Did you know that at Space Mountain, or Hyper Space Mountain as its full name is known, in Disneyland Paris, it’s different from Space Mountains and other Disney parks?

Different specifically in the sense that it goes upside down.

Three times.

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We didn’t know, so that’s why in the photo we didn’t buy of us on the ride, you can see some pretty shocked faces.

Four of us went on.

That’s not a ride for Ani, but four of us went on.

Sierra doesn’t do upside down roller coasters, except she did, because it did.

Even as they were lowering the shoulder restraints over our shoulders, and it was the first ride we went to that day, and so we were the first people on the ride.

She’s like, why does it have these over the shoulder restraints if it doesn’t go upside down?

Lauren’s like, I don’t know, but it doesn’t go upside down.

Then it did, again and again.

Great ride.

Enjoyed it.

It was a great acceleration.

There are several roller coaster rides at Disneyland Paris that go upside down.

The Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril, I believe is the name of the ride.

That one goes upside down.

The replacement for the Rock and Roll roller coaster, which is Avengers themed, that one also went upside down.

That one was insane.

That one has a very fast zero to whatever acceleration.

It was all in kilometers per hour, so it meant nothing to me.

That one was intense, and Liam and I liked that one.

We did it a couple different times.

One time that we did it near the end of the day, it hurt us.

We just decided, okay, we’re done with that ride.

That ride is now dead to us.

If I were ever back in Disneyland Paris, which I grant you is somewhat unlikely, I would be willing to go on it again, but yeah, we had some unpleasantness.

I think that an Avengers theme is a better theme for such a ride than Arrowsmith, which is what the ride previously was and still is at some other Disney parks.

There’s plenty of French, as you might expect at Disneyland Paris.

The rule is you have to speak both French and another language to be a cast member there.

And the rides often are bilingual, so you’ll have…

In the case of the Avengers ride, Tony Stark we keep talking to in French, and then Captain Marvel would talk in English, and it was silly.

But you don’t need to know what people are saying on most of these rides.

Now what was odd to me is on Space Mountain, there’s a conversation.

That one’s all in French, and I can’t really tell you what you’re saying, because I was just trying to make sure that I didn’t fall out and that my kid didn’t fall out, and to enjoy the ride, I guess.

They talk in French the whole time, and there’s occasional glimpses of video on that ride, but they’re so brief and so speedy and fly by.

I don’t know what the point is.

The theming is so minimal on a ride like Hyperspace Mountain.

It feels like it’s going at 100 miles an hour, and you can’t see anything because it’s all in the pitch black.

I don’t know.

It just seems weird that there’s occasional screens and then people shouting in your ears like Utilise la force.

They don’t say that, but you get the idea.

But I really enjoy Disneyland Paris.

When we were in the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, which Liam chose not to do, Liam was saying during the day, I don’t really want to do it.

I think I was traumatized for life when I went on it the other time by the story.

Fine.

If you don’t want to go on it, don’t go on it.

He thought that I would pressure him or tell him that I thought he was being baby-like, and I’m like, I thought you knew me, bro.

I totally don’t want you to go on a ride you don’t enjoy.

Life is too short to go on rides you don’t want to go on, which is why we didn’t go on the carousel.

But so, you know, they’ve got this creepy girl who is going to talk to you throughout the ride, and she’s in black and white on like a TV, a little bit The Ring-esque, I guess.

But so, you know, I’ve done Twilight Zone Tower of Terror before, and I know that, you know, the ride starts and the elevator goes up and kind of comes out and explores some area, except not here.

Here, you get on the ride and the elevator plummets, like almost instantly.

It ratchets up really fast, shows you the girl and the family, and they all disappear in the elevator, and then boom, you drop, like no story.

Drop time is basically what happens, and it’s great.

And people are screaming their heads off, and then, you know, eventually it goes up and down, up and down, and stops, and there’s the creepy girl again.

And so many passengers on the ride, both times I did it, were freaked out by the girl.

I don’t know what it is about me, but I find free-fall rides make me laugh hysterically.

Not manically, but like they just, they really, something about them I find hilarious.

Like oh my God, I’m falling except I’m safe, and the ride is very funny to me.

So I just laugh my head off, and there’s this creepy girl.

At one point, some strange French woman, I mean, there was nothing strange about her other than I didn’t know her, but this strange to me French woman grabbed my leg, and I’m like, your boyfriend or husband or partner or whatever is sitting right to your left.

Just feel free to grab them instead.

And both times I went on that ride, you would get extremely loud English language profanity, often from people who clear English wasn’t their first language.

The girl comes, and she’s like, whatever you do, don’t scream.

And right after she says that, of course, the ride plumbs again.

But while she’s walking closer and closer to us, this guy behind us yells the F-bomb at her in a very heavy accent.

And it was quite funny.

Sierra really thought so.

And I guess it’s kind of funny that Disney cannot police the language of its guests at the happiest place on earth, because if they’re going to scream profanity, they’re going to scream profanity, and that’s just what’s going to go.

Mickey doesn’t do it, though.

That would be inappropriate.

Isaac has a real good sense of humor.

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