Yes, there are hundreds of other coasters and thrill rides around this wonderful world, and we would like to share them with other visitors to this site.  If you have a favorite thrill ride, let us know about it and why you like it. If you have a picture of your favorite thrill ride, we would love to post it as well. Submit your entry to coasters@ziggy1.com.

A tip to riding roller coasters, If you like the thrill of the ride, sit in the back of the coaster.  Sitting in the front is really boring. And you can see where you are going, whether you sit in the back or the front.  When you sit in the back you whip over the hills and get that weightless feeling. That's the fun part. Here is a list of the thrill rides of Las Vegas and surrounding areas.

• Desperado Buffalo Bill's Casino Primm, (Stateline) NV  This one will knock you on your butt. This is a steel coaster. The highlights are the first drop is over 200 feet, and reaches speeds of nearly 90 mph.
• Canyon Blaster Circus-Circus Casino Las Vegas, NV Its pink. It's quick. It's way to short.  This is a steel coaster and features four inversions (going up side down). Two of the inversions are corkscrews and two are inverted tear loops.
• Manhattan Express New York, Yew York Casino Las Vegas, NV This is a steel coaster that has two inversions. One loop is an inverted tear and the other is a heart line inversion. A heart line inversion is best described as someone driving a pole through your chest, then rotating upside down (like on a spit) then twirling the pole so you are right side up again. Weird sensation.
• High Roller Stratosphere Casino Las Vegas, NV Very tame, unless you have a fear of heights. Because it is the only thrill you will get is looking down. This is a steel coaster that sits atop the Stratosphere Tower. It clings to the top on the spire and goes around it four times.
• Race for Atlantis Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, NV It is a simulator attraction that takes you to Atlantis. Its a race against evil and another simulator to try to save Atlantis from doom. It uses all the latest high tech gizmos; Imax screen, 3D glasses, headrest sound, and state of the art simulators. Which only goes to prove, that sometimes all the latest toys, doesn't give you the bragging rights as to a breathtaking experience. To be blunt, I was bored.
• Sahara Speedworld Sahara Hotel Las Vegas, NV Ever wanted to get behind the wheel of a race car and enjoy the thrill of ultimate road rage? This is a series of attractions that have you strapped into the cockpit of a formula racer or on a wild desert rally. Motion simulators and 3D movies make this a fun and sometimes queasy experience.
• Speed, The Ride Sahara Hotel Las Vegas, NV This roller coaster catapults you from the boarding platform inside the casino, shoots you outside the hotel onto the Strip making a sharp inverted 90° turn. You plunge below the sidewalk then back up again and then enter a loop. The train then shoots you through the hotel marquee and then straight up a tower where you hang just for a moment then do the whole thing backwards.
• Star Trek: The Experience  Las Vegas Hilton Las Vegas, NV Okay all you Trekkie Dorks, you got your wish, a Star Trek theme park. This is not a ride nor is it a exhibit, it is an Experience. If you are a hard core Star Trek fan, you will be able to test your knowledge on Trek trivia, and if you like adventure, you will love this thing. I don't want to give any of this away, but it is one of the best thrills in Vegas.
• Fly-a-Way  200 Convention Center Way Las Vegas, NV (702) 731-4768 This is a big THRILL.  You go through a training class, you put on a jump suit and jump into the path of a revved up, rotating DC-3 propeller. That is right you are a human chicken test to a DC-3 engine. This is a free falling experience that puts you no more than 20 feet off the ground.  LOVE IT!
• AJ Hackett's Bungy  800 Circus Circus Dr Las Vegas, NV (702) 385-4321  This is bungy tower where you have your choice of diving with a chest harness Over a concrete roof or an ankle harness over a pool.  It's real nice.  No cheesy construction crane operation here.  A J Hackett is a pioneer in bungy jumping, so you are in good hands there.
• Big Shot  Stratosphere Casino Las Vegas, NV  This is like a reverse bungy.  You start at ground level, well sort of.  You are over 900 feet above the street.  Then you are catapulted over 120 feet at a rate of 4 Gs, then you plunge back down.  This goes on a few times.  Not for those who have a fear of heights.
• X-Scream  Stratosphere Casino Las Vegas, NV  For those of you how want to overcome your fear of heights, this is the ride that would cure you. Not by making you comfortable with heights, but by the fact that after you ride this you would die of heart failure and would no longer have to worry about any fear at all. This is a very unique ride that puts you on a car that sits on what can best be described as a teeter-totter. The car rolls from one end of the track to the other as the track tips up and back. Sounds tame enough? well when the ride dips down as you face forward, the end of the track is suspended freely over 850 feet above terra firma and you plunge head long to the end of the track with nothing below your but air.
• Pedestrian J-Walk Bounce  The Strip, Tropicana, Flamingo Las Vegas, NV Here is a thrill that is sure to kill. You mix up a bunch of anxious walking tourist, and several tons of steel being controlled by another set of anxious tourists as well as impatient locals and, BINGO!  There are more pedestrians killed each year by motorists in the resort corridor, than probably anywhere else in Las Vegas.  Please remember when you come to this city, that the poker machines and the Black Jack tables will still take your money no matter when you get to them, so please remember to cross at intersections and wait for the light.  We want you to go home a winner, not a statistic.


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