At around 5 p.m., a ride at Ohio’s Cedar Point amusement park struck and killed a guest who had entered “a restricted, fenced area” to look for a lost cellphone, a park spokesperson said on Thursday.
Four teenagers were airlifted to hospitals Tuesday afternoon after two cars on one of England’s best-known roller coasters collided, stranding passengers 25 feet off the ground.
The world's tallest roller coaster, The Skyscraper, is scheduled to open at Orlando's Skyplex in 2017, and it looks like it'll be a tower of goddamn terror. The coaster's track will wrap around a 535-foot-tall monolith, twisting riders through a downward spiral for four minutes with "no downtime."
Twenty-five people were trapped 20 feet above the ground and at a "precarious" angle on a roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain Monday. Park officials say that the coaster car on the "Ninja" ride became stuck after a tree branch fell on the track. According to KTLA, four people sustained minor injuries.
Either Kevin Hart is genuinely terrified of roller coasters, or he's got acting chops he's not showing us in Think Like a Man Too. Whichever it is, he and Jimmy Fallon rode Universal Studios' Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit on The Tonight Show last night, and Hart squealed, squirmed, and held really tight all the way down.
A 78-year-old grandmother riding a roller coaster for the first time ended up thoroughly enjoying herself, gleefully laughing her way through the entire minute-long trip.
As if you needed another reason not to visit an amusement park called Knott's Berry Farms, there's this: twenty visitors were stranded atop Knott's Berry Farm's 300-foot tall attraction, The Windseeker, for almost four hours Wednesday afternoon. This is the second time this month the ride has malfuntioned, so maybe…
You're either a rollercoaster person, or you're not. I thought I was one, once, until I rode something called "X" at Magic Mountain that spit fire at me and jerked me around so violently, I actually thought I might not make it. It took a photo at the most terrifying part, and the look on my face is, quite simply,…
What's worse? Throwing up on a roller coaster while someone videotapes you or sitting next to someone throwing up on a roller coaster while someone videotapes you?
[To raise money for a breast cancer charity, 102 British nudists make a bouncy attempt to break the World Record for naked rollercoaster riding at Essex's Adventure Island amusement park. Image via Splash.]
This teenager is just as scared as a toddler would be on a roller coaster, and absolutely freaking out as he tries to answer trivia. Why he's being asked trivia questions while riding a roller coaster is anyone's guess.
Two people were trapped upside down, fifty feet in the air, for twenty minutes when one of their ponchos got tangled in the tracks of the steepest roller coaster in the world. This story contains a smorgasboard of phobias.
Two cute old ladies, Millie and Fran (like they could be named anything else), are put in front of a green screen pretending they're on a rollercoaster. That's it. Maybe they could be a replacement for Leno at 10 PM?
If you hate roller coasters, this video will cement your fear and loathing forever. Also bad: cruel older sisters, evil stepmothers or sadistic aunts named "Janice" who just laugh, and laugh and laugh as you're seized by vehement, paralyzing terror.
Kate Gosselin angrily eats a popsicle, inflating a Bounce House of Death. Susan Boyle's back, bitch! So is Britain-Bound Britney. And someone makes a dumb pun involving Paris Hilton and a hard-on. Presenting your Saturday morning gossip roundup:
