If it goes upside down, the lateral gs are much more pronounced in the rear half, which I avoid. You feel the push of the rest of the train when it is fully on the lift hill, get the wait time as you hang over the top of the first hill waiting for the train to catch up so you can go down, and the wind in your face make it just seem faster. Steel coasters (non inverted): I love the front on these coasters due to the feeling of speed. The front seat tends to have more of a visual impact (“head chopper”) and SEEM to go the fastest. Wood coasters: back of the train tends to be the roughest and most jerky (ie you’ll most likely have bruises), so I stay in the front half. I am typically a front seat rider, but the reasons for it vary depending upon the type of coaster. Ok….you’ve got a huge coaster fan, so this will be my favorites (and observations) on coasters in gereral after riding lots of different coasters. But it turns out that there’s one seat – the inside back row, on the “front of the park” side of the station – that somehow delivers a much smoother ride, every time. X2 at Magic Mountain is an amazing roller coaster, but it can be startlingly rough. Space Mountain in Disneyland is probably my favorite roller coaster in the world, because of that beautiful musical soundtrack, and the incredible blur of stars all around you. But there are always exceptions.ĭisney coasters are not designed to be super-scary, with really intense forces, so I prefer the front rows of most of their rides. The middle of the train will typically give you the mildest ride. I love roller coasters and can say that, generally, if you want a wilder, more intense ride, with greater positive and negative G-force changes, then the back row is the way to go, the front less so. I’d love to know yours! If you leave a comment, prepare for some good thesis/Disney karma coming your way! Just like the little green aliens from Toy Story, I’ll be eternally grateful for your help!įirst, my hat is off to you for thinking up such a cool thesis topic and then convincing your advisor to let you do it. See, it’s really easy! By the way, those are all my actual favorite spots. Or: I like to sit in the front row of Expedition Everest because it goes the highest where the track is “torn” and reverses for the first time.Īnd one more: I like to sit in the front row of Space Mountain at Disneyland because it feels like you’re flying through space, but I don’t like to sit in the front row of Space Mountain in the Magic Kingdom because I feel like the train is going to hit something. Here’s how you can be an absolutely amazing person! All you have to do is leave a comment telling me where your favorite place to sit on a roller coaster is, for coasters in general, or maybe just your favorite Disney one, and a completely non-scientific reason why it’s your favorite spot.įor example: On Big Thunder Mountain, my favorite spot to sit is the back row because the ride feels bumpier. But in my thesis introduction, I want to talk about some non-scientific measures of the best seat. My maximum acceleration definition is kind of arbitrary I picked it because I needed a numerical way to define the “best” seat. I’ve had trouble coming up with a definition of the best place to sit. At the moment, there isn’t really a scientific qualification of the best place to sit, and that’s what I’m trying to figure out by measuring acceleration. I’m defining the best place to sit as the seat with the maximum acceleration values that make you feel as if you’re floating or being pushed down into your seat. I’ve been using my iPhone’s accelerometer to measure the acceleration of Screamin’ during the ride with the goal of figuring out the best place to sit on a roller coaster. Somehow, I convinced my advisor to let my write my thesis about roller coasters and forces, specifically California Screamin’ at Disney California Adventure. I’m a senior at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. Yay roller coasters! And I need YOUR help, too! You can share your opinions about roller coasters with me, and I’ll send you some good Disney karma or maybe a hug if I even happen to meet you in the parks. Now, don’t be scared off by that title, because this post has to do with roller coasters.
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