Funfair/carnival thread

Irelandcool · 31-05-2015 12:39AM #1

basically what are you favorite funfair rides and basically to mention any funfairs that are coming up or happening at the moment big or small.

At the moment my town mitchelstown is having the festival of the galtees.

silverfeather · 31-05-2015 12:41AM

Also circuses.

Miall108 · 31-05-2015 12:44AM

Craggy Islands Crane of Death is my favourite. Its called that after some young fella was killed on it last year

Copper_pipe · 31-05-2015 12:48AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xkOBvcAO1o

weldoninhio · 31-05-2015 01:05AM

The yellow yolk in Mosney, you stood up in it and it spun around. The g-force would pin you to the wall of it

Irelandcool · 31-05-2015 01:06AM

craggy island funfair is my personal favorite

Aidric · 31-05-2015 01:10AM

The bumper cars were always the best. You could never quite get enough speed to make a damaging blow though.

The_Valeyard · 31-05-2015 01:13AM

Rollercoasters. Amazing quick fun.

RayM · 31-05-2015 01:15AM

Freak pointing.

31-05-2015 01:38AM

One of my faves is the "volksfest" in Stuttgart. I have ended up there twice and each time I rush to the exact same point. As with most volksfests in germany its a mix of funfair rides funderland styleee - and a simple beer festival with beer tents.

But there is a big wheel which they suspend JUST over the entrance of one of the beer tents in Stuttgart. And the best thing to do is to run over to the entrance and throw a beer glass up at it.

From the perspective of the ground you really think it is going to hit someone - but it never does.

And from being on the ride when people have thrown one up at me you are similarly convinced it is going to hit you but it never does.

It is the one ride I have ever been on that is similarly scary from the ground as it is from the chair.

So there you go. Cannstatter Volksfest it is called. Better than the munich beer fest if you ask me