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LEGO Fairgrounds Collection Loop Coaster: Just Take My Money

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LEGO has just announced a 3,756 Loop Coaster build set as part of its LEGO Fairgrounds Collection. The $400 set includes a gravity-driven roller coaster complete with one train, a boarding station with opening and closing gates, a control panel, and an elevator for the train to return to the top of the ride. I can’t wait to build it! Probably incorrectly, with a bunch of important pieces left over.

The set can be upgraded with an electric motor so you don’t have to crank the train back to the top yourself. That’s a great addition for someone who hates cranking, like myself. Thank God I don’t have to draw up buckets of water from a well at home, or I’d probably be chronically dehydrated.

Did I just add the set to my birthday list? Of course I did. Will I get it? Of course I won’t. But that won’t stop a man from dreaming. You want to know what I got for my birthday last month? Nothing. Turns out my so called “friends and family” refuse to honor me changing my birthday so I can celebrate one every month. And they pretend to love me!

[via TechEBlog]

This Spinning 3-Axis LEGO Thrill Ride Makes Minifigs Dizzy

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As further evidence that you can make anything with LEGO, we are now making minifigures puke their guts out on tiny amusement park rides. Check out this 3-axis LEGO Technic thrill ride made by LEGO enthusiast Shadow Elenter.

The ride is called 3D Dizzy, and I have to say the details in this motorized build are impressive. The creativity and engineering skills it took to build this thing are amazing, even if all it does it torture LEGO people. It even has safety lap restraints that automatically engage before the access ramps fold down and the ride begins. Though if I made a ride like this, I’d include little piles of LEGO vomit that the minifigs coughed up.

The minifigs all have their arms up, the safety bars close, and then the ride begins. You can’t help but feel sorry for these poor helpless little plastic people. After it does its thing, the ride slows and the safety bars open up again, but the LEGO peeps don’t get off. Oh no. The torture is eternal. They stay to ride again… and again… and again.

[via The Awesomer]

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Jet Engine-Powered Merry-Go-Round Is a Scary-Go-Round

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I’m too big of a chicken for most carnival rides. All I can think about is something going wrong and me dying. If you’re going endanger your life, go big or go home. Ride a merry-go-round powered by real jet engines rocketing you around in circles, like some crazy cartoon contraption.

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Photo by Gillian Gutenberg

This insane ride was built by the Brooklyn-based Madagascar Institute, and has shown up at a few fairs over the last several years. It only accommodates two riders, because if you had more, everyone would be hit in the face by the afterburners. If you punched those jet engines to the max, you could probably pull some serious Gs.

[via Sploid via The Awesomer]

The Tourbillon Thrill Ride is Perfect for the Next Final Destination

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Back in the day, I loved to go to carnivals. I’ve never been a big fan of things that flip upside-down, but I was all about the Zipper and that boat thing that swings back and forth. I haven’t been to a carnival in years, but I would certainly stop if I saw the Tourbillon in action. Tourbillon means “whirlwind” in French, and this new ride looks like it lives up to its name.

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The ride starts with the maroon section spinning riders head over heels. After a few rotations of that section, the light blue section starts to spin sideways. Then the outermost ring starts spinning, so the end result is that you’re spinning on three axes at once.

Even though the ride doesn’t spin that fast (at least not during its test runs,) I can only imagine that shoes, change, and vomit will be flying. This also looks like the perfect ride for some sort of cinema catastrophe to happen in the next Final Destination flick.

[via BGR]