Shoutout to my own 9-year-old self (and friends) building the euthanasia coaster on roller coaster tycoon 2; we called it "Passport to Heaven" and it was just a vertical launch that went straight up and ended. We set the speed as high as the game would let it go - we had to weigh down the left mouse button with a book and left the room for a little while until it maxed out. Then we came back, put the roller coaster in first person rider mode, and pressed play. There was a sound like a gunshot and then screaming. Endless entertainment.
1:53 I absolutely love the background music during the reading of the "Euthanasia Coaster" article. It just makes the designer come across as an insane supervillain even more than he already does lol.
Actually, I went to Action Park as a kid. The mountain 'coasters' were just concrete tubes n little wheeled carts with a handbrake. U could shoot off n land in the path of someone else n get run over, or have the skin ripped off ur limbs. The teens that worked at the park figured out that u could jam a tennis ball into a specific part of the go kart engines n over rode the limiters. There was an electrified water ride that killed people. The wave pool killed people. They had a jungle swing into a pool that nearly killed people. Anything u could think of probably killed someone.
The swing into a pool one I heard from Defunctland would kill people by the water just being so cold they'd freeze from shock and not be able to swim and just drown
"wooden coasters hurt" I work at a theme park in the Netherlands and I have to reccomend George and the Dragon at our park Efteling. It is so soft and comfy due to the foam seats they used. Def a coaster to be proud of!
@@localvanhalenfan4378 I'm Dutch, I live in a southern part and really it isn't like that for everyone. Please don't lumb all of us together, thank you!
"This carnival ride [...] was apparently assembled by a dude who didn't give two shits and was maintained by nobody." Probably my new favourite bob quote.
I remember experiencing the "Alien Encounter" at Disney all too well. The way the railing rattled behind your seat, the alien's breath on your neck, and the spray of "blood" on your face... fantastic.
I love how Alien Encounter was the most traumatizing, but the one Bob rode on, Mission Space by the way, people actually died on that one. It's a centrifuge so it spins you at G-Forces and apparently someone with an unknown heart condition got on and didn't survive.
The fact Dan from Game Grumps HAS mentioned going to the park Bob is talking about is amazing. Legit thought it would be a forgotten story. I hope Dan finds this and adds some more messed up facts.
@@ccchhheeennn2 apparently not because Dan spoke out about it and proved that she was not telling the truth. Do. Your. Research. Not to mention your “research” only goes as far as “I heard fans talking about it.” So don’t even.
@@ccchhheeennn2 first off all if you were just asking you wouldn’t have put “Hmm,” in front your question. It makes it seem like your trying to say he is without actually saying it. No it does not suggest you did your research because if you had you would have seen Dan’s response to the allegation and realized why the whole debacle was quickly dropped and almost forgot about.
I remember that ride Wade talked about at 44:32! That ride traumatized me thanks to my older brother. I was like 10 at the time. I remember trying to rationalize it thinking the alien has red eyes. It's not in front of me because I don't see the red eyes. When the ride ended my dad had to pry my hand off my mom's because I had her hand in a death grip. Her rings left imprints on her hand from my grip. Once I was pried off of her the waterworks exploded. My dad carried me out. The rest of the trip I was paranoid about the red eyes following me.
Ah, Alien Encounter. That ride was infamous for traumatizing Guests, not just kids either. Apparently Disney wanted to get license to make a ride based on the Alien movies but it fell apart and so they just made a scary alien that escaped and scared the crap out us! Then later they changed it to Lilo and Stitch where Stitch became the alien who escapes.
I think there was an age warning, but of course people probably assumed anything in the Magic Kingdom would be kid friendly. My parents refused to let me go on that ride so I was saved from later trauma.
I wish I was ten when my mom and grandma took me on the ride. I wish. May have been...braver? No, I was maybe six (five-ish?)? Scared the everloving crap out of me. I remember having to sit outside on a curb after the ride (still bawling from fear) while both mom and grandma tried to comfort and calm me.
In Pigeon Forge TN there is a Titanic Experience museum where you get a "boarding pass" with a brief history of one of the actual passengers of the Titanic, from 1st class wealthy to 3rd class immigrants to the ship's crew. It walks you through nearly every aspect of the ship including the grand stairs, the 3rd class bunks, touching an iceberg wall and feeling how cold the water was that they sank in. At the end of the experience is a chart where you can find out if your passenger survived. Mine was a 2nd class mother traveling with a toddler and a newborn baby, I was so happy to see that they survived at the end.
The decapitation Bob is remembering is from a European (I believe German?) slide called Verrückt in Kansas, not Action Park, but I would heavily recommend watching Class Action park! They had toboaganning in concrete tubes with no protection. Getting injured at Action Park was considered a rite of passage.
I was thinking the same thing. I vividly remember seeing that story on the news as a kid one morning. I shit you not, that water park couldn't have been more than 5 miles away from my childhood home
It was actually from Texas and called Schlitterbaun (there was a lot of German and Czech immigration into Texas in the 1800s). The original park is still operating in New Braunfels, Texas (between San Antonio and Austin), and is nowhere near as dangerous as the Kansas City one became.
Just to clarify, the original schlitterbaun is in Texas and they opened a second one in Kansas where this water slide was located. It was the governers son who ended up getting decapitated. I remember hearing about it and being shocked, my family would take trips to schlitterbaun all the time in the summer.
The loop was removed because they started using lighter trains which didn't carry enough speed to make it through the loop. The supposed head injury Wade said about was only rumored, no official reports of said injury were actually made. The original company paramount hired to build son of beast was fired before the ride was finished being built and another company was hired to finish building it and fix the first company's mistakes. If you want more information on it I'd recommend watching GP to Enthusiast's video: What Really Happened on Son Of Beast Kings Island July 9th 2006
Kings Island, 2006: A total of 27 people were injured when a car on the Son of Beast ride hit a span of track that had separated where timbers splintered on the giant wooden roller coaster in July 2006. Also Kings Island, 1991: A 32-year-old Toledo woman fell from a ride called Flight Commander in June and died. Kinds Island is just about as bad as Class Action Park lmao
@@kaylinosprey3306 I don't think "far fewer deaths" makes it any better though? Like, if you saw that advertised somewhere you'd still not go "Oh I wanna go there." A parks goal should be 0 deaths over their operational period.
@@sevse7en256 yes, but the safety of the rides and the training of ride operators at Cedar Fair parks, like King's Island (as well as almost all amusement parks in the US), are regulated by IAAPA (International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions) so safety is held to a very high standard. Because of this, most amusement park incidents which result in serious injury or death are caused by negligence and/or human error. Take the Smiler crash at Alton Towers for example. That was caused by running the ride on a day with wind speeds that were too high for the ride to be running safely, miscommunication between maintenance staff and ride operators, and VERY poor decision making. But even still, after all the stupid mistakes that were made on that day, all 16 people on the train involved in the collision survived. Granted they were seriously injured, as well as traumatized, but they survived none the less. GP to Enthusiast also has a video explaining it in greater detail than I did. The coaster war era was a lot different as well, because every park wanted the absolute best rollercoasters as possible, which in the case of son of beast, left them to hire a company that was ABSOLUTELY not equipped to make such a large scale ride, and because of it the company that was tasked with fixing the mistakes had an extremely hard time finding out exactly what corners the other company cut.
At wet and wild on the goldcoast Queensland Australia, they installed 4 water slides with loops in them, barley anyone had enough speed to get through the loops but to their credit they for saw this coming so installed escape hatches before they lowered the angle of the loops.
I thought you were talking about people drinking booze on rollercoasters or something but no you’re actually talking about actual drink coasters, Ugh my brain is not working.
This made me flash back to all the Deaths at Disney videos I've seen. Most of them were people doing stupid stuff or people with heart conditions that they didn't know about. The ride Bob went on, Mission Space, a couple of people sadly had heart attacks on that ride too. Mission Space is known for triggering motion sickness so badly that they have actual vomit bags on the ride in case you get sick. I actually love that ride. 😅
I live around Atlanta, Ga and I would go to Six Flags every summer in the 90s,. I heard that a kid lost his hat on one of the rollercoasters, so he climbed over a fence surrounding the coaster to retrieve it. Apparently the coaster was still operating and it was one where you sit down and your feet dangle so he got his head kicked off basically. I've always wondered if that was true,
Mark's intro evolved so much over the years of his channel "HELLO EVERYBODY! say hi, guys" - Early Drunk MC days "Hell-low Everybody" - first FNAF video "Hello, everybody" - Modernplier
Since you guys mentioned carnivals- When I was like 7 or 8, I went to this carnival at my then Christian school with my mom. All the rides and food were good, up until the swinging ship ride (you guys know the one). The first part of the ride was fun, a bit scary to me but I was enjoying myself. Mom is sitting beside me, smiling at how much fun I'm having. Then our safety bar pops. Completely unlocks and lifts away from up as we're almost parallel to the ground. Mom freaks out and quickly pulls the bar back down, but it won't lock. So for the rest of the ride, Mom is holding me with one arm and holding the bar down onto our laps with the other. She never let me go on another carnival ride after that
Can confirm, my father's brother used to work as one of the guys who assembled temporary carnival rides, and he and every single one of his coworkers were hammered at work every day. But I still used to ride stuff like that as a kid.
Every so often, I'm reminded that the guys grew up near where I did because I have ridden both "Beast" and "Son of Beast." Both rides were absolutely thrilling for most of my family, but I was terrified.
For your 100th episode of Distractible, please do a Live stream of this with your cameras on. I wanna see all of your reactions to the stories. Keep up the great work gentlemen!👏
Yes! I was around 8 when I got to go on that attraction. I freaking LOVED it! We went back to Disney with my little sister when I was 16 or 17 and it was the Stitch version. It was ok, but I liked the original one more.
@@x10sam Yeah, Disney had to get rid of the old version after Jeffrey Jones was arrested for CP. I wonder if they can now finally turn it into that Alien ride they were originally planning. They do own the rights to the IP now.
I love wooden coasters but Son of Beast bruised my ribs so bad. I still rode it several times but it was rough. (Gotta add the worst ride I ever rode at KI was that Tomb Raider thing that held you upside down for too long. I almost passed out and had a horrible headache all day. That one was horrible!)
I went on that Alien Encounter ride as a kid. They did a LOT more than just breathing on your neck. There's a point in the ride where an engineer is sent to rescue the ride-goers. The alien eats him, and riders are sprayed with warm water to simulate his blood splatter. That ride had absolutely no chill, but there was a lot of dark humor throughout the run. As a side note; the likely reason why the ride was shut down was because it featured noteworthy Hollywood actors, including the legendary Tim Curry. Unfortunately, it also featured Jeffrey Jones, who was arrested for possession of child pornography in 2002. I'm fairly sure that was the biggest cause for why the ride was retooled into a Lilo and Stitch attraction.
You guys really remind me of me and my friends whenever we have a conversation it always ends up weird and funny 😂😂😂 And since I always have to have something playing in the background whenever I work and listening to you guys really makes the workload feel lighter 💕💕💕
I remember being in a Chinese buffet when I was younger and watching the news about the Superman ride cutting that person’s foot off and I never rode a large drop ride until last December
i’m absolutely obsessed with rollercoasters so i already knew about everything they mentioned but it made me so happy to hear them talk about one of my biggest interests!!
Man…when I was 16, I went on The Batman at Six Flags over Texas. If you don’t know the ride, they put you in a vest so your legs are dangling and it has loops and such. We start going and the dang vest unlatched and I spent the entire ride literally holding on for dear life. I haven’t ridden a roller coaster since then.
When I was growing up, my Dad had Kidney failure and while waiting for a transplant, he had a dialysis port, which is basically a tube in your stomach area that you plug into a machine so it can flush out your kidneys. So he had this port and he didn't go swimming with it, but we still went to Hershey Park to ride roller coasters. I was terrified of roller coasters, so I would hold everyone's bags and wait by the exit while they rode. My sibling and Dad decided to go on the Great Bear, and I waited with their stuff. When the group that they went in with came out, everyone looked so freaked out and I remember watching people run out of there. I didn't think much of it, until my Dad came out holding a towel to his bloody stomach. Apparently, when they pushed the safety bar down, it hit my Dad's port, and he noticed it started bleeding, and he and my sibling were trying to get the people's attention, but they couldn't so they went on the ride with my Dad's port bleeding the whole time. We did get Fast Passes for the rest of that year though, and my Dad's good now.
I rode The Beast at Kings Island and it’s one of the worst coasters I went on. Not only does it feel like it’s about to fall off the track, but they also jam the lap bar into you hips so your hitting your head and cracking your spine on this coaster, BUT your hips hurt afterwords. A weird thing about Kings Island is that THEY STILL SELL “The Son Of Beast” merchandise. Like stickers and a pin that says “I survived Son Of Beast.” Which I guess can be explained since the ride shut down earlier than most and they probably had a back log of merchandise, so they continue to sell it. One last thing on Son Of Beast is that (I’m guessing. No research done it whatsoever I’m just assuming) there’s a new coaster on the plot of land called the Banshee (which is a sick coaster). The whole thing with the Banshee is that it’s a ghost, so they have generic gravestones, and stuff like that. BUT they have a pretty large tombstone paying tribute to the Son Of Beast. It’s pretty tongue and cheek but I think it’s kinda cool.
18:13 that's actually a thing! Kids love to jump off thing and to get thrown onto soft things. It's because doing that is the best way to develop proprioception and balance. What better way to get a feeling for how gravity works and how to understand how your body movies in relation to it that to fall and collapse onto things a bunch?
I still remember that Alien ride Wade mentioned. Probably my earliest memory as a child is going in at like 4 or 5 years old. I haven't slept with the lights off since. Legitimately terrified the hell out of me.
To be fair you guys covered a lot of not roller coasters, which solidifies the idea that they are actually very safe. But like with wooden coasters they are just as safe as steel ones, the bolts do not loosen the way you think and their structures are engineered to flex and sway for months. They are designed to feel dangerous and whip around, but you are actually very safe. They do close from time to time for maintenance and replacing wood beams and preform re-tracking during the off season. However, I did still really like this entry though, things like Action Park are always pretty interesting to hear about. And I especially liked the story about the sketchy Scrambler Bob rode at Kings Island. Also glad you guys started uploading this podcast to TH-cam. Super entertaining, and have already listened to three today!
Ahhhh...memories! I don't know if you young people know this but they used to have to put an ad on TV at 10 pm that said "It's 10 pm, do you know where your children are?" Because our parents NEVER knew where the fuck we were...lol! Gen X.
I LOVE spinning rides. I remember once at the local festival I rode the spaceship ride like 20 times in a row. it was late and no one was riding so the guy just let us keep ride. it was awesome.
45:00 OMFG Wade... myself, brother and my Dad were on this when i was 7 or 8 years old (jeez im 36 now) i remember it vividly... it was scary and fucking awesome! Not there anymore i believe. I can't believe someone else has a story about being on it!!! This made my day... Before you mentioned the portal and an alien popping out in the glass tube, I had a sneaking suspicion that this might have been the ride you were talking about and I was like that sounds like that 1 right eye went on until you mention the glass tube and the alien. So cool
It's funny that Wade mentioned a SAW themed ride because we have that in the UK in Thorpe Park. Obviously it's not dangerous and it's just SAW themed, you don't have to do any puzzles or anything. It's just a themed rollercoaster but still, it exists.
The fact that as a person who lives in NJ I knew exactly where this would go. Also Action Park is still open and running. It had closed became mountain creek. Closed again and is back to being action park.
I grew up in Ohio. I used to LOVE the Beast. One time I went with a whole school group, we rented out the ENTIRE theme park so there were no lines. Me and my friends rode the Beast SEVEN times without stopping. Every time we got to the end and started to stop, we would yell AGAIN and it would just go straight through. I couldn't tell you how many of us vomited. It was glorious. Very fond memory
The Beast gave me my fear of roller coasters. When I went on it, I was just barely above the hight limit. On the way down the hill, the bar disengaged and I started to fly out of the seat, luckily my dad grabbed me and pulled me back down. I almost died because of the tunnel with the low roof. A couple weeks later there was another issue about someone loosing their hands on the Beast.
Oh man, I had almost the exact opposite happen to me. I was clinging onto the bar to not fall completely into the footwell as my mom tried to pull me pull me up with one arm.
"you've all hear of the water slide... now get ready for the oil slick. Experience the 100 mph fall, and the breakneck thrill of trying to stop. This once in a life time petroleum based coaster is undeniably eventful. don't get any in your mouth
I actually rode the Verruckt in KC. Got the tickets from my church (LifeMission). The kid got decapitated the day after me and my friends rode the ride. He was the KS state Rep's kid...and also went to our church.
TL:DR Im from New Braunfels where Schlitterbahn originated. The decapitation was in the Kansas park. I wish it stayed local. However it isn’t “small” it’s 70 acres and one of the most popular waterparks. I can tell you. I am from New Braunfels, where Schlitterbahn originated. (Hence german name) If I remember correctly that happened at the Kansas park. We all hate the Kansas park. The tallest waterslide had to be built there because it was outside of Texas state safety guidelines, and for good reason. If you watch interviews before it happened, they literally say they talked to mathematicians and engineers and told “the greatest minds they were wrong”because they were constantly told “It is impossible to make a ride this steep and safe.” No matter how many hills you added to slow yourself down, you’re still fighting velocity largely increasing with gravity. You would have to have the ride so much more elongated to counteract it. They basically blew it off and said “ah fuck it. Itll take too long and too much money to rebuild and extent it.” especially because it has already had its closing day moved 3 times for safety changes that clearly did more harm than good. The New Braunfels park is the original, the best one, and the most well known. Our city is rapidly expanding because of our rivers and Schlitterbahn. It’s cool it’s getting recognition but kinda wish it was still local. It was normal for 15 year olds to get their first summer job at Schlitterbahn, where friends still work as lifeguards now at 20. However, it wasn’t/isn’t small. It’s 70 acres with 3 separate parts with buses take you in between different attractions, but it was our thing. Now they’re appearing over the country, doing things like decapitating kids.....
I remember those action park commercials! I never got to go, but I wanted to ride the alpine slide in the worst way. It speaks to my generation that, despite everyone in the tri-state area knowing how dangerous it was, they still went every summer, to the tune of a million attendees per year. There are folks on film saying stuff like "I'm going to action park! Hopefully I'll survive." Makes sense though. Most of our generation's childhood was unsupervised. We played in constrction sites for fun. So what if you might need a tetanus shot? What's the big deal?
Appreciating the fact the sound of a tube train departing was used as space ship noise at 43:24 because thats exactly what they've sounded like for the last 10 years.
I’m from Indiana and went to Kings Island all the time! I survived the Son of Beast! You should look up hybrid wooden coasters. They’re amazing! Haven’t ridden one yet, but I really want to!
A friend of mine claims (I have no evidence of this) that he got stuck on a Tilt-a-whirl that the ride runner couldn't stop until he (my friend) threw up on the mechanisms in the middle.
When they were talking about wooden roller coasters, it reminded me of the Timber Wolf. It's a wooden roller coaster at Worlds of Fun. It's fast as coasters normally are. Yet it shakes exactly how they described it. Every time I have rode it, I am clutching for my life cause it feels so much faster than the other roller coasters in the park and the shaking as it goes is so unbearable for me that I brace my whole body to withstand all that shaking and rumbling movement. And maybe it's just me, but roller coasters that go fast I can't keep my eyes open during it. I don't know how other people can watch as they ride without their eyes getting irritated. So yeah I've never was posed for any roller coaster photo ever. I swear if it goes a little slower than maybe I could see the ride in action while on it.
I remember a ride(which is still around) Mousetrap, I believe at lagoon here in Utah. That ride has such sharp turns I’m sure I almost got multiple bruises.
I've been to action park a couple times way back in the early 90s on family trips. Most of it was pretty tame and actually really fun. But, yeah, found out about the kid a few year after we stopped going.
Until Mark said "Euthanasia Coaster," I thought this was gonna be about deadly drink coasters or something. I was wondering how much they could talk about that.
Many years ago, the First and Only time I rode the Beast, it shook me so hard, I had a horrific headache after, and developed motion sickness from then on. Would not personally recommend that ride. XD
Cedar point. The corkscrew. My parents and I rode it once. My dad was a bit to big for it, so the harness hurt him when we went around the loops. I was a bit to thin for it, so when we spun around my collarbone kept getting knocked against the harness rapidly and repeatedly, which hurt for the rest of the day. My mom was fine. She fit the harness perfectly.
I was on a reverse drop tower, that's where you start at the bottom, rocket up to the top and then bungee bounce your way back down. I was fully locked in with the shoulder harness down and as we rocketed up to the top and began the first downward bounce, I felt the shoulder harness give with my weight and click loose about 2 inches. Not enough to let me slip out, but enough to scare the piss out of me. Needless to say I was gripping the damn thing the whole way down and it was still loose when I got to the bottom. I haven't ridden on a drop tower ride since.
Theres a wooden coaster at the six flags in st louis called The Boss or something like that. It was so shaky and so jerky that my neck hurt like hell for about a week after I rode it. It was so bad
I like to imagine of a coaster ride based around the Brass bull. Wherein people would go inside bull like trolleys with only two transparent eyes for them to see through. The whole ride has boiling hot fire going throughout the track, making the brass of the trolley extremely hot to the touch as it goes on. The ride itself isn't as fast as many coasters, though the uprise ramp does lead to a swirling track that symbolises the pain and suffering brought onto the man trapped inside it, as well as him repenting for the scenes he had committed.
At one time, many years ago, my older sister and her husband worked for about a year on a traveling carnival. Her husband told me this story about an accident that happened on a ride called "The Zipper". Basically it was a cage you sat in and it went up the track, got to the top, and came back down and the cages could be spun on their own axis. Anyway, one evening one of the cars, while on the downward side, came off the ride and slid quite a ways down the midway! it has landed bottom-side up so the guy was unhurt. Several workers came around, helped him out made sure he was alright, which he said he was fine, no problems and he went on his way. Later that evening this guy came back and had several friends with him and they all got on The Zipper. This time nothing fell off and the ride went smoothly but when this guy got off he was upset and complained because it wasn't as much fun as the first time he'd been on. Apparently he thought the cars were Supposed to come off at the end!
Up until a few years ago, Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington claimed to have to tallest wooden roller coaster called The Texas Giant. There is a concert venue in the park that gives you a good view of said roller coaster. I could watch as the carts would go around a specific turn and the whole ride would sway. I never got on that thing again.
I remember that Lilo and Stitch ride. I went on it when I was a kid and it scared the shit out of me. I was small enough that I didn't feel anything pressing on my shoulders, but my mom did feel it, and when we got off she told us and I hated it. I had chewing gum in my mouth when I went on the ride and something got sprayed at us- I think it was just water- but it got in my mouth and I could taste whatever it was for the rest of the day.
The Disney World ride at the end is called "ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter." It was replaced in 2003 by a Lilo and Stitch ride because of complaints and falling popuularity. I went on it in 2001 as a 3rd grader. It was, in fact, quite traumatic at the time. I can laugh about it now and wish I could experience it as an adult. As for the preshow for it, it was Tim Curry so that was great. Poor Skippy.
That was me, I was the kid screaming in Alien Encounter. I was in the 3rd grade and kept seeing the commercial advertising it, so I begged and begged the whole week we were there. Until my parents finally gave in... then the creature escaped and started running around. I was terrified and pushing up on the harness trying to get out. Then it happened. That moist breath on the back of my neck. I was convinced it was right behind me and for the rest of the ride I was screaming "LET ME OUT, LET ME OUT"! Until it was finally over and the lights came on. I was in such a panic I never heard my mother next to me trying to tell me it's OK, it's just the show. Although this is now the second most terrifying thing I've ever experienced in my waking life. I don't regret going on, because what an experience it was.
OMG that disney alien attraction Wade was talking about was one my brother (26 y/o now) did when he was 5/6 and it scared the crap out of him! They replaced it with Lilo and Stitch, but it was still the same attraction, they just made it less scary by making it Stitch instead of aliens. Like, they still had the thing breath down your neck... flash forward to it being the Stitch version and my sister (13 y/o now) was about 5 years old, Lilo and Stitch was her fave movie... she cried in that attraction xD it was quite funny for me, but I enjoy horror and watching my siblings suffer to that extent muhaha lmao
Every time I would go to a rollercoaster park as a kid, it was a traumatizing event of being bullied by all the brave people in my life like friends or even mostly my dad until I would finally go on one. Every one I ever went on has given me recurring nightmares for the rest of my life because my biggest phobia is heights. After my best friend experienced a breakdown on one were she was stuck at the top of the first huge drop for an hour, I felt the fear I always had was rationalized at that point. She handled it fine, but I would have fainted, and then woke to an hour long panic attack
We have a wooden coaster in the UK it's at alton towers and it's called the wicker man. From what I can remember it's the only wooden coaster with actual fire
The euthanasia coaster is actually intended for terminally ill patients who've been told they have a certain amount of time to live and don't want to die by their illness
I remember hearing about the kid getting decapitated on the waterslide not too long ago here in the states. I think it was over the past couple of years ago. I think it was something like it was a super steep waterslide and he essentially "fell off" the slide. If I recall, it wasn't a full blown "his head was completely removed" decapitation but it caused enough of an injury to his head and neck that it was basically an internal decapitation that he died from.
so, we have a low grade amusement park that's fairly run down, and there's a ride called The Hawk. it was a pendulum where the seats rotated upside down and stuff. I was riding, and the big part that goes over your chest broke, and the only thing keeping it attached was the seat belt, like you would find in a car, that was buckled, and when i went upside down, i fell a foot until the buckle stopped me. It was terrifying, not to mention i was still really young, and terrified of heights to begin with so getting on was big for me anyways. I never went on that ride again, it finally got closed a few years later cuz too many seats were out of order In the same park there was a ride called the X-Coaster. It was a giant loop, 150 feet, with a spiral at the top. So you were brought up to the top, and free fell all the way down and around, until you couldn't make it around and went backwards, then got stopped after a few minutes. Every time i go to the park, it gets stuck at least once, for maybe an hour, with the passengers sitting 100+ ft in the air waiting to be let down. One time it got stuck on the upside down part, and they just had to sit there until the problem was addressed
The Schlitterbauhn accident in KCK was eerie since I live relatively close to the water park itself and depending on which way you're going, you can see it on the highway.
My family went to Action Park when I was really little, and then later when it was renamed I went a few times. My main memory from it is how cold cold the water was in the Tarzan swing area, and how you can just swim in that area where people were jumping off cliffs and stuff. I remember being really little and trying to dodge everyone landing in the pool. I really have to watch that documentary I keep meaning to and then forget about it.
There are wooden roller coasters at Kennywood near Pittsburgh PA and they're all super fun. None of them hurt to ride and they don't feel like they're going to fall apart. The Thunderbolt was my favorite but there's also the Jackrabbit and The Racers. The Racers is two coasters on separate tracks, and they start at the same time and the speed each time the coasters are run is randomly varied so sometimes one wins and sometimes the other wins and you pick which one you wanna ride and root for it to get back to the station first. You can see the other coaster as you go and you can see if they're falling behind or catching up, it's super fun.
Mark doing his own intro always catches me off guard
Yeah lol same I thought I clicked on the wrong video
I love the intro to this episode because of mark "defaulting"
feels even more weird to me since for some reason I thought he did the Drunk Minecraft intro
"HELLO EVERYBODY! say hi, guys"
Not me, I didn’t even realize it was his intro until he cut himself off, and then I realized I was listening to a podcast lol
You thought that this was a let’s play, you’ve been fooled! Muahahaha!
Shoutout to my own 9-year-old self (and friends) building the euthanasia coaster on roller coaster tycoon 2; we called it "Passport to Heaven" and it was just a vertical launch that went straight up and ended. We set the speed as high as the game would let it go - we had to weigh down the left mouse button with a book and left the room for a little while until it maxed out. Then we came back, put the roller coaster in first person rider mode, and pressed play. There was a sound like a gunshot and then screaming. Endless entertainment.
lmao sounds amazing
also props to nine year old you and your friends for coming up with "passport to heaven" lol
nice
🤣 I can't imagine going out any other way
Quite literally going out with a bang or more specifically, a sonic boom
I'm pretty sure everyone in Roller Coaster Tycoon learned how to become a maniac killer, lol.
I remember as a kid trying to make the highest vertical coaster and making it drop off into a pool of water lmao
"Hello everybody. My name is Markiplier and welcome to Distractible."
"Hello everybody. My name is welcome-"
Hello my name is distractible welcome to markipliplier.
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“Hello distractible, my name is everyone and welcome back to Markiplier”
“Hello everybody, my name is Johnny Knoxville and welcome to jackass.”
1:53 I absolutely love the background music during the reading of the "Euthanasia Coaster" article. It just makes the designer come across as an insane supervillain even more than he already does lol.
I agree with Mark about being on death row. If I got to choose how to die, I'm choosing the coaster
@@swanprincess49 Even better, you would get to barf your “last meal” all over your executioners.
"I cant wait for the Chernobyl escape room" I fuckin died
Actually, I went to Action Park as a kid. The mountain 'coasters' were just concrete tubes n little wheeled carts with a handbrake. U could shoot off n land in the path of someone else n get run over, or have the skin ripped off ur limbs. The teens that worked at the park figured out that u could jam a tennis ball into a specific part of the go kart engines n over rode the limiters. There was an electrified water ride that killed people. The wave pool killed people. They had a jungle swing into a pool that nearly killed people. Anything u could think of probably killed someone.
The swing into a pool one I heard from Defunctland would kill people by the water just being so cold they'd freeze from shock and not be able to swim and just drown
Action Park sounds like a nightmare that an infant born from an Incubus' misdeeds would dream of.
Wasn't the track also coated in asbestos as well
ive heard the battle tanks thing, like, some people fucking *lit the tennis balls on fire*
@@marsupialsofmars3886 same! they gave such good history of the park. Also its STILL OPERATING
"wooden coasters hurt" I work at a theme park in the Netherlands and I have to reccomend George and the Dragon at our park Efteling. It is so soft and comfy due to the foam seats they used. Def a coaster to be proud of!
Well yea you're in the fuckin Netherlands, I bet pretty much most things are better
@@raidenbabin9566 it’s probably better cause everyone is high all the time
@@localvanhalenfan4378 that's not really an actual thing tho-
@@cosmicwitchclarith I have family in the Netherlands, it kinda is
@@localvanhalenfan4378 I'm Dutch, I live in a southern part and really it isn't like that for everyone. Please don't lumb all of us together, thank you!
"This carnival ride [...] was apparently assembled by a dude who didn't give two shits and was maintained by nobody." Probably my new favourite bob quote.
I remember experiencing the "Alien Encounter" at Disney all too well. The way the railing rattled behind your seat, the alien's breath on your neck, and the spray of "blood" on your face... fantastic.
I love how Alien Encounter was the most traumatizing, but the one Bob rode on, Mission Space by the way, people actually died on that one. It's a centrifuge so it spins you at G-Forces and apparently someone with an unknown heart condition got on and didn't survive.
The fact Dan from Game Grumps HAS mentioned going to the park Bob is talking about is amazing. Legit thought it would be a forgotten story. I hope Dan finds this and adds some more messed up facts.
@@ccchhheeennn2 you might wanna do some more research before asking defamatory questions like this. Just saying.
@@ccchhheeennn2 apparently not because Dan spoke out about it and proved that she was not telling the truth. Do. Your. Research. Not to mention your “research” only goes as far as “I heard fans talking about it.” So don’t even.
@@ccchhheeennn2 first off all if you were just asking you wouldn’t have put “Hmm,” in front your question. It makes it seem like your trying to say he is without actually saying it. No it does not suggest you did your research because if you had you would have seen Dan’s response to the allegation and realized why the whole debacle was quickly dropped and almost forgot about.
@@ccchhheeennn2 no he's not and was falsely accused because he ghosted them after clapping it way after they talked
@@ccchhheeennn2 it's clearly what you said come on
I remember that ride Wade talked about at 44:32! That ride traumatized me thanks to my older brother. I was like 10 at the time. I remember trying to rationalize it thinking the alien has red eyes. It's not in front of me because I don't see the red eyes. When the ride ended my dad had to pry my hand off my mom's because I had her hand in a death grip. Her rings left imprints on her hand from my grip. Once I was pried off of her the waterworks exploded. My dad carried me out. The rest of the trip I was paranoid about the red eyes following me.
that sounds awful, they shouldnt have let little kids do that, it seems like it could be low key traumatizing
Ah, Alien Encounter. That ride was infamous for traumatizing Guests, not just kids either. Apparently Disney wanted to get license to make a ride based on the Alien movies but it fell apart and so they just made a scary alien that escaped and scared the crap out us! Then later they changed it to Lilo and Stitch where Stitch became the alien who escapes.
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I was there it was pretty spooky but it was fun.
I think there was an age warning, but of course people probably assumed anything in the Magic Kingdom would be kid friendly. My parents refused to let me go on that ride so I was saved from later trauma.
I wish I was ten when my mom and grandma took me on the ride. I wish. May have been...braver?
No, I was maybe six (five-ish?)? Scared the everloving crap out of me. I remember having to sit outside on a curb after the ride (still bawling from fear) while both mom and grandma tried to comfort and calm me.
9:47 mark beating the shit out of his computer had me-
In Pigeon Forge TN there is a Titanic Experience museum where you get a "boarding pass" with a brief history of one of the actual passengers of the Titanic, from 1st class wealthy to 3rd class immigrants to the ship's crew. It walks you through nearly every aspect of the ship including the grand stairs, the 3rd class bunks, touching an iceberg wall and feeling how cold the water was that they sank in. At the end of the experience is a chart where you can find out if your passenger survived. Mine was a 2nd class mother traveling with a toddler and a newborn baby, I was so happy to see that they survived at the end.
The decapitation Bob is remembering is from a European (I believe German?) slide called Verrückt in Kansas, not Action Park, but I would heavily recommend watching Class Action park! They had toboaganning in concrete tubes with no protection. Getting injured at Action Park was considered a rite of passage.
I was thinking the same thing. I vividly remember seeing that story on the news as a kid one morning. I shit you not, that water park couldn't have been more than 5 miles away from my childhood home
It was actually from Texas and called Schlitterbaun (there was a lot of German and Czech immigration into Texas in the 1800s). The original park is still operating in New Braunfels, Texas (between San Antonio and Austin), and is nowhere near as dangerous as the Kansas City one became.
Just to clarify, the original schlitterbaun is in Texas and they opened a second one in Kansas where this water slide was located. It was the governers son who ended up getting decapitated. I remember hearing about it and being shocked, my family would take trips to schlitterbaun all the time in the summer.
@@brookerice7554 further clarification. Charles Shwab was a member of the House of Representatives, not the governor.
@@lizb5008 ah my bad, I remembered it being a politicians son.
The loop was removed because they started using lighter trains which didn't carry enough speed to make it through the loop. The supposed head injury Wade said about was only rumored, no official reports of said injury were actually made. The original company paramount hired to build son of beast was fired before the ride was finished being built and another company was hired to finish building it and fix the first company's mistakes.
If you want more information on it I'd recommend watching GP to Enthusiast's video:
What Really Happened on Son Of Beast Kings Island July 9th 2006
Kings Island, 2006: A total of 27 people were injured when a car on the Son of Beast ride hit a span of track that had separated where timbers splintered on the giant wooden roller coaster in July 2006.
Also Kings Island, 1991: A 32-year-old Toledo woman fell from a ride called Flight Commander in June and died.
Kinds Island is just about as bad as Class Action Park lmao
@@EddheadAce not really. they had far fewer deaths. over a longer period of time.
@@kaylinosprey3306 I don't think "far fewer deaths" makes it any better though? Like, if you saw that advertised somewhere you'd still not go "Oh I wanna go there." A parks goal should be 0 deaths over their operational period.
@@sevse7en256 yes, but the safety of the rides and the training of ride operators at Cedar Fair parks, like King's Island (as well as almost all amusement parks in the US), are regulated by IAAPA (International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions) so safety is held to a very high standard. Because of this, most amusement park incidents which result in serious injury or death are caused by negligence and/or human error. Take the Smiler crash at Alton Towers for example. That was caused by running the ride on a day with wind speeds that were too high for the ride to be running safely, miscommunication between maintenance staff and ride operators, and VERY poor decision making. But even still, after all the stupid mistakes that were made on that day, all 16 people on the train involved in the collision survived. Granted they were seriously injured, as well as traumatized, but they survived none the less. GP to Enthusiast also has a video explaining it in greater detail than I did.
The coaster war era was a lot different as well, because every park wanted the absolute best rollercoasters as possible, which in the case of son of beast, left them to hire a company that was ABSOLUTELY not equipped to make such a large scale ride, and because of it the company that was tasked with fixing the mistakes had an extremely hard time finding out exactly what corners the other company cut.
At wet and wild on the goldcoast Queensland Australia, they installed 4 water slides with loops in them, barley anyone had enough speed to get through the loops but to their credit they for saw this coming so installed escape hatches before they lowered the angle of the loops.
Mark's intro alone is one of my favorite moments from this podcast
Man, no podcast has made me laugh like this in awhile, long live distractible!
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Bob Wade and mark are a true force when together. I love there friendship so much it makes my sides and jaw hurt.
Not me repeatedly wondering if this’ll turn into “most dangerous drink coasters”
i was thinking the same thing :))) ... english is not my first language, so that's where my mind went when i read "dangerous coasters" :))
I thought you were talking about people drinking booze on rollercoasters or something but no you’re actually talking about actual drink coasters, Ugh my brain is not working.
I mean, i like the idea of drink coaster ninja stars. Then the coaster could be useful for something that matters.
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Ugh they do! Ever seen what a cup ring does to a price of wood?
@@Toneill029 yeah, gives it a cool artistic feature.
my year of watching Defunctland really prepared me for this episode
This made me flash back to all the Deaths at Disney videos I've seen. Most of them were people doing stupid stuff or people with heart conditions that they didn't know about. The ride Bob went on, Mission Space, a couple of people sadly had heart attacks on that ride too. Mission Space is known for triggering motion sickness so badly that they have actual vomit bags on the ride in case you get sick. I actually love that ride. 😅
I live around Atlanta, Ga and I would go to Six Flags every summer in the 90s,. I heard that a kid lost his hat on one of the rollercoasters, so he climbed over a fence surrounding the coaster to retrieve it. Apparently the coaster was still operating and it was one where you sit down and your feet dangle so he got his head kicked off basically. I've always wondered if that was true,
I heard that but I believe that actually happened at Disneyland though. I think it was at the first Disneyland
That's true. It was a Batman coaster.
I have also heard this!
@@bubbletea9111 no its true looo up batman coaster incident
As far as I have heard, this is partly true, partly false
Mark's intro evolved so much over the years of his channel
"HELLO EVERYBODY! say hi, guys" - Early Drunk MC days
"Hell-low Everybody" - first FNAF video
"Hello, everybody" - Modernplier
I can hear these…
Since you guys mentioned carnivals-
When I was like 7 or 8, I went to this carnival at my then Christian school with my mom. All the rides and food were good, up until the swinging ship ride (you guys know the one). The first part of the ride was fun, a bit scary to me but I was enjoying myself. Mom is sitting beside me, smiling at how much fun I'm having. Then our safety bar pops. Completely unlocks and lifts away from up as we're almost parallel to the ground. Mom freaks out and quickly pulls the bar back down, but it won't lock. So for the rest of the ride, Mom is holding me with one arm and holding the bar down onto our laps with the other. She never let me go on another carnival ride after that
Can confirm, my father's brother used to work as one of the guys who assembled temporary carnival rides, and he and every single one of his coworkers were hammered at work every day. But I still used to ride stuff like that as a kid.
Take a shot every time Mark says "sure" "yeah" or "mhm" in this episode and you'd end up dead of alcohol poisoning before the halfway point
29:01 Honestly, a non-lethal version of this would make a fun dark ride
I was in public when suddenly
"We could do the Hindenburg escape room!"
"But there's no escape from that!"
Every so often, I'm reminded that the guys grew up near where I did because I have ridden both "Beast" and "Son of Beast." Both rides were absolutely thrilling for most of my family, but I was terrified.
For your 100th episode of Distractible, please do a Live stream of this with your cameras on. I wanna see all of your reactions to the stories. Keep up the great work gentlemen!👏
the attraction with the alien was actually called "extraTERRORestrial encounter"
Yes! I was around 8 when I got to go on that attraction. I freaking LOVED it! We went back to Disney with my little sister when I was 16 or 17 and it was the Stitch version. It was ok, but I liked the original one more.
@@x10sam Yeah, Disney had to get rid of the old version after Jeffrey Jones was arrested for CP.
I wonder if they can now finally turn it into that Alien ride they were originally planning. They do own the rights to the IP now.
I love wooden coasters but Son of Beast bruised my ribs so bad. I still rode it several times but it was rough. (Gotta add the worst ride I ever rode at KI was that Tomb Raider thing that held you upside down for too long. I almost passed out and had a horrible headache all day. That one was horrible!)
I went on that Alien Encounter ride as a kid. They did a LOT more than just breathing on your neck. There's a point in the ride where an engineer is sent to rescue the ride-goers. The alien eats him, and riders are sprayed with warm water to simulate his blood splatter. That ride had absolutely no chill, but there was a lot of dark humor throughout the run.
As a side note; the likely reason why the ride was shut down was because it featured noteworthy Hollywood actors, including the legendary Tim Curry. Unfortunately, it also featured Jeffrey Jones, who was arrested for possession of child pornography in 2002. I'm fairly sure that was the biggest cause for why the ride was retooled into a Lilo and Stitch attraction.
I love these podcasts this is the only thing I can fall asleep too
You guys really remind me of me and my friends whenever we have a conversation it always ends up weird and funny 😂😂😂 And since I always have to have something playing in the background whenever I work and listening to you guys really makes the workload feel lighter 💕💕💕
I remember being in a Chinese buffet when I was younger and watching the news about the Superman ride cutting that person’s foot off and I never rode a large drop ride until last December
19:38 I can't tell if they're just joking, or they somehow actually think it's called "twiwty-doos". It's literally just a banked turn 😆
Pretty sure they're joking; they have a habit of just going along with whatever nonsense term any of them comes up with.
When they were describing the alien ride I was like "Oh I remember that ride, it is Lilo and Stitch themed now, was cute"
i’m absolutely obsessed with rollercoasters so i already knew about everything they mentioned but it made me so happy to hear them talk about one of my biggest interests!!
Man…when I was 16, I went on The Batman at Six Flags over Texas. If you don’t know the ride, they put you in a vest so your legs are dangling and it has loops and such. We start going and the dang vest unlatched and I spent the entire ride literally holding on for dear life. I haven’t ridden a roller coaster since then.
When I was growing up, my Dad had Kidney failure and while waiting for a transplant, he had a dialysis port, which is basically a tube in your stomach area that you plug into a machine so it can flush out your kidneys. So he had this port and he didn't go swimming with it, but we still went to Hershey Park to ride roller coasters. I was terrified of roller coasters, so I would hold everyone's bags and wait by the exit while they rode. My sibling and Dad decided to go on the Great Bear, and I waited with their stuff. When the group that they went in with came out, everyone looked so freaked out and I remember watching people run out of there. I didn't think much of it, until my Dad came out holding a towel to his bloody stomach. Apparently, when they pushed the safety bar down, it hit my Dad's port, and he noticed it started bleeding, and he and my sibling were trying to get the people's attention, but they couldn't so they went on the ride with my Dad's port bleeding the whole time. We did get Fast Passes for the rest of that year though, and my Dad's good now.
oh no
I rode The Beast at Kings Island and it’s one of the worst coasters I went on. Not only does it feel like it’s about to fall off the track, but they also jam the lap bar into you hips so your hitting your head and cracking your spine on this coaster, BUT your hips hurt afterwords.
A weird thing about Kings Island is that THEY STILL SELL “The Son Of Beast” merchandise. Like stickers and a pin that says “I survived Son Of Beast.” Which I guess can be explained since the ride shut down earlier than most and they probably had a back log of merchandise, so they continue to sell it.
One last thing on Son Of Beast is that (I’m guessing. No research done it whatsoever I’m just assuming) there’s a new coaster on the plot of land called the Banshee (which is a sick coaster). The whole thing with the Banshee is that it’s a ghost, so they have generic gravestones, and stuff like that. BUT they have a pretty large tombstone paying tribute to the Son Of Beast. It’s pretty tongue and cheek but I think it’s kinda cool.
18:13 that's actually a thing! Kids love to jump off thing and to get thrown onto soft things. It's because doing that is the best way to develop proprioception and balance. What better way to get a feeling for how gravity works and how to understand how your body movies in relation to it that to fall and collapse onto things a bunch?
I still remember that Alien ride Wade mentioned. Probably my earliest memory as a child is going in at like 4 or 5 years old. I haven't slept with the lights off since. Legitimately terrified the hell out of me.
Here in the UK at Thorpe Park there used to be a SAW ride, the ride got closed down after people suffered serious injuries from riding it.
That's gone now? Glad I didn't go on it lol
To be fair you guys covered a lot of not roller coasters, which solidifies the idea that they are actually very safe. But like with wooden coasters they are just as safe as steel ones, the bolts do not loosen the way you think and their structures are engineered to flex and sway for months. They are designed to feel dangerous and whip around, but you are actually very safe. They do close from time to time for maintenance and replacing wood beams and preform re-tracking during the off season. However, I did still really like this entry though, things like Action Park are always pretty interesting to hear about. And I especially liked the story about the sketchy Scrambler Bob rode at Kings Island. Also glad you guys started uploading this podcast to TH-cam. Super entertaining, and have already listened to three today!
Holy shit! Wade had the same experience as me with that alien thing. That thing scared the mess out of me as a kid.
Bob, the guy who is bored to tears by puzzle games invents a puzzle coaster 😂
That’ll spice up the concept.
this is one of my favorite episodes because im a coaster enthusiast which sounds stupid but i like roller coasters and this was cool
Ahhhh...memories! I don't know if you young people know this but they used to have to put an ad on TV at 10 pm that said "It's 10 pm, do you know where your children are?" Because our parents NEVER knew where the fuck we were...lol! Gen X.
I...
I legitimately thought they were talking about drinks coasters until a god 30 seconds in T-T
I LOVE spinning rides. I remember once at the local festival I rode the spaceship ride like 20 times in a row. it was late and no one was riding so the guy just let us keep ride. it was awesome.
45:00 OMFG Wade... myself, brother and my Dad were on this when i was 7 or 8 years old (jeez im 36 now) i remember it vividly... it was scary and fucking awesome! Not there anymore i believe. I can't believe someone else has a story about being on it!!! This made my day... Before you mentioned the portal and an alien popping out in the glass tube, I had a sneaking suspicion that this might have been the ride you were talking about and I was like that sounds like that 1 right eye went on until you mention the glass tube and the alien. So cool
It's funny that Wade mentioned a SAW themed ride because we have that in the UK in Thorpe Park. Obviously it's not dangerous and it's just SAW themed, you don't have to do any puzzles or anything. It's just a themed rollercoaster but still, it exists.
The fact that as a person who lives in NJ I knew exactly where this would go. Also Action Park is still open and running. It had closed became mountain creek. Closed again and is back to being action park.
This is the podcast that taught me about ‘Action Park’ which was really interesting. The documentary on HBOMax was really good.
I grew up in Ohio. I used to LOVE the Beast. One time I went with a whole school group, we rented out the ENTIRE theme park so there were no lines. Me and my friends rode the Beast SEVEN times without stopping. Every time we got to the end and started to stop, we would yell AGAIN and it would just go straight through. I couldn't tell you how many of us vomited. It was glorious. Very fond memory
The Beast gave me my fear of roller coasters. When I went on it, I was just barely above the hight limit. On the way down the hill, the bar disengaged and I started to fly out of the seat, luckily my dad grabbed me and pulled me back down. I almost died because of the tunnel with the low roof. A couple weeks later there was another issue about someone loosing their hands on the Beast.
Oh man, I had almost the exact opposite happen to me. I was clinging onto the bar to not fall completely into the footwell as my mom tried to pull me pull me up with one arm.
18:54 Ah yes I remember seeing son of beast in the distance as I crest the hill on state route 741 everytime we went to kings island lmao
"you've all hear of the water slide... now get ready for the oil slick. Experience the 100 mph fall, and the breakneck thrill of trying to stop. This once in a life time petroleum based coaster is undeniably eventful.
don't get any in your mouth
At Carowinds in NC/ SC, they had a wooden roller coaster called Thunder Road and it worked from when the park opened until just about a year or so ago
Now the only wooden coaster that remains is hurler, such a shame
I actually rode the Verruckt in KC. Got the tickets from my church (LifeMission). The kid got decapitated the day after me and my friends rode the ride. He was the KS state Rep's kid...and also went to our church.
TL:DR Im from New Braunfels where Schlitterbahn originated. The decapitation was in the Kansas park. I wish it stayed local. However it isn’t “small” it’s 70 acres and one of the most popular waterparks.
I can tell you. I am from New Braunfels, where Schlitterbahn originated. (Hence german name) If I remember correctly that happened at the Kansas park. We all hate the Kansas park. The tallest waterslide had to be built there because it was outside of Texas state safety guidelines, and for good reason. If you watch interviews before it happened, they literally say they talked to mathematicians and engineers and told “the greatest minds they were wrong”because they were constantly told “It is impossible to make a ride this steep and safe.” No matter how many hills you added to slow yourself down, you’re still fighting velocity largely increasing with gravity. You would have to have the ride so much more elongated to counteract it. They basically blew it off and said “ah fuck it. Itll take too long and too much money to rebuild and extent it.” especially because it has already had its closing day moved 3 times for safety changes that clearly did more harm than good. The New Braunfels park is the original, the best one, and the most well known. Our city is rapidly expanding because of our rivers and Schlitterbahn. It’s cool it’s getting recognition but kinda wish it was still local. It was normal for 15 year olds to get their first summer job at Schlitterbahn, where friends still work as lifeguards now at 20. However, it wasn’t/isn’t small. It’s 70 acres with 3 separate parts with buses take you in between different attractions, but it was our thing. Now they’re appearing over the country, doing things like decapitating kids.....
Fun fact: The loop waterslide (called the cannonball loop) once decapitated a crash test dummy that was used to test the “safety” of the slide.
Designer: "Ah, it just needs more water and it'll be fine."
@@michaeledmunds7056 just needs more mud
I remember those action park commercials! I never got to go, but I wanted to ride the alpine slide in the worst way.
It speaks to my generation that, despite everyone in the tri-state area knowing how dangerous it was, they still went every summer, to the tune of a million attendees per year.
There are folks on film saying stuff like "I'm going to action park! Hopefully I'll survive."
Makes sense though. Most of our generation's childhood was unsupervised. We played in constrction sites for fun. So what if you might need a tetanus shot? What's the big deal?
Appreciating the fact the sound of a tube train departing was used as space ship noise at 43:24 because thats exactly what they've sounded like for the last 10 years.
I’m from Indiana and went to Kings Island all the time! I survived the Son of Beast! You should look up hybrid wooden coasters. They’re amazing! Haven’t ridden one yet, but I really want to!
A friend of mine claims (I have no evidence of this) that he got stuck on a Tilt-a-whirl that the ride runner couldn't stop until he (my friend) threw up on the mechanisms in the middle.
When they were talking about wooden roller coasters, it reminded me of the Timber Wolf. It's a wooden roller coaster at Worlds of Fun. It's fast as coasters normally are. Yet it shakes exactly how they described it. Every time I have rode it, I am clutching for my life cause it feels so much faster than the other roller coasters in the park and the shaking as it goes is so unbearable for me that I brace my whole body to withstand all that shaking and rumbling movement. And maybe it's just me, but roller coasters that go fast I can't keep my eyes open during it. I don't know how other people can watch as they ride without their eyes getting irritated. So yeah I've never was posed for any roller coaster photo ever. I swear if it goes a little slower than maybe I could see the ride in action while on it.
I remember a ride(which is still around) Mousetrap, I believe at lagoon here in Utah. That ride has such sharp turns I’m sure I almost got multiple bruises.
Wooden rollercoasters are *NIGHTMARES*
but I love it
Wooden ones are my favorites
As someone who lived near Kings Island and went there frequently, it's nice hearing the boys mention it.
“The Grave Pool”. I feel that! Almost drowned in a wave pool in fourth grade. Thank goodness for lifeguards!
I can’t recommend Defunctland enough, the channel has covered all of these coasters and more in great depth and it’s fascinating!
I've been to action park a couple times way back in the early 90s on family trips. Most of it was pretty tame and actually really fun. But, yeah, found out about the kid a few year after we stopped going.
Until Mark said "Euthanasia Coaster," I thought this was gonna be about deadly drink coasters or something. I was wondering how much they could talk about that.
Odd Job but drink coasters
Many years ago, the First and Only time I rode the Beast, it shook me so hard, I had a horrific headache after, and developed motion sickness from then on. Would not personally recommend that ride. XD
this is my favorite episode so far tbh
Cedar point. The corkscrew.
My parents and I rode it once.
My dad was a bit to big for it, so the harness hurt him when we went around the loops.
I was a bit to thin for it, so when we spun around my collarbone kept getting knocked against the harness rapidly and repeatedly, which hurt for the rest of the day.
My mom was fine. She fit the harness perfectly.
I was on a reverse drop tower, that's where you start at the bottom, rocket up to the top and then bungee bounce your way back down. I was fully locked in with the shoulder harness down and as we rocketed up to the top and began the first downward bounce, I felt the shoulder harness give with my weight and click loose about 2 inches. Not enough to let me slip out, but enough to scare the piss out of me.
Needless to say I was gripping the damn thing the whole way down and it was still loose when I got to the bottom. I haven't ridden on a drop tower ride since.
Theres a wooden coaster at the six flags in st louis called The Boss or something like that. It was so shaky and so jerky that my neck hurt like hell for about a week after I rode it. It was so bad
That’s how the scream machine was at six flags in atlanta ga for me. it was my first roller coaster too and i wouldn’t get on one for years after
Yes! I live there and the boss is one that I will not go on again! I'm sure it's better now but my gosh it was so scary
we always joked that the wooden roller coaster here had square wheels 🤣 you can’t even talk while on it cuz it’s vibrating so much
I like to imagine of a coaster ride based around the Brass bull. Wherein people would go inside bull like trolleys with only two transparent eyes for them to see through. The whole ride has boiling hot fire going throughout the track, making the brass of the trolley extremely hot to the touch as it goes on. The ride itself isn't as fast as many coasters, though the uprise ramp does lead to a swirling track that symbolises the pain and suffering brought onto the man trapped inside it, as well as him repenting for the scenes he had committed.
At one time, many years ago, my older sister and her husband worked for about a year on a traveling carnival. Her husband told me this story about an accident that happened on a ride called "The Zipper". Basically it was a cage you sat in and it went up the track, got to the top, and came back down and the cages could be spun on their own axis. Anyway, one evening one of the cars, while on the downward side, came off the ride and slid quite a ways down the midway! it has landed bottom-side up so the guy was unhurt. Several workers came around, helped him out made sure he was alright, which he said he was fine, no problems and he went on his way. Later that evening this guy came back and had several friends with him and they all got on The Zipper. This time nothing fell off and the ride went smoothly but when this guy got off he was upset and complained because it wasn't as much fun as the first time he'd been on. Apparently he thought the cars were Supposed to come off at the end!
Up until a few years ago, Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington claimed to have to tallest wooden roller coaster called The Texas Giant. There is a concert venue in the park that gives you a good view of said roller coaster. I could watch as the carts would go around a specific turn and the whole ride would sway. I never got on that thing again.
I remember that Lilo and Stitch ride. I went on it when I was a kid and it scared the shit out of me. I was small enough that I didn't feel anything pressing on my shoulders, but my mom did feel it, and when we got off she told us and I hated it. I had chewing gum in my mouth when I went on the ride and something got sprayed at us- I think it was just water- but it got in my mouth and I could taste whatever it was for the rest of the day.
Bob's coaster idea would make for a very fun multiplayer VR game... just saying.
The Disney World ride at the end is called "ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter." It was replaced in 2003 by a Lilo and Stitch ride because of complaints and falling popuularity. I went on it in 2001 as a 3rd grader. It was, in fact, quite traumatic at the time. I can laugh about it now and wish I could experience it as an adult.
As for the preshow for it, it was Tim Curry so that was great. Poor Skippy.
That was me, I was the kid screaming in Alien Encounter. I was in the 3rd grade and kept seeing the commercial advertising it, so I begged and begged the whole week we were there. Until my parents finally gave in... then the creature escaped and started running around. I was terrified and pushing up on the harness trying to get out. Then it happened. That moist breath on the back of my neck. I was convinced it was right behind me and for the rest of the ride I was screaming "LET ME OUT, LET ME OUT"! Until it was finally over and the lights came on. I was in such a panic I never heard my mother next to me trying to tell me it's OK, it's just the show.
Although this is now the second most terrifying thing I've ever experienced in my waking life. I don't regret going on, because what an experience it was.
OMG that disney alien attraction Wade was talking about was one my brother (26 y/o now) did when he was 5/6 and it scared the crap out of him! They replaced it with Lilo and Stitch, but it was still the same attraction, they just made it less scary by making it Stitch instead of aliens. Like, they still had the thing breath down your neck... flash forward to it being the Stitch version and my sister (13 y/o now) was about 5 years old, Lilo and Stitch was her fave movie... she cried in that attraction xD it was quite funny for me, but I enjoy horror and watching my siblings suffer to that extent muhaha lmao
I’ve been in the stitch one recently and it’s still pretty scary. Do not recommend for people with anxiety.
My dumbass here thinking this was gonna be about dangerous cup coasters
Every time I would go to a rollercoaster park as a kid, it was a traumatizing event of being bullied by all the brave people in my life like friends or even mostly my dad until I would finally go on one. Every one I ever went on has given me recurring nightmares for the rest of my life because my biggest phobia is heights. After my best friend experienced a breakdown on one were she was stuck at the top of the first huge drop for an hour, I felt the fear I always had was rationalized at that point. She handled it fine, but I would have fainted, and then woke to an hour long panic attack
We have a wooden coaster in the UK it's at alton towers and it's called the wicker man. From what I can remember it's the only wooden coaster with actual fire
I didn't like rollercoasters until I rode Wicker Man. It's AWESOME.
The euthanasia coaster is actually intended for terminally ill patients who've been told they have a certain amount of time to live and don't want to die by their illness
I wondered if that might be the intended use. Pretty neat, in that case!
As a person who lives in Kansas City, Hank and his son Denis are here frequently and we see them in one of our local Denny’s all the time
I remember hearing about the kid getting decapitated on the waterslide not too long ago here in the states. I think it was over the past couple of years ago. I think it was something like it was a super steep waterslide and he essentially "fell off" the slide. If I recall, it wasn't a full blown "his head was completely removed" decapitation but it caused enough of an injury to his head and neck that it was basically an internal decapitation that he died from.
so, we have a low grade amusement park that's fairly run down, and there's a ride called The Hawk. it was a pendulum where the seats rotated upside down and stuff. I was riding, and the big part that goes over your chest broke, and the only thing keeping it attached was the seat belt, like you would find in a car, that was buckled, and when i went upside down, i fell a foot until the buckle stopped me. It was terrifying, not to mention i was still really young, and terrified of heights to begin with so getting on was big for me anyways. I never went on that ride again, it finally got closed a few years later cuz too many seats were out of order
In the same park there was a ride called the X-Coaster. It was a giant loop, 150 feet, with a spiral at the top. So you were brought up to the top, and free fell all the way down and around, until you couldn't make it around and went backwards, then got stopped after a few minutes. Every time i go to the park, it gets stuck at least once, for maybe an hour, with the passengers sitting 100+ ft in the air waiting to be let down. One time it got stuck on the upside down part, and they just had to sit there until the problem was addressed
When Bob said "A kid got decapitated" I thought he would talk about Verruckt...
The Schlitterbauhn accident in KCK was eerie since I live relatively close to the water park itself and depending on which way you're going, you can see it on the highway.
Right in the beginning I got GrayStillPlays vibes from the roller coasters description xD
My family went to Action Park when I was really little, and then later when it was renamed I went a few times. My main memory from it is how cold cold the water was in the Tarzan swing area, and how you can just swim in that area where people were jumping off cliffs and stuff. I remember being really little and trying to dodge everyone landing in the pool. I really have to watch that documentary I keep meaning to and then forget about it.
There are wooden roller coasters at Kennywood near Pittsburgh PA and they're all super fun. None of them hurt to ride and they don't feel like they're going to fall apart. The Thunderbolt was my favorite but there's also the Jackrabbit and The Racers. The Racers is two coasters on separate tracks, and they start at the same time and the speed each time the coasters are run is randomly varied so sometimes one wins and sometimes the other wins and you pick which one you wanna ride and root for it to get back to the station first. You can see the other coaster as you go and you can see if they're falling behind or catching up, it's super fun.
Mark had me worried there