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Theme Park Review 2013 Trip Reports

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Part Eight

Rusutsu

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Ditto for S&S towers, love 'em.

Until this trip, I avoided Top Spins like the plague, but for some reason I allowed Steve to talk me into riding Top Gun. I must say I enjoyed it, as super-intense as it was. Steve said it ran one of the wilder ride programs he'd experienced. Top Spins are now a slowly growing list of "whirl and hurl" flat rides I will tackle under the right circumstances.

Looking back, I'm almost sure I wouldn't have had any issues with this Swing Around, but I chose not to partake.

I never quite know with rides like these... the ones that perform a single maneuver, over and over and over and over and over and over. I tend to need a lot of variety of motion to keep me from feeling ill. On the other hand, Swing Arounds do look gentle.

Inside an arcade building, you'll find a few small attractions (miniscule, really) like the 3D audio headphone Murder Lodge. Not bad, but there's a much better scare attraction outside, which we'll get to shortly.

Wildriver is a simulator ride you could fit into your living room. (There are a whole mess of these things at Joyopolis.)

Hey, guys... Guys, GUYS! Indoor voices. You rule the earth, we get it. Relax.

 

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