flat rides are rides like this one here not a roller coaster but instead a um a ride that
moves passengers in a plane generally parallel to the ground there are quite a lot of these
all around the world but narrowing it down just to the uk these ones are amazing hello welcome back
today i'm going to be going through some flat rides in the uk that i enjoy a lot or i find
terrifying but fun at the same time i previously made a video about my favorite uk dark rides
um which that was the first time i've ever done that so why not do one for flat rides too this
of course as always is my own list a favorite flat rides it's not anybody else's and the reason for
this not being a top five uk flat rides is because i genuinely can't put these in order
every time i do it just forever changes like the minute i upload this video if it was a top five
literally a minute after i posted it like actually you know what i think spinjam deserves that place
at number one and obviously not every flat ride in the uk is going to be on this list
because i might not have ridden it but feel free to leave your favorite uk flat rides in
the comments below we'll start off with a classic and that is apocalypse at drayton manor this thing
as much as it's not gonna be around for very long is such a good ride but at the same time
it also scares the living hell out of me if you've never seen it before the ride is a drop tower
style flat ride and it takes you up to 177 feet. yep. 177 feet. and upon reaching the top you then
free fall all the way back down again it sounds so simple but oh my god and unlike some drop towers
you can either ride this sitting down like a normal human being or you can ride it standing up
why the drop on this is also from an enthusiast point of view more intense meaning you feel way
more force as you hit the bottom and when you're actually dropping you get flung out your seat
(not literally) and you do get air time which is great but makes it 10 times more *ahh* as much as
i've described it mostly is scary it's a very very good ride and the same can be said for detonator
at thorpe park it's the same kind of ride so a drop tower but just a little bit smaller
and um as said with apocalypse it's just AHH the main problem about this one though i have a bone
to pick with you is it has a countdown now you may think oh hang on a minute a countdown means
you know when you're gonna drop you really don't the operators of it tend to take you to the top
either have it count down normally or well that's very rare but usually it drops way after it
reaches one way before it reaches one so we can drop on like four or five before the countdown's
even started or they could have you sat up there for about five minutes straight just discussing
what they're gonna have for dinner that happened to me one time oh i'm so incredibly i wouldn't say
i'm scared of drop towers i just i'm appreciative of the terrifying nature whilst we're at thorpe
park yeah man i'm literally there right now i may as well list off samurai this ride is a top scan
mondial top scan and it rotates five different arms clockwise and anti-clockwise whilst
also flipping the arms themselves it sounds so complicated that's because it is when samurai
runs at full speed unlike in 2021 it is such a fun ride the feeling you get is unmatched to
any other flat ride in the country there has been times where i've been on this and i've genuinely
completely lost track of where it was because it just flipped a lot now of course there's a lot of
the same ride type out there that probably run a lot faster and a lot longer than samurai but
thorpe, as much as you stole it from chessington you've done good on this one we head down south
to paulton's park we have cyclonator this is a um what is this it's a discovery 30 by zamperla it's
basically a swing pendulum ride and it swings you up and down while spinning on this huge outwards
facing disc this ride seems to be up there in quite a lot of people's lists including myself
it's forceful a lot of fun and it's actually quite thrilling especially being at paulton's
park the views you get from the top are incredible and the speed it carries through the like the
swing itself doesn't feel controlled like another ride i know and cyclonator is a very similar model
to a maelstrom at drayton manor too which is another great ride it's just older and not as tall
but it's still a lot of fun though oh-ho-ho now we head eastwards in the uk too adventure
island where we have time machine now if you're an enthusiast then you'll know that this ride
is pretty well known among us to explain this ride it's um it's just a genuine mind fu- from the pov
it may not look too special and it just looks like it goes round in a circle multiple times
rotating the arm separately oh look at me but if you go on it you'll realize how intense it is and
how fast it goes and obviously with it being fast and intense at the same time it can be very sick
inducing until i rode another flat ride recently i don't think i'd ever been on a ride that made my
head spin that much but i got off and i genuinely was hobbling along i don't know where i was what
a ride though it may make you feel sick it may be super intense almost too intense but it is so
good i would love to one day go out and try even more flat rides in the uk because i know there's
quite a few that would probably make this list if i'd been on them but you know one day one day.