Playland is Open- What's Your Favourite Ride?

Lil Me · Apr 21 07 09:15

[div class="metadata"][span class="storyDate"]What's your favourite ride? Wooden Coaster for me. I think the scariest ride is the Wild Mouse because you're sure the damn thing is going to fall apart before the end of the ride. Mind you, it was rickety 25 years ago.

[/span][span class="byLine"][/span][/div] [div class="articleCopy"]VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - A Vancouver tradition resumes today at the PNE. Playland is opening the gates for its 97th year. From the Wild Mouse, to the West Coast Wheel, if you just can't wait for summer, the rides will be waiting for you today, and each weekend until mid-June, when Playland is open every day for the summer. [/p][a href="vny!://www.news1130.com/news/topstory/article.jsp?content=20070421_104709_3224"]vny!://www.news1130.com/news/topstory/article.jsp?content=20070421_104709_3224[/a]

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Russ · Apr 21 07 09:44

I agree with you Lil Me on both counts

Marik · Apr 22 07 02:33

Wooden Coaster for sure. About 7 years ago, I went on that ride with my brother (he barely made the height / weight restriction... he was about 6 or 7 years old). So the coaster got to the very top of the hill (starting section), it went down, and on the part it goes back up, the only body part of my brother which still touched the coaster was his hands (his body was inside the car, but in the air... if that makes sense).
I hope they keep that ride so it's only the bar, with no seatbelts.

Lil Me · Apr 22 07 03:20

I totally know what you mean, Marik. I had that experience on the wooden coaster myself as a kid. My older cousin told me to stand on my toes when I went through the ride entrance.

According to family legend, the same cousin took me on The Skydiver Ride before I was 3. She started to freak out because the bar wasn't holding me in during the upside-down flips. She says she kept one hand on the wheel (in an attempt to stop it from turning) and one hand on me, absoluelty terrified that the metal clothespin holding the cage door shut was going to break off.

The Skydiver Ride.

My cousin was only 13 at the time, but she said that experience aged her considerably. She didn't think I was going to make it alive through the ride.

Apparently I had the BEST time ever. (I don't remember)

McQueen · Apr 25 07 05:06

[FONT face="Comic Sans MS"]My Fav ride is also the wooden Coaster ...but I remember like 8 or 9 yeras ago they had the old school haunted house where you went in on this lil cart and all the creatures and such were behind glass. That was classic ..now the haunted house is alot more creepier and interactive. Anyone else remeber the old haunted house??[/FONT]

Lil Me · Apr 25 07 06:19

The old skool haunted house was funny.

Anyone remember the big Fun House in the 1970s? You walked through a building with moving stairs. There was a big slide at the end. I think the structure burned down around 1980(?)

P.C. · Apr 25 07 06:22

I'm still a big coaster fan. I had the pleasure of taking hubby on his first coaster ride. He's a laughing kind of guy, but I swear I never heard him laugh quite like that before or since. It was the best.

Then I took him on the new one....it was tame compared to the old wooden one.

Don't remember any of the 'houses'. I always went for the speed rides.

Devil · Apr 26 07 07:22

Never really spent much time there. Didn't mind the old coaster, it was kind of creepy...so I liked it..hahaha!

Isis · Apr 26 07 10:13

Anything that goes fast and spins....love it!

I don't like the Crazy Beach Party...first year they had that sucker in, I got stuck on it for 30 minutes after the ride stopped because the hydrolocks wouldn't release the safety restraints. It was hot and sweaty and I was the last one to get released. They had to use a screwdriver and manually release the harnesses one by one!

Devil · Apr 26 07 11:06

I like the Crazy Beach Party ride cause it made Isis all hot and sweaty!

Isis · Apr 26 07 11:38

tsk tsk....such a Devil you are!

Gopher · Apr 26 07 11:39

Now THAT's what you should say to get rid of the witnesses i.e. the title of this thread..

Lil Me · Jun 18 08 10:04

BUMP!

Heckyl and Jeckyl skipped school today and we went to Playland.
Great time, but was somewhat busy due to the large number of school groups there.

Heckyl went on the wooden rollercoaster for the first time, said he prefers the Wild Mouse or the Enterprise.
Jeckyl had fun on the Flume and the Wave Swinger.

Mr LM is a bit under the weather, so I was put on "spinny ride" detail for the day.

Sportsdude · Jun 18 08 10:09

lol spinney ride detail. hilarious.

Lise · Jun 19 08 08:19

Hmmm..... I don't recall much of the rides there at Playland. Then again, I was never one for the rides.

I remember passing the mouse ride and thinking 'wow, that ride doesn't look safe at all'. I know a few friends who claim that it was the scariest ride of their lives.

After Disneyland, the rides at Playland look pathetic. Sorry but it's true. Needs some upgrade.