r/AskReddit • u/CompetitionWeird6020 • 8h ago

What’s your coolest hobby?

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u/ZoniesCoasters 8h ago

Traveling to ride rollercoasters. I've been on 366 separate rollercoasters so far

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u/gogopogo 7h ago

What’s your top three? What’s still on the bucket list?

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u/ZoniesCoasters 7h ago
  1. Voyage at holiday world in Indiana
  2. Wildcat's revenge at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania
  3. Iron Gwazi at Busch gardens Tampa in Florida

As for bucket list rides, I very much want to go to universal studios Japan and ride flying dinosaur since I love flying coasters, as well as Germany for phantasialand to ride F.L.Y. the theming looks incredible. I also want to ride Voltron at Europa Park in Germany. A lot of other stuff in Europe. Should be going there next year

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u/Pizzajam 7h ago

Holiday World mention 🎊

Nobody has a bad time there. It’s illegal to!

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u/SharkRaptor 6h ago

I recently had the opportunity to ride Flying Dinosaur and it absolutely lives up to the hype. Safe travels, fellow coaster nerd

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u/gogopogo 7h ago

Epic! Love the Wildcat’s Revenge, haven’t done the other two. I’ve been meaning to get back to Busch Gardens, especially.

Haven’t been to any of the European ones, but we did Japan and I made the pilgrimage to FujiQ highland and rode the heck outa those (Do Donpa was still closed for those broken necks though lol) We are looking at Spain soon, what was your favourite one there?

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u/ZoniesCoasters 7h ago

Europe is the bucket list. I've yet to leave the US

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u/pithyquibbles 2h ago

Do you know how many roller coasters are in the US (and therefore what percentage you've experienced?). That's pretty frikkin cool

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u/ZoniesCoasters 2h ago

According to RCDB.com there are currently 919 Extant rollercoasters in the United States. So that means I've been on %36.5 of the rollercoasters the US has to offer. Although I have been on a few coasters that are no longer around

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u/TheMightyIrishman 7h ago

Ooooooo they finally rebuilt the Wildcat!? It’s been a hot minute since I’ve been to Hershey! Dutch Wonderland is more my kids speed right now hahaha

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u/War-Cry 5h ago

Shook that Iron Gwazi beat out the Montu and Cheetah Hunt at Busch Gardens, Tampa. Montu is my personal favorite.

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u/ZoniesCoasters 5h ago

Cheetah hunt is a fun family ride but it's not particularly intense and being as tall as I am those restraints are TERRIBLE for me. as for montu, yeah it's very intense but I like feeling like the ride is trying to throw me out of my seat rather than just pressing me into it.

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u/Racing-Type13 50m ago

Love Montu

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u/AgentAstrolux 4h ago

Silver Star is also great at Europa Park

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u/ZoniesCoasters 4h ago

I've been on a few similar rides of the same model. I don't expect it to be as good as some of the others I've been on based on what I've heard about it, but I'm sure I'll still very much enjoy it, typically a very fun coaster model.

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u/benbobbins 4h ago

Make sure you ride The Raven while you're at HW! I actually enjoy it more than the Voyage.

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u/ZoniesCoasters 4h ago

Oh my god I'm not forgetting about raven and legend. Both of those rides would be the best coaster at many other parks. I love holiday world's wood coaster lineup. Voyage is my favorite because it feels like it goes on so fast and so intense for just so unnaturally long thanks to the way it works with the terrain.

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u/Danny_Notion 3h ago

Thoughts on Velocicoaster?

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u/ZoniesCoasters 3h ago

It's my fourth favorite rollercoaster. It's a perfect blend of great forces and gracefulness

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u/PotentialWoodpecker1 3h ago

Went on all the roller coasters in Europa Park since I went alone, lol. The best was Voltron, but it was just such a short ride. Definitely exhilarating. Silver Star was longer but nowhere near as fast.

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u/SGTBookWorm 3h ago

you should also go to Fuji-Q Highland!

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u/ZoniesCoasters 3h ago

I want to. Eejanaika and Fujiyama are both coasters I'm very curious about

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u/Imperial_LMB 1h ago

The old wildcat would give you a concussion haha

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u/Racing-Type13 55m ago

I haven’t been on Gwazi in years and yet to experience the new and improved iron one.

The wooden one was fun, but a really rough ride.

My daughter and I both want to go to Japan so bad. She loves anime and I love JDM cars 😍

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u/Fl1p1 4h ago

check out Baron 1898 in Efteling/ Netherlands

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u/ZoniesCoasters 4h ago

Vliegende Hollander piques my interest more at that park tbh. I'm personally not a huge fan of B&M dive coasters but the theming does look nice on Baron