If you can't get to an amusement park today, what's the next best thing? A virtual white knuckle ride, or a browse through The European Coaster Club picture archive, of course!
This page lists virtual rides around the Internet, along with some showing UK coasters created by the European Coaster Club.
These files are in a number of formats, including Apple Quicktime, Windows Media and MPEG (which can be played by both Windows Media and Quicktime players)
Be warned that the files are rather large (the sizes are shown in the detail pages) and so may take some time to download. The videos were created without soundtracks (on purpose) and are normally complete rides, from start to finish. Please excuse the shaky camera work in places; holding a camcorder steady on a fast moving ride isn't easy! (Note that some of the rides featured do not normally allow riders to carry camcorders.)
For virtual rides held on most of the other sites, you'll find instructions for viewing the virtual ride on the site itself.
The following is a list of the video clips we have available to download from the ECC
Italian Job Testing
Kanonen
Inverted Coaster Model
Jubilee Odyssey (Fantasy Island - UK)
Hornet (Flambards - UK)
Mount Rocky (Tobu Zoo - Japan)
Regina (Tobu Zoo - Japan)
Rock and Roller Coaster (Disney Studio Paris)
X - Test Runs (Magic Mountain)
Bounce (Oakwood)
Megafobia (Oakwood)
The Grand National (Blackpool Pleasure Beach)
The Big Dipper (Blackpool Pleasure Beach) Front Seat
The Big Dipper (Blackpool Pleasure Beach) Back of Train
Ice Blast (Blackpool Pleasure Beach)
Roller Coaster (Blackpool Pleasure Beach)
Maxim's Flying Machine (Blackpool Pleasure Beach)
Cyclone (Southport Pleasureland)
TraumaTizer (Southport Pleasureland)
Son Of Beast (Paramounts Kings Island)
SpeedMonster (Tusenfryd)