On our visit, this week, the Electrospin was shut down because a girl got sick all over it (Glad I wasn't anywhere around!). How often do people get sick on the rides? Or because of the rides? Or just get sick in general? Which rides (or foods) are the biggest culprits?
My older daughter sometimes gets queasy on the way to SDC--lol
I was on The Giant Swing @ closing time, literally we were the last ones put onto the ride. We couldn't figure out why it took so long to board and get started until I saw the workers giving the universal signs o each other for vomiting.....needless to say I am glad I wasn't in that seat since no cleanup was done....we just up and went on our way with the ride....
Sometimes, on big drops of a coaster, I can feel my stomach rise, but a strong exhale through pursed lips will knock it back down again.
I cannot ride the teacups ... on the balloon ride I always had to face forward.
Twinsmom, yeah the teacups are hard, but I have to do them at least 2 times on a trip. My wife doesn't want the girls to ride by themselves on it. So I stare at the center of the car while I spin it. Then try to get out of the cup with some dignity-everything is still spinning. I was also volunteered to ride the balloon ride, also a stomach churner for me. So at the moment a reprieve from the balloons, but I know the cups will be waiting for me when we go this fall.
It has always been a point of pride that I could battle any ride with ease.
Then came those ding dang teacups.......
I went once, a buddy and I spun that thing as fast as we could ( yes we are in or lower 40's) when we realized what we had done we held a impromptu vomit resistance class on the spot.
Those things are deadly.
I have been had by a kiddy ride
My woman can ride everything. Myself, i have to stay away from the spin'y rides. Electrospin about made me sick the 1st time, i had to keep turn'n my head the direction we was go'n. That was enough for me. I cant even ride Thunderation backwards, its just too much for me.
I dont see too many people get sick of anything at SDC. The stomach rise thing i can handle, PowderKeg & Giant Swing are the best at it. A good loud yell makes it feel so good, its like havin' a ...... :-X well, ya know..
I still challenge everyone who hasn't - go ride the frogs one time, and tell me it isn't the worst, most sickening ride on park. I can handle anything else, but those stinkin' frogs make me have to clench every time. Grab a kid to ride with if you're too embarrassed to go alone.
I think the older I get the less tolerance I have for rides with spins. I rode the teacups once with my granddaughter because the older girls wanted to ride together and failed to include her. So I toughed it up and just closed my eyes and prayed that it would end soon.
From a research background...I have read that children under the age of 2 yrs are immune to motion sickness.
From my perspective I hit the age about 10-15 yrs ago where I went from "there is never enough loops and spins" to the point where "okay lets go into a few shops before the next ride"
Of the old school rides available on park during the time I worked there, nothing made me sick. There was enough motion on the diving bell to leave me "moving with a capsule" in my sleep the first two or three days of work each season. Riding the diving bell ten times a day was like riding a bucking broncho over and over again. My old area manager Ron Herschend, once admitted to the Juniors he seldom rode the diving bell because of motion sickness!
I have only had 1 ride where I thought "I AM GONNA VOMIT!!" and I had to begin breathing and tightening my stomach thinking I cannot puke on my future in-laws again and again. Worst thing was it was a ride I was so looking forward to: "Back To The Future". I t had been a long hot day, and most of all you are inside a capsule with no concept of the outside environment. Yuck. Now-a-days I even look at the merry go round and I feel it in my head and behind my eyes. I can go up and down and loop hthe loop all day long, but round and round are a no-no!
I never get sick on rides. But there is one ride at SDC that has brought me to the brink: the Regatta. I seriously cannot stomach that ride. I've ridden it twice, and it had the same nauseating effect on me.
I forgot about Thunderation backwards, yes that is a no no as well.
5 days till my first trip to Dollywood :)
Quote from: tinaalsgirl on June 20, 2010, 05:06:56 PM
I never get sick on rides. But there is one ride at SDC that has brought me to the brink: the Regatta. I seriously cannot stomach that ride. I've ridden it twice, and it had the same nauseating effect on me.
Oh, I agree! I will never ride that again.
Oh please don't mention that ride :-X I forgot that one
I can take the frogs HB as long as it is only once. But occassionally we are "lucky" enough to ride twice. And the Wings of Wonder make me want to puke too.
Rube-I have wondered about that. Both of my little ones require dramamine for car rides. And it hit both of them at about 20mos.
However once we get out of the car my 3 year old daughter can head straight to the tea cups and spin them as fast as she can without batting an eye!
Anyone ever been on Mission to Mars at Epcot. That was the most miserable ride of my life. It was literally all I could do to keep it down.
I have since struggled through a lot of urges to puke to keep the kids happy.
Of all the millions of years (probably even more than that lol!) that I have vistied SDC I have been Fortunet enough that I have never gotten sick. I think I almost got to my breaking point on the teacups though.
^^The Mission to Mars ride is very intense, although I didn't even feel sick, I really do understand why some people do. People have actually died on that thing it is so intense.
Back on topic: the only ride at SDC that even makes me feel a little queasy is the teacups. I've only rode them once but it was enough for me. :)
I can take anything but shooting straight up. Stand me on my head, flip me over a dozen times, fire me straight down...just dont shoot me straight up in the air. When it's all said and done, just sponge me up.
I actually stepped off Mission to Mars with great disappointment - first that we weren't on Mars and they never brought us down to earth, but mainly because I really didn't get the effect I was expecting. We even opted for the more intense line. Maybe it was because it was so enclosed, I don't know, or maybe it was that we were the oldest people in the line and they dialed it down for fear we stupidly ignored all the warnings. I don't know, I just thought it was way overblown.
^^Now, as far as I know there was only one death on that ride, and it was a boy who had a previous condition and should not have been on the ride in the first place.
How about the Mighty Galleon? That one get anybody? I think it's much worse that the Giant Swing in the sickness category. Not to mention I nearly lost my little brother on the one at SF Texas when it was new and the safety bar did not latch. I saved him from flying out by reaching out and grabbing him by the belt to pull him back to the seat - then we held on for dear life, too much adrenaline pumping to even thinking about getting sick that time.
The Raceing Regattas kill me. I have to ride them with my girls though. Then I have to sit down and rest.