What are your favorite carnival or amusement park rides/attractions?

I'm not very keen on any of them. I suppose my favourite is the spinny thing - but not a tilting one - I have no idea what it's called.

Its the anti-gravity gyroscope thing. Basically its a big wheel and you stand in it. Then it spin really fast and tips up and you're pinned to the side. Scary it took three years as a teenager for me to pluck up the courage to go on it. My mates all went on it but I was too chicken. It was a great sense of personal achievment to finally go on it. The reality wasn't so bad.

food stands are up there!!! bumper cars, roller coaster and the dunking tank!!

Tilt-a-whirl rules! And the ferris wheel and roller coasters Good thing my kids aren't afraid of rides, else I'd have to go alone. And I would!
Good survey.

Oh, yeah. I love carnival food. Carny-fries are good -- french fries with chili and sour cream. Mmmmmmm.
Cotton candy and caramel apples...I can't wait for spring!

Oh, I love amusement parks! I like rides more than "attractions". I like rollercoasters, water rides, bumper cars and boats, tilt-a-whirl and other rides that make you dizzy...I really love amusement parks.

Rollercoasters. Oblivion and Nemesis at Alton Towers are fantastic.

Roller coasters, Octopus and Anti-Gravity rides. I used to also like the Rock-O-Plane, Loop-O-Plane, Scrambler, Ride-in fun houses, Round-up and some others but I haven't been to an amusement park in a while so some of these may have since been replaced or given other names.

Jaw-droppingly good survey

I had a dream about a carnival after I wrote about the gang going to Cider Oaks to join in a feast and a festival filled with colors, light and 'whimsical bright things that might catch one's attention for a moment, and then fade by the next, much like a butterfly held up to the sun'. One of my favorite chapters so far; I like to see them unwind and be happy and kid-like.

I generally love everything (except for clowns, and fortune tellers best) at carnivals. But only at night.

I am a child at heart. I love most all of these! Except clowns- and this thing we have here at Lagoon called the Skyscraper and the Rocket too. I hate those. *wretches* I can't stand being dropped!

where do you live that there is a carnival?? we have a fair here. i think it is in the late summer, early fall.

I called it a carnival -- it is also known as a midway. We have one come to town (in northern Ontario) in the spring, summer and fall.

Thanks hon! It feels to get a compliment once in a while.

I love the games, and the carousels... the older I get the more queezy I get on rides. At this point I *think* I could still ride the Swinger, but that would be it. That's okay, you guys go on all the rides, I'll be over here playing SkeeBall and Darts and Ring Toss, and the one with the cats and the softballs... all damn day long!!!! Mostly I just like being outside in the sun watching people have a good time.

Tower of Terror, The Giant Drop, The Cyclone and The Wipeout at Dreamworld http://www.dreamworld.com.au/dw/dreamweb.nsf (go to rides then thrill rides)

Lethal Weapon (rollercoaster at Movie World http://www.movieworld.com.au/navigation/images/top_nav_rides_attractions.gif )

Railroads

I love fireworks

I hate that crap. I give carnivals and the like a wide berth.

There's no tight rope walker on this list .

Most anything that stays on the ground.

i just love free fall rides and suspended rollercoasters especially dueling dragons at islands of adventure in orlando FL

I like anything that gets my adreneline pumping. I'm addicted to the feeling.