Goudurix - Parc Asterix
221. Infusion - Blackpool
222. Skyways - Clarence Pier
223. Volare - Wiener Prater
224. Bandit - Movie Park Germany
225. Loup Garou - Walibi Belgium
226. Turbo - Brighton Pier
 
Not sure what order these hateful coasters would lie..

Goudrix - Parc Asterix (revolting headbanger)
Coaster Express - Parc Warner Madrid (rough, tracks horribly)
Furious Baco - Portaventura (thought it had genuinely injured me)
Tonnere 2 Zeus - Parc Asterix (rough as hell, painful)
Revolution - Blackpool PB (FAR too intense and not a fan of backwards anything)
Viking - Energylandia (just.. why?)
Any kind of SLC without the comfort collar restraints
 
Happily, a lot of the ****e I posted in here almost a decade ago has gone to the great scrapyard in hell...

In no particular order, this is currently operating coasters*, classed as thrill or extreme by RCDB, that I have given less than 4/10. Had to filter like that because of my hatred of SBF spinning coasters.

I guess I could filter out vekoma and zamperla to make it a bit less predictable...

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In terms of 'thank **** nobody ever has to ride that again' - it's a close fight between G Force at Drayton Manor and Sequoia Adventure, formerly of Gardaland.

*(yes, I know my spreadsheet may be slightly out of date)
 
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Rode a lot of new "to me" coasters last year.... and rode (believe it or not) my first ever Vekoma SLCs. I'd never ridden one before. None of them were good, but Flight Deck at Canada's Wonderland was the worst. And it wasn't close. Just a total torture chamber from the moment it started picking up speed.

I also generally do not like S&S free spins- Although Tumbili at Kings Dominion (aka in my family as Jungle Joker😆) was better because it was shorter.
 
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