• nul9o9@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    When this thing first showed up at our state fair, I rode it close to ten times in a row. I’ve never felt as sick as I did since that day lol.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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      4 months ago

      We were traveling carnies for a while when I was a kid. My dad and brother ran some of the rides. They never ran the graviton, but my dad’s best friend there did. I once spent an entire day in a graviton. Literally from when they opened until they closed it that night, only coming out to pee and vomit. It was amazing, and I have never once enjoyed the ride since. Lmao

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    4 months ago

    holy shit, the first one was at Morey’s!? TIL growing up I was riding the OG gravitron… nice!

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    4 months ago

    I really liked this ride when I was kid.

  • mommykink@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    one motherfucker did this at the fair in town. He leaned back too far and rippen through that canvas ceiling above him. I guess it fling him about a block away before he landed in somebody’s yard.

    They still use the same machine, but there’s a huge duct tapped patch over one of those triangles in the ceiling.