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July 5th

2008

by Paul

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rollercoaster, homemade, backyard, DYI

As a little boy I liked to draw, quite a lot. In church I'd use the bulletin cover to draw elaborate roller coasters that looped around spires, careened down mountain sides, tunneled through water and lasted hours on end. Oddly enough, I was terrified to actually ride a roller coaster, but damned if I didn't want to design one to scare everyone.

So why am I rambling on about this? Well, I decided to look up homemade or backyard roller coasters; and to my surprise there are quite a few out there.You can even buy used roller coasters if you feel so inclined (its tempting to put this up and charge admission -- too bad we don't have the land for it ...). Here are some examples:

Jeremy Reid

John Ivers

Dennis Walcott

And just in case you want to build on yourself, the internet comes to the rescue with this easy to follow how-to process of building your own backyard roller coaster.

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OK- so this has nothing to do with Roller Coasters, but it does relate to your inner child. or not. Did you see that they have a buynlarge.com site from the lovely corporation from Wall-E? Cracked me up.